Season 3
Season 3

Season 3

Small Wonder

27 episodes05/09/1987

Episodes

Episode 1
S3 · E1 · 05/09/1987 · 21 min

Vicki and the Pusher

When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

Episode 2
S3 · E2 · 12/09/1987 · 21 min

The Strike

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
S3 · E3 · 19/09/1987 · 21 min

The Pool

While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.

Episode 4
S3 · E4 · 26/09/1987 · 21 min

Screaming Skulls

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
S3 · E5 · 03/10/1987 · 21 min

The Electric Potatoheads

Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

Episode 6
S3 · E6 · 10/10/1987 · 21 min

Geisha Vicki

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
S3 · E7 · 24/10/1987 · 21 min

I Hear You

When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.

Episode 8
S3 · E8 · 31/10/1987 · 21 min

Haunted House

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
S3 · E9 · 07/11/1987 · 21 min

The Bad Seedling

Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.

Episode 10
S3 · E10 · 14/11/1987 · 21 min

My Living Doll

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
S3 · E11 · 21/11/1987 · 21 min

Fat's Where It's At

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.

Episode 12
S3 · E12 · 28/11/1987 · 21 min

Bank Hostages

Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.

Episode 13
S3 · E13 · 05/12/1987 · 21 min

Breakfast of Criminals

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
S3 · E14 · 12/12/1987 · 21 min

Girl on the Milk Carton

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
S3 · E15 · 09/01/1988 · 21 min

The Bossy Daughter

Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.

Episode 16
S3 · E16 · 30/01/1988 · 21 min

Home Sweet Sale

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
S3 · E17 · 06/02/1988 · 21 min

Ronald McDonald House

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

Episode 18
S3 · E18 · 12/02/1988 · 21 min

The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

Episode 19
S3 · E19 · 20/02/1988 · 21 min

In the Spirits

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
S3 · E20 · 12/03/1988 · 21 min

The Perfect Daughter

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
S3 · E21 · 04/05/1988 · 21 min

Earthquake Vicki

Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.

Episode 22
S3 · E22 · 28/05/1988 · 21 min

Ted's Dead

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
S3 · E23 · 09/07/1988 · 21 min

Big J, the D.J.

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
S3 · E24 · 30/07/1988 · 21 min

Safety First

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
S3 · E25 · 06/08/1988 · 21 min

How I Love Thee

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.

Episode 26
S3 · E26 · 27/08/1988 · 21 min

The Cheater

Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.

Episode 27
S3 · E27 · 06/09/1988 · 21 min

Digital Love

Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.

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