Whiz Kids

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Welcome to the Whiz Kids guide at TV.com.

The "Whiz Kids" were Richie Adler, Todd Porter, Jeremy Saldino, and Alice Tyler. They would solve mysteries with the help of Richie's computer system called RALF. Farley (Max Gail) was their mentor.

Other characters included Richie's sister Cheryl and Lt. Neal Quinn.

Welcome to the Whiz Kids guide at TV.com.

The "Whiz Kids" were Richie Adler, Todd Porter, Jeremy Saldino, and Alice Tyler. They would solve mysteries with the help of Richie's computer system called RALF. Farley (Max Gail) was their mentor.

Other characters included Richie's sister Cheryl and Lt. Neal Quinn.less «

• Where can I Download Episodes

  If you've made it to this forum then you probably apreciate the nostalgic yearning I have to watch an episode of Whiz Kids. ...more »

  If you've made it to this forum then you probably apreciate the nostalgic yearning I have to watch an episode of Whiz Kids. At 13, I had an uncanny ability to get into shows that didn't make it much further than one season, if that. PLEASE, if you know where to download an episode of the show, let me know. I'm longing to escape back to a simpler life when Atari was the height of gaming technology and nuclear armageddon was all we had to worry about.less «

  cbabroad Last online Dec 31, 1969
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  8.5 Great

  A bunch of computer nerds (really before there was such a thing) fight crime in their suburban neighborhood with the help of computers. You could redo the show today with the title Geeks and it would still hold up. hide « show »

  I loved this show so much that I begged my parents to buy me a Vic-20 computer. Of course once I got it I spent all my time playing games and typing in Basic programs that I didn't have the energy to fight crime. Still, this show was truly ahead of its time. Modems and hacking and databases... all this in 1983 (that's more than 20 years ago, folks) when personal computers were nothing more than a pipe dream for most and a toy for the rich (I got mine second hand, mind you).
  I think the only thing that really took the show off course, however, was the involvement of the 'adult figures.' They should have let the kids be kids, tooling around on their BMX bikes rather than running to the adults whenever there was a problem.
  If you remember this show fondly, you might check out some other like-minded fare from that era including the movies Cloak and Dagger and War Games and the Disney TV movie "The B.R.A.T. Patrol." Classics all.

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