Season 4

Small WonderSeason 4

1988
24 Episodes

Episodes

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S04E01

Big J, Private Eye

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.

23 Jul 198821m
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S04E02

School Monitor

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 cybernetics conference.

30 Jul 198821m
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S04E03

More About L.E.S.

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.

06 Aug 198821m
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S04E04

Game Show

The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.

13 Aug 198821m
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S04E05

Jailbirds

Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.

20 Aug 198821m
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S04E06

I Dream of Vicki

To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.

18 Sept 198821m
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S04E07

Golddigging Ida

Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.

25 Sept 198821m
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S04E08

It's a Gas

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 is about to visit about lay-offs.

02 Oct 198821m
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S04E09

SuperSuds

While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.

09 Oct 198821m
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S04E10

Battle of the Sexes and Robot

Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.

16 Oct 198821m
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S04E11

Vicki and the Skyjacker

Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.

23 Oct 198821m
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S04E12

Luke and Ray

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

30 Oct 198821m
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S04E13

Vicki's Glasses

Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.

06 Nov 198821m
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S04E14

Double Dates

Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.

13 Nov 198821m
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S04E15

Vicki's Expose

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"" Vicki as a robot just as she's about to join a fashionable clique of girls.

20 Nov 198821m
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S04E16

Doolittle Vicki

A new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linquistic Analytical Sequencer) installed in Vicki enables her to understand any language...even animals, like the bosses' dog. Mrs. Jennings forces Mr. Jennings to fire Ted when Joan balks at doing uncredited work for an affair.

27 Nov 198821m
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S04E17

Radio Show

Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.

03 Dec 198821m
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S04E18

Pool Shark Vicki

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 against Vicki.

10 Dec 198821m
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S04E19

Singing Telegram

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 competing with Reggie.

17 Dec 198821m
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S04E20

The Rip-Off

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.

05 Jan 198921m
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S04E21

My Favorite Martian

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.

12 Jan 198921m
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S04E22

Hooray for Hollyweird!

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.

09 Feb 198921m
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S04E23

See No Evil

Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey newJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves. bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.

13 May 198921m
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S04E24

Thy Neighbor's Wife

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.

20 May 198921m