Whiz Kids
Whiz Kids
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Whiz Kids

6.7 / 10 · 10 votes
1983
~1h / ep
1 season
18 episodes
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.

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Seasons

  • Programmed For Murder

    1.Programmed For Murder

    05-10-19831h

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

  • Fatal Error

    2.Fatal Error

    19-10-19831h

    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

    26-10-19831h

    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

    02-11-19831h

    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 e...

  • A Chip Off the Old Block

    5.A Chip Off the Old Block

    09-11-19831h

    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

    16-11-19831h

    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

    23-11-19831h

    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

    30-11-19831h

    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

    21-12-19831h

    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

    07-01-19841h

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

  • Watch Out!

    11.Watch Out!

    14-01-19841h

    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

    28-01-19841h

    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

    04-02-19841h

    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

    25-02-19841h

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

  • Ep 15

    15.The Sufi Project

    17-03-19841h

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

  • Ep 16

    16.Father's Day

    21-04-19841h

    A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

  • Ep 17

    17.Altaira

    28-04-19841h

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

  • Ep 18

    18.May I Take Your Order Please?

    02-06-19841h

    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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