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To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.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