Whiz Kids

Total Seasons :1Total Episodes : 18

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(18)

1. Programmed For Murder

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

Air Date : 1983-10-05

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.

Air Date : 1983-10-19

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.

Air Date : 1983-10-26

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.

Air Date : 1983-11-02

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.

Air Date : 1983-11-09

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.

Air Date : 1983-11-16

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.

Air Date : 1983-11-23

8. The Wrong Mr. Wright

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

Air Date : 1983-11-30

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.

Air Date : 1983-12-21

10. The Network

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

Air Date : 1984-01-07

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.

Air Date : 1984-01-14

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.

Air Date : 1984-01-28

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.

Air Date : 1984-02-04

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.

Air Date : 1984-02-25

The Sufi Project

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.

Air Date : 1984-03-17

Father's Day

16. Father's Day

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

Air Date : 1984-04-21

Altaira

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.

Air Date : 1984-04-28

May I Take Your Order Please?

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.

Air Date : 1984-06-02