← Small Wonder

Season 2

24 episodes · 1986

  1. 1

    Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight)

    Sep 13, 198621 min★ 7.5

    Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.

  2. 2

    Money, Money, Money

    Sep 20, 198622 min★ 7.5

    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.

  3. 3

    My Mother the Teacher

    Sep 27, 198621 min★ 7.1

    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.

  4. 4

    Here Comes the Judge

    Oct 4, 198621 min★ 7.7

    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.

  5. 5

    Home Sweet Homeless

    Oct 11, 198621 min★ 7.5

    Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.

  6. 6

    Crazy Like a Fox

    Oct 18, 198621 min★ 7.2

    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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    The Older Woman

    Oct 25, 198621 min★ 6.9

    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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    Who's the Boss?

    Nov 1, 198621 min★ 7.3

    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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    P-P Paula

    Nov 8, 198621 min★ 7.6

    To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.

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    You Gotta Have Heart

    Nov 15, 198621 min★ 7.4

    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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    Little Miss Shopping Mall

    Nov 22, 198621 min★ 7.0

    The Lawsons enter Vicki in a mall pageant.

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    Thanksgiving Story

    Nov 29, 198621 min★ 7.5

    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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    Neighborhood Watch

    Dec 6, 198621 min★ 7.5

    After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.

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    Moving Up

    Jan 10, 198721 min★ 7.4

    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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    Top Secret

    Jan 17, 198721 min★ 7.6

    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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    The Personality Kid

    Jan 24, 198721 min★ 7.1

    Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.

  17. 17

    Matchmaker, Matchmaker

    Jan 31, 198721 min★ 6.9

    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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    Little Miss Shopping Mall

    Feb 7, 198721 min★ 7.3

    The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

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    Victor/ Vicki-toria

    Feb 14, 198721 min★ 6.9

    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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    Look into My Eyes

    Feb 21, 198721 min★ 7.7

    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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    Wally the Wimp

    Jun 20, 198721 min★ 7.9

    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.

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    The Cat's Meow

    May 9, 198721 min★ 7.4

    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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    Vicki Goodwrench

    May 16, 198721 min★ 7.3

    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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    Double Wedding

    May 23, 198721 min★ 7.5

    Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.