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Season 1

1. Vicki's Homecoming  

Community Score

9.6 Superb
First aired: 9/7/1985    Production Code: 101

Genius United Robotronics cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson, brings home for assembly and long-term field beta testing Vicki, or V.I.C.I. (Voice Input Child Identicant): a secretly constructed robotic domestic aide in the form of a 10-year-old girl, to whom housewife Joan takes a shine while 10-year-old son Jamie instantly takes advantage of Vicki as a maid to clean his room and do his homework.

2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner  

Community Score

9.4 Superb
First aired: 9/14/1985    Production Code: 102

The Brindles, the Lawson's nosy neighbors, come across Vicki and tries to find out their secret.

3. Robositter  

Community Score

9.6 Superb
First aired: 9/21/1985    Production Code: 103

Smug Jamie thinks his folks trust him home "alone" for the first time while they attend a company function, only he doesn't realize Vicki's been programmed as his babysitter.

4. Nerd Crush  

Community Score

8.4 Great
First aired: 9/28/1985    Production Code: 104

Warren, the school nerd, drops by and falls in love with the only girl who hasn't smirked at him: Vicki.

5. Runaway Jamie  

Community Score

9.7 Superb
First aired: 10/5/1985    Production Code: 105

Because Vicki is getting more attention, Jamie decides to run away to see what his parents might think.

Writer: Ann Gibbs, Joel Kimmel
Director: Linda Day

6. Lights! Camera! Ego!  

Community Score

9.2 Superb
First aired: 10/12/1985    Production Code: 106

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.

7. White Lies  

Community Score

9.2 Superb
First aired: 10/19/1985    Production Code: 107

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.

8. The Fearless Five  

Community Score

9.8 Superb
First aired: 10/26/1985    Production Code: 108

A bully extorts money from Jamie's neighborhood club, which quickly reconsiders its boys-only policy via Vicki's strong-arm "assistance."

Writer: Jurgen Wolff
Director: John Bowab
Guest star: Billy Jayne (Ernie)

9. DisHonor Student  

Community Score

8.0 Great
First aired: 11/2/1985    Production Code: 109

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.

10. Vicki's Adoption  

Community Score

9.2 Superb
First aired: 11/9/1985    Production Code: 110

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.

11. Child Prodigy  

Community Score

9.0 Superb
First aired: 11/16/1985    Production Code: 111

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.

12. Brindles Move In  

Community Score

8.7 Great
First aired: 11/23/1985    Production Code: 112

A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.

13. RoboBrat  

Community Score

9.1 Superb
First aired: 11/30/1986    Production Code: 113

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.

14. Burrito Kings  

Community Score

9.3 Superb
First aired: 1/4/1986    Production Code: 114

After Vicki bakes a pile of bang-up burritos for dinner, Jamie decides to have her mass-produce them as a business- on credit.

15. Babes in the Woods  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 1/11/1986    Production Code: 115

The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.

16. First Love  

Community Score

9.7 Superb
First aired: 1/18/1986    Production Code: 116

To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.

17. Substitute Dad  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 1/25/1986    Production Code: 117

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.

Writer: Ed Jurist
Director: Bob Claver
Guest star: William Bogert (Brandon Brindle)

18. The Robot Nappers  

Community Score

9.4 Superb
First aired: 2/1/1986    Production Code: 118

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.

19. The Reluctant Halfback  

Community Score

8.6 Great
First aired: 2/8/1986    Production Code: 121

Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.

20. Ted's Lay-Off  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 2/15/1986    Production Code: 120

United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

21. Health Nuts  

Community Score

7.0 Good 1
review
First aired: 2/22/1986    Production Code: 123

The death of an obese colleague pushes a shaken Ted to throw the family into a rigorous diet and fitness regimen that nearly kills them.

22. Vaudeville Vicki  

Community Score

9.7 Superb
First aired: 3/1/1986    Production Code: 122

When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.

23. The Birds, The Bees, and Robots  

Community Score

9.1 Superb
First aired: 5/10/1986    Production Code: 119

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.

24. Grandpa Lawson's Visit  

Community Score

9.3 Superb 1
review
First aired: 5/17/1986    Production Code: 124

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.

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