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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S04E01 Big J, Private Eye
July 23 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E02 School Monitor
July 30 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E03 More About L.E.S.
August 6 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E04 Game Show
August 13 · 21min find the promo
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The Lawsons enter a game show to get back at the Brindles for trying to kick them off the eligibility list.
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S04E05 Jailbirds
August 20 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie and Vicki are arrested for spray-painting a wall -- and its owner's $60 shirt.
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S04E06 I Dream of Vicki
September 18 · 21min find the promo
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To keep his company's presence in an Arab country, Ted lets its visiting young ruler draft Vicki into his harem.
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S04E07 Golddigging Ida
September 25 · 21min find the promo
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Joan's doctor father drops by to visit and Ida Mae smells a plump husband. Meanwhile, Vicki vies for school cheerleader.
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S04E08 It's a Gas
October 2 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E09 SuperSuds
October 9 · 21min find the promo
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While playing with Jamie's chemistry set, Vicki creates a potent laundry detergent that Ted -- and Brandon -- leap to market themselves.
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S04E10 Battle of the Sexes and Robot
October 16 · 21min find the promo
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Ted, Jamie and Reggie go macho on an all-male fishing trip-- tailed by a slighted and competitive bevy: Joan, Vicki and Harriet.
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S04E11 Vicki and the Skyjacker
October 23 · 21min find the promo
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Fly-shy Brandon bribes the Lawsons' company to fly with him on a company job on a plane that is hijacked for Cuba.
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S04E12 Luke and Ray
October 30 · 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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S04E13 Vicki's Glasses
November 6 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie regrets putting Vicki on guard duty for his pricey new bike when her eyes start to malfunction in a schoolyard of prowling thieves.
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S04E14 Double Dates
November 13 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie winds up handling two dates on the same night, blind to the fact that one of them is Harriet in disguise.
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S04E15 Vicki's Expose
November 20 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E16 Doolittle Vicki
November 27 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E17 Radio Show
December 3 · 21min find the promo
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Ted prepares for a robotics interview on a local radio talk show while Jamie looks for an idea for a class play.
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S04E18 Pool Shark Vicki
December 10 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E19 Singing Telegram
December 17 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E20 The Rip-Off
January 5 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E21 My Favorite Martian
January 12 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E22 Hooray for Hollyweird!
February 9 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E23 See No Evil
May 13 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S04E24 Thy Neighbor's Wife
May 20 · 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.