Ah yes, on before Webster but after Matlock on the syndicated channel, during the odd month when they gave Threes' Company a break.

Even I, an extremely devoted daytime TV watching middle-schooler in the early 90s, could not watch this.

The 1980s and early 1990s airwaves were just filled with this sort of low rent, first run syndicated sitcom trash.
Small Wonder was probably one of the worst, one of the first sitcoms produced directly for syndication, none of the networks would pick it up (huh, wonder why?) so it was instead sold to a "consortium" of broadcasters. Small Wonder did well enough to convince other producers to sell their own garbage shows directly to syndication - either 'original' sitcoms or terrible failed network shows that were dusted off and revamped for syndication, leading to the survival of trash like Charles in Charge, or Mama's Family coming back for several more cheaper-looking seasons of Vicki Lewis wearing a bad wig and shrieking punchlines.

Small Wonder and probably Charles in Charge were probably definitive sitcoms of this era of television - examples of everything bad and deeply, deeply wrong with 80s sitcoms:

The inane theme songs that did not seem to belong to any particular genre of music. The strained wacky schemes, the obnoxious sub-par child actors and general mugging by the entire casts. Being produced directly for syndication and therefore shot as cheaply as possible, with only a couple of sets, which looked like they were going to fall over at any moment.

Looking back on these crappy 1980s shows, you notice that bad shows were worse back then than any show could get nowadays. The bad sitcoms of today are for the most part incredibly mediocre but have at the very least a certain basic workmanlike professionalism in acting, production values, script structure, with a few exceptions.
A bad '80s sitcom like Charles in Charge or Small Wonder or We Got it Maid or She's The Sheriff or It's A Living or so on looks like it was created, written and directed by some sort of cave-dwelling creatures. The unbelievable levels of amateurishness is part of the reason why people remember these shows at all, compared to most of the bland bad sitcoms of the 1990s.

Dupe

One of the first PoE sites I ever saw was a fetish page dedicated to VICKI

Me and my sister used to watch this when I was 4 and 5 years old and we were too poor for anything other than rabbit ears so when saturday morning cartoons ended we had nothing else to watch.

I recall a really creepy Small Wonder fansite, complete with message board, and the ugliest yellow on white page design you'll ever see, that was on the front page of PoE years ago. I remember a "VICKI Poetry" thread that was like 300 posts by the same two guys.

Watched this show all the time when I was a kid.

My 8 year old self had a huge crush on that robot girl, which kind of explains many of my relationships as an adult.

I never watched this show but I did watch the one with the teenage girl who talks to her dad who is an outer space alien through a crystal on her night table

Weirdly, I had never heard of this show in the last 30 years, but I just saw a reference to it with a clip in a discussion of "uber patriotic anthems" from the Onion's AV club less than a half hour before seeing it here. Since today is the 4th of July, I guess I'll try to submit this.

There was another show that was paired along with this, and it was essentially Mary Poppins but with a twist... the eccentric magical nanny was an angel, and had to report to God at the end of every episode. Every time I try to explain it, people think I'm making it up.

How did America fuck up a Dr. Slump adaptation this badly?

This show was terrible. I watched a couple episodes. One of them was the obligatory "drugs are bad" one. It made no sense.

The scene at 8:35 or so is horrifying.