Whiz Kids
Teenagers Richie, Ham, Jeremy, and Alice live outside Los Angeles. They are computer hackers who work as amateur detectives in their spare time. Llewellen Farley is a reporter who is a source for the kids and sometimes asks them for help on stories he is writing. Farley's brother-in-law, Lieutenant Quinn, also provides the kids with help.
- 1983-1984
- 1 season
- CBS
- Action & Adventure
Teenagers Richie, Ham, Jeremy, and Alice live outside Los Angeles. They are computer hackers who work as amateur detectives in their spare time. Llewellen Farley is a reporter who is a source for the kids and sometimes asks them for help on stories he is writing. Farley's brother-in-law, Lieutenant Quinn, also provides the kids with help.
Season 1 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1983 - 1984
Episode 1
Programmed for Murder
Wed, Oct 5, 1983 49 mins
The Whiz Kids discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation and join forces with Gazette's reporter Gallagher.
Episode 2
Fatal Error
Wed, Oct 19, 1983
While engaged in online gaming, the Whiz Kids inadvertently get involved with a prison inmate with mad programming skills and try to help him do the right thing after he escapes. Lou works to get to the bottom of story behind the incarceration and keep the Whiz Kids out of harm's way.
Episode 3
Deadly Access
Wed, Oct 26, 1983
To make some money in support of Go-Kart racing for the Whiz Kids, Richie takes a quick job to test the cyber security at a chemical plant and needs the support of AJ Simon (in this series cross-over with Simon and Simon) and Lou to save the company's missing security chief.
Episode 4
Candidate for Murder
Wed, Nov 2, 1983
When Lou's newspaper's photographer inadvertently photographs a wanted man, the resulting murder and growing political coverup intersect with Jeremy's need to interview a senator for a school-assigned report, requiring Lou and Whiz Kids to come up with a creative way to save Jeremy before it is too late.
Episode 5
A Chip Off the Old Block
Wed, Nov 9, 1983 60 mins
The Whiz Kids and Lou help the police when a student's hacking of a local bank intersects with a million dollar heist by a pair of bank insiders.
Episode 6
Airwave Anarchy
Wed, Nov 16, 1983
Lou and the Whiz Kids help the Los Angeles Police Department when the LAPD's first computer-based dispatch the system, the Mobile Data Terminal System, is hacked by a team of thieves.
Episode 7
Return of the Big Rocker
Wed, Nov 23, 1983
The Whiz Kids start a techno-pop band and Lou gets them involved in the case of a long-dead rocker who has a doppelgänger performing in Los Angeles.
Episode 8
The Wrong Mr. Wright
Wed, Nov 30, 1983
Lou and the Whiz Kids get involved with a shady computer dating service.
Episode 9
Red Star Rising
Wed, Dec 21, 1983
Lou, Quinn, and the Whiz Kids get involved in a case involving the Russians, industrial espionage, and murder; all while a book report on classic romance is due at school.
Episode 10
The Network
Sat, Jan 7, 1984
The Whiz Kids pick up a message on their school's computer bulletin board from the notorious hacker "The Wrench" which leads them to inadvertently go a foul of the National Security Agency (who them have never heard of). Will Lou, Richie's Dad, and local law enforcement be able to protect them from the consequences of their own computer genius?
Episode 11
Watch Out!
Sat, Jan 14, 1984
An old friend of Lou's comes to him for help to find out who is making attempts on his life and trying to destroy the ratings on his TV show.
Episode 12
Amen to Amen-Re
Sat, Jan 28, 1984
The Whiz Kids visit a hands on museum and help release an Egyptian curse which affects not only family and friends, but a case of police corruption that Lou is working on.
Episode 13
Maid in the USA
Sat, Feb 4, 1984
The Whiz Kids and Lou uncover an international plot.
Episode 14
The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back
Sat, Feb 25, 1984
Cases converge as the Whiz Kids investigate a problem at the Social Security Administraion and Lou works to solve and report on a string of convenience store robberies by a group known at the Lollipop Gang.
Episode 15
The Sufi Project
Sat, Mar 17, 1984
Lou's investigation of a missing persons case leads him and the Whiz Kids to uncover a plot involving computerized communication with dolphins.
Episode 16
Father's Day
Sat, Apr 21, 1984
When the background on Alice's new boyfriend doesn't add up, Lou and the Whiz Kids come to the rescue in a case of hidden identities and international spies.
Episode 17
Altaira
Sat, Apr 28, 1984
Richie falls in love with a Senator's daughter which pulls Farley into a case of political corruption and arms manufacturing and the Whiz Kids' efforts to save a local park.
Episode 18
May I Take Your Order Please?
Sat, Jun 2, 1984
While working at the drive-through, Alice puts herself in danger after she overhears the plans for an upcoming crime and needs Lou and the Whiz Kids to save her and foil the crime.
