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Inspector Gadget

Mon, Sep 5, 1983
  • Animation
  • Comedy
  • Kids
  • Action & Adventure
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

Inspector Gadget is a clumsy, dim-witted human cyborg detective with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget stumbles around working the cases while his niece and dog do most of the investigating. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr. Claw, the leader of an evil organisation, known as "M.A.D."

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Cast

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  • Don Adams
    Don Adams
    as Inspector Gadget (voice)
  • Maurice LaMarche
    Maurice LaMarche
    as Chief Quimby (voice)
  • H
    Holly Berger
    as Penny (voice)
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Episodes

2 seasons · 86 episodes

Ended · 86 aired
Season 1
65 episodes · 65 aired
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  • E1
    Winter Olympics
    Aired · Sat, Sep 10, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget goes to the Winterland Resort where the world's athletes are gathered for the opening of the Olympic games. Dr.Claw tries to ruin the Olympics by replacing the torch bearer with a M.A.D. Agent and replacing the torch with dynamite.

  • E2
    Monster Lake
    Aired · Sat, Sep 17, 1983 · 30m

    In Scotland, Gadget saves Dr. Funkin, a scientist, from Dr. Claw. The evildoer attempts to get rid of Gadget with a robotic Loch Ness monster.

  • E3
    Down on the Farm
    Aired · Sat, Sep 24, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget is assigned to retrieve a missile stolen by Dr. Claw. The clues lead Gadget, Penny and Brain to a farm.

  • E4
    Gadget at the Circus
    Aired · Sat, Oct 1, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget brings Penny to the circus as he investigates a top-secret mission. The Inspector believes that Dr. Claw has replaced some of the circus performers with M.A.D. Agents! Gadget goes undercover as a clown to uncover the truth.

  • E5
    The Amazon
    Aired · Sat, Oct 8, 1983 · 30m

    Dr. Claw kidnaps Professor Von Slickstein, the brilliant scientist who invented all of Gadget's gadgets, and takes him to the Amazon to build an army of Gadget-like robots.

  • E6
    Health Spa
    Aired · Sat, Oct 15, 1983 · 30m

    Dr. Claw tricks Gadget into attending a "vacation" at a M.A.D.-trapped health spa. Can Penny and Brain save him?

  • E7
    The Boat
    Aired · Sat, Oct 22, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget is assigned to board a cruise ship and safeguard the passenger's priceless jewelry from Dr. Claw's clutches.

  • E8
    Haunted Castle
    Aired · Sat, Oct 29, 1983 · 30m

    While searching for a crime-fighters' convention in Transylvania Gadget arrives at a castle that Dr. Claw has booby-trapped to kill him.

  • E9
    Race to the Finish
    Aired · Sat, Nov 5, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget enters the Gadget Mobile in a race and finds that Dr. Claw has also entered with a plot to eliminate him and his competition by sabotaging the other race cars.

  • E10
    The Ruby
    Aired · Sat, Nov 12, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget is sent to India to investigate a missing ruby, which has been stolen by M.A.D. to be used as an amplifying power source for a laser beam that will destroy an advanced satellite in space.

  • E11
    A Star Is Lost
    Aired · Sat, Nov 19, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget has to guard the life of famed rock singer Rick Rocker, whom M.A.D. has sinister plans for. But Gadget winds up replacing Rocker as the current reigning King of Rock!

  • E12
    All That Glitters
    Aired · Sat, Nov 26, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget is assigned to find El Dorado, the fabled Lost City of Gold, before Dr. Claw's agents find it and tear it apart to melt down the gold.

  • E13
    Movie Set
    Aired · Sat, Dec 3, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget falls for actress Lana Lamour unaware that she's a M.A.D. agent and that her movie is M.A.D.'s cover for filming top secret facilities.

  • E14
    Amusement Park
    Aired · Sat, Dec 10, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget has to find the bomb Dr. Claw has hidden in Metro City's amusement park.

  • E15
    Art Heist
    Aired · Sat, Dec 17, 1983 · 30m

    Gadget has to stop M.A.D. from looting the New York Museum of Art.

  • E16
    Volcano Island (Gadget Goes Hawaiian)
    Aired · Sat, Dec 24, 1983 · 30m

    A prophet working for M.A.D. predicts doom for an island resort and plans to use his "pineapple bombs" to trigger the island's volcano to ensure his prediction comes true.

