Inspector Gadget

Season 21983

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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65 Episodes

E01 Monster Lake

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

September 5, 1983

E02 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.

September 6, 1983

E03 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.

September 7, 1983

E04 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.

September 8, 1983

E05 Health Spa

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

September 9, 1983

E06 The Boat

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

September 12, 1983

E07 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.

September 13, 1983

E08 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.

September 14, 1983

E09 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.

September 15, 1983

E10 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!

September 16, 1983

E11 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.

September 19, 1983

E12 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.

September 20, 1983

E13 Amusement Park

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

September 21, 1983

E14 Art Heist

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

September 22, 1983

E15 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.

September 23, 1983

E16 The Invasion

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

September 26, 1983

E17 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.

September 27, 1983

E18 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.

September 28, 1983

E19 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.

September 29, 1983

E20 Basic Training

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

September 30, 1983

E21 Sleeping Gas

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

October 3, 1983

E22 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.

October 4, 1983

E23 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.

October 5, 1983

E24 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.

October 6, 1983

E25 Launch Time

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

October 7, 1983

E26 Photo Safari

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

October 10, 1983

E27 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.

October 11, 1983

E28 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.

October 12, 1983

E29 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.

October 13, 1983

E30 Arabian Nights

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

October 14, 1983

E31 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.

October 17, 1983

E32 Dutch Treat

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

October 18, 1983

E33 The Great Divide

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.

October 19, 1983

E34 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.

October 20, 1983

E35 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.

October 21, 1983

E36 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.

October 24, 1983

E37 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.

October 25, 1983

E38 Gone Went the Wind

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

October 26, 1983

E39 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!

October 27, 1983

E40 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.

October 28, 1983

E41 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.

October 31, 1983

E42 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.

November 1, 1983

E43 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.

November 2, 1983

E44 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.

November 3, 1983

E45 Old Man of the Mountain

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.

November 4, 1983

E46 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.

November 7, 1983

E47 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).

November 8, 1983

E48 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.

November 9, 1983

E49 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".

November 10, 1983

E50 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.

November 11, 1983

E51 Follow That Jet

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

November 14, 1983

E52 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.

November 15, 1983

E53 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.

November 16, 1983

E54 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.

November 17, 1983

E55 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.

November 18, 1983

E56 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.

November 21, 1983

E57 Snakin' All Over

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

November 22, 1983

E58 In Seine

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

November 23, 1983

E59 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.

November 24, 1983

E60 Birds of a Feather

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

November 25, 1983

E61 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.

November 28, 1983

E62 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.

November 29, 1983

E63 School for Pickpockets

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

November 30, 1983

E64 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.

December 1, 1983

E65 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.

December 2, 1983