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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!

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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 niece and dog do most of the investigating. Gadget's arch-nemesis

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 1 - Monster Lake
    6.7/10(172 votes)

    #1 - Monster Lake

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Bernard Deyriès
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 2 - Down on the Farm
    6.5/10(184 votes)

    #2 - Down on the Farm

    S1:E2

    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

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  3. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 3 - Gadget at the Circus
    6.7/10(145 votes)

    #3 - Gadget at the Circus

    S1:E3

    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

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  4. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 4 - The Amazon
    7.0/10(129 votes)

    #4 - The Amazon

    S1:E4

    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

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  5. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 5 - Health Spa
    7.0/10(124 votes)

    #5 - Health Spa

    S1:E5

    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

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  6. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 6 - The Boat
    7.1/10(128 votes)

    #6 - The Boat

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 7 - Haunted Castle
    7.2/10(122 votes)

    #7 - Haunted Castle

    S1:E7

    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

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  8. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 8 - Race to the Finish
    7.6/10(138 votes)

    #8 - Race to the Finish

    S1:E8

    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

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  9. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 9 - The Ruby
    7.2/10(116 votes)

    #9 - The Ruby

    S1:E9

    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

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  10. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 10 - A Star is Lost
    6.6/10(111 votes)

    #10 - A Star is Lost

    S1:E10

    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

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  11. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 11 - All That Glitters
    7.1/10(107 votes)

    #11 - All That Glitters

    S1:E11

    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

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  12. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 12 - Movie Set
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    #12 - Movie Set

    S1:E12

    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

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  13. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 13 - Amusement Park
    6.6/10(107 votes)

    #13 - Amusement Park

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 14 - Art Heist
    7.2/10(111 votes)

    #14 - Art Heist

    S1:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 15 - Volcano Island
    7.1/10(108 votes)

    #15 - Volcano Island

    S1:E15

    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

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  16. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 16 - The Invasion
    6.9/10(107 votes)

    #16 - The Invasion

    S1:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 17 - The Infiltration
    6.6/10(105 votes)

    #17 - The Infiltration

    S1:E17

    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

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  18. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 18 - The Curse of the Pharaoh
    7.6/10(113 votes)

    #18 - The Curse of the Pharaoh

    S1:E18

    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

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  19. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 19 - M.A.D. Trap
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    #19 - M.A.D. Trap

    S1:E19

    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

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  20. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 20 - Basic Training
    7.3/10(100 votes)

    #20 - Basic Training

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 21 - Sleeping Gas
    6.8/10(100 votes)

    #21 - Sleeping Gas

    S1:E21

    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

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  22. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 22 - Gadget's Replacement
    7.1/10(102 votes)

    #22 - Gadget's Replacement

    S1:E22

    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

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  23. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 23 - Greenfinger
    7.2/10(99 votes)

    #23 - Greenfinger

    S1:E23

    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

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  24. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 24 - Gadget Goes West
    6.5/10(99 votes)

    #24 - Gadget Goes West

    S1:E24

    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

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  25. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 25 - Launch Time
    6.8/10(99 votes)

    #25 - Launch Time

    S1:E25

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Monster Lake" is the best rated episode of "Inspector Gadget" season 1. It scored 6.7/10 based on 172 votes. Directed by Bernard Deyriès and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/5/1983. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Down on the Farm".