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.
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- Seasons
- 4
- Episodes aired
- 99
- Latest aired
- S04E24
- Total runtime
- 1d 10h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1985 – May 1986 24 episodes
- Season 2 September 1986 – June 1987 24 episodes
- Season 3 September 1987 – September 1988 27 episodes
- Season 4 July 1988 – May 1989 24 episodes
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S03E01 Vicki and the Pusher
September 5 · 21min find the promo
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When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.
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S03E02 The Strike
September 12 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E03 The Pool
September 19 · 21min find the promo
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While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.
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S03E04 Screaming Skulls
September 26 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E05 The Electric Potatoheads
October 3 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.
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S03E06 Geisha Vicki
October 10 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E07 I Hear You
October 24 · 21min find the promo
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When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.
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S03E08 Haunted House
October 31 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E09 The Bad Seedling
November 7 · 21min find the promo
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Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.
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S03E10 My Living Doll
November 14 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E11 Fat's Where It's At
November 21 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E12 Bank Hostages
November 28 · 21min find the promo
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Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.
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S03E13 Breakfast of Criminals
December 5 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E14 Girl on the Milk Carton
December 12 · 21min find the promo
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While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.
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S03E15 The Bossy Daughter
January 9 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.
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S03E16 Home Sweet Sale
January 30 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E17 Ronald McDonald House
February 6 · 21min find the promo
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To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.
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S03E18 The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming
February 12 · 21min find the promo
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Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.
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S03E19 In the Spirits
February 20 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E20 The Perfect Daughter
March 12 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E21 Earthquake Vicki
May 4 · 21min find the promo
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Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.
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S03E22 Ted's Dead
May 28 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E23 Big J, the D.J.
July 9 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E24 Safety First
July 30 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E25 How I Love Thee
August 6 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S03E26 The Cheater
August 27 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.
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S03E27 Digital Love
September 6 · 21min find the promo
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Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.