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The Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 3

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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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  1. 7.7/10(27 votes)

    #1 - The Strike

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    S3:E2

    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.

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  2. 7.7/10(27 votes)

    #2 - Ronald McDonald House

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    S3:E17

    To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

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  3. 7.7/10(25 votes)

    #3 - Safety First

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    S3:E24

    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.

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  4. 7.6/10(26 votes)

    #4 - The Electric Potatoheads

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    S3:E5

    Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

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  5. 7.6/10(26 votes)

    #5 - Geisha Vicki

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    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:Dick Christie
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  6. 7.5/10(26 votes)

    #6 - Haunted House

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    S3:E8

    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.

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  8. 7.5/10(21 votes)

    #7 - In the Spirits

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    S3:E19

    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.

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  9. 7.5/10(22 votes)

    #8 - The Perfect Daughter

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    S3:E20

    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.

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  10. 7.5/10(24 votes)

    #9 - Ted's Dead

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    S3:E22

    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.

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  11. 7.4/10(29 votes)

    #10 - The Pool

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    S3:E3

    While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.

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  12. 7.4/10(26 votes)

    #11 - Screaming Skulls

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    S3:E4

    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.

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  13. 7.4/10(26 votes)

    #12 - I Hear You

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    S3:E7

    When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.

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  14. 7.4/10(25 votes)

    #13 - Fat's Where It's At

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    S3:E11

    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.

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  15. 7.4/10(22 votes)

    #14 - Bank Hostages

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    S3:E12

    Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.

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  16. 7.4/10(22 votes)

    #15 - Breakfast of Criminals

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    S3:E13

    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.

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  17. 7.4/10(21 votes)

    #16 - The Bossy Daughter

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    S3:E15

    Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.

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  18. 7.3/10(21 votes)

    #17 - Girl on the Milk Carton

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    S3:E14

    While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.

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  19. 7.2/10(27 votes)

    #18 - The Bad Seedling

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    S3:E9

    Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.

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  20. 7.2/10(23 votes)

    #19 - My Living Doll

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    S3:E10

    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.

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  21. 7.2/10(22 votes)

    #20 - Big J, the D.J.

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    S3:E23

    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.

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  22. 7.0/10(29 votes)

    #21 - Vicki and the Pusher

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    S3:E1

    When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

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  23. 7.0/10(22 votes)

    #22 - Home Sweet Sale

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    S3:E16

    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.

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  24. 6.8/10(22 votes)

    #23 - Earthquake Vicki

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    S3:E21

    Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.

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  25. 6.7/10(27 votes)

    #24 - The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

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    S3:E18

    Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

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  26. NaN/10(0 votes)

    #25 - How I Love Thee

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    S3:E25

    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.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Strike" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/12/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Ronald McDonald House".