Whiz Kids

10/19/1983

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.

10/26/1983

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.

11/2/1983

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.

11/9/1983

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.

11/16/1983

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

11/23/1983

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.

11/30/1983

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

12/21/1983

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

1/7/1984

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

1/14/1984

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.

1/28/1984

Richie solves a hieroglyphic inscription on a tomb, but it seems to be causing uncharacteristic behavior in all those who read it aloud.

2/4/1984

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.

2/25/1984

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

3/17/1984

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

4/21/1984

A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.

4/28/1984

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

6/2/1984

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.