Matthew Labyorteaux
Richie Adler
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1983
Whiz Kids
Season 1
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Episodes
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Episode 160 min1983-10-05
Programmed For Murder
Richie and his friends discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation.
Episode 260 min1983-10-19
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.
Episode 360 min1983-10-26
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.
Episode 460 min1983-11-02
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.
Episode 560 min1983-11-09
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.
Episode 660 min1983-11-16
Airwave Anarchy
A criminal taps into the police computers and sabotages them so that they cannot properly respond when his accomplices commit a crime.
Episode 760 min1983-11-23
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.
Episode 860 min1983-11-30
The Wrong Mr. Wright
Farley investigates a computer dating service unaware that Richie has secretly signed up his mother for the same service.
Episode 960 min1983-12-21
Red Star Rising
Ralf mysteriously malfunctions and Richie becomes convinced that it is because of unusual electrical interference from a neighbor's satellite dish.
Episode 1060 min1984-01-07
The Network
The FBI arrests Richie after trying to solve a challenge from a renowned hacker.
Episode 1160 min1984-01-14
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.
Episode 1260 min1984-01-28
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.
Episode 1360 min1984-02-04
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.
Episode 1460 min1984-02-25
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.
Episode 1560 min1984-03-17
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.
Episode 1660 min1984-04-21
Father's Day
A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.
Episode 1760 min1984-04-28
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.
Episode 1860 min1984-06-02
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.