Small Wonder Season 4, Episode 18: Pool Shark Vicki

1

Big J, Private Eye

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.

21 min

2

School Monitor

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.

21 min

3

More About L.E.S.

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.

21 min

4

Game Show

The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.

21 min

5

Jailbirds

Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.

21 min

6

I Dream of Vicki

To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.

21 min

7

Golddigging Ida

Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.

21 min

8

It's a Gas

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.

21 min

9

SuperSuds

While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.

21 min

10

Battle of the Sexes and Robot

Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.

21 min

11

Vicki and the Skyjacker

Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.

21 min

12

Luke and Ray

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

21 min

13

Vicki's Glasses

Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.

21 min

14

Double Dates

Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.

21 min

15

Vicki's Expose

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.

21 min

16

Doolittle Vicki

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.

21 min

17

Radio Show

Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.

21 min

18

Pool Shark Vicki

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.

21 min

19

Singing Telegram

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.

21 min

20

The Rip-Off

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 min

21

My Favorite Martian

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.

21 min

22

Hooray for Hollyweird!

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.

21 min

23

See No Evil

Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey newJamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves. bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.

21 min

24

Thy Neighbor's Wife

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.

21 min