
Whiz Kids
1983•1h 0m•6.3/10
Action & Adventure
Ratings
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6.3/10(8)
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.
Production
Universal Television
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
October 5, 1983
Last Aired
June 2, 1984
Networks
CBS
Created By
Philip DeGuere Jr., Bob Shayne
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season

E1
Programmed For Murder
Air date: 1983-10-05
Richie and his friends discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation.

E2
Fatal Error
Air date: 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.

E3
Deadly Access
Air date: 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.

E4
Candidate for Murder
Air date: 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.

E5
A Chip Off the Old Block
Air date: 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.

E6
Airwave Anarchy
Air date: 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.

E7
Return of the Big Rocker
Air date: 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.

E8
The Wrong Mr. Wright
Air date: 1983-11-30
Farley investigates a computer dating service unaware that Richie has secretly signed up his mother for the same service.

E9
Red Star Rising
Air date: 1983-12-21
Ralf mysteriously malfunctions and Richie becomes convinced that it is because of unusual electrical interference from a neighbor's satellite dish.

E10
The Network
Air date: 1984-01-07
The FBI arrests Richie after trying to solve a challenge from a renowned hacker.

E11
Watch Out!
Air date: 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.

E12
Amen to Amen-Re
Air date: 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.

E13
Maid in the USA
Air date: 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.

E14
The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back
Air date: 1984-02-25
Richie looks into why the Social Security system has declared Carson Marsh dead while Lew follows a gang of elderly heisters.
E15
The Sufi Project
Air date: 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.
E16
Father's Day
Air date: 1984-04-21
A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.
E17
Altaira
Air date: 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.
E18
May I Take Your Order Please?
Air date: 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.



























