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- Episode 12
Brindles Move In
Small Wonder - S1 - E12
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.
Small Wonder: Season 1 - 24 Episode s
1x1 - Vicki's Homecoming
September 7, 1985
Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.
1x2 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
September 14, 1985
The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.
1x3 - Robositter
September 21, 1985
Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!
1x4 - Nerd Crush
September 28, 1985
Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.
1x5 - Runaway Jamie
October 5, 1985
Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.
1x6 - Lights! Camera! Ego!
October 12, 1985
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.
1x7 - White Lies
October 19, 1985
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.
1x8 - The Bully
October 26, 1985
A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."
1x9 - DisHonor Student
November 2, 1985
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.
1x10 - Vicki's Adoption
November 9, 1985
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.
1x11 - Child Prodigy
November 16, 1985
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.
1x12 - Brindles Move In
November 23, 1985
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.
1x13 - RoboBrat
November 30, 1985
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.
1x14 - The Burrito Story
January 4, 1986
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
1x15 - Babes in the Woods
January 11, 1986
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
1x16 - First Love
January 18, 1986
To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.
1x17 - Substitute Dad
January 25, 1986
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.
1x18 - The Robot Nappers
February 8, 1986
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.
1x19 - Ted's Lay-Off
February 15, 1986
United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
1x20 - Health Nuts
February 22, 1986
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
1x21 - The Reluctant Halfback
March 1, 1986
Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.
1x22 - Vaudeville Vicki
May 3, 1986
When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
1x23 - The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
May 10, 1986
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.
1x24 - Grandpa Lawson's Visit
May 17, 1986
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.