Whiz Kids
Whiz Kids: Season 1

Air Date

October 5, 1983

Episodes

18 episodes

Whiz Kids

Season 1

Episodes

Programmed For Murder

1. Programmed For Murder

October 5, 1983
60 min

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

Fatal Error

2. Fatal Error

October 19, 1983
60 min

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

October 26, 1983
60 min

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

November 2, 1983
60 min

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

November 9, 1983
60 min

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

November 16, 1983
60 min

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

November 23, 1983
60 min

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

November 30, 1983
60 min

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

December 21, 1983
60 min

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

January 7, 1984
60 min

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

Watch Out!

11. Watch Out!

January 14, 1984
60 min

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

January 28, 1984
60 min

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

February 4, 1984
60 min

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

February 25, 1984
60 min

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

15. The Sufi Project

March 17, 1984
60 min

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

16. Father's Day

April 21, 1984
60 min

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

17. Altaira

April 28, 1984
60 min

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

18. May I Take Your Order Please?

June 2, 1984
60 min

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.