Whiz Kids
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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Season 1
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E1
Programmed For Murder
Richie and his friends discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation.
Oct 5, 1983 · 49m -
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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.
Oct 19, 1983 -
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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.
Oct 26, 1983 -
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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.
Nov 2, 1983 -
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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.
Nov 9, 1983 · 60m -
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E6
Airwave Anarchy
A criminal taps into the police computers and sabotages them so that they cannot properly respond when his accomplices commit a crime.
Nov 16, 1983 -
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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.
Nov 23, 1983 -
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The Wrong Mr. Wright
Farley investigates a computer dating service unaware that Richie has secretly signed up his mother for the same service.
Nov 30, 1983 -
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Red Star Rising
Ralf mysteriously malfunctions and Richie becomes convinced that it is because of unusual electrical interference from a neighbor's satellite dish.
Dec 21, 1983 -
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The Network
The FBI arrests Richie after trying to solve a challenge from a renowned hacker.
Jan 7, 1984 -
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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.
Jan 14, 1984 -
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E12
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.
Jan 28, 1984 -
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E13
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.
Feb 4, 1984 -
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E14
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.
Feb 25, 1984 -
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E15
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.
Mar 17, 1984 -
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E16
Father's Day
A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.
Apr 21, 1984 -
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E17
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.
Apr 28, 1984 -
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E18
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.
Jun 2, 1984