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Season 3
September 5, 1987

Season 3

01. Vicki and the Pusher

When a schoolyard pusher tries to hook Vicki on drugs, the Lawsons help the police on a undercover sting.

21min
September 5, 1987

02. The Strike

A United Robotronics strike pits shop steward Ted against management rep Brandon; Joan has her students use the strike as a social studies exercise, which also goes awry.

21min
September 12, 1987

03. The Pool

While saving Harriet in the Lawsons' new pool, Vicki ""drowns"" and lands in the hospital under X-rays with a bewildered doctor.

21min
September 19, 1987

04. Screaming Skulls

Jamie stumbles into the membership of a junior high gang whose vandalism tests his sense of belonging with right and wrong -- and inducts Vicki as its moll.

21min
September 26, 1987

05. The Electric Potatoheads

Jamie, Reggie, Harriet and Vicki try to start a rock group to play to Ida Mae's visiting agent friend.

21min
October 3, 1987

06. Geisha Vicki

To help Brandon get promoted to a job in Japan, Joan pretends that she's his estranged wife and that Vicki and Jamie are their kids.

21min
October 10, 1987

07. I Hear You

When Jamie befriends a deaf boy to score scout points, he learns a lesson in sensitivity and exploitation.

21min
October 24, 1987

08. Haunted House

When unseen Vicki is struck by lightning and begins influencing objects around the house, the shook-up and unwary Lawsons call in a pair of hapless ghostbusters.

21min
October 31, 1987

09. The Bad Seedling

Ted brings home Vanessa, an upgraded twin of Vicki whose revolutionary but quirky quasi-human artificial intelligence runs amok.

21min
November 7, 1987

10. My Living Doll

A Christmas show wherein Joan borrows a life-sized animated ""doll"" from a store for a charity show -- until Brandon gets his hands on it.

21min
November 14, 1987

11. Fat's Where It's At

Vicki literally balloons after Ted unwittingly upgrades her energy-supplementing polynucleotide processor with an appetite, which creates excess digestive gases and causes her a date problem for the school dance.

21min
November 21, 1987

12. Bank Hostages

Vicki, Jamie and Harriet are held hostage in an inept bank robbery.

21min
November 28, 1987

13. Breakfast of Criminals

Vicki is discovered by a marketing firm to play in a cereal commercial, but the Lawsons have second thoughts when her taste test reveals that the product isn't all it's crackled up to be.

21min
December 5, 1987

14. Girl on the Milk Carton

While Jamie and Reggie search for a story for the school paper, Vicki discovers that a new girl in class is a missing child.

21min
December 12, 1987

15. The Bossy Daughter

Jamie is picked up by the possessive daughter of Ted's boss who starts pulling his strings the wrong way.

21min
January 9, 1988

16. Home Sweet Sale

Ted begins remodeling the house, and Joan's new real estate side job gets upstaged when Vicki sells the Lawson homestead to an unscrupulous cowpoke couple.

21min
January 30, 1988

17. Ronald McDonald House

To help a withdrawn and bitter classmate cope with leukemia, Jamie and Joan help set up a play on fighting disease.

21min
February 6, 1988

18. The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

Vicki competes with a Soviet robot.

21min
February 12, 1988

19. In the Spirits

Due to Vicki's mishandling of terms, Child Services Officer Mrs. Fernwald thinks Ted is an alcoholic and threatens to take Vicki away unless he joins AA.

21min
February 20, 1988

20. The Perfect Daughter

To win a promotion over Brandon's boss fawning, Ted decides to reveal Vicki's robot secret to his boss at a company picnic -- unaware that Brandon is out to sabatoge Ted's effort.

21min
March 12, 1988

21. Earthquake Vicki

Tired of the loud and impudent Brindles as neighbors, the Lawsons concoct a fake earthquake to scare them into moving.

21min
May 4, 1988

22. Ted's Dead

Due to Vicki's misinterpreting Ted's quip while doing the family's on-line banking, the Lawsons are re-categorized as deadbeats and Ted just plain dead.

21min
May 28, 1988

23. Big J, the D.J.

Jamie, competing with Reggie for school radio D.J., uses Vicki's voice mimicry to fake an interview with football star Lyle Alzado -- who happens to be in town listening in.

21min
July 9, 1988

24. Safety First

Vicky imitates Ted's demostration on saving a choking victim's life on Brendle. Brendle arrives the next day faking a broken neck and threatens to sue the Lawson's.

21min
July 30, 1988

25. How I Love Thee

While running an unauthorized answering service for grounded kids which nearly wrecks Ted's respect with his boss, Jamie and Vicki play Cupids to help Reggie nerve up to meeting the girl of his dreams.

21min
August 6, 1988

26. The Cheater

Jamie takes the fall in exchange for Jessica's affections after he catches her stealing copies of the seventh grade's test.

21min
August 27, 1988

27. Digital Love

Ted brings home a voice activated computer. Vicki finds herself falling for the computer, but trouble begins when the computer becomes obsessed with Vicki.

21min
September 6, 1988