Scripted series · Syndication
Small Wonder
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tiffany Brissette
Victoria "Vicki" Ann Smith-Lawson
99 eps
Dick Christie
Ted Lawson
99 eps
Marla Pennington
Joan Lawson
99 eps
Jerry Supiran
Jamie Lawson
99 eps
Emily Schulman
Harriet Brindle
99 eps
William Bogert
Brandon Brindle
99 eps
Alice Ghostley
Ida Mae
75 eps
Edie McClurg
Bonnie Brindle
24 eps
Foster Brooks
Roland Cardwell
1 eps
Brent Chalem
Willard
1 eps
Emily Moultrie
Paula
1 eps
Joey Tushnet
Donnie
1 eps
David C. Glasser
Harriet's cousin
1 eps
Leslie Bega
Mary
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Small Wonder actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Small Wonder reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson brings home his top-secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I., life becomes anything but mechanical for the Lawson Family. With his boss and his nosy family living next door, Ted, his wife Joan and their son Jamie must pass Vicki off as a real child. It is easy for Joan, who cannot help doting on her like a daughter, but harder for precocious Jamie, who uses Vicki to do his homework and to ward off Harriet, the annoying redheaded girl next door.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Howard Leeds
Showrunner
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Ed Jurist
Writer
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Michael Poryes
Writer
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Jeffrey Duteil
Writer
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Lawrence H. Levy
Writer
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Howard Meyers
Writer
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Ralph Phillips
Writer
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Jack Gross Jr.
Writer
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Jurgen Wolff
Writer
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Stephen Sustarsic
Writer
David Ruprecht
Writer
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David Adam Silverman
Writer
Dick Christie
Writer
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Steve Granat
Writer
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Donald Ross
Writer
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Jerry Ross
Writer
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Wendy Graf
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Ed JuristWriter
- Michael PoryesWriter
- Jeffrey DuteilWriter
- Lawrence H. LevyWriter
- Howard MeyersWriter
- Ralph PhillipsWriter
Direction
- Linda DayDirector
- Peter BaldwinDirector
- Dick ChristieDirector
- Leslie H. MartinsonDirector
Where to watch
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