Episode guide
Small Wonder: Season 3
27 episodes · premiered Sep 5, 1987
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- Episode 1: Vicki and the Pusher Sep 5, 1987 · 21m When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
- Episode 2: The Strike Sep 12, 1987 · 21m 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.
- Episode 3: The Pool Sep 19, 1987 · 21m While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
- Episode 4: Screaming Skulls Sep 26, 1987 · 21m 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.
- Episode 5: The Electric Potatoheads Oct 3, 1987 · 21m Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
- Episode 6: Geisha Vicki Oct 10, 1987 · 21m 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.
- Episode 7: I Hear You Oct 24, 1987 · 21m When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
- Episode 8: Haunted House Oct 31, 1987 · 21m 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.
- Episode 9: The Bad Seedling Nov 7, 1987 · 21m Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
- Episode 10: My Living Doll Nov 14, 1987 · 21m 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.
- Episode 11: Fat's Where It's At Nov 21, 1987 · 21m 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…
- Episode 12: Bank Hostages Nov 28, 1987 · 21m Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
- Episode 13: Breakfast of Criminals Dec 5, 1987 · 21m 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.
- Episode 14: Girl on the Milk Carton Dec 12, 1987 · 21m While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
- Episode 15: The Bossy Daughter Jan 9, 1988 · 21m Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
- Episode 16: Home Sweet Sale Jan 30, 1988 · 21m 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.
- Episode 17: Ronald McDonald House Feb 6, 1988 · 21m To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
- Episode 18: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming Feb 12, 1988 · 21m Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
- Episode 19: In the Spirits Feb 20, 1988 · 21m 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.
- Episode 20: The Perfect Daughter Mar 12, 1988 · 21m 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.
- Episode 21: Earthquake Vicki May 4, 1988 · 21m Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
- Episode 22: Ted's Dead May 28, 1988 · 21m 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.
- Episode 23: Big J, the D.J. Jul 9, 1988 · 21m 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.
- Episode 24: Safety First Jul 30, 1988 · 21m 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.
- Episode 25: How I Love Thee Aug 6, 1988 · 21m 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…
- Episode 26: The Cheater Aug 27, 1988 · 21m Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
- Episode 27: Digital Love Sep 6, 1988 · 21m Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.