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.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Small Wonder Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Big J, Private Eye
Jul 23, 1988
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
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
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
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
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
I Dream of Vicki
Sep 18, 1988
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
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
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
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
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
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
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Thy Neighbor's Wife
May 20, 1989
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.