Episode

Small Wonder: The Reluctant Halfback

Name: Small Wonder: The Reluctant Halfback
Released: 1986-03-01
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Tiffany Brissette, Dick Christie, Marla Pennington, Jerry Supiran, Emily Schulman

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Overview

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

Details

Series: Small Wonder
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 21
Air date: 1986-03-01
Runtime: 21 min

Episode context

The Reluctant Halfback is Episode 21 in Season 1 of Small Wonder. It aired on 1986-03-01. The runtime is 21 min.

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Episode 20: Health Nuts 1986-02-22 | 21 min Ted is motivated to get the family into shape when an obese co-worker loses a record amount of weight.

Episode 22: Vaudeville Vicki 1986-05-03 | 21 min When a vaudeville actor thinks Vicki is his long-lost daughter, he drafts her into a show and threatens her adoption.

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Episode 19: Ted's Lay-Off 1986-02-15 | 21 min United Robotronics cutbacks have the Lawsons scrambling for odd jobs.

Episode 23: The Birds, The Bees, and Robots 1986-05-10 | 21 min 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.

Episode 18: The Robot Nappers 1986-02-08 | 21 min 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.

Episode 24: Grandpa Lawson's Visit 1986-05-17 | 21 min 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.

Episode 17: Substitute Dad 1986-01-25 | 21 min 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.

Episode 16: First Love 1986-01-18 | 21 min To charm prissy and picky Jessica, Jamie throws an expensive party for her, ignoring a surprising school tomboy.

Episode 15: Babes in the Woods 1986-01-11 | 21 min The Lawsons and Reggie and Harriet take a wilderness camping trip, and get lost.

Episode 14: The Burrito Story 1986-01-04 | 21 min Jamie attempts to mass-produce burritos made by Vicki.

Episode 13: RoboBrat 1985-11-30 | 21 min 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 12: Brindles Move In 1985-11-23 | 21 min A house fire moves Ted's new boss, Brandon Brindle, into the Lawsons' house, scheming for insurance fraud.