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24 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 13, 1986
Jamie and Reggie learn a sobering lesson by smoking cigarettes and chewing tobacco to elevate their status in junior high.
Episode 2
Sat, Sep 20, 1986
Jamie tries to buy the love of a pretty classmate.
Episode 3
Sat, Sep 27, 1986
Joan becomes the substitute teacher of Jamie's class.
Episode 4
Sat, Oct 4, 1986
Jamie takes a bribe while playing a judge in school.
Episode 5
Sat, Oct 11, 1986
Joan contacts a local news channel about doing a story on the homeless in an effort to raise awareness for those who are "residentially handicapped." After running an errand for their parents, Jamie and Vicki find a homeless man sleeping in an alley who introduces himself as Roland Cardwell. Jamie quickly finds a role model in the self-proclaimed professional vagabond and invites him to stay in their home. After witnessing his admiration, Joan and Ted frantically think of ways to change Jamie's preconception of how easy the life of a homeless man is, but when Roland goes missing they find their job is much easier. The family revisits the shady alley in which they had originally found him, and Jamie finds that the lifestyle isn't nearly as glamorous as he thought.
Episode 6
Sat, Oct 18, 1986
A con man sells Jamie and Vicki stolen merchandise that doesn't work.
Episode 7
Sat, Oct 25, 1986
Jamie falls for Harriet's 16-year-old cousin.
Episode 8
Sat, Nov 1, 1986
Jaime gets fed up with his parents bossing him around.when he fails to do something they told him to do. They ground him. He later has a dream that in addition to viki his parents are robots and they do,his bidding. But he eventually learns there are certain responsibilities that he took for granted.
Episode 9
Sat, Nov 8, 1986
Jamie is assigned to tutor a girl who stutters.
Episode 10
Sat, Nov 15, 1986
The Brindles involve the Lawsons in their squabble.
Episode 11
Sat, Nov 22, 1986
Vicki is caught shoplifting.
Episode 12
Sat, Nov 29, 1986
Jamie learns the value of family on Thanksgiving.
Episode 13
Sat, Dec 6, 1986
After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.
Episode 14
Sat, Jan 10, 1987
Ted is offered a new job in Massachusetts.
Episode 15
Sat, Jan 17, 1987
Ted tells a lie so that Jamie will be proud of him.
Episode 16
Sat, Jan 24, 1987
Jamie reprograms Vicki to please his friends.
Episode 17
Sat, Jan 31, 1987
Jamie starts a dating service to pay for a bicycle.
Episode 18
Sat, Feb 7, 1987
Against Ted's wishes, Joan enters Vicki in the "Little Miss Shopping Mall" beauty pageant, but Ted changes his mind after finding out that Harriet is also in the pageant.
Episode 19
Sat, Feb 14, 1987
Jamie pretends Vicki is a boy so she can play baseball.
Episode 20
Sat, Feb 21, 1987
Vicki tries out hypnosis on the Lawsons after she sees it performed on television.
Episode 21
Sat, Feb 28, 1987
Pro wrestler Jesse Ventura comes to the Lawsons' for dinner with a surprise for Ted: years before, he was the nerdy kid called Wally whom Ted teased in college.
Episode 22
Sat, May 9, 1987
Vicki becomes jealous of an electronic cat.
Episode 23
Sat, May 16, 1987
Vicki turns out to be a wizard at car repairs.
Episode 24
Sat, May 23, 1987
The Lawsons decide to renew their wedding vows.