Herman - Small robot toy on the children's detective adventure WHIZ KIDS/CBS/1983-84. Herman lived at 601 North Canyon Drive in Calabasas, California. He was the toy of Cheryl Adler (Melanie Gaffin), who preferred Herman to a traditional doll. Cheryl's brother Richie Adler (Matthew Laborteaux) was a genius teenage computer hacker who owned a 64K self-built talking computer named RALF. Together with their friends from Canyon High School, they solved crimes with the help of Lew Farley, (Max Gail), a reporter from the Los Angeles Gazette.