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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 145 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".

  • Monster Lake
    6.8/10145 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

  • Down on the Farm
    6.6/10149 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

  • Gadget at the Circus
    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

  • The Amazon
    7.0/10105 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

  • Health Spa
    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

  • The Boat
    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

  • Haunted Castle
    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

  • Race to the Finish
    7.6/10115 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

  • The Ruby
    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

  • A Star is Lost
    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

  • All That Glitters
    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

  • Movie Set
    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

  • Amusement Park
    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

  • Art Heist
    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

  • Volcano Island
    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

  • The Invasion
    6.8/1091 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

  • The Infiltration
    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

  • The Curse of the Pharaoh
    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

  • M.A.D. Trap
    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

  • Basic Training
    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

  • Sleeping Gas
    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

  • Gadget's Replacement
    7.0/1090 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

  • Greenfinger
    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

  • Gadget Goes West
    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

  • Launch Time
    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