7.5/1021 votes#1 - Big J, Private Eye
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/1988
Prompted by Ted and his class to get his school reading assignment going, Jamie videos a book report based on a 1940s P.I. named Rick Savage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1025 votes
#2 - School Monitor
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/1988
On their first day in junior high, Vicki becomes a hall monitor and Jamie tries to avoid Harriet for a dance while vying for a class fox. Meanwhile, Ted prepares to host a cybernetics conference.
Director: Dick Christie
Writer: Steve Granat
- 6.7/1021 votes
#3 - More About L.E.S.
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 8/6/1988
L.E.S. is back, and despite Ted's assurances that the rogue A.I. program has been rendered harmless, it comes back in a big way by possessing Vicki's body (chassis?) as its own.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1021 votes
#4 - Game Show
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 8/13/1988
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Dick Christie, David Ruprecht
- 6.9/1020 votes
#5 - Jailbirds
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 8/20/1988
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1021 votes
#6 - I Dream of Vicki
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 9/18/1988
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1026 votes
#7 - Golddigging Ida
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 9/25/1988
Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1020 votes
#8 - It's a Gas
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/2/1988
A digestion feedback problem with Vicki's polynucleotide processor generates nitrous oxide gas that brings laughs to anyone near her, but not to Vicki herself -- just as Ted's boss is about to visit about lay-offs.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1021 votes
#9 - SuperSuds
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 10/9/1988
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1023 votes
#10 - Battle of the Sexes and Robot
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 10/16/1988
Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1019 votes
#11 - Vicki and the Skyjacker
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 10/23/1988
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1020 votes
#12 - Luke and Ray
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 10/30/1988
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
Director: Dick Christie
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1019 votes
#13 - Vicki's Glasses
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 11/6/1988
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1018 votes
#14 - Double Dates
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 11/13/1988
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Granat
- 7.6/1022 votes
#15 - Vicki's Expose
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 11/20/1988
Benny, an old college chum of Ted and Joan's is up to his same trashy school paper tricks in a big city rag now, fabricating a tabloid feature which by sheer chance ""exposes"" Vicki as a robot just as she's about to join a fashionable clique of girls.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dick Christie, David Ruprecht
- 7.3/1019 votes
#16 - Doolittle Vicki
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 11/27/1988
A new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linquistic Analytical Sequencer) installed in Vicki enables her to understand any language...even animals, like the bosses' dog. Mrs. Jennings forces Mr. Jennings to fire Ted when Joan balks at doing uncredited work for an affair.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1018 votes
#17 - Radio Show
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 12/3/1988
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1019 votes
#18 - Pool Shark Vicki
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 12/10/1988
To land a new promotion with the boss, Ted invites him over for dinner and a playful game of pool -- until Jennings starts betting the shirt off his back and a lot more playing against Vicki.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1019 votes
#19 - Singing Telegram
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 12/17/1988
Ted's singing telegram birthday greeting makes him pine back to his ""youthful years"" with a surfboard and prompts Jamie to start a singing telegram for schoolmates -- and competing with Reggie.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Ralph Phillips
- 7.6/1024 votes
#20 - The Rip-Off
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/5/1989
While on a company vacation at a health resort, Jamie, Vicki, Brandon and Harriet see a burglar hitting their residence -- each with a different eyewitness account.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Granat
- 7.3/1023 votes
#21 - My Favorite Martian
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 1/12/1989
While Jamie tests out Ted's new laser projection system in Vicki's eyes, unwary Brandon glimpses her projection of a movie's flying saucer and calls the Air Force to investigate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1020 votes
#22 - Hooray for Hollyweird!
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/9/1989
Ted brings back ""Bad Seed"" Vanessa, who again takes Vicki's place, locks Vicki in her/its cabinet and joins the family to Hollywood, where Ted must repair a movie's robot while Vanessa mugs into a screen test on the sly.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1019 votes
#23 - See No Evil
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1989
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey newJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves. bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1024 votes
#24 - Thy Neighbor's Wife
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/20/1989
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
The Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 4
Every episode of Small Wonder Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Small Wonder Season 4!
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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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Big J, Private Eye" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder" season 4. It scored 7.5/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/23/1988. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "School Monitor".