6.8/10144 votes#1 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10147 votes#2 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10115 votes#3 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10104 votes#4 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10102 votes#5 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10107 votes#6 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10102 votes#7 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10114 votes#8 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1099 votes#9 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1093 votes#10 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1091 votes#11 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1091 votes#12 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1091 votes#13 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1096 votes#14 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1093 votes#15 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1090 votes#16 - The Invasion
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/26/1983
M.A.D. agents disguised as Martians terrorize Metro City.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1088 votes#17 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1097 votes#18 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1092 votes#19 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1086 votes#20 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1086 votes#21 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1089 votes#22 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1086 votes#23 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1085 votes#24 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1085 votes#25 - Launch Time
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/7/1983
M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Inspector Gadget Season 1
Every episode of Inspector Gadget Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Inspector Gadget Season 1!
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 Ratings Summary
"Monster Lake" is the best rated episode of "Inspector Gadget" season 1. It scored 6.8/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/5/1983. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Down on the Farm".