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. Root Beer, Women and Song
Aired 20 September 1986 • 21 min
Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.
2. My Mother the Teacher
Aired 27 September 1986 • 21 min
Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.
3. Vicki for the Defense
Aired 4 October 1986 • 21 min
Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.
4. Homeless Causes
Aired 11 October 1986 • 21 min
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
5. The Hustle
Aired 18 October 1986 • 21 min
When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
6. Jamie's Older Woman
Aired 25 October 1986 • 21 min
Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
7. My Robot Family
Aired 1 November 1986 • 21 min
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
8. The Wonder Worker
Aired 8 November 1986 • 21 min
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
9. Have a Heart
Aired 15 November 1986 • 21 min
Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, while the Brindles move in with their marital dispute.
10. Latchkey Dreams
Aired 29 November 1986 • 21 min
To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
11. Computer Dating
Aired 6 December 1986 • 21 min
To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
12. Smoker's Delight
Aired 13 December 1986 • 21 min
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
13. Movin' Up
Aired 10 January 1987 • 21 min
While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests the family's taste to social climb vs. its price of morality.
14. Project Blender
Aired 17 January 1987 • 21 min
To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.
15. Class Comedienne
Aired 24 January 1987 • 21 min
Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
16. Little Miss Shopping Mall
Aired 7 February 1987 • 21 min
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
17. Victor/ V.I.C.I.
Aired 14 February 1987 • 21 min
To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.
18. Look into My Eyes
Aired 21 February 1987 • 21 min
After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""skill"" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.
19. Pint Sized Pick-Up
Aired 18 April 1987 • 21 min
While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.
20. Community Watch and See
Aired 2 May 1987 • 21 min
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
21. Here Kitty, Kitty!
Aired 9 May 1987 • 21 min
To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.
22. Vicki Goodwrench
Aired 16 May 1987 • 21 min
During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.
23. The Wedding
Aired 23 May 1987 • 21 min
Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
24. Wham-Bam-Body Slam
Aired 20 June 1987 • 21 min
Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school tormentor: Ted, who rigs Vicki to play even crueler tricks. Only Ted's unaware that Wally's grown into a top pro wrestler.