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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...
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Season 1

  • Monster Lake
    9.0/101 votes

    Monster Lake

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Down on the Farm
    9.0/101 votes

    Down on the Farm

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Gadget at the Circus
    6.5/102 votes

    Gadget at the Circus

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/7/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Amazon
    9.0/101 votes

    The Amazon

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/8/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Health Spa
    9.0/101 votes

    Health Spa

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Boat
    9.0/101 votes

    The Boat

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/12/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Haunted Castle
    9.0/101 votes

    Haunted Castle

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/13/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Race to the Finish
    9.0/101 votes

    Race to the Finish

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/14/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Ruby
    9.0/101 votes

    The Ruby

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/15/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Star is Lost
    9.0/101 votes

    A Star is Lost

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/16/1983

    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!

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • All That Glitters
    9.0/101 votes

    All That Glitters

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/19/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Movie Set
    9.0/101 votes

    Movie Set

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/20/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Amusement Park
    9.0/101 votes

    Amusement Park

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/21/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Art Heist
    9.0/101 votes

    Art Heist

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/22/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Volcano Island
    9.0/101 votes

    Volcano Island

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/23/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Invasion
    9.0/101 votes

    The Invasion

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/26/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Infiltration
    9.0/101 votes

    The Infiltration

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/27/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Curse of the Pharaoh
    9.0/101 votes

    The Curse of the Pharaoh

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/28/1983

    M.A.D. agents disguised as mummies and ancient Egyptian gods try to loot the tomb of a newly discovered pharaoh.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • M.A.D. Trap
    9.0/101 votes

    M.A.D. Trap

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/29/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Basic Training
    9.0/101 votes

    Basic Training

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/30/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sleeping Gas
    9.0/101 votes

    Sleeping Gas

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 10/3/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Gadget's Replacement
    9.0/101 votes

    Gadget's Replacement

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 10/4/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Greenfinger
    9.0/101 votes

    Greenfinger

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 10/5/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Gadget Goes West
    9.0/101 votes

    Gadget Goes West

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/6/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Launch Time
    9.0/101 votes

    Launch Time

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/7/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Photo Safari
    9.0/101 votes

    Photo Safari

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/10/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper
    9.0/101 votes

    The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/11/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Bermuda Triangle
    9.0/101 votes

    The Bermuda Triangle

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 10/12/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Japanese Connection
    9.0/101 votes

    The Japanese Connection

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 10/13/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Arabian Nights
    9.0/101 votes

    Arabian Nights

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 10/14/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Clear Case
    9.0/101 votes

    Clear Case

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 10/17/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Dutch Treat
    9.0/101 votes

    Dutch Treat

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 10/18/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Great Divide
    9.0/101 votes

    The Great Divide

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 10/19/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Eye of the Dragon
    9.0/101 votes

    Eye of the Dragon

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 10/20/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Doubled Agent
    9.0/101 votes

    Doubled Agent

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 10/21/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Plantform of the Opera
    9.0/101 votes

    Plantform of the Opera

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 10/24/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Don't Hold Your Breath
    9.0/101 votes

    Don't Hold Your Breath

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 10/25/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Gone Went the Wind
    9.0/101 votes

    Gone Went the Wind

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 10/26/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • King Wrong
    9.0/101 votes

    King Wrong

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 10/27/1983

    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!

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Pirate Island
    9.0/101 votes

    Pirate Island

    Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 10/28/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • M.A.D. Academy
    9.0/101 votes

    M.A.D. Academy

    Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 10/31/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • No Flies on Us
    9.0/101 votes

    No Flies on Us

    Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 11/1/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Luck of the Irish
    9.0/101 votes

    Luck of the Irish

    Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 11/2/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Prince of the Gypsies
    9.0/101 votes

    Prince of the Gypsies

    Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 11/3/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Old Man of the Mountain
    9.0/101 votes

    Old Man of the Mountain

    Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 11/4/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Emerald Duck
    9.0/101 votes

    The Emerald Duck

    Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 11/7/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Do Unto Udders
    9.0/101 votes

    Do Unto Udders

    Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 11/8/1983

    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).

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Did You Myth Me?
    9.0/101 votes

    Did You Myth Me?

    Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 11/9/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • A Bad Altitude
    9.0/101 votes

    A Bad Altitude

    Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 11/10/1983

    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".

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Funny Money
    9.0/101 votes

    Funny Money

    Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 11/11/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Follow That Jet
    9.0/101 votes

    Follow That Jet

    Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 11/14/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Dry Spell
    9.0/101 votes

    Dry Spell

    Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 11/15/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Smeldorado
    9.0/101 votes

    Smeldorado

    Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 11/16/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Quimby Exchange
    9.0/101 votes

    Quimby Exchange

    Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 11/17/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Weather In Tibet
    9.0/101 votes

    Weather In Tibet

    Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 11/18/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Unhenged
    9.0/101 votes

    Unhenged

    Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 11/21/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Snakin' All Over
    9.0/101 votes

    Snakin' All Over

    Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 11/22/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • In Seine
    9.0/101 votes

    In Seine

    Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 11/23/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Tree Guesses
    9.0/101 votes

    Tree Guesses

    Season 1 Episode 59 - Aired 11/24/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Birds of a Feather
    9.0/101 votes

    Birds of a Feather

    Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 11/25/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • So it is Written
    9.0/101 votes

    So it is Written

    Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 11/28/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Fang the Wonder Dog
    9.0/101 votes

    Fang the Wonder Dog

    Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 11/29/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • School for Pickpockets
    9.0/101 votes

    School for Pickpockets

    Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 11/30/1983

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

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Quizmaster
    9.0/101 votes

    Quizmaster

    Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 12/1/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Gadget in Winterland
    7.0/101 votes

    Gadget in Winterland

    Season 1 Episode 65 - Aired 12/2/1983

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown