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Whiz Kids

Whiz Kids

★ 6.6/10•1983•1h 0m•Action & Adventure
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 5, 1983

Episodes

Episode 1 - Programmed For MurderE160m

Programmed For Murder

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

Oct 5, 1983

Episode 2 - Fatal ErrorE260m

Fatal Error

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.

Oct 19, 1983

Episode 3 - Deadly AccessE360m

Deadly Access

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.

Oct 26, 1983

Episode 4 - Candidate for MurderE460m

Candidate for Murder

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.

Nov 2, 1983

Episode 5 - A Chip Off the Old BlockE560m

A Chip Off the Old Block

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.

Nov 9, 1983

Episode 6 - Airwave AnarchyE660m

Airwave Anarchy

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

Nov 16, 1983

Episode 7 - Return of the Big RockerE760m

Return of the Big Rocker

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.

Nov 23, 1983

Episode 8 - The Wrong Mr. WrightE860m

The Wrong Mr. Wright

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

Nov 30, 1983

Episode 9 - Red Star RisingE960m

Red Star Rising

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

Dec 21, 1983

Episode 10 - The NetworkE1060m

The Network

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

Jan 7, 1984

Episode 11 - Watch Out!E1160m

Watch Out!

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.

Jan 14, 1984

Episode 12 - Amen to Amen-ReE1260m

Amen to Amen-Re

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

Jan 28, 1984

Episode 13 - Maid in the USAE1360m

Maid in the USA

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.

Feb 4, 1984

Episode 14 - The Lollypop Gang Strikes BackE1460m

The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back

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

Feb 25, 1984

E1560m

The Sufi Project

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

Mar 17, 1984

E1660m

Father's Day

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

Apr 21, 1984

E1760m

Altaira

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

Apr 28, 1984

E1860m

May I Take Your Order Please?

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.

Jun 2, 1984

Actors

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

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