
Inspector Gadget
Don't worry, chief. Inspector Gadget is always on duty.
TV-Y1983•22m•6.9/10
AnimationComedyKidsAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Ratings
🎬TMDb
6.9/10(422)
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."
Production
DiC Entertainment, Nelvana, FR3, Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Field Communications
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
September 5, 1983
Last Aired
November 13, 1985
Networks
Syndication
Created By
Jean Chalopin, Andy Heyward, Bruno Bianchi
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season

E1
Monster Lake
Air date: 1983-09-05
Gadget looks for a missing scientist who vanished at a lake rumored to harbor a monster.

E2
Down on the Farm
Air date: 1983-09-06
M.A.D. tries to do Gadget in by locking him in a missile hidden in a farm's grain silo.

E3
Gadget at the Circus
Air date: 1983-09-07
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.

E4
The Amazon
Air date: 1983-09-08
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.

E5
Health Spa
Air date: 1983-09-09
Dr. Claw tricks Gadget into attending a "vacation" at a M.A.D.-trapped health spa. Can Penny and Brain save him?

E6
The Boat
Air date: 1983-09-12
Gadget is assigned to board a cruise ship and safeguard the passenger's priceless jewelry from Dr. Claw's clutches.

E7
Haunted Castle
Air date: 1983-09-13
While searching for a crime-fighters' convention in Transylvania Gadget arrives at a castle that Dr. Claw has booby-trapped to kill him.

E8
Race to the Finish
Air date: 1983-09-14
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.

E9
The Ruby
Air date: 1983-09-15
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.

E10
A Star is Lost
Air date: 1983-09-16
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!

E11
All That Glitters
Air date: 1983-09-19
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.

E12
Movie Set
Air date: 1983-09-20
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.

E13
Amusement Park
Air date: 1983-09-21
Gadget has to find the bomb Dr. Claw has hidden in Metro City's amusement park.

E14
Art Heist
Air date: 1983-09-22
Gadget has to stop M.A.D. from looting the New York Museum of Art.

E15
Volcano Island
Air date: 1983-09-23
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.

E16
The Invasion
Air date: 1983-09-26
M.A.D. agents disguised as Martians terrorize Metro City.

E17
The Infiltration
Air date: 1983-09-27
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.

E18
The Curse of the Pharaoh
Air date: 1983-09-28
M.A.D. agents disguised as mummies and ancient Egyptian gods try to loot the tomb of a newly discovered pharaoh.

E19
M.A.D. Trap
Air date: 1983-09-29
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.

E20
Basic Training
Air date: 1983-09-30
Gadget must protect a trainload of important computer parts from M.A.D. hijackers.

E21
Sleeping Gas
Air date: 1983-10-03
Gadget is assigned to halt a diabolical M.A.D. scheme: put entire cities to sleep with a powerful sleeping gas.

E22
Gadget's Replacement
Air date: 1983-10-04
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.

E23
Greenfinger
Air date: 1983-10-05
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.

E24
Gadget Goes West
Air date: 1983-10-06
Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.

E25
Launch Time
Air date: 1983-10-07
M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.

E26
Photo Safari
Air date: 1983-10-10
Inspector Gadget must stop Dr. Claw from using animals to scare villagers away.

E27
The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper
Air date: 1983-10-11
While Gadget is searching Switzerland for stolen gold, Penny runs afoul of the murderous M.A.D. Agent, The Clockmaker.

E28
The Bermuda Triangle
Air date: 1983-10-12
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.

E29
The Japanese Connection
Air date: 1983-10-13
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.

E30
Arabian Nights
Air date: 1983-10-14
Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.

E31
Clear Case
Air date: 1983-10-17
South African diamond miners are terrorized by a ghost who is actually a M.A.D. scientist using diamond dust to create invisibility suits.

E32
Dutch Treat
Air date: 1983-10-18
Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.

E33
The Great Divide
Air date: 1983-10-19
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.

E34
Eye of the Dragon
Air date: 1983-10-20
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.

E35
Doubled Agent
Air date: 1983-10-21
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.

E36
Plantform of the Opera
Air date: 1983-10-24
M.A.D. agents use an opera house as cover to tunnel into a bank vault while protected by a killer man-eating plant.

E37
Don't Hold Your Breath
Air date: 1983-10-25
Inspector Gadget is assigned to look into a case of some missing oceanographers who were searching for an undersea city when they disappeared.

E38
Gone Went the Wind
Air date: 1983-10-26
A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.

E39
King Wrong
Air date: 1983-10-27
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!

E40
Pirate Island
Air date: 1983-10-28
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.

E41
M.A.D. Academy
Air date: 1983-10-31
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.

E42
No Flies on Us
Air date: 1983-11-01
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.

E43
Luck of the Irish
Air date: 1983-11-02
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.

E44
Prince of the Gypsies
Air date: 1983-11-03
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.

E45
Old Man of the Mountain
Air date: 1983-11-04
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.

E46
The Emerald Duck
Air date: 1983-11-07
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.

E47
Do Unto Udders
Air date: 1983-11-08
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).

E48
Did You Myth Me?
Air date: 1983-11-09
A M.A.D. scientist tries to steal an ancient Greek scroll said to hold the secret of turning lead into gold.

E49
A Bad Altitude
Air date: 1983-11-10
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".

E50
Funny Money
Air date: 1983-11-11
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.

E51
Follow That Jet
Air date: 1983-11-14
Dr. Claw begins making US Airforce jets disappear so that he can create his own private M.A.D. airforce.

E52
Dry Spell
Air date: 1983-11-15
A M.A.D. agent and his Blue Trolls causes a drought in Metro City by cutting off the city's mountain water resources.

E53
Smeldorado
Air date: 1983-11-16
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.

E54
Quimby Exchange
Air date: 1983-11-17
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.

E55
Weather In Tibet
Air date: 1983-11-18
Penny teams up with a Tibetan boy to destroy a M.A.D. weather control machine while her uncle blunders around as usual.

E56
Unhenged
Air date: 1983-11-21
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.

E57
Snakin' All Over
Air date: 1983-11-22
A M.A.D. agent intends to use his pet snakes to steal a valuable coin collection.

E58
In Seine
Air date: 1983-11-23
In Paris a M.A.D. agent uses a robot to rob the rich and famous.

E59
Tree Guesses
Air date: 1983-11-24
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.

E60
Birds of a Feather
Air date: 1983-11-25
In Turkey a M.A.D. agent uses his birds to steal a very valuable gemstone from an exhibition.

E61
So it is Written
Air date: 1983-11-28
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.

E62
Fang the Wonder Dog
Air date: 1983-11-29
Dr. Claw tries to abduct movie star "Fang the Wonder Dog" from the set of his latest film so he can ransom him.

E63
School for Pickpockets
Air date: 1983-11-30
Gadget must foil Dr. Claw's plans to steal his new Gadget watch, and close down the school for pickpockets.

E64
Quizmaster
Air date: 1983-12-01
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.

E65
Gadget in Winterland
Air date: 1983-12-02
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.

























