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. Big J, Private Eye
Aired 23 July 1988 • 21 min
Prompted by Ted and his class to get his school reading assignment going, Jamie videos a book report based on a 1940s P.I. named Rick Savage.
2. School Monitor
Aired 30 July 1988 • 21 min
On their first day in junior high, Vicki becomes a hall monitor and Jamie tries to avoid Harriet for a dance while vying for a class fox. Meanwhile, Ted prepares to host a cybernetics conference.
3. More About L.E.S.
Aired 6 August 1988 • 21 min
L.E.S. is back, and despite Ted's assurances that the rogue A.I. program has been rendered harmless, it comes back in a big way by possessing Vicki's body (chassis?) as its own.
4. Game Show
Aired 13 August 1988 • 21 min
The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
5. Jailbirds
Aired 20 August 1988 • 21 min
Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
6. I Dream of Vicki
Aired 18 September 1988 • 21 min
To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
7. Golddigging Ida
Aired 25 September 1988 • 21 min
Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
8. It's a Gas
Aired 2 October 1988 • 21 min
A digestion feedback problem with Vicki's polynucleotide processor generates nitrous oxide gas that brings laughs to anyone near her, but not to Vicki herself -- just as Ted's boss is about to visit about lay-offs.
9. SuperSuds
Aired 9 October 1988 • 21 min
While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
10. Battle of the Sexes and Robot
Aired 16 October 1988 • 21 min
Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
11. Vicki and the Skyjacker
Aired 23 October 1988 • 21 min
Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
12. Luke and Ray
Aired 30 October 1988 • 21 min
To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
13. Vicki's Glasses
Aired 6 November 1988 • 21 min
Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
14. Double Dates
Aired 13 November 1988 • 21 min
Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
15. Vicki's Expose
Aired 20 November 1988 • 21 min
Benny, an old college chum of Ted and Joan's is up to his same trashy school paper tricks in a big city rag now, fabricating a tabloid feature which by sheer chance ""exposes"" Vicki as a robot just as she's about to join a fashionable clique of girls.
16. Doolittle Vicki
Aired 27 November 1988 • 21 min
A new language translation device (Random Access Multiple Concurrent Linquistic Analytical Sequencer) installed in Vicki enables her to understand any language...even animals, like the bosses' dog. Mrs. Jennings forces Mr. Jennings to fire Ted when Joan balks at doing uncredited work for an affair.
17. Radio Show
Aired 3 December 1988 • 21 min
Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
18. Pool Shark Vicki
Aired 10 December 1988 • 21 min
To land a new promotion with the boss, Ted invites him over for dinner and a playful game of pool -- until Jennings starts betting the shirt off his back and a lot more playing against Vicki.
19. Singing Telegram
Aired 17 December 1988 • 21 min
Ted's singing telegram birthday greeting makes him pine back to his ""youthful years"" with a surfboard and prompts Jamie to start a singing telegram for schoolmates -- and competing with Reggie.
20. The Rip-Off
Aired 5 January 1989 • 21 min
While on a company vacation at a health resort, Jamie, Vicki, Brandon and Harriet see a burglar hitting their residence -- each with a different eyewitness account.
21. My Favorite Martian
Aired 12 January 1989 • 21 min
While Jamie tests out Ted's new laser projection system in Vicki's eyes, unwary Brandon glimpses her projection of a movie's flying saucer and calls the Air Force to investigate.
22. Hooray for Hollyweird!
Aired 9 February 1989 • 21 min
Ted brings back ""Bad Seed"" Vanessa, who again takes Vicki's place, locks Vicki in her/its cabinet and joins the family to Hollywood, where Ted must repair a movie's robot while Vanessa mugs into a screen test on the sly.
23. See No Evil
Aired 13 May 1989 • 21 min
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24. Thy Neighbor's Wife
Aired 20 May 1989 • 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.