Was there a stranger show on TV than SMALL WONDER? Even when it was airing, I would cringe when it came on.
The premise was about a family. The father spent all his time in the garage building a robot of a young girl, called Vicki.
How creepy is that?
The robot lived with the family as their daughter.
And it was supposed to be a comedy, yet wasn’t funny.
The networks were smart enough to pass on it, so it aired in syndication. Yet it aired for 4 years!! From 1985-1989. How did it last that long?
It aired on Sunday afternoons in my area, when nothing else was on, so I would often watch it. I didn’t enjoy it. It was just on.
What always bothered me (other than the creepiness factor) was how the father built this robot, yet couldn’t fix the voice. She always talked like a robot. However there were times where she was imitating someone that she ended up talking completely normal.
The show isn’t entirely forgotten. While it hasn’t aired in syndication in years, and isn’t on DVD, it was recently named in one online poll as the worst sitcom in TV history. Hard to argue.
It wasn’t much of a stepping stone for the cast.
The father, Dick Christie, I remember seeing profiled on something in the 90’s, saying he was a screenwriter. He wrote the Elisabeth Shue film MOLLY.
Virtually everyone in the cast never did anything else. Little is known about them.
The lead, Tiffany Brissette, is either involved in religion as a choir director or is an experimental dancer, depending on who you ask.
I think they are all in hiding. Can’t really blame them.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
FORGOTTEN TV: SMALL WONDER (1985-1989)
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Yeah, this show aired Saturday mornings in my area between 11-12 after the cartoons were over. I miss the Saturday morning cartoons, esp. Superfriends.
Wonder why you call it a bad TV series! When "Small Wonder" was rerun on Indian Television in the mid 90s it was a huge hit! And it kept running for four years! After which it became a daily! I remember coming home everyday after school never to miss an episode! The show was then dubbed in Hindi making it ever more popular in Indian households. And (believe it or not!) the show was actually REMADE in Hindi in the early part of this decade!! Almost every Indian youngster remembers "Small Wonder" as part of his/her childhood!
It's no worse than those stupid Power Rangers shows.
I miss the real Saturday morning cartoons we used to have. No one seems to make them anymore.
Easily the worst sit-com I can recall having seen. I can remember feeling such embarrassment for the cast that it literally made me cringe.
This was a guilty pleasure of mine in the late 80s. I was reminded of this show when I saw the Haley Joel Osment film "A.I: Artificial Intelligence."
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