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Somehow, she could also channel enough electricity through her hands to jump-start a car (or with more control, serve as a defibrillator to save the life of a person suffering a heart attack).

Occasionally, Vicki had rare abilities that seemed to only appear in one or two episodes, such as elongating her neck to reach a door's peephole, shrinking her size to become as small as a doll or making herself ten feet tall to get noticed by everyone. Vicki attends school, and no one but her family members and a few trusted friends know her secret. She does manage to blend into the real world to a point. Vicki's artificial intelligence is not perfect she is incapable of emotion, speaks in a monotone voice and interprets most commands literally.

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Vicki has an access panel in her back, an electrical outlet in her right armpit, and an RS-232 serial port under her left armpit. She possesses superhuman strength and speed and runs on atomic power. The robot was a Voice Input Child Identicant (V.I.C.I.), but was nicknamed Vicki.

Victoria "Vicki" Ann Smith-Lawson ( Tiffany Brissette): A robot modeled after a real human girl.

Harriet Brindle ( Emily Schulman): The nosy neighbors' daughter who has a crush on Jamie.

Jamie Lawson ( Jerry Supiran): The 10-year-old son of Ted and Joan.

Joan, more than anyone else on the show, regards Vicki as a real person.

Joan Lawson ( Marla Pennington): Ted's wife and Jamie's mother.

A robotics engineer who originally created the Vicki robot as a domestic servant with a female child's appearance.

Ted Lawson ( Dick Christie): Jamie's father, Joan's husband and Vicki's creator.

The cast of Small Wonder during the first season The food passed through her naturally and the drink cooled her internal system. He aged her face, dressed her in modern clothes, and allowed her to eat and drink.

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To explain child actress Tiffany Brissette's aging during the show, the series' producers had Ted give Vicki an upgrade in the series' third season. The show's humor frequently derived from Vicki's attempts to learn human behavior, her unprecedented echolalia, the robot's literal interpretation of speech and the family's efforts to disguise the robot's true nature. The Lawson family tries to keep the robot's existence a secret, but their disagreeable neighbors, the Brindles, keep on popping up at the most unexpected moments - especially nosy next-door neighbor Harriet, whose father happens to be Ted Lawson's co-worker.

Despite this, the Lawson family initially tries to pass Vicki off as an orphaned family member whom they legally adopt as their daughter. Vicki's features include superhuman strength and speed, an AC outlet under her right arm, a data port under her left arm, and an access panel in her back. Lawson takes the robot home so that it can mature within a family environment. Vicki was built by Ted Lawson, an engineer/inventor for United Robotronics, in an effort to assist handicapped children.

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(an acronym for Voice Input Child Identicant, pronounced "Vicki"), an android in the form of a 10-year-old girl. Owing to its popularity in some countries, the show had to be dubbed for different languages.

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The series turned out to be a surprise hit, specifically amongst the kid section, as many channels belonging to different nations witnessed while re-running the show. The show chronicles the family of a robotics engineer who secretly creates a robot modeled after a human girl, then tries to pass it off as their adopted daughter, Vicki. Small Wonder is an American children's comedy science fiction sitcom that aired in first-run syndication from September 7, 1985, to May 20, 1989.