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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!

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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 Lawson Family. With his boss and his nosy family living

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 1 - Big J, Private Eye
    7.7/10(23 votes)

    #1 - Big J, Private Eye

    S4:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 2 - School Monitor
    7.6/10(27 votes)

    #2 - School Monitor

    S4:E2

    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

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  3. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 3 - More About L.E.S.
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #3 - More About L.E.S.

    S4:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 4 - Game Show
    7.6/10(23 votes)

    #4 - Game Show

    S4:E4

    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
    Writers:David Ruprecht, Dick Christie

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  5. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 5 - Jailbirds
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    #5 - Jailbirds

    S4:E5

    Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 6 - I Dream of Vicki
    7.6/10(23 votes)

    #6 - I Dream of Vicki

    S4:E6

    To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 7 - Golddigging Ida
    6.6/10(28 votes)

    #7 - Golddigging Ida

    S4:E7

    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:Unknown

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  8. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 8 - It's a Gas
    7.6/10(22 votes)

    #8 - It's a Gas

    S4:E8

    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:Unknown

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  9. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 9 - SuperSuds
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    #9 - SuperSuds

    S4:E9

    While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 10 - Battle of the Sexes and Robot
    8.1/10(26 votes)

    #10 - Battle of the Sexes and Robot

    S4:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 11 - Vicki and the Skyjacker
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    #11 - Vicki and the Skyjacker

    S4:E11

    Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 12 - Luke and Ray
    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #12 - Luke and Ray

    S4:E12

    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:Unknown

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  13. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 13 - Vicki's Glasses
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Vicki's Glasses

    S4:E13

    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:Unknown

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  14. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 14 - Double Dates
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #14 - Double Dates

    S4:E14

    Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steve Granat

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  15. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 15 - Vicki's Expose
    7.6/10(24 votes)

    #15 - Vicki's Expose

    S4:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writers:David Ruprecht, Dick Christie

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  16. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 16 - Doolittle Vicki
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    #16 - Doolittle Vicki

    S4:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 17 - Radio Show
    7.3/10(20 votes)

    #17 - Radio Show

    S4:E17

    Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 18 - Pool Shark Vicki
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    #18 - Pool Shark Vicki

    S4:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 19 - Singing Telegram
    7.7/10(21 votes)

    #19 - Singing Telegram

    S4:E19

    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

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  20. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 20 - The Rip-Off
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #20 - The Rip-Off

    S4:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Steve Granat

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  21. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 21 - My Favorite Martian
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #21 - My Favorite Martian

    S4:E21

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 22 - Hooray for Hollyweird!
    7.1/10(22 votes)

    #22 - Hooray for Hollyweird!

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 23 - See No Evil
    7.8/10(21 votes)

    #23 - See No Evil

    S4:E23

    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:Unknown

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  24. Small Wonder Season 4 Episode 24 - Thy Neighbor's Wife
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #24 - Thy Neighbor's Wife

    S4:E24

    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:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Big J, Private Eye" is the best rated episode of "Small Wonder" season 4. It scored 7.7/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/23/1988. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "School Monitor".