24 episodesFirst aired 7 September 1985
E1Sept 198521m
Ted brings home his own cyber creation an android in the form of a ten year old girl he nicknames Vicki.
E2Sept 198521m
The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.
E3Sept 198521m
Jamie has the entire house to himself, not knowing that Vicki is his babysitter!
E4Sept 198521m
Warren Enright, the class nerd, falls in love with Vicki.
E5Oct 198521m
Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.
E6Oct 198521m
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.
E7Oct 198521m
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.
E8Oct 198521m
A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."
E9Nov 198521m
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.
E10Nov 198521m
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.
E11Nov 198521m
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.
E12Nov 198521m
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.
E13Nov 198521m
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.
E14Jan 198621m
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
E15Jan 198621m
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
E16Jan 198621m
To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.
E17Jan 198621m
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.
E18Feb 198621m
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.
E19Feb 198621m
United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
E20Feb 198621m
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
E21Mar 198621m
Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.
E22May 198621m
When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
E23May 198621m
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.
E24May 198621m
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.