Whiz Kids Intro (High Quality) - April 1984
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- ALL NEW! I posted a pre-emption tag, but here is an April 1984 intro and opening to the CBS Adventure Series Whiz Kids! This show mesmerized me at the time and I think contributed to my eventual career (in computers... not hacking)... in seeing this show again on youtube, I think it was a nice series for kids (Could have easily gone on to Saturday Mornings)... This catchy theme been posted elsewhere, but this one contains the original pre-show bumper and is in as high quality as I can could get off my tape!
This show and especially Richie was one of the main reasons I got into IT, now i'm Head of IT at my company :)
Richie Adler, Bonnie Barstow from Knight Rider, and David Lightman from War Games. All inspired me to go into I.T. too.
80's lost paradise
I remember watching this in the 80's. I love computers now because of it.
Watched it as a kid in Korea. One of favorite show. I'm a software developer now.
😊
I remember watching this...how time flies....
Would love to see this on DVD! Haven't seen it again since it was shown here in the 80s.
Music to the theme is a remix of the first movement of Mozart’s famous Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major K.467 which was composed in 1785
hey, thanks. i was wondering what classical music the intro was based on. Much appreciated.
Us ALF fans definitely recognized someone in these credits…
J'adorais cette série et son générique.
That's what's wrong with today's computers; not near enough lights flashing!
it was a fun show to watch
I remember this show crossed with Simon and Simon.
You can also watch the crossover show on youtube.
Whoa! Nostalgia trip! I watched this obsessively as a kid :D
Good stuff, huh???? :D
80S 90S what a time
I particularly liked the "action music" for this show - nice tune - you can hear it during the first 10 seconds
I was 10 or 12 years old back then when watching that tv serie. How time flies ! I was a big fan !
This theme was by Paul Chihara, a classical composer and native of Seattle, WA. He did a number of feature films like Prince of the City and Death Race 2000. On TV he also did Manimal, James Clavell's Noble House, and MacGruder and Loud.
My childhood times
This is by far the longest theme song ever.
It's Beethoven'S fifth computerize
It's not a song. It doesn't have lyrics. It's a theme tune.
@@dunebasher1971 I didn't know instrumental music like jazz and classical need lyrics to be recognized as a song. Where did you think up such nonsense.
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Nope. Someone else said that it’s a remix of Mozart’s piano concerto 21 in C Major. I think that this is an original composition but it is inspired by Mozart. Beethoven’s Fifth sounds far different and is more dramatic.
Max Gail played Wojo on Barney Miller.
I remember loving this show, both because I love computers and I’ve always loved Matthew Laboryteaux (I probably spelled that incorrectly but I tried my best).
I know I could go back and check the credits for spelling but who has time for that?? 😉😂😂😂
His last name is spelled Laborteaux or Labyorteaux (yeah, those Cajun-French names are tough). Did you get a chance to hear him on Yu-Gi-Oh! GX? He's the voice of the main character, Jaden.
Same here... this, plus "WarGames", were pretty influential on me, and now I'm a software engineer, by gum.
WOW, I used to watch this just for the gadgets lol
Sad to say I had a crush on Andrea Elson when she was on ALF
Russell Williams no, I can totally understand why, and I’m a straight female. She was beautiful!
I don't know what's worse - the fact that this wonderful show was witchhunted off the air by a hysterical press and PTA groups panicking over "WarGames" hysteria, or the fact that said hysteria has effectively kept it out of print here in the USA all these decades.😢
I havent seen this show in years
Wonderful "intro"!
I remember Whiz Kids did a crossover with Simon and Simon. AJ was on this show while the kids, minus Max Gail, did Simon and Simon. Rick meeting the computer was very amusing. Both shows were created, or co-created, and produced by Philip DeGuere.
The syndicated edits of all episodes are on youtube. As far as I know, there are only 2 known unedited CBS episodes floating around... hopefully more will turn up, but until then, the uploaded ones are a cool watch!
Universal
Great show..And yes I had a 300 baud modem back then and used multiple information services.
LoL! Was it a modem or an acoustic coupler?
I was still saving up for my first computer - a Commodore64 which I eventually bought in 1985.
@megamanj2004X It also featured Matthew Laberteaux before JAG.
Recuerdo de niño tanto que me gustaba esta serie, fue el origen de mi amor por el ciberpunk y todo lo tecnologico
If my memory is correct the dog's name was 'Rabies' I think? That's about all I remember from this show :)
the show could have been an after school show. It would have been nice if The Disney Channel or Nickelodeon reran this
Amo esta serie :whiz kids esta buenísima le doy :1.000 puntos. 👓los anteojos de richi son buenísimos me gustaría tener unos así
Whiz Kids from Philip DeGuere and Universal Television the Producers of Simon & Simon
And an Original "Dr. Strange" in the late 70ies. Movie of the week
Good memories, until you watch a handful of episodes on UA-cam and realize the "Wiz Kids" were largely secondary characters supporting the adult characters and providing a convenient "Ex Machina" to the program. Not to mention that the computer made famous by the show was stolen, shut down, confiscated, interfered with, or largely made to malfunction in so many of the episodes. It's no wonder why it lasted a single season. Also, just how many federal computer laws did these kids break by modern standards?
that police investigator guy always reminded me of the guy from Hawaii-5-0 -- they must have deliberately picked him for that
manofsan .. It was a perfect casting... The interplay between the Quinn and Farley roles was must-watch... That would have probably driven the series had it continued on..... :)
LOVED this in the80's! This in not HQ though:) Do any good quality copies of this exist?
