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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.
Episode 24 : Wham-Bam-Body Slam
June. 20,1987
Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school tormentor: Ted, who rigs Vicki to play even crueler tricks. Only Ted's unaware that Wally's grown into a top pro wrestler.
Episode 23 : The Wedding
May. 23,1987
Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
Episode 22 : Vicki Goodwrench
May. 16,1987
During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.
Episode 21 : Here Kitty, Kitty!
May. 09,1987
To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.
Episode 20 : Community Watch and See
May. 02,1987
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
Episode 19 : Pint Sized Pick-Up
April. 18,1987
While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.
Episode 18 : Look into My Eyes
February. 21,1987
After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""skill"" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.
Episode 17 : Victor/ V.I.C.I.
February. 14,1987
To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.
Episode 16 : Little Miss Shopping Mall
February. 07,1987
The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
Episode 15 : Class Comedienne
January. 24,1987
Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
Episode 14 : Project Blender
January. 17,1987
To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.
Episode 13 : Movin' Up
January. 10,1987
While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests the family's taste to social climb vs. its price of morality.
Episode 12 : Smoker's Delight
December. 13,1986
Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
Episode 11 : Computer Dating
December. 06,1986
To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
Episode 10 : Latchkey Dreams
November. 29,1986
To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
Episode 9 : Have a Heart
November. 15,1986
Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, while the Brindles move in with their marital dispute.
Episode 8 : The Wonder Worker
November. 08,1986
To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
Episode 7 : My Robot Family
November. 01,1986
When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
Episode 6 : Jamie's Older Woman
October. 25,1986
Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
Episode 5 : The Hustle
October. 18,1986
When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
Episode 4 : Homeless Causes
October. 11,1986
Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
Episode 3 : Vicki for the Defense
October. 04,1986
Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.
Episode 2 : My Mother the Teacher
September. 27,1986
Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.
Episode 1 : Root Beer, Women and Song
September. 20,1986
Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.
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