Small Wonder: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Small Wonder Season 2.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Vicki and the Pusher
Sep 5, 1987 · 21 min
When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
The Strike
Sep 12, 1987 · 21 min
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.
The Pool
Sep 19, 1987 · 21 min
While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
Screaming Skulls
Sep 26, 1987 · 21 min
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.
The Electric Potatoheads
Oct 3, 1987 · 21 min
Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
Geisha Vicki
Oct 10, 1987 · 21 min
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.
I Hear You
Oct 24, 1987 · 21 min
When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
Haunted House
Oct 31, 1987 · 21 min
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.
The Bad Seedling
Nov 7, 1987 · 21 min
Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
My Living Doll
Nov 14, 1987 · 21 min
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.
Fat's Where It's At
Nov 21, 1987 · 21 min
Vicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appetite, which creates excess digestive gases and causes her a da
Bank Hostages
Nov 28, 1987 · 21 min
Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
Breakfast of Criminals
Dec 5, 1987 · 21 min
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
Girl on the Milk Carton
Dec 12, 1987 · 21 min
While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
The Bossy Daughter
Jan 9, 1988 · 21 min
Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
Home Sweet Sale
Jan 30, 1988 · 21 min
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.
Ronald McDonald House
Feb 6, 1988 · 21 min
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
Feb 12, 1988 · 21 min
Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
In the Spirits
Feb 20, 1988 · 21 min
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.
The Perfect Daughter
Mar 12, 1988 · 21 min
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.
Earthquake Vicki
May 4, 1988 · 21 min
Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
Ted's Dead
May 28, 1988 · 21 min
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.
Big J, the D.J.
Jul 9, 1988 · 21 min
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.
Safety First
Jul 30, 1988 · 21 min
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.
How I Love Thee
Aug 6, 1988 · 21 min
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 th
The Cheater
Aug 27, 1988 · 21 min
Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
Digital Love
Sep 6, 1988 · 21 min
Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.