About this season
When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson brings home his top-secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I., life becomes anything but mechanical for the Lawson Family. With his boss and his nosy family living next door, Ted, his wife Joan and their son Jamie must pass Vicki off as a real child. It is easy for Joan, who cannot help doting on her like a daughter, but harder for precocious Jamie, who uses Vicki to do his homework and to ward off Harriet, the annoying redheaded girl next door.
Episodes (24)
1. Vicki's Homecoming
Aired 7 September 1985 • 21 min
Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.
2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Aired 14 September 1985 • 21 min
The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.
3. Robositter
Aired 21 September 1985 • 21 min
Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!
4. Nerd Crush
Aired 28 September 1985 • 21 min
Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.
5. Runaway Jamie
Aired 5 October 1985 • 21 min
Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.
6. Lights! Camera! Ego!
Aired 12 October 1985 • 21 min
Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power of directorial duties goes to Jamie's head.
7. White Lies
Aired 19 October 1985 • 21 min
Jamie realizes the value of constant truthfulness when he can't convince his parents that he's not responsible for breaking (and secretly gluing together) a teapot caused by Harriet's smart-aleck cousin.
8. The Bully
Aired 26 October 1985 • 21 min
A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."
9. DisHonor Student
Aired 2 November 1985 • 21 min
Jamie uses Vicki's new speed-scan reading ability to complete 55 chapters of his homework overnight, which earns him the school honor roll -- along with snowballing guilt.
10. Vicki's Adoption
Aired 9 November 1985 • 21 min
Tipped off on the sly by busybody Bonnie Brindle, Child Services threatens to take Vicki away unless the Lawsons can produce her past -- and she passes a medical exam.
11. Child Prodigy
Aired 16 November 1985 • 21 min
To circumvent Child Services' orders to send Vicki to school and risk exposure, the Lawsons hire a pompous tutor who mistakes her computer abilities for genius. To remedy the situation, Joan crams to follow-through her marriage-postponed teaching degree to act as Vicki's "tutor," while Ted takes over the kitchen and creates a mess.
12. Brindles Move In
Aired 23 November 1985 • 21 min
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.
13. RoboBrat
Aired 30 November 1985 • 21 min
When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- but not before Harriet and Bonnie Brindle wonder where Vicki suddenly vanished to and summon the police.
14. The Burrito Story
Aired 4 January 1986 • 21 min
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
15. Babes in the Woods
Aired 11 January 1986 • 21 min
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
16. First Love
Aired 18 January 1986 • 21 min
To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.
17. Substitute Dad
Aired 25 January 1986 • 21 min
When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incites a "father war" while Joan uses Vicki to voice her disapproval to Ted.
18. The Robot Nappers
Aired 8 February 1986 • 21 min
When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.
19. Ted's Lay-Off
Aired 15 February 1986 • 21 min
United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
20. Health Nuts
Aired 22 February 1986 • 21 min
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
21. The Reluctant Halfback
Aired 1 March 1986 • 21 min
Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.
22. Vaudeville Vicki
Aired 3 May 1986 • 21 min
When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
23. The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
Aired 10 May 1986 • 21 min
When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.
24. Grandpa Lawson's Visit
Aired 17 May 1986 • 21 min
Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.