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The Worst Episodes of Inspector Gadget

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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 Worst Episode
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    Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 46 - The Emerald Duck
    6.1/10(85 votes)

    #1 - The Emerald Duck

    S1:E46

    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

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  2. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 3 - Gadget Meets the Grappler
    6.2/10(77 votes)

    #2 - Gadget Meets the Grappler

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 9 - Wambini Predicts
    6.3/10(77 votes)

    #3 - Wambini Predicts

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 24 - Gadget Goes West
    6.4/10(92 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 2 - Down on the Farm
    6.5/10(165 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 10 - A Star is Lost
    6.5/10(101 votes)

    #6 - 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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  7. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 13 - Amusement Park
    6.5/10(98 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 44 - Prince of the Gypsies
    6.5/10(90 votes)

    #8 - Prince of the Gypsies

    S1:E44

    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

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  9. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 17 - The Infiltration
    6.6/10(96 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 14 - Crash Course in Crime
    6.6/10(76 votes)

    #10 - Crash Course in Crime

    S2:E14

    While Gadget trains his new assistant Capeman, Dr. Claw launches a crime spree to celebrate M.A.D.'s anniversary.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 1 - Monster Lake
    6.7/10(156 votes)

    #11 - Monster Lake

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 25 - Launch Time
    6.7/10(92 votes)

    #12 - Launch Time

    S1:E25

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 32 - Dutch Treat
    6.7/10(91 votes)

    #13 - Dutch Treat

    S1:E32

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 40 - Pirate Island
    6.7/10(89 votes)

    #14 - Pirate Island

    S1:E40

    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

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  15. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 45 - Old Man of the Mountain
    6.7/10(89 votes)

    #15 - Old Man of the Mountain

    S1:E45

    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

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  16. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 47 - Do Unto Udders
    6.7/10(87 votes)

    #16 - Do Unto Udders

    S1:E47

    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

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  17. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 6 - N.S.F. Gadget
    6.7/10(80 votes)

    #17 - N.S.F. Gadget

    S2:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 11 - Ghost Catchers
    6.7/10(79 votes)

    #18 - Ghost Catchers

    S2:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 12 - Busy Signal
    6.7/10(84 votes)

    #19 - Busy Signal

    S2:E12

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 17 - Gadget's Roma
    6.7/10(79 votes)

    #20 - Gadget's Roma

    S2:E17

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 21 - Sleeping Gas
    6.8/10(92 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 38 - Gone Went the Wind
    6.8/10(88 votes)

    #22 - Gone Went the Wind

    S1:E38

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 41 - M.A.D. Academy
    6.8/10(87 votes)

    #23 - M.A.D. Academy

    S1:E41

    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

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  24. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 49 - A Bad Altitude
    6.8/10(88 votes)

    #24 - A Bad Altitude

    S1:E49

    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