Dexter Reilly Cesar Romero as A. J. Arno Joe Flynn as Dean Higgins William Schallert as Professor Quigley Alan Hewitt as Dean Collingsgood Richard Bakalyan as Chillie Walsh Debbie Paine as Annie Hannah Frank Webb as Pete Michael McGreevey as Schuyler Jon Provost as Bradley Frank Welker as Henry W. Alex Clarke as Myles Bing Russell as Angelo Pat Harrington as Moderator Fabian Dean as Little Mac Fritz Feld as Sigmund van Dyke Pete Ronoudet as Lt. Charles "Charlie" Hannah Hillyard Anderson as J. Reedy David Canary* as Walski Robert Foul* as Police desk sergeant Ed Begley Jr.* as a Springfield State panelist * Not credited on-screen. Reception A. H. Weiler of The New York Times wrote: "This 'Computer' isn't I.B.M.'s kind but it's homey, lovable, as exciting as porridge and as antiseptic and predictable as any homey, half-hour TV family show". Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune reported: "I rather enjoyed The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and I suspect children under 14 will like it, too". Arthur D. Murphy of Variety praised the film as "above-average family entertainment, enhanced in great measure by zesty, but never show-off, direction by Robert Butler, in a debut swing to pix from telefilm". Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Disney Productions latched on to a terrific premise for some sharp satire only to flatten it out by jamming it into its familiar 'wholesome' formula. Alas, the movie itself comes out looking like it had been made by a computer". The film holds a score of 50% on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews. Legacy Sequels Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972) The Strongest Man in the World (1975) Television films This film was remade as the television film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes in 1995 starring Kirk Cameron as Dexter Riley. Other Disney Channel films carrying similar plot elements were the Not Quite Human film series, which aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The films were based on the series of novels with the same name. Other The animated title sequence, by future Academy Award-winning British visual effects artist Alan Maley, reproduced the look of contemporary computer graphics using stop motion photography of paper cutouts. It has been cited as an early example of "computational kitsch". The 2000 episode of The Simpsons, "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes", is a reference to the film but the episode