Whiz Kids

Whiz Kids

1983
Whiz Kids
Whiz Kids

Whiz Kids

6.8 | en | 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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EP18  May I Take Your Order Please?
Jun. 02,1984
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.

EP17  Altaira
Apr. 28,1984
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.

EP16  Father's Day
Apr. 21,1984
Father's Day

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

EP15  The Sufi Project
Mar. 17,1984
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.

EP14  The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back
Feb. 25,1984
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.

EP13  Maid in the USA
Feb. 04,1984
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.

EP12  Amen to Amen-Re
Jan. 28,1984
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.

EP11  Watch Out!
Jan. 14,1984
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.

EP10  The Network
Jan. 07,1984
The Network

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

EP9  Red Star Rising
Dec. 21,1983
Red Star Rising

Ralf mysteriously malfunctions and Richie becomes convinced that it is because of unusual electrical interference from a neighbor's satellite dish.

EP8  The Wrong Mr. Wright
Nov. 30,1983
The Wrong Mr. Wright

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

EP7  Return of the Big Rocker
Nov. 23,1983
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.

EP6  Airwave Anarchy
Nov. 16,1983
Airwave Anarchy

A criminal taps into the police computers and sabotages them so that they cannot properly respond when his accomplices commit a crime.

EP5  A Chip Off the Old Block
Nov. 09,1983
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.

EP4  Candidate for Murder
Nov. 02,1983
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.

EP3  Deadly Access
Oct. 26,1983
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.

EP2  Fatal Error
Oct. 19,1983
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.

EP1  Programmed For Murder
Oct. 05,1983
Programmed For Murder

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

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6.8 | en | Action & Adventure | More Info
Released: 1983-10-05 | Released Producted By: Universal Television , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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.

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Matthew Labyorteaux , Andrea Elson , Max Gail

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c2100512 Hello,I've been following the discussion with interest - Whiz Kids was my favourite show on British TV when I was growing up. This and Tron left a big impression!Just a quick note: the music isn't Rossini, it's adapted from Mozart's 'Elvira Madigan' (Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major). It's an amalgam of highlights from Part I of the concerto.My favourite theme of all time :)I do love Whiz Kids. I wish they'd release the DVD already!Dave
r-c-s an all-American crew ( you know, the white+black+etc guys ) of computer nerds solves complicate police cases with a bit of thrill at times. I laugh sincerely thinking back to my Atari computer from back then, and those guys who with primitive computers & cave ages BASIC programming would work wonders. In the row of the various science based 80's telepictures ( Automan, Street Hawk, Supercar/knight rider etc ) with a streak of War Games & other kiddie star movies like the Goonies. it'd grow old quickly. Basically a salad bowl kind of telepicture. Frankly, i'm not missing it...it held little water even at the time. Supercar etc were waaay better to watch.
FieCrier I probably haven't seen this show since 1983, but I still remember it. I don't recall when I started watching. I think possibly some summer friends whose father owned a small electronics equipment chain recommended it. I seem to recall also that Matthew Laborteaux was on the cover of an early children's computer magazine called K-Power I initially learned about, I think, from scholastic book fairs at my elementary school. I recall the magazine had a BASIC program you could type into your computer to have it simulate the exchange between Richie and his talking computer during the opening of the show. K-Power later got absorbed into Family Computer just as a small section, and then Family Computing changed its name to something else and dropped the K-Power section at which I stopped subscribing.Incredibly, I can still replay the instrumental theme song to this show in my head. But apart from these bits of trivia, I don't remember the show itself too well!
Sabalon I am really trying to remember 20 years ago to this show. It was very much a spin-off of the success of War Games. Richie had a computer that could do almost anything. It was built from a lot of spare parts that must have been around the studio. If it could flash, it went in the computer. At the time I loved the show because I was young and though computers were neat. I would like to see the show again just to see what I think now.The thing that I remember most about the show is that EVERYTHING seemed to be run by computers. In one episode they were locked in some room. In that room was some discarded terminal that they were able to connect to the building sprinkler system and set it off. Deus ex Machina situations like this happened way too often...and Richie was always like MacGuyver with a keyboard.Still...I remember liking the show back then.