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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S02E01 Root Beer, Women and Song
September 20 · 21min find the promo
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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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S02E02 My Mother the Teacher
September 27 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E03 Vicki for the Defense
October 4 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E04 Homeless Causes
October 11 · 21min find the promo
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Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.
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S02E05 The Hustle
October 18 · 21min find the promo
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When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.
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S02E06 Jamie's Older Woman
October 25 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.
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S02E07 My Robot Family
November 1 · 21min find the promo
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When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.
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S02E08 The Wonder Worker
November 8 · 21min find the promo
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To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.
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S02E09 Have a Heart
November 15 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E10 Latchkey Dreams
November 29 · 21min find the promo
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To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.
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S02E11 Computer Dating
December 6 · 21min find the promo
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To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.
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S02E12 Smoker's Delight
December 13 · 21min find the promo
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Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.
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S02E13 Movin' Up
January 10 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E14 Project Blender
January 17 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E15 Class Comedienne
January 24 · 21min find the promo
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Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.
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S02E16 Little Miss Shopping Mall
February 7 · 21min find the promo
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The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.
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S02E17 Victor/ V.I.C.I.
February 14 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E18 Look into My Eyes
February 21 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E19 Pint Sized Pick-Up
April 18 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E20 Community Watch and See
May 2 · 21min find the promo
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After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
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S02E21 Here Kitty, Kitty!
May 9 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E22 Vicki Goodwrench
May 16 · 21min find the promo
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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.
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S02E23 The Wedding
May 23 · 21min find the promo
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Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.
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S02E24 Wham-Bam-Body Slam
June 20 · 21min find the promo
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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.