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Season guide

Small Wonder: Season 1

24 episodes Premiered Sep 7, 1985
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Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (21): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Vicki's Homecoming

Sep 7, 1985

Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.

S1·E2 Core

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Sep 14, 1985

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

S1·E3 Core

Robositter

Sep 21, 1985

Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!

S1·E4 Core

Nerd Crush

Sep 28, 1985

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

S1·E5 Core

Runaway Jamie

Oct 5, 1985

Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.

S1·E6 Core

Lights! Camera! Ego!

Oct 12, 1985

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.

S1·E7 Core

White Lies

Oct 19, 1985

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 Harrie

S1·E8 Core

The Bully

Oct 26, 1985

A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."

S1·E9 Core

DisHonor Student

Nov 2, 1985

Jamie uses Vicki's new speed-scan reading ability to complete 55 chapters of his homework overnight, which earns him the school honor roll -- along with snowballing guilt.

S1·E10 Core

Vicki's Adoption

Nov 9, 1985

Tipped off on the sly by busybody Bonnie Brindle, Child Services threatens to take Vicki away unless the Lawsons can produce her past -- and she passes a medical exam.

S1·E11 Core

Child Prodigy

Nov 16, 1985

To circumvent Child Services' orders to send Vicki to school and risk exposure, the Lawsons hire a pompous tutor who mistakes her computer abilities for genius. To remedy the situa

S1·E12 Core

Brindles Move In

Nov 23, 1985

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

S1·E13 Core

RoboBrat

Nov 30, 1985

When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- bu

S1·E14 Core

The Burrito Story

Jan 4, 1986

Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

S1·E15 Core

Babes in the Woods

Jan 11, 1986

The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.

S1·E16 Core

First Love

Jan 18, 1986

To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.

S1·E17 Core

Substitute Dad

Jan 25, 1986

When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incites a "father war" while Joan uses Vicki to voice her disappro

S1·E18 Core

The Robot Nappers

Feb 8, 1986

When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.

S1·E19 Core

Ted's Lay-Off

Feb 15, 1986

United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

S1·E20 Core

Health Nuts

Feb 22, 1986

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

S1·E21 Core

The Reluctant Halfback

Mar 1, 1986

Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.

S1·E22 Core

Vaudeville Vicki

May 3, 1986

When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.

S1·E23 Mytharc

The Birds, The Bees, and Robots

May 10, 1986

When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.

S1·E24 Mytharc

Grandpa Lawson's Visit

May 17, 1986

Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.

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