Episode
Small Wonder: Substitute Dad
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Small Wonder
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1986-01-25
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Substitute Dad is Episode 17 in Season 1 of Small Wonder. It aired on 1986-01-25. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 16: First Love
To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.
Episode 18: The Robot Nappers
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 15: Babes in the Woods
The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.
Episode 19: Ted's Lay-Off
United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.
Episode 14: The Burrito Story
Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.
Episode 20: Health Nuts
Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.
Episode 13: RoboBrat
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.
Episode 21: The Reluctant Halfback
Ted is proud that Jamie's made the Pee Wee Football league, unknowing that Jamie only does it to please his dad.
Episode 12: Brindles Move In
A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.
Episode 22: Vaudeville Vicki
When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.
Episode 11: Child Prodigy
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.
Episode 23: The Birds, The Bees, and Robots
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.