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The Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 3

Every episode of Small Wonder Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 3!

When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson brings home his top-secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I., life becomes anything but mechanical for the...
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Network:Syndication

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".

  • Vicki and the Pusher
    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

  • The Strike
    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

  • The Pool
    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

  • Screaming Skulls
    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

  • The Electric Potatoheads
    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

  • Geisha Vicki
    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

  • I Hear You
    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

  • Haunted House
    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

  • The Bad Seedling
    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

  • My Living Doll
    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

  • Fat's Where It's At
    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

  • Bank Hostages
    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

  • Breakfast of Criminals
    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

  • Girl on the Milk Carton
    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

  • The Bossy Daughter
    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

  • Home Sweet Sale
    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

  • Ronald McDonald House
    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

  • The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
    6.8/1025 votes

    #18 - The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/12/1988

    Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • In the Spirits
    7.5/1019 votes

    #19 - 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

  • The Perfect Daughter
    7.6/1020 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Earthquake Vicki
    6.8/1020 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Ted's Dead
    7.5/1022 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Big J, the D.J.
    7.2/1020 votes

    #23 - 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

  • Safety First
    7.7/1024 votes

    #24 - 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

  • How I Love Thee
    NaN/100 votes

    #25 - 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