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Whiz Kids

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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.

Action & Adventure

3.1 / 5

5th October 1983 - 2nd June 1984
Top Cast
Matthew LabyorteauxTodd PorterJeffrey Jacquet
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Programmed For Murder
5th October 1983

Episode 1

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

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Fatal Error
19th October 1983

Episode 2

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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Deadly Access
26th October 1983

Episode 3

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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Candidate for Murder
2nd November 1983

Episode 4

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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A Chip Off the Old Block
9th November 1983

Episode 5

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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Airwave Anarchy
16th November 1983

Episode 6

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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Return of the Big Rocker
23rd November 1983

Episode 7

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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The Wrong Mr. Wright
30th November 1983

Episode 8

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

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Red Star Rising
21st December 1983

Episode 9

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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The Network
7th January 1984

Episode 10

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

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Watch Out!
14th January 1984

Episode 11

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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Amen to Amen-Re
28th January 1984

Episode 12

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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Maid in the USA
4th February 1984

Episode 13

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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The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back
25th February 1984

Episode 14

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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The Sufi Project
17th March 1984

Episode 15

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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Father's Day
21st April 1984

Episode 16

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

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Altaira
28th April 1984

Episode 17

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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May I Take Your Order Please?
2nd June 1984

Episode 18

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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