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Inspector Gadget - Episode Guide

Season 1

Winter Olympics

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1983

Winter Olympics

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.

Monster Lake

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1983

Monster Lake

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.

Down on the Farm

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1983

Down on the Farm

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

Gadget at the Circus

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1983

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: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1983

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: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1983

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: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1983

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: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1983

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: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1983

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: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1983

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: 1x11 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1983

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: 1x12 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1983

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: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1983

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: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1983

Amusement Park

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

Art Heist

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1983

Art Heist

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

Volcano Island (Gadget Goes Hawaiian)

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Dec 24, 1983

Volcano Island (Gadget Goes Hawaiian)

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: 1x17 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1983

The Invasion

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

The Infiltration

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1984

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.

M.A.D. Trap

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1984

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: 1x21 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1984

Basic Training

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

Sleeping Gas

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1984

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: 1x23 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1984

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: 1x24 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1984

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: 1x25 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1984

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: 1x26 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1984

Launch Time

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

Photo Safari

Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1984

Photo Safari

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

The Coo Coo Clock Caper

Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1984

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.

Bermuda Triangle

Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1984

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: 1x30 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1984

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: 1x31 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1984

Arabian Nights

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

A Clear Case

Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: Apr 7, 1984

A 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: 1x33 | Airdate: Apr 14, 1984

Dutch Treat

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

The Great Divide

Episode: 1x34 | Airdate: Apr 21, 1984

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: 1x35 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1984

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: 1x36 | Airdate: May 5, 1984

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: 1x37 | Airdate: May 12, 1984

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: 1x38 | Airdate: May 19, 1984

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: 1x39 | Airdate: May 26, 1984

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: 1x40 | Airdate: Jun 2, 1984

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: 1x41 | Airdate: Jun 9, 1984

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. Acadamy

Episode: 1x42 | Airdate: Jun 16, 1984

M.A.D. Acadamy

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: 1x43 | Airdate: Jun 23, 1984

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: 1x44 | Airdate: Jun 30, 1984

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: 1x45 | Airdate: Jul 7, 1984

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, Sonya, try to find the real thief.

Old Man of the Mountain

Episode: 1x46 | Airdate: Jul 14, 1984

Old Man of the Mountain

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.

The Emerald Duck

Episode: 1x47 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1984

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: 1x48 | Airdate: Jul 28, 1984

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: 1x49 | Airdate: Aug 4, 1984

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: 1x50 | Airdate: Aug 11, 1984

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: 1x51 | Airdate: Aug 18, 1984

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.

Follow That Jet

Episode: 1x52 | Airdate: Aug 25, 1984

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: 1x53 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1984

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: 1x54 | Airdate: Sep 8, 1984

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: 1x55 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1984

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: 1x56 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1984

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: 1x57 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1984

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: 1x58 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1984

Snakin' All Over

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

In Seine

Episode: 1x59 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1984

In Seine

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

Tree Guesses

Episode: 1x60 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1984

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: 1x61 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1984

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: 1x62 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1984

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: 1x63 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1984

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: 1x64 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1984

School for Pickpockets

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

Quizz Master

Episode: 1x65 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1984

Quizz Master

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

Magic Gadget

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 14, 1985

Magic Gadget

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.

The Great Wambini's Seance

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1985

The Great Wambini's Seance

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?

Wambini Predicts

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1985

Wambini Predicts

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.

The Capeman Cometh

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1985

The Capeman Cometh

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

Crashcourse in Crime

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1985

Crashcourse in Crime

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

Gadget's Gadgets

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1985

Gadget's Gadgets

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.

Gadget in Minimadness

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1985

Gadget in Minimadness

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.

The Incredible Shrinking Gadget

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1985

The Incredible Shrinking Gadget

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.

Gadget Meets the Grappler

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1985

Gadget Meets the Grappler

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. 

Ghost Catchers

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1985

Ghost Catchers

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.

Busy Signal

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1985

Busy Signal

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.

Bad Dreams Are Made of This

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1985

Bad Dreams Are Made of This

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

Focus on Gadget

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1985

Focus on Gadget

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.

M.A.D. in the Moon

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1985

M.A.D. in the Moon

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.

N.S.F. Gadget

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1985

N.S.F. Gadget

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?

Tyrannosaurus Gadget

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1985

Tyrannosaurus Gadget

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.

Gadget's Roma

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1986

Gadget's Roma

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.

Gadget's Clean Sweep

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1986

Gadget's Clean Sweep

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.

Gadget Meets the Clan

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1986

Gadget Meets the Clan

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

Gadget and Old Lace

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1986

Gadget and Old Lace

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.

Gadget and the Red Rose

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1986

Gadget and the Red Rose

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

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