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Inspector Gadget

Season 1 1983
TV-Y

  • 1983-09-05T11:30:00Z on Syndication
  • 22m
  • 1d 9m (65 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Comedy, Children
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."

65 episodes

Series Premiere

1983-09-05T11:30:00Z

1x01 Monster Lake

Series Premiere

1x01 Monster Lake

  • 1983-09-05T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-09-06T11:30:00Z

1x02 Down on the Farm

1x02 Down on the Farm

  • 1983-09-06T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-09-07T11:30:00Z

1x03 Gadget at the Circus

1x03 Gadget at the Circus

  • 1983-09-07T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-08T11:30:00Z

1x04 The Amazon

1x04 The Amazon

  • 1983-09-08T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-09T11:30:00Z

1x05 Health Spa

1x05 Health Spa

  • 1983-09-09T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-09-12T11:30:00Z

1x06 The Boat

1x06 The Boat

  • 1983-09-12T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-09-13T11:30:00Z

1x07 Haunted Castle

1x07 Haunted Castle

  • 1983-09-13T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-09-14T11:30:00Z

1x08 Race to the Finish

1x08 Race to the Finish

  • 1983-09-14T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-15T11:30:00Z

1x09 The Ruby

1x09 The Ruby

  • 1983-09-15T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-16T11:30:00Z

1x10 A Star is Lost

1x10 A Star is Lost

  • 1983-09-16T11:30:00Z22m

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!

1983-09-19T11:30:00Z

1x11 All That Glitters

1x11 All That Glitters

  • 1983-09-19T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-20T11:30:00Z

1x12 Movie Set

1x12 Movie Set

  • 1983-09-20T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-21T11:30:00Z

1x13 Amusement Park

1x13 Amusement Park

  • 1983-09-21T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-09-22T11:30:00Z

1x14 Art Heist

1x14 Art Heist

  • 1983-09-22T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-09-23T11:30:00Z

1x15 Volcano Island

1x15 Volcano Island

  • 1983-09-23T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-26T11:30:00Z

1x16 The Invasion

1x16 The Invasion

  • 1983-09-26T11:30:00Z23m

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

1983-09-27T11:30:00Z

1x17 The Infiltration

1x17 The Infiltration

  • 1983-09-27T11:30:00Z23m

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.

1983-09-28T11:30:00Z

1x18 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.

1983-09-29T11:30:00Z

1x19 M.A.D. Trap

1x19 M.A.D. Trap

  • 1983-09-29T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-09-30T11:30:00Z

1x20 Basic Training

1x20 Basic Training

  • 1983-09-30T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-10-03T11:30:00Z

1x21 Sleeping Gas

1x21 Sleeping Gas

  • 1983-10-03T11:30:00Z23m

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

1983-10-04T11:30:00Z

1x22 Gadget's Replacement

1x22 Gadget's Replacement

  • 1983-10-04T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-10-05T11:30:00Z

1x23 Greenfinger

1x23 Greenfinger

  • 1983-10-05T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-10-06T11:30:00Z

1x24 Gadget Goes West

1x24 Gadget Goes West

  • 1983-10-06T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-10-07T11:30:00Z

1x25 Launch Time

1x25 Launch Time

  • 1983-10-07T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-10-10T11:30:00Z

1x26 Photo Safari

1x26 Photo Safari

  • 1983-10-10T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-10-11T11:30:00Z

1x27 The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper

1x27 The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper

  • 1983-10-11T11:30:00Z23m

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

1983-10-12T11:30:00Z

1x28 The Bermuda Triangle

1x28 The Bermuda Triangle

  • 1983-10-12T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-10-13T11:30:00Z

1x29 The Japanese Connection

1x29 The Japanese Connection

  • 1983-10-13T11:30:00Z23m

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.

1983-10-14T11:30:00Z

1x30 Arabian Nights

1x30 Arabian Nights

  • 1983-10-14T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-10-17T11:30:00Z

1x31 Clear Case

1x31 Clear Case

  • 1983-10-17T11:30:00Z23m

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

1983-10-18T11:30:00Z

1x32 Dutch Treat

1x32 Dutch Treat

  • 1983-10-18T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-10-19T11:30:00Z

1x33 The Great Divide

1x33 The Great Divide

  • 1983-10-19T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-10-20T11:30:00Z

1x34 Eye of the Dragon

1x34 Eye of the Dragon

  • 1983-10-20T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-10-21T11:30:00Z

1x35 Doubled Agent

1x35 Doubled Agent

  • 1983-10-21T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-10-24T11:30:00Z

1x36 Plantform of the Opera

1x36 Plantform of the Opera

  • 1983-10-24T11:30:00Z22m

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

1983-10-25T11:30:00Z

1x37 Don't Hold Your Breath

1x37 Don't Hold Your Breath

  • 1983-10-25T11:30:00Z23m

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

1983-10-26T11:30:00Z

1x38 Gone Went the Wind

1x38 Gone Went the Wind

  • 1983-10-26T11:30:00Z23m

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

1983-10-27T11:30:00Z

1x39 King Wrong

1x39 King Wrong

  • 1983-10-27T11:30:00Z22m

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!