I fancied Todd Porter
@francis1971 Correction. His brother Patrick was on JAG.
Quelle souvenir d’enfance 😊👍
Now how many people know the name video game being played by Jeffrey Jacquet?
Andrea Elson before she later became Lynn Tanner on ALF.
I guess, this show never made it to europe, but anyway, the intro triggers some "that's the way we were"-feeling, even more, than "Wargames" 🤓
Computer,Bmx and Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 in C Major what else you need ;-) Best time.
Had a huge crush on Max Gail on "Barney Miller" but the mustache here is unflattering - covers up his sexy face!
Modems weren't THAT rare, in 1984 BBSs were already starting to take off. My first computer was a used Apple II, it came with a modem and literally tons of cracked software that the original owner had downloaded. One of my closest friends already had a modem as well, and he was the reason I was able to convince my parents that it was okay for my to dial out from home, because they were convinced that I'd run up a huge phone bill as per sensationalist news stories of the day.
I doubt you have the year correct as downloading a single picture took hours. 1Mb took over 23 hours at 110 baud. and the modems were the equivelant of £1200 in todays money.
I guess it depends on your point of view. In 1984, 1 out of every 6 11-17 year old American kids had a computer at home (middle class teenagers had the largest share). I was a typical middle class teenager in 1984, so computers were pretty common. I'm not convinced that modems were rare... "not common" maybe :)
@ Herbert West: This was when the C64 really took off and the games war had begun.
I really didn't like this show back when it was on. None of the personal computers available at that time could do the sorts of things that were shown on this show.
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nice nos track!!
if i am right, i think all computers back when this was made were all dial up modem, correct me if i am wrong.
Mozart moog midi!
@1944GPW Yup! Strange... I would have thought the name would have had a techie connotation... :)
Actually, dial-up modems were EXTREMELY rare until the early 90s... it would have been mostly pointless for home users around 1984... things evolved VERY quickly from the start of the 90s to the end of it... :)
The reason's why we're nerds
ESTOY HABLANDO DE LOS CHICOS COMPUTARIZADOS
EN INGLÉS WHIZ KIDS
ALGUIEN QUE TENGA ACCESO A ESTA SERIE POR FAVOR QUE LA SUBA A
YOU TUBE, POR FAVOR
@pyrogyra72 I think I am going to cry... I didn't even have Wifi yet in college! :)
DÓNDE PUEDO CONSEGUIR ESTAS PELICULAS, PORQUE SON MUY BUENAS
Y SÓLO APARECEN LOS ANUNCIOS
The music isn’t original it’s a remix of the first movement of Mozart’s famous Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major K.467 which was written in 1785
So what? Mozart died 2 centuries before this series was made give or take a few years. Mozart’s music had long since passed into the public domain. There aren’t any legal problems with using a remix of Mozart’s music as a TV theme song...or else the studio’s legal department would have taken notice.
It isn’t intellectual property theft or plagiarism to use a public domain work when the original creator has been dead for over a century and the creator died before modern copyright laws were written. It would be nice to *credit* Mozart for the original composition, but Mozart’s descendants and relatives (if he had any) would not receive any financial benefit because his work is in the public domain.
me encantaba esta serie me gustaba "richie"
Les débuts de l’internet
Ready Player One brought me here
Me too.
Me too
what is the relevancy
Definitely interested!!! Sent you a Message! :D
Relatively speaking, both Modems and Home PCs were extremely low in numbers as compared to, say, 1994... I think if you were to poll my Kindergarten class, maybe 1 or 2 out of the 30 would have had both... if you then polled one of my tenth grade classes, those numbers would have grown to probably 15 or 20 out of 30... and then probably by 1998, it would have been 29 out of 30... :D
@Lisa1995xxx Me too!! :)
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Way to long intro.
I liked this show, but i seem to remember Cheryl being an annoying brat who was always sticking her beak into none of her bitness.
the show itself from what my husband tells me was not that bad...but the opening theme was too long and crappy...kind of made it hard to watch
+Michaela Daniels The show was actually very good... if you substitute the kids for young adults, it would have been an excellent procedural/detective series with a very underrated cast... Looking at the show as an adult, being early High Schoolers (It looks like the kids are portrayed to be 10th graders) requires perhaps too much suspended belief to be realistic... but I didn't care about that as a kid, I was mesmerized by all the gadgets... :)
as i said, my husband siadthe show wasn'tthat bad. but the THEME music and opening was AWFUL
The intro was long and crappy?? How old was your husband when he watched it at the time....45?
I agree. That was some really weird music.
I think the fact that it was too long and crappy is why I love it. LOL! I’m weird, though.