Season 1

Whiz Kids

Season 1

1983tvEnded1 Season ยท 18 Ep
Action & Adventure

Created by: Philip DeGuere Jr., Bob Shayne

Network: CBS

Season aired: 1983-10-05

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.

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Episodes ยท 18

Programmed For Murder
1

Programmed For Murder

1h 0m1983-10-05

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

Fatal Error
2

Fatal Error

1h 0m1983-10-19

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.

Deadly Access
3

Deadly Access

1h 0m1983-10-26

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.

Candidate for Murder
4

Candidate for Murder

1h 0m1983-11-02

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.

A Chip Off the Old Block
5

A Chip Off the Old Block

1h 0m1983-11-09

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.

Airwave Anarchy
6

Airwave Anarchy

1h 0m1983-11-16

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

Return of the Big Rocker
7

Return of the Big Rocker

1h 0m1983-11-23

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.

The Wrong Mr. Wright
8

The Wrong Mr. Wright

1h 0m1983-11-30

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

Red Star Rising
9

Red Star Rising

1h 0m1983-12-21

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

The Network
10

The Network

1h 0m1984-01-07

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

Watch Out!
11

Watch Out!

1h 0m1984-01-14

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.

Amen to Amen-Re
12

Amen to Amen-Re

1h 0m1984-01-28

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

Maid in the USA
13

Maid in the USA

1h 0m1984-02-04

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.

The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back
14

The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back

1h 0m1984-02-25

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

15
15

The Sufi Project

1h 0m1984-03-17

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

16
16

Father's Day

1h 0m1984-04-21

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

17
17

Altaira

1h 0m1984-04-28

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

18
18

May I Take Your Order Please?

1h 0m1984-06-02

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.

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