1983-10-28T11:30:00Z

1x40 Pirate Island

1x40 Pirate Island

  • 1983-10-28T11:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-10-31T12:30:00Z

1x41 M.A.D. Academy

1x41 M.A.D. Academy

  • 1983-10-31T12:30:00Z23m

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.

1983-11-01T12:30:00Z

1x42 No Flies on Us

1x42 No Flies on Us

  • 1983-11-01T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-11-02T12:30:00Z

1x43 Luck of the Irish

1x43 Luck of the Irish

  • 1983-11-02T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-11-03T12:30:00Z

1x44 Prince of the Gypsies

1x44 Prince of the Gypsies

  • 1983-11-03T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-11-04T12:30:00Z

1x45 Old Man of the Mountain

1x45 Old Man of the Mountain

  • 1983-11-04T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-11-07T12:30:00Z

1x46 The Emerald Duck

1x46 The Emerald Duck

  • 1983-11-07T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-11-08T12:30:00Z

1x47 Do Unto Udders

1x47 Do Unto Udders

  • 1983-11-08T12:30:00Z22m

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).

1983-11-09T12:30:00Z

1x48 Did You Myth Me?

1x48 Did You Myth Me?

  • 1983-11-09T12:30:00Z22m

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

1983-11-10T12:30:00Z

1x49 A Bad Altitude

1x49 A Bad Altitude

  • 1983-11-10T12:30:00Z22m

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".

1983-11-11T12:30:00Z

1x50 Funny Money

1x50 Funny Money

  • 1983-11-11T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-11-14T12:30:00Z

1x51 Follow That Jet

1x51 Follow That Jet

  • 1983-11-14T12:30:00Z23m

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

1983-11-15T12:30:00Z

1x52 Dry Spell

1x52 Dry Spell

  • 1983-11-15T12:30:00Z23m

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

1983-11-16T12:30:00Z

1x53 Smeldorado

1x53 Smeldorado

  • 1983-11-16T12:30:00Z23m

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.

1983-11-17T12:30:00Z

1x54 Quimby Exchange

1x54 Quimby Exchange

  • 1983-11-17T12:30:00Z23m

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.

1983-11-18T12:30:00Z

1x55 Weather In Tibet

1x55 Weather In Tibet

  • 1983-11-18T12:30:00Z22m

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

1983-11-21T12:30:00Z

1x56 Unhenged

1x56 Unhenged

  • 1983-11-21T12:30:00Z23m

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.

1983-11-22T12:30:00Z

1x57 Snakin' All Over

1x57 Snakin' All Over

  • 1983-11-22T12:30:00Z23m

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

1983-11-23T12:30:00Z

1x58 In Seine

1x58 In Seine

  • 1983-11-23T12:30:00Z23m

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

1983-11-24T12:30:00Z

1x59 Tree Guesses

1x59 Tree Guesses

  • 1983-11-24T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-11-25T12:30:00Z

1x60 Birds of a Feather

1x60 Birds of a Feather

  • 1983-11-25T12:30:00Z23m

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

1983-11-28T12:30:00Z

1x61 So it is Written

1x61 So it is Written

  • 1983-11-28T12:30:00Z23m

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.

1983-11-29T12:30:00Z

1x62 Fang the Wonder Dog

1x62 Fang the Wonder Dog

  • 1983-11-29T12:30:00Z22m

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

1983-11-30T12:30:00Z

1x63 School for Pickpockets

1x63 School for Pickpockets

  • 1983-11-30T12:30:00Z23m

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

Season Finale

1983-12-01T12:30:00Z

1x64 Quizmaster

Season Finale

1x64 Quizmaster

  • 1983-12-01T12:30:00Z22m

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.

1983-12-02T12:30:00Z

1x65 Gadget in Winterland

1x65 Gadget in Winterland

  • 1983-12-02T12:30:00Z22m

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.

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