  • E17
    The Invasion
    Aired · Sat, Dec 31, 1983 · 30m

    M.A.D. agents disguised as Martians terrorize Metro City.

  • E18
    The Infiltration
    Aired · Sat, Jan 7, 1984 · 30m

    Presto Chango, the world's greatest disguise artist and a M.A.D. agent, plans to infiltrate an Interpol conference in London disguised as Inspector Gadget.

  • E19
    The Curse of the Pharoah (Poot-Ta-Foot's Curse)
    Aired · Sat, Jan 14, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. agents disguised as mummies and ancient Egyptian gods try to loot the tomb of a newly discovered pharaoh.

  • E20
    M.A.D. Trap
    Aired · Sat, Jan 21, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. agent Rat begins committing crimes in an easy to predict pattern to lure Inspector Gadget into a steel foundry that has been turned in a deathtrap.

  • E21
    Basic Training
    Aired · Sat, Jan 28, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget must protect a trainload of important computer parts from M.A.D. hijackers.

  • E22
    Sleeping Gas
    Aired · Sat, Feb 4, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget is assigned to halt a diabolical M.A.D. scheme: put entire cities to sleep with a powerful sleeping gas.

  • E23
    Gadget's Replacement
    Aired · Sat, Feb 11, 1984 · 30m

    A new supercomputer has made the Metro City police so efficient that Chief Quimby fires Gadget but M.A.D. has a plan to control the computer and feed the police false information.

  • E24
    Greenfinger
    Aired · Sat, Feb 18, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget is assigned to protect Professor Greenfinger who has developed a super plant growth formula, but Greenfinger has already been replaced by a M.A.D. agent.

  • E25
    Gadget Goes West
    Aired · Sat, Feb 25, 1984 · 30m

    Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.

  • E26
    Launch Time
    Aired · Sat, Mar 3, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.

  • E27
    Photo Safari
    Aired · Sat, Mar 10, 1984 · 30m

    Inspector Gadget must stop Dr. Claw from using animals to scare villagers away.

  • E28
    The Coo Coo Clock Caper
    Aired · Sat, Mar 17, 1984 · 30m

    While Gadget is searching Switzerland for stolen gold, Penny runs afoul of the murderous M.A.D. Agent, The Clockmaker.

  • E29
    Bermuda Triangle
    Aired · Sat, Mar 24, 1984 · 30m

    Ships are vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle, but the seemingly supernatural aspects of the disappearances are subterfuge by Dr. Claw, who is using an enormous machine to swallow oil tankers and ransack them.

  • E30
    The Japanese Connection
    Aired · Tue, Mar 20, 1984 · 30m

    Penny won a computer contest and is in Japan helping her local counterpart, Atsuko, to foil an alliance between Dr. Claw and his Japanese counterpart, Iji Waruda-san.

  • E31
    Arabian Nights
    Aired · Sat, Mar 31, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.

  • E32
    A Clear Case
    Aired · Sat, Apr 7, 1984 · 30m

    South African diamond miners are terrorized by a ghost who is actually a M.A.D. scientist using diamond dust to create invisibility suits.

  • E33
    Dutch Treat
    Aired · Sat, Apr 14, 1984 · 30m

    Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.

  • E34
    The Great Divide
    Aired · Sat, Apr 21, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. has abducted a prominent seismologist, who is coerced by Dr. Claw to construct a machine capable of generating deadly earthquakes upon the world. Gadget's case takes him deep within the Rocky Mountains, where his misadventures are compounded by a M.A.D. ranger agent and a grizzled, gold-crazed prospector.

  • E35
    Eye of the Dragon
    Aired · Sat, Apr 28, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget is sent to Hong Kong to recover the priceless jewel the Eye of the Dragon and foil an alliance between Dr. Claw and Hong Kong's crime-lord Mr. Chow.

  • E36
    Doubled Agent
    Aired · Sat, May 5, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. engineers an android replica of Inspector Gadget that is used to steal from Metro City's banks in order to have the real Gadget framed for armed-robbery. With our hero wrongfully incarcerated, Dr. Claw sets his sights on kidnapping the Shah of Freeland and demanding a hefty ransom for his release.

  • E37
    Plantform of the Opera
    Aired · Sat, May 12, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. agents use an opera house as cover to tunnel into a bank vault while protected by a killer man-eating plant.

