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Whiz Kids is an American science fiction adventure television series that originally aired on CBS from October 5, 1983, to June 2, 1984. The show was created by Philip DeGuere, who had also created the detective series Simon & Simon for CBS in 1981, and Bob Shayne and produced by Universal Television. DeGuere also served as executive producer.
Whiz Kids offers one-to-one tutoring, positive mentoring relationships and spiritual nurture to students below the literacy and poverty lines with the Spirit of Christ.
Whiz Kids: Created by Philip DeGuere Jr.. With Matthew Labyorteaux, Todd Porter, Jeffrey Jacquet, Andrea Elson. The adventures of a group of young kids who are amateur computer experts and detectives.
Whiz Kids is an American science fiction adventure television series that originally aired on CBS from October 5, 1983, to June 2, 1984. The show was created by Philip DeGuere, who had also created the detective series Simon & Simon for CBS in 1981, and Bob Shayne and produced by Universal Television. DeGuere also served as executive producer.
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.
The series starred Matthew Labyorteaux, Todd Porter, Jeffrey Jacquet and Andrea Elson as the titular “whiz kids”, a group of teenagers who became amateur detectives using computer technology to solve mysteries.
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.
Tammy Taylor guest stars as Laura Calhane, a Senator's daughter. and first love for our protagonist, Richie, played by Matthew Labyorteaux of Little House on...
In 1983 it was estimated that there were 10 million computers in use in the US. Whiz Kids was created at a time when people could not help noticing the growing importance of computers and the increasing influence computing was having on all aspects of society.
Llewellen Farley (Max Gail) was a reporter with the Los Angeles Gazette who was a source for the kids and sometimes asked them for help on stories he was writing. His brother-in-law, Lieutenant Quinn (A Martinez) – who ran the police department’s Mobile Data Terminals (MDTs) – also provided the kids with help.