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Whiz Kids
1983 - 1984 6.3 (8 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure
Networks
CBS
Created By
Bob Shayne
Philip DeGuere Jr.

Whiz Kids

Overview

The premise follows four high school tenth-graders, who use their sophisticated knowledge of computers to become amateur detectives, solving crimes and bringing perpetrators to justice.

Top Cast

Matthew Labyorteaux
Matthew Labyorteaux

Richie Adler

Todd Porter

Hamilton Parker

Jeffrey Jacquet

Jeremy Saldino

Andrea Elson
Andrea Elson

Alice Tyler

Melanie Gaffin

Cheryl Adler

Max Gail
Max Gail

Llewellyn Farley

A Martinez
A Martinez

Lieutenant Neal Quinn

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1983)

No overview available.

18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Programmed For Murder
1983-10-05

Richie and his friends discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Fatal Error
1983-10-19

Richie learns that the computer game he has been play testing has a very different application for the convict who invented it, and who has $12,000 hidden away on the outside.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Deadly Access
1983-10-26

Richie uncovers a secret water project while testing the security of a chemical company for its security chief, who disappears after getting Richie's report.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Candidate for Murder
1983-11-02

Lew can't understand why a Gazette photographer was assaulted after covering a gubernatorial candidate until Richie uses Ralf to enhance the pictures he took and finds a fugitive embezzler.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: A Chip Off the Old Block
1983-11-09

A fellow student of Richie's is caught using the school computer to embezzle bank funds, but the fellow who catches him decides to use the kid's idea for himself.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Airwave Anarchy
1983-11-16

A criminal taps into the police computers and sabotages them so that they cannot properly respond when his accomplices commit a crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Return of the Big Rocker
1983-11-23

Farley learns that a rock star long presumed dead is really alive, but not responsible for the glut of ""unknown"" new songs his old record company is releasing.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Wrong Mr. Wright
1983-11-30

Farley investigates a computer dating service unaware that Richie has secretly signed up his mother for the same service.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Red Star Rising
1983-12-21

Ralf mysteriously malfunctions and Richie becomes convinced that it is because of unusual electrical interference from a neighbor's satellite dish.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Network
1984-01-07

The FBI arrests Richie after trying to solve a challenge from a renowned hacker.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Watch Out!
1984-01-14

Richie uses the TV-ratings meter at Ham's house to investigate how the system works and discovers proof that a consumer advocate's program has been sabotaged in the ratings.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Amen to Amen-Re
1984-01-28

Richie solves a hieroglyphic inscription on a tomb, but it seems to be causing uncharacteristic behavior in all those who read it aloud.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Maid in the USA
1984-02-04

Mrs. Adler's new maid leaves bugs around the house just before a visit from Mr. Adler, who is supposed to be in town on government business.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back
1984-02-25

Richie looks into why the Social Security system has declared Carson Marsh dead while Lew follows a gang of elderly heisters.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Sufi Project
1984-03-17

Lew asks for Richie's help in investigating the disappearance of a marine biologist who was using computers to communicate with dolphins.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Father's Day
1984-04-21

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Altaira
1984-04-28

Richie and Farley quarrel when Farley suggests that Richie's new girl friend set him up when information about a prototype tank proves false.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: May I Take Your Order Please?
1984-06-02

Alice overhears two men planning an order while working at a fast food place, but no one believes her, so she sets out to do something about it herself.

Runtime: 60 min

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