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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S01E01 Vicki's Homecoming
September 7 · 21min find the promo
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Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.
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S01E02 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
September 14 · 21min find the promo
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The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.
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S01E03 Robositter
September 21 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!
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S01E04 Nerd Crush
September 28 · 21min find the promo
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Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.
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S01E05 Runaway Jamie
October 5 · 21min find the promo
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Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.
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S01E06 Lights! Camera! Ego!
October 12 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie and his friend Reggie Williams are involved in putting together a sci-fi movie project for school, but the power of directorial duties goes to Jamie's head.
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S01E07 White Lies
October 19 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie realizes the value of constant truthfulness when he can't convince his parents that he's not responsible for breaking (and secretly gluing together) a teapot caused by Harriet's smart-aleck cousin.
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S01E08 The Bully
October 26 · 21min find the promo
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A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."
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S01E09 DisHonor Student
November 2 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie uses Vicki's new speed-scan reading ability to complete 55 chapters of his homework overnight, which earns him the school honor roll -- along with snowballing guilt.
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S01E10 Vicki's Adoption
November 9 · 21min find the promo
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Tipped off on the sly by busybody Bonnie Brindle, Child Services threatens to take Vicki away unless the Lawsons can produce her past -- and she passes a medical exam.
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S01E11 Child Prodigy
November 16 · 21min find the promo
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To circumvent Child Services' orders to send Vicki to school and risk exposure, the Lawsons hire a pompous tutor who mistakes her computer abilities for genius. To remedy the situation, Joan crams to follow-through her marriage-postponed teaching degree to act as Vicki's "tutor," while Ted takes over the kitchen and creates a mess.
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S01E12 Brindles Move In
November 23 · 21min find the promo
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A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.
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S01E13 RoboBrat
November 30 · 21min find the promo
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When overexposure to Harriet infects heuristically mimicking Vicki with Harriet's personality traits and shrieking tantrums, Ted must purge the brat out of her at his factory -- but not before Harriet and Bonnie Brindle wonder where Vicki suddenly vanished to and summon the police.
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S01E14 The Burrito Story
January 4 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
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S01E15 Babes in the Woods
January 11 · 21min find the promo
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The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
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S01E16 First Love
January 18 · 21min find the promo
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To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.
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S01E17 Substitute Dad
January 25 · 21min find the promo
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When golf-crazed Ted neglects taking Jamie to a Father-and-Son picnic for a golf tournament, Brandon steps in and incites a "father war" while Joan uses Vicki to voice her disapproval to Ted.
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S01E18 The Robot Nappers
February 8 · 21min find the promo
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When keen-eyed recruitment officers from a rival robotics firm drop by to interview Ted, they suspect Vicki is a robot and plan to "robotnap" her.
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S01E19 Ted's Lay-Off
February 15 · 21min find the promo
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United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
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S01E20 Health Nuts
February 22 · 21min find the promo
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Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
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S01E21 The Reluctant Halfback
March 1 · 21min find the promo
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Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.
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S01E22 Vaudeville Vicki
May 3 · 21min find the promo
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When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
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S01E23 The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
May 10 · 21min find the promo
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When timid Ted uses the "stork theory" in answering Jamie's questions about sex, Jamie believes Dad's in serious need of sex education and tries to help him out.
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S01E24 Grandpa Lawson's Visit
May 17 · 21min find the promo
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Ted has the unenviable task of explaining to his unwary Vicki-doting father, who bitterly lost his job to automation, that his new lovely adopted granddaughter is really a robot.