For no real good reason Ted brings back "Bad Seed" Vanessa, who again takes Vicki's place, locks Vicki in her/its cabinet and joins the family to Hollywood, where Ted must repair a movie's robot while Vanessa mugs into a screen test on the sly.

The series finale, with an apt display of a skeleton at the close. Throwing in Vanessa was largely a thank-you tidbit for her fans, and for all the unanticipated sci-fi and collegian ones who gave the pioneering show a very good run in the face of incredible odds and competition. What hurts is it didn't have to end so abruptly (see "Series Post Mortem"). Had the Too Good To Be True episode closed the previous season, we would've been enjoying a "new" Vicki: a cross between a mollified Vanessa and a perky Vicki in a much more mature, revamped series format. Had TGTBT's series concept itself launched this season, we'd be at the close of a year of Vanessa's antics with the elder Lawsons with a new crew of producers and writers altogether. Vanessa's dominating the very last Small Wonder episode (last but two in production sequence) was more like a cruel tease of what could've been.
Notable is Danny Wells' accurate portrayal of series creator Howard Leeds (H.L.).

Production Title: "Hooray for Hollywood"
Completed: ?
Show no: 420
Written by Jeremy Bertrand Finch and Paul Chitlik
Directed by Selig Frank

Guest Cast:
H.L.: Danny Wells
Danny: Bobby Herbeck

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