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Season 3

Small Wonder — Season 3

Sep 05, 1987
  • Vicki and the Pusher

    1. Vicki and the Pusher

    Sep 05, 1987

    When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

    21m
  • The Strike

    2. The Strike

    Sep 12, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • The Pool

    3. The Pool

    Sep 19, 1987

    While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.

    21m
  • Screaming Skulls

    4. Screaming Skulls

    Sep 26, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • The Electric Potatoheads

    5. The Electric Potatoheads

    Oct 03, 1987

    Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

    21m
  • Geisha Vicki

    6. Geisha Vicki

    Oct 10, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • I Hear You

    7. I Hear You

    Oct 24, 1987

    When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.

    21m
  • Haunted House

    8. Haunted House

    Oct 31, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • The Bad Seedling

    9. The Bad Seedling

    Nov 07, 1987

    Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.

    21m
  • My Living Doll

    10. My Living Doll

    Nov 14, 1987

    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.

    21m
  • Fat's Where It's At

    11. Fat's Where It's At

    Nov 21, 1987

    Vicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appetite, which creates excess digestive gases and causes her a date problem for the school dance.

    21m
  • Bank Hostages

    12. Bank Hostages

    Nov 28, 1987

    Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.

    21m
  • Breakfast of Criminals

    13. Breakfast of Criminals

    Dec 05, 1987

    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 to be.

    21m
  • Girl on the Milk Carton

    14. Girl on the Milk Carton

    Dec 12, 1987

    While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.

    21m
  • The Bossy Daughter

    15. The Bossy Daughter

    Jan 09, 1988

    Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.

    21m
  • Home Sweet Sale

    16. Home Sweet Sale

    Jan 30, 1988

    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.

    21m
  • Ronald McDonald House

    17. Ronald McDonald House

    Feb 06, 1988

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

    21m
  • The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

    18. The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

    Feb 12, 1988

    Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

    21m
  • In the Spirits

    19. In the Spirits

    Feb 20, 1988

    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.

    21m
  • The Perfect Daughter

    20. The Perfect Daughter

    Mar 12, 1988

    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.

    21m
  • Earthquake Vicki

    21. Earthquake Vicki

    May 04, 1988

    Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.

    21m
  • Ted's Dead

    22. Ted's Dead

    May 28, 1988

    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.

    21m
  • Big J, the D.J.

    23. Big J, the D.J.

    Jul 09, 1988

    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.

    21m
  • Safety First

    24. Safety First

    Jul 30, 1988

    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.

    21m
  • How I Love Thee

    25. How I Love Thee

    Aug 06, 1988

    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 the girl of his dreams.

    21m
  • The Cheater

    26. The Cheater

    Aug 27, 1988

    Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.

    21m
  • Digital Love

    27. Digital Love

    Sep 06, 1988

    Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.

    21m

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