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Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget

Series · 1983 · 2 Seasons

Inspector Gadget

Don't worry, chief. Inspector Gadget is always on duty.

AnimationComedyKidsAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

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."

Rating
6.8 / 10
Status
Ended

Episodes

Monster Lake

Episode 1 · 22 min

Monster Lake

Gadget looks for a missing scientist who vanished at a lake rumored to harbor a monster.

Down on the Farm

Episode 2 · 22 min

Down on the Farm

M.A.D. tries to do Gadget in by locking him in a missile hidden in a farm's grain silo.

Gadget at the Circus

Episode 3 · 22 min

Gadget at the Circus

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.

The Amazon

Episode 4 · 22 min

The Amazon

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.

Health Spa

Episode 5 · 22 min

Health Spa

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

The Boat

Episode 6 · 22 min

The Boat

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

Haunted Castle

Episode 7 · 22 min

Haunted Castle

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

Race to the Finish

Episode 8 · 22 min

Race to the Finish

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.

The Ruby

Episode 9 · 22 min

The Ruby

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.

A Star is Lost

Episode 10 · 22 min

A Star is Lost

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!

All That Glitters

Episode 11 · 22 min

All That Glitters

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.

Movie Set

Episode 12 · 22 min

Movie Set

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.

Amusement Park

Episode 13 · 22 min

Amusement Park

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

Art Heist

Episode 14 · 22 min

Art Heist

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

Volcano Island

Episode 15 · 22 min

Volcano Island

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.

The Invasion

Episode 16 · 23 min

The Invasion

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

The Infiltration

Episode 17 · 23 min

The Infiltration

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.

The Curse of the Pharaoh

Episode 18 · 22 min

The Curse of the Pharaoh

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

M.A.D. Trap

Episode 19 · 22 min

M.A.D. Trap

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.

Basic Training

Episode 20 · 22 min

Basic Training

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

Sleeping Gas

Episode 21 · 23 min

Sleeping Gas

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

Gadget's Replacement

Episode 22 · 22 min

Gadget's Replacement

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.

Greenfinger

Episode 23 · 22 min

Greenfinger

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.

Gadget Goes West

Episode 24 · 22 min

Gadget Goes West

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

Launch Time

Episode 25 · 22 min

Launch Time

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

Photo Safari

Episode 26 · 22 min

Photo Safari

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

The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper

Episode 27 · 23 min

The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper

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

The Bermuda Triangle

Episode 28 · 22 min

The Bermuda Triangle

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.

The Japanese Connection

Episode 29 · 23 min

The Japanese Connection

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.

Arabian Nights

Episode 30 · 22 min

Arabian Nights

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

Clear Case

Episode 31 · 23 min

Clear Case

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

Dutch Treat

Episode 32 · 22 min

Dutch Treat

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

The Great Divide

Episode 33 · 22 min

The Great Divide

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.

Eye of the Dragon

Episode 34 · 22 min

Eye of the Dragon

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.

Doubled Agent

Episode 35 · 22 min

Doubled Agent

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.

Plantform of the Opera

Episode 36 · 22 min

Plantform of the Opera

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

Don't Hold Your Breath

Episode 37 · 23 min

Don't Hold Your Breath

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

Gone Went the Wind

Episode 38 · 23 min

Gone Went the Wind

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

King Wrong

Episode 39 · 22 min

King Wrong

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!

Pirate Island

Episode 40 · 22 min

Pirate Island

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.

M.A.D. Academy

Episode 41 · 23 min

M.A.D. Academy

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.

No Flies on Us

Episode 42 · 22 min

No Flies on Us

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.

Luck of the Irish

Episode 43 · 22 min

Luck of the Irish

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.

Prince of the Gypsies

Episode 44 · 22 min

Prince of the Gypsies

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, Anya, try to find the real thief.

Old Man of the Mountain

Episode 45 · 22 min

Old Man of the Mountain

Gadget visits the Balkans to stop a war between a tribe of super-strong men and super-strong women while Dr. Claw tries to steal the potion that gives them their uncanny strength.

The Emerald Duck

Episode 46 · 22 min

The Emerald Duck

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.

Do Unto Udders

Episode 47 · 22 min

Do Unto Udders

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).

Did You Myth Me?

Episode 48 · 22 min

Did You Myth Me?

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

A Bad Altitude

Episode 49 · 22 min

A Bad Altitude

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".

Funny Money

Episode 50 · 22 min

Funny Money

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. Two of the gang's three members manage to escape from prison in order to set up shop, while the last and most talented member, a visually-challenged man named Squint, must be up to the arduous task of bumping off Gadget when he comes to the jail to investigate the break-out.

Follow That Jet

Episode 51 · 23 min

Follow That Jet

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

Dry Spell

Episode 52 · 23 min

Dry Spell

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

Smeldorado

Episode 53 · 23 min

Smeldorado

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.

Quimby Exchange

Episode 54 · 23 min

Quimby Exchange

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.

Weather In Tibet

Episode 55 · 22 min

Weather In Tibet

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

Unhenged

Episode 56 · 23 min

Unhenged

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.

Snakin' All Over

Episode 57 · 23 min

Snakin' All Over

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

In Seine

Episode 58 · 23 min

In Seine

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

Tree Guesses

Episode 59 · 22 min

Tree Guesses

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.

Birds of a Feather

Episode 60 · 23 min

Birds of a Feather

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

So it is Written

Episode 61 · 23 min

So it is Written

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.

Fang the Wonder Dog

Episode 62 · 22 min

Fang the Wonder Dog

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

School for Pickpockets

Episode 63 · 23 min

School for Pickpockets

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

Quizmaster

Episode 64 · 22 min

Quizmaster

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.

Gadget in Winterland

Episode 65 · 22 min

Gadget in Winterland

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. NOTE: This was a re-worked version of the pilot episode "Winter Olympics". Some of the dialogue was re-dubbed to address the purpose of Gadget's mustache, and the standard season 1 opening and ending credits were used.