Small Wonder: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Big J, Private Eye
Jul 23, 1988 · 21 min
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.
School Monitor
Jul 30, 1988 · 21 min
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 cybernet
More About L.E.S.
Aug 6, 1988 · 21 min
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.
Game Show
Aug 13, 1988 · 21 min
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
Jailbirds
Aug 20, 1988 · 21 min
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
I Dream of Vicki
Sep 18, 1988 · 21 min
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
Golddigging Ida
Sep 25, 1988 · 21 min
Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
It's a Gas
Oct 2, 1988 · 21 min
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
SuperSuds
Oct 9, 1988 · 21 min
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
Battle of the Sexes and Robot
Oct 16, 1988 · 21 min
Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
Vicki and the Skyjacker
Oct 23, 1988 · 21 min
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
Luke and Ray
Oct 30, 1988 · 21 min
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
Vicki's Glasses
Nov 6, 1988 · 21 min
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
Double Dates
Nov 13, 1988 · 21 min
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
Vicki's Expose
Nov 20, 1988 · 21 min
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"" Vic
Doolittle Vicki
Nov 27, 1988 · 21 min
A new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linquistic Analytical Sequencer) installed in Vicki enables her to understand any language...even animals, like
Radio Show
Dec 3, 1988 · 21 min
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
Pool Shark Vicki
Dec 10, 1988 · 21 min
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 aga
Singing Telegram
Dec 17, 1988 · 21 min
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 competi
The Rip-Off
Jan 5, 1989 · 21 min
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.
My Favorite Martian
Jan 12, 1989 · 21 min
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.
Hooray for Hollyweird!
Feb 9, 1989 · 21 min
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 V
See No Evil
May 13, 1989 · 21 min
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Thy Neighbor's Wife
May 20, 1989 · 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.