5.9/1079 votesLoading...#1 - 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.
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6.2/1072 votesLoading...#2 - Gadget Meets the Grappler
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1985
The Gadget clan faces one last threat from M.A.D.'s Dr. Dumbkopf, which involves battling his hulking, irascible humanoid assistant named the Grappler. Fortunately, sweets, candies, and ultimately Penny's kindness help in soothing the soul of this misunderstood beast and thwarting Dr. Dumbkopf for the last time.
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6.2/1071 votesLoading...#3 - Wambini Predicts
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/1985
The Great Wambini goes to Alpakistan to win the King's diamond-spitting llama by making three accurate predictions. Gadget is sent along to investigate M.A.D. involvement, and ends up playing in the National Floobyball Tournament.
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6.4/1093 votesLoading...#4 - 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!
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6.4/1091 votesLoading...#5 - 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.
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6.4/1085 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
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6.5/1088 votesLoading...#7 - 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.
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6.5/1082 votesLoading...#8 - 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.
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6.5/1071 votesLoading...#9 - Crash Course in Crime
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 10/29/1985
While Gadget trains his new assistant Capeman, Dr. Claw launches a crime spree to celebrate M.A.D.'s anniversary.
Director: N/A
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6.6/10147 votesLoading...#10 - 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.
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6.6/1084 votesLoading...#11 - Dutch Treat
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 10/18/1983
Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.
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6.6/1083 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
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6.6/1083 votesLoading...#13 - 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: N/A
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6.6/1081 votesLoading...#14 - 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).
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6.6/1083 votesLoading...#15 - 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".
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6.6/1075 votesLoading...#16 - N.S.F. Gadget
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1985
M.A.D. gains control of Metro City's banks, by tapping into an orbiting satellite. With the added distraction of "Crazy Gas", a substance that induces hallucinations in their victims, can even Inspector Gadget ever hope to regain control of the city's bank accounts?
Director: N/A
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6.6/1078 votesLoading...#17 - Busy Signal
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/23/1985
Under the guise of a local telephone company, M.A.D. inventor Dr. Spectrum and his goons systemically target the mansions of Metro City's elite neighborhoods and proceed to burglarize them with the dial of a number and with a zap of a teleportation gun to send the loot straight into Claw's hands.penny,is,caguht,and,odered,to,be,sent,to,doctor,claw
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6.7/1086 votesLoading...#18 - 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
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6.7/1085 votesLoading...#19 - Launch Time
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/7/1983
M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.
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6.7/1081 votesLoading...#20 - 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: N/A
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6.7/1081 votesLoading...#21 - 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: N/A
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6.7/1079 votesLoading...#22 - 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: N/A
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6.7/1073 votesLoading...#23 - Ghost Catchers
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/22/1985
Dr. Spectrum of M.A.D. invents "Ghost Globules" -- pellets that produce glowing ghostly critters. He plans to sets them loose on Metro City, then offer to sell people a spray that will banish them. Inspector Gadget investigates a costume party while on the trail.
Director: N/A
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6.7/1073 votesLoading...#24 - Gadget's Roma
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 11/5/1985
Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain travel back in time again -- on this occasion, to ancient Rome to prevent Dr. Claw's own time traveler, Thelma Bodkin, from deciphering an ancient mosaic and stealing the treasure it describes.
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6.7/1072 votesLoading...#25 - Gadget Meets the Clan
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 11/11/1985
Dr. Claw hires a retired mob boss, the wheelchair-bound Great Great Godfather, to assassinate Inspector Gadget.
Director: N/A
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The Worst Episodes of Inspector Gadget
Every episode of Inspector Gadget ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Inspector Gadget!
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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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Emerald Duck" is the worst rated episode of "Inspector Gadget". It scored 5.9/10 based on 79 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/7/1983. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Gadget Meets the Grappler".