Whiz Kids

1h

Action & Adventure

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.

Episodes

Cast

Programmed For Murder

1. Programmed For Murder

1h

5th Oct 1983

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

Fatal Error

2. Fatal Error

1h

19th Oct 1983

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

26th Oct 1983

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

2nd Nov 1983

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

9th Nov 1983

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

16th Nov 1983

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

23rd Nov 1983

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

30th Nov 1983

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

21st Dec 1983

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

7th Jan 1984

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

Watch Out!

11. Watch Out!

1h

14th Jan 1984

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

28th Jan 1984

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

4th Feb 1984

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

25th Feb 1984

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

The Sufi Project

15. The Sufi Project

1h

17th Mar 1984

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

Father's Day

16. Father's Day

1h

21st Apr 1984

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

Altaira

17. Altaira

1h

28th Apr 1984

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

May I Take Your Order Please?

18. May I Take Your Order Please?

1h

2nd Jun 1984

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.

First air date

5th Oct 1983

Last air date

2nd Jun 1984

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks