Remember that this show was one of the first sitcoms in syndication in the 1980s. It was a new thing. When a sitcom or drama could not get a network, they went with syndication. I thought this show was alright in syndication because it reached a wide audience. I often saw it on Saturday evenings usually before Mama's Family. I was a kid so I didn't know better. I think we pretended that we were Viki or played her in our backgrounds. The show was never meant to be serious in the first place. The cast was somewhat decent with Marla Pennington, Edie McClurg who left to do Hogan Family, Tiffany Bressette, the guy who played her father, the brother, and the red-head girl next door with her father. The writing wasn't great but it wasn't bad. I don't recall ever not watching it. It just seemed like it came for a simpler time. I only wish Syndication was still around. It is but not as it was in the 1980s. It was the equivalent for independent films, rather just sitcoms.
Review of Small Wonder