  • E38
    Don't Hold Your Breath
    Aired · Sat, May 19, 1984 · 30m

    Inspector Gadget is assigned to look into a case of some missing oceanographers who were searching for an undersea city when they disappeared.

  • E39
    Gone Went the Wind
    Aired · Sat, May 26, 1984 · 30m

    A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.

  • E40
    King Wrong
    Aired · Sat, Jun 2, 1984 · 30m

    In the far-off country of Pianostan, the people remain happy as long as their King is miserable. But M.A.D. has been ensuring that the King is happy in order to disrupt the peace, so Inspector Gadget is sent out to investigate. To further complicate matters, the King looks exactly like the Inspector!

  • E41
    Pirate Island
    Aired · Sat, Jun 9, 1984 · 30m

    Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain are on vacation in the Caribbean. But before they've had a chance to get any serious R & R on Gadget's dilapidated old rust-bucket of a boat, duty calls and Inspector Gadget is back to work.

  • E42
    M.A.D. Acadamy
    Aired · Sat, Jun 16, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget is assigned to find and shut down M.A.D.'s training center for its agents and Dr. Claw decides eliminating Gadget will make a good class project for the latest batch of recruits.

  • E43
    No Flies on Us
    Aired · Sat, Jun 23, 1984 · 30m

    In Malaysia, the Wild Man of Borneo (a M.A.D. scientist), has both derived a virus from flies and concocted its antidote. A head-cold-suffering Gadget must stop Dr. Claw's plan to turn everyone on the planet into babbling, bubble-blowing imbeciles.

  • E44
    Luck of the Irish
    Aired · Sat, Jun 30, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget heads to Ireland to locate the Blarney Stone, "The national treasure of Ireland," when it's stolen by M.A.D. agents. While plotting to use a laser cannon to slice up the Stone and smuggle it out of the country, Dr. Claw dispatches the quarrelsome O'Shea Brothers to eliminate Gadget.

  • E45
    Prince of the Gypsies
    Aired · Sat, Jul 7, 1984 · 30m

    Dr. Claw tries to frame the gypsies of Freedonia for the theft of the Royal Coat of Arms. So Gadget investigates the gypsies while Penny and her new friend, Sonya, try to find the real thief.

  • E46
    Old Man of the Mountain
    Aired · Sat, Jul 14, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget visits the Balkans to stop a war between a tribe of super-strong men (the Dooplas) and a tribe of super-strong women (the Hooplas) while Dr. Claw tries to steal the potion that gives them their uncanny strength--yogurt made from a particular goat's milk.

  • E47
    The Emerald Duck
    Aired · Sat, Jul 21, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget heads for Mexico, where he must stop "The oldest Mayan artifact known to exist," the Emerald Duck, from falling into the hands of a M.A.D. agent -- a Mexican bandit named Macho Miguel. The Emerald Duck is the key to activating a powerful and ancient weapon.

  • E48
    Do Unto Udders
    Aired · Sat, Jul 28, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. utilizes satellite waves to cause local cows to stop producing milk, forcing consumers to purchase milk from "New Foods Dairy" (a M.A.D. front).

  • E49
    Did You Myth Me?
    Aired · Sat, Aug 4, 1984 · 30m

    A M.A.D. scientist tries to steal an ancient Greek scroll said to hold the secret of turning lead into gold.

  • E50
    A Bad Altitude
    Aired · Sat, Aug 11, 1984 · 30m

    Dr. Claw intends to sink most of an island so that his (currently) mountaintop resort will become the only hotel on "M.A.D. Island".

  • E51
    Funny Money
    Aired · Sat, Aug 18, 1984 · 30m

    M.A.D. has enlisted the aid of the incarcerated Funny Money counterfeiting gang in a plot to generate millions upon millions of bogus dollars for Dr. Claw to use in his dirty work.

  • E52
    Follow That Jet
    Aired · Sat, Aug 25, 1984 · 30m

    Dr. Claw begins making US Airforce jets disappear so that he can create his own private M.A.D. airforce.

  • E53
    Dry Spell
    Aired · Sat, Sep 1, 1984 · 30m

    A M.A.D. agent and his Blue Trolls causes a drought in Metro City by cutting off the city's mountain water resources.

  • E54
    Smeldorado
    Aired · Sat, Sep 8, 1984 · 30m

    Dr. Claw creates a ray that turns gold into smelly cheese, planning to change it back once the government empties Fort Knox of the foul smelling stuff.

