About this season
The premise follows four high school tenth-graders, who use their sophisticated knowledge of computers to become amateur detectives, solving crimes and bringing perpetrators to justice.
Episodes (18)
1. Programmed For Murder
Aired 5 October 1983 • 60 min
Richie and his friends discover a skeleton on property coveted by a development corporation.
2. Fatal Error
Aired 19 October 1983 • 60 min
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.
3. Deadly Access
Aired 26 October 1983 • 60 min
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.
4. Candidate for Murder
Aired 2 November 1983 • 60 min
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.
5. A Chip Off the Old Block
Aired 9 November 1983 • 60 min
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.
6. Airwave Anarchy
Aired 16 November 1983 • 60 min
A criminal taps into the police computers and sabotages them so that they cannot properly respond when his accomplices commit a crime.
7. Return of the Big Rocker
Aired 23 November 1983 • 60 min
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.
8. The Wrong Mr. Wright
Aired 30 November 1983 • 60 min
Farley investigates a computer dating service unaware that Richie has secretly signed up his mother for the same service.
9. Red Star Rising
Aired 21 December 1983 • 60 min
Ralf mysteriously malfunctions and Richie becomes convinced that it is because of unusual electrical interference from a neighbor's satellite dish.
10. The Network
Aired 7 January 1984 • 60 min
The FBI arrests Richie after trying to solve a challenge from a renowned hacker.
11. Watch Out!
Aired 14 January 1984 • 60 min
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.
12. Amen to Amen-Re
Aired 28 January 1984 • 60 min
Richie solves a hieroglyphic inscription on a tomb, but it seems to be causing uncharacteristic behavior in all those who read it aloud.
13. Maid in the USA
Aired 4 February 1984 • 60 min
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.
14. The Lollypop Gang Strikes Back
Aired 25 February 1984 • 60 min
Richie looks into why the Social Security system has declared Carson Marsh dead while Lew follows a gang of elderly heisters.
15. The Sufi Project
Aired 17 March 1984 • 60 min
Lew asks for Richie's help in investigating the disappearance of a marine biologist who was using computers to communicate with dolphins.
16. Father's Day
Aired 21 April 1984 • 60 min
A KGB agent is pursuing Alice's new boyfriend.
17. Altaira
Aired 28 April 1984 • 60 min
Richie and Farley quarrel when Farley suggests that Richie's new girl friend set him up when information about a prototype tank proves false.
18. May I Take Your Order Please?
Aired 2 June 1984 • 60 min
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.