Whiz Kids (1983)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 1983-10-05
Last Air Date: 1984-06-02
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 18
Created By: Philip DeGuere Jr., Bob Shayne
Networks: CBS
Top Cast
- Matthew Labyorteaux as Richie Adler
- Todd Porter as Hamilton Parker
- Jeffrey Jacquet as Jeremy Saldino
- Andrea Elson as Alice Tyler
- Melanie Gaffin as Cheryl Adler
- Max Gail as Llewellyn Farley
- A Martinez as Lieutenant Neal Quinn
- Jackie Earle Haley as N/A
- Kay Lenz as N/A
- Sharon Acker as N/A
Seasons
None (1983)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Programmed For Murder
Richie and his friends discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation.
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Ep. 2: 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.
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Ep. 3: 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.
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Ep. 4: 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.
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Ep. 5: 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.
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Ep. 6: Airwave Anarchy
A criminal taps into the police computers and sabotages them so that they cannot properly respond when his accomplices commit a crime.
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Ep. 7: 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.
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Ep. 8: The Wrong Mr. Wright
Farley investigates a computer dating service unaware that Richie has secretly signed up his mother for the same service.
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Ep. 9: Red Star Rising
Ralf mysteriously malfunctions and Richie becomes convinced that it is because of unusual electrical interference from a neighbor's satellite dish.
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Ep. 10: The Network
The FBI arrests Richie after trying to solve a challenge from a renowned hacker.
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Ep. 11: 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.
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Ep. 12: 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.
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Ep. 13: 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.
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Ep. 14: 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.
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Ep. 15: 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.
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Ep. 16: Father's Day
A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.
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Ep. 17: 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.
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Ep. 18: 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.
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