  • E55
    Quimby Exchange
    Aired · Sat, Sep 15, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget is assigned to protect "Nervous Nick" Defecto, a former M.A.D. agent, from Dr. Claw's wrath. In revenge, Dr. Claw takes Chief Quimby hostage and offers him in exchange for his wayward agent.

  • E56
    Weather in Tibet
    Aired · Sat, Sep 22, 1984 · 30m

    Penny teams up with a Tibetan boy to destroy a M.A.D. weather control machine while her uncle blunders around as usual.

  • E57
    Unhenged
    Aired · Sat, Sep 29, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget must put a stop to M.A.D.'s latest plot for global domination, which involves the kidnapping of the world's leading solar scientists and coercing them to design and construct a solar-powered heat cannon at the grounds of mysterious Stonehenge.

  • E58
    Snakin' All Over
    Aired · Sat, Oct 6, 1984 · 30m

    A M.A.D. agent intends to use his pet snakes to steal a valuable coin collection.

  • E59
    In Seine
    Aired · Sat, Oct 13, 1984 · 30m

    In Paris a M.A.D. agent uses a robot to rob the rich and famous.

  • E60
    Tree Guesses
    Aired · Sat, Oct 20, 1984 · 30m

    Dr. Claw has concocted a chemical compound that decomposes wood at an accelerated rate, which he threatens to unleash upon the world's forests in exchange for a hefty ransom.

  • E61
    Birds of a Feather
    Aired · Sat, Oct 27, 1984 · 30m

    In Turkey a M.A.D. agent uses his birds to steal a very valuable gemstone from an exhibition.

  • E62
    So It Is Written
    Aired · Sat, Nov 3, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget arrives in an Arabian country where he is believed to be the prophesied one who will find a long lost treasure cave. Dr. Claw is eager to let his old enemy lead him to the treasure before eliminating him.

  • E63
    Fang the Wonder Dog
    Aired · Sat, Nov 10, 1984 · 30m

    Dr. Claw tries to abduct movie star "Fang the Wonder Dog" from the set of his latest film so he can ransom him.

  • E64
    School for Pickpockets
    Aired · Sat, Nov 17, 1984 · 30m

    Gadget must foil Dr. Claw's plans to steal his new Gadget watch, and close down the school for pickpockets.

  • E65
    Quizz Master
    Aired · Sat, Nov 24, 1984 · 30m

    A slick game show host mesmerizes contestants when they enter his TV program's sealed "21"-like booth, which is outfitted with hypnotic lights. The contestants are then commanded to rob banks and turn over the stolen loot to Dr. Claw. Gadget investigates, but becomes another victim of the hypnosis.

Season 2
21 episodes · 21 aired
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  • E1
    Magic Gadget
    Aired · Sat, Sep 14, 1985 · 30m

    The Great Wambini, famed magician and M.A.D. agent, gives a performance Metro City will never forget -- with the demise of Inspector Gadget as the planned finale.

  • E2
    The Great Wambini's Seance
    Aired · Sat, Sep 21, 1985 · 30m

    All the pets in Metro City are being kidnapped, and M.A.D. is the likely suspect. Could the Great Wambini be the key to the case?

  • E3
    Wambini Predicts
    Aired · Sat, Sep 28, 1985 · 30m

    The Great Wambini goes to Alpakistan to win the King's diamond-spitting llama by making three accurate predictions. Gadget is sent along to investigate M.A.D. involvement, and ends up playing in the National Floobyball Tournament.

  • E4
    The Capeman Cometh
    Aired · Sat, Oct 5, 1985 · 30m

    Corporal Capeman joins Inspector Gadget posing as his assistant while Gadget pursues the notorious ninja.

  • E5
    Crashcourse in Crime
    Aired · Sat, Oct 12, 1985 · 30m

    While Gadget trains his new assistant Capeman, Dr. Claw launches a crime spree to celebrate M.A.D.'s anniversary.

  • E6
    Gadget's Gadgets
    Aired · Sat, Oct 19, 1985 · 30m

    Inspector Gadget and Capeman are both sent to a clinic run by M.A.D. They tell Gadget that they are going to test his gadgets, but in reality they plan to destroy them.

  • E7
    Gadget in Minimadness
    Aired · Sat, Oct 26, 1985 · 30m

    Professor Dumkopf of M.A.D. unleashes the Linguinis, five little imp-like creatures, on Inspector Gadget's house with the mission of deep-sixing the Inspector.

  • E8
    The Incredible Shrinking Gadget
    Aired · Sat, Nov 2, 1985 · 30m

    Professor Dumkopf of M.A.D. is back, this time with a shrink-ray gun he uses repeatedly on Inspector Gadget in an attempt to shrink him into nothingness.

  • E9
    Gadget Meets the Grappler
    Aired · Sat, Nov 9, 1985 · 30m

    The Gadget clan faces one last threat from M.A.D.'s Dr. Dumbkopf, which involves battling his hulking, irascible humanoid assistant named the Grappler.

  • E10
    Ghost Catchers
    Aired · Sat, Nov 16, 1985 · 30m

    Dr. Spectrum of M.A.D. invents "Ghost Globules" -- pellets that produce glowing ghostly critters. He plans to sets them loose on Metro City, then offer to sell people a spray that will banish them. Inspector Gadget investigates a costume party while on the trail.

  • E11
    Busy Signal
    Aired · Sat, Nov 23, 1985 · 30m

    Under the guise of a local telephone company, M.A.D. inventor Dr. Spectrum and his goons systemically target the mansions of Metro City's elite neighborhoods and proceed to burglarize them with the dial of a number and with a zap of a teleportation gun to send the loot straight into Claw's hands.

  • E12
    Bad Dreams Are Made of This
    Aired · Sat, Nov 30, 1985 · 30m

    Something ominous is inexplicably causing the citizens of Metro City to be beset by unstoppable nightmares.

  • E13
    Focus on Gadget
    Aired · Sat, Dec 7, 1985 · 30m

    When a space station orbiting Earth goes silent, Gadget must investigate. Penny and Brain tag along aboard the space shuttle that takes Gadget to his destination, where Penny discovers that the station's soft-spoken HAL-like supercomputer is under the control of two M.A.D. agents, Dr. Null and Dr. Void. Their evil plot involves a giant magnifying glass that can aim and intensify the sun's rays towards Earth.

  • E14
    M.A.D. in the Moon
    Aired · Sat, Dec 14, 1985 · 30m

    Using bombs disguised as kewpie dolls, Dr. Claw and his agents, Null and Void, scheme to alter the surface of the moon so that it will resemble the M.A.D. logo.

  • E15
    N.S.F. Gadget
    Aired · Sat, Dec 21, 1985 · 30m

    M.A.D. gains control of Metro City's banks, by tapping into an orbiting satellite. With the added distraction of "Crazy Gas", a substance that induces hallucinations in their victims, can even Inspector Gadget ever hope to regain control of the city's bank accounts?

  • E16
    Tyrannosaurus Gadget
    Aired · Sat, Dec 28, 1985 · 30m

    A M.A.D. agent devises a plot to bring dinosaurs back into the 20th Century so Dr. Claw can crush Metro City, while at the same time killing Gadget's ancestors to ensure he never exists in the present.

  • E17
    Gadget's Roma
    Aired · Sat, Jan 4, 1986 · 30m

    Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain travel back in time again -- on this occasion, to ancient Rome to prevent Dr. Claw's own time traveler, Thelma Bodkin, from deciphering an ancient mosaic and stealing the treasure it describes.

  • E18
    Gadget's Clean Sweep
    Aired · Sat, Jan 11, 1986 · 30m

    M.A.D. agents travel back in time to 19th-century England to steal the crown jewels and wipe out Inspector Gadget's ancestors, chimney sweeps named Chimney and Char Gadget. Gadget is assigned to follow them back in time and stop them.

  • E19
    Gadget Meets the Clan
    Aired · Sat, Jan 18, 1986 · 30m

    Dr. Claw hires a retired mob boss, the wheelchair-bound Great Great Godfather, to assassinate Inspector Gadget.

  • E20
    Gadget and Old Lace
    Aired · Sat, Jan 25, 1986 · 30m

    Dr. Claw seeks the wise advice of his mentor in destroying Gadget and winds up with two Black Widows who believe assassinating Gadget would be their cup of tea.

  • E21
    Gadget and the Red Rose
    Aired · Sat, Feb 1, 1986 · 30m

    Dr. Claw brings gangster Spuds Malone out of retirement to eliminate Gadget with his infamous potato-firing tommy gun "Red Rose".