Whiz Kids

- Season 1

(1983)

The Whiz Kids discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation and join forces with reporter, Lou Farley.

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.

Richie discovers a secret water project while he tests the security of a chemical company for a security chief, who vanishes after receiving Richie's report.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lou and the Whiz Kids get involved with a shady computer dating service.

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.

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?

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.

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.

The Whiz Kids and Lou uncover an international plot.

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.

Lou's investigation of a missing persons case leads him and the Whiz Kids to uncover a plot involving computerized communication with dolphins.

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.

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.

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.