The show was generally focused on Vicki and her interactions with Jamie and other kids such as the annoying next door neighbor, Harriet Brindle (played by Emily Schulman). The Lawson family pretended that Vicki was the family's adopted daughter.
robot, which was an android that looked like a 10-year-old girl. Ted Lawson worked as an engineer/inventor for United Robotronics, working on a robot for assisting handicapped children.
The son of the Lawson family was Jamie Lawson, played by Jerry Supiran. The parents of the Lawson family were Ted and Joan Lawson, played by Dick Christie and Marla Pennington, respectively. Small Wonder was a hit in syndication and the show focused on the Lawson family. Her early roles led to her greatest success in 1985, when she landed a starring role on the hit sitcom, Small Wonder.Īs previously mentioned in the profiles for Jerry Supiran and Emily Schulman, Small Wonder was a very usual show. In 1984 she appeared of several episodes of the hit sitcom, Webster. Brissette followed up with a minor role in the 1983 big screen movie, Heart Like a Wheel. She also had a minor voice role in the 1982 mini-series, Marco Polo. Such early exposure eventually led to television voice-over work and appearances in commercials for products such as the Care Bears, Florida Orange Juice, IBM, and Jell-O Puddin' Pops, to name just a few.īrissette's first television role was in the made-for-TV move, A Woman Called Golda, where her voice was used, but she was not shown. Her mother was her biggest fan, entering her in many beauty pageants and talent competitions as a child. Brissette was born on Decemin Paradise, California.īrissette began her entertainment career in the late 1970s. I guess maybe they figured that people were just plain tired of seeing the same 96 episodes over and over.Tiffany Brissette is a former child star known for her role as Voice Input Child Identicant ("V.I.C.I.," pronounced "Vicki") the robot on the successful mid-1980s sitcom, Small Wonder. I guess it is no Small Wonder that said Fox affiliate stopped showing this wonderful, wonderful show. My mom told me today that that was just part of being a little kid. I would (and still sometimes do) dream about her/it. Anyway, I liked this show because of only one thing: Vicki the Robot! I had a ***HUGE*** crush on her/it. But I saw in another message board that this winter KDOC Channel 56 (another station in my area) would pick up the show. Then after that, they yanked (stopped showing) it :'(, and I have been mad at them ever since. In '95 and '96 they only showed it in the summer at 1:00 and 1:30 PM. Then in about '94, they started showing it Monday through Friday afternoons at 1:30, then started airing it at 1:00 AND 1:30 all year round.
I remember that in 1992 and '93 KTTV Channel 11 (my local Fox affiliate) aired two episodes Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 and 2:30. That's how my little "Small Wonder craze," if you will, began. I remember on a Saturday afternoon about 12 years ago I walked in on my mom watching this show in her bedroom, then I started watching it with her.