7.0/1027 votes#1 - Vicki and the Pusher
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1987
When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1025 votes
#2 - The Strike
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1987
A United Robotronics strike pits shop steward Ted against management rep Brandon; Joan has her students use the strike as a social studies exercise, which also goes awry.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1027 votes
#3 - The Pool
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1987
While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1024 votes
#4 - Screaming Skulls
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1987
Jamie stumbles into the membership of a junior high gang whose vandalism tests his sense of belonging with right and wrong -- and inducts Vicki as its moll.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1024 votes
#5 - The Electric Potatoheads
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1987
Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1024 votes
#6 - Geisha Vicki
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1987
To help Brandon get promoted to a job in Japan, Joan pretends that she's his estranged wife and that Vicki and Jamie are their kids.
Director: Dick Christie
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1024 votes
#7 - I Hear You
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1987
When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1024 votes
#8 - Haunted House
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1987
When unseen Vicki is struck by lightning and begins influencing objects around the house, the shook-up and unwary Lawsons call in a pair of hapless ghostbusters.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dick Christie
- 7.3/1025 votes
#9 - The Bad Seedling
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1987
Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman
- 7.3/1021 votes
#10 - My Living Doll
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1987
A Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated ""doll"" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon gets his hands on it.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1023 votes
#11 - Fat's Where It's At
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1987
Vicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appetite, which creates excess digestive gases and causes her a date problem for the school dance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1020 votes
#12 - Bank Hostages
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1987
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1020 votes
#13 - Breakfast of Criminals
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1987
Vicki is discovered by a marketing firm to play in a cereal commercial, but the Lawsons have second thoughts when her taste test reveals that the product isn't all it's crackled up to be.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1019 votes
#14 - Girl on the Milk Carton
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1987
While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1019 votes
#15 - The Bossy Daughter
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1988
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1020 votes
#16 - Home Sweet Sale
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/30/1988
Ted begins remodeling the house, and Joan's new real estate side job gets upstaged when Vicki sells the Lawson homestead to an unscrupulous cowpoke couple.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Steve Granat
- 7.7/1025 votes
#17 - Ronald McDonald House
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1988
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Lawrence H. Levy
- 7.5/1019 votes
#18 - In the Spirits
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1988
Due to Vicki's mishandling of terms, Child Services Officer Mrs. Fernwald thinks Ted is an alcoholic and threatens to take Vicki away unless he joins AA.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1020 votes
#19 - The Perfect Daughter
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/12/1988
To win a promotion over Brandon's boss fawning, Ted decides to reveal Vicki's robot secret to his boss at a company picnic -- unaware that Brandon is out to sabatoge Ted's effort.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Adam Silverman
- 6.8/1020 votes
#20 - Earthquake Vicki
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1988
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1022 votes
#21 - Ted's Dead
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/28/1988
Due to Vicki's misinterpreting Ted's quip while doing the family's on-line banking, the Lawsons are re-categorized as deadbeats and Ted just plain dead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1020 votes
#22 - Big J, the D.J.
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 7/9/1988
Jamie, competing with Reggie for school radio D.J., uses Vicki's voice mimicry to fake an interview with football star Lyle Alzado -- who happens to be in town listening in.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1024 votes
#23 - Safety First
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 7/30/1988
Vicky imitates Ted's demostration on saving a choking victim's life on Brendle. Brendle arrives the next day faking a broken neck and threatens to sue the Lawson's.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - How I Love Thee
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 8/6/1988
While running an unauthorized answering service for grounded kids which nearly wrecks Ted's respect with his boss, Jamie and Vicki play Cupids to help Reggie nerve up to meeting the girl of his dreams.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - The Cheater
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 8/27/1988
Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Granat
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Vicki and the Pusher" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder" season 3. It scored 7/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/5/1987. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Strike".