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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 Worst Episode
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    Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 25 - How I Love Thee
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - How I Love Thee

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 26 - The Cheater
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - The Cheater

    S3:E26

    Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steve Granat

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  3. Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 27 - Digital Love
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - Digital Love

    S3:E27

    Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #4 - 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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  5. Small Wonder Season 1 Episode 4 - Nerd Crush
    6.8/10(45 votes)

    #5 - Nerd Crush

    S1:E4

    Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Howard Meyers

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  6. Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 18 - The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
    6.8/10(28 votes)

    #6 - The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

    S3:E18

    Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #7 - 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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  8. Small Wonder Season 1 Episode 20 - Health Nuts
    6.9/10(34 votes)

    #8 - Health Nuts

    S1:E20

    Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 11 - Computer Dating
    6.9/10(28 votes)

    #9 - Computer Dating

    S2:E11

    To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jeffrey Duteil, Jerry Ross

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  10. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 17 - Victor/ V.I.C.I.
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #10 - Victor/ V.I.C.I.

    S2:E17

    To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.

    Director:Peter Baldwin
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 19 - Pint Sized Pick-Up
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #11 - Pint Sized Pick-Up

    S2:E19

    While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 21 - Earthquake Vicki
    6.9/10(23 votes)

    #12 - Earthquake Vicki

    S3:E21

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Wendy Graf

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

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

    #14 - 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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  15. Small Wonder Season 1 Episode 6 - Lights! Camera! Ego!
    7.0/10(40 votes)

    #15 - Lights! Camera! Ego!

    S1:E6

    Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power of directorial duties goes to Jamie's head.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 7 - My Robot Family
    7.0/10(34 votes)

    #16 - My Robot Family

    S2:E7

    When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 1 - Vicki and the Pusher
    7.0/10(31 votes)

    #17 - Vicki and the Pusher

    S3:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Small Wonder Season 1 Episode 2 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    7.1/10(48 votes)

    #18 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    S1:E2

    The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ed Jurist

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  19. Small Wonder Season 1 Episode 7 - White Lies
    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #19 - White Lies

    S1:E7

    Jamie realizes the value of constant truthfulness when he can't convince his parents that he's not responsible for breaking (and secretly gluing together) a teapot caused by Harriet's smart-aleck cousin.

    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 6 - Jamie's Older Woman
    7.1/10(28 votes)

    #20 - Jamie's Older Woman

    S2:E6

    Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Poryes

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  21. Small Wonder Season 2 Episode 16 - Little Miss Shopping Mall
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #21 - Little Miss Shopping Mall

    S2:E16

    The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 16 - Home Sweet Sale
    7.1/10(23 votes)

    #22 - Home Sweet Sale

    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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Steve Granat

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

    #23 - 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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  24. Small Wonder Season 1 Episode 12 - Brindles Move In
    7.2/10(33 votes)

    #24 - Brindles Move In

    S1:E12

    A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Small Wonder Season 3 Episode 7 - I Hear You
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #25 - I Hear You

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"How I Love Thee" is the worst rated episode of "Small Wonder". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/6/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Cheater".