Inspector Gadget: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Monster Lake
Sep 5, 1983 · 22 min
Gadget looks for a missing scientist who vanished at a lake rumored to harbor a monster.
Down on the Farm
Sep 6, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 7, 1983 · 22 min
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! Gadge
The Amazon
Sep 8, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 9, 1983 · 22 min
Dr. Claw tricks Gadget into attending a "vacation" at a M.A.D.-trapped health spa. Can Penny and Brain save him?
The Boat
Sep 12, 1983 · 22 min
Gadget is assigned to board a cruise ship and safeguard the passenger's priceless jewelry from Dr. Claw's clutches.
Haunted Castle
Sep 13, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 14, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 15, 1983 · 22 min
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 satel
A Star is Lost
Sep 16, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 19, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 20, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 21, 1983 · 22 min
Gadget has to find the bomb Dr. Claw has hidden in Metro City's amusement park.
Art Heist
Sep 22, 1983 · 22 min
Gadget has to stop M.A.D. from looting the New York Museum of Art.
Volcano Island
Sep 23, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 26, 1983 · 23 min
M.A.D. agents disguised as Martians terrorize Metro City.
The Infiltration
Sep 27, 1983 · 23 min
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
Sep 28, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 29, 1983 · 22 min
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
Sep 30, 1983 · 22 min
Gadget must protect a trainload of important computer parts from M.A.D. hijackers.
Sleeping Gas
Oct 3, 1983 · 23 min
Gadget is assigned to halt a diabolical M.A.D. scheme: put entire cities to sleep with a powerful sleeping gas.
Gadget's Replacement
Oct 4, 1983 · 22 min
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
Oct 5, 1983 · 22 min
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
Oct 6, 1983 · 22 min
Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.
Photo Safari
Oct 10, 1983 · 22 min
Inspector Gadget must stop Dr. Claw from using animals to scare villagers away.
The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper
Oct 11, 1983 · 23 min
While Gadget is searching Switzerland for stolen gold, Penny runs afoul of the murderous M.A.D. Agent, The Clockmaker.
The Bermuda Triangle
Oct 12, 1983 · 22 min
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 oi
The Japanese Connection
Oct 13, 1983 · 23 min
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
Oct 14, 1983 · 22 min
Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.
Clear Case
Oct 17, 1983 · 23 min
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
Oct 18, 1983 · 22 min
Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.
The Great Divide
Oct 19, 1983 · 22 min
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 dee
Eye of the Dragon
Oct 20, 1983 · 22 min
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
Oct 21, 1983 · 22 min
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 wrong
Plantform of the Opera
Oct 24, 1983 · 22 min
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
Oct 25, 1983 · 23 min
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
Oct 26, 1983 · 23 min
A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.
King Wrong
Oct 27, 1983 · 22 min
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,
Pirate Island
Oct 28, 1983 · 22 min
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, dut
M.A.D. Academy
Oct 31, 1983 · 23 min
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 recr
No Flies on Us
Nov 1, 1983 · 22 min
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
Luck of the Irish
Nov 2, 1983 · 22 min
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 Sto
Prince of the Gypsies
Nov 3, 1983 · 22 min
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 r
Old Man of the Mountain
Nov 4, 1983 · 22 min
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
Nov 7, 1983 · 22 min
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 Ma
Do Unto Udders
Nov 8, 1983 · 22 min
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?
Nov 9, 1983 · 22 min
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
Nov 10, 1983 · 22 min
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
Nov 11, 1983 · 22 min
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
Nov 14, 1983 · 23 min
Dr. Claw begins making US Airforce jets disappear so that he can create his own private M.A.D. airforce.
Dry Spell
Nov 15, 1983 · 23 min
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
Nov 16, 1983 · 23 min
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
Nov 17, 1983 · 23 min
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 h
Weather In Tibet
Nov 18, 1983 · 22 min
Penny teams up with a Tibetan boy to destroy a M.A.D. weather control machine while her uncle blunders around as usual.
Unhenged
Nov 21, 1983 · 23 min
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 construc
Snakin' All Over
Nov 22, 1983 · 23 min
A M.A.D. agent intends to use his pet snakes to steal a valuable coin collection.
In Seine
Nov 23, 1983 · 23 min
In Paris a M.A.D. agent uses a robot to rob the rich and famous.
Tree Guesses
Nov 24, 1983 · 22 min
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
Nov 25, 1983 · 23 min
In Turkey a M.A.D. agent uses his birds to steal a very valuable gemstone from an exhibition.
So it is Written
Nov 28, 1983 · 23 min
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 t
Fang the Wonder Dog
Nov 29, 1983 · 22 min
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
Nov 30, 1983 · 23 min
Gadget must foil Dr. Claw's plans to steal his new Gadget watch, and close down the school for pickpockets.
Quizmaster
Dec 1, 1983 · 22 min
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 t
Gadget in Winterland
Dec 2, 1983 · 22 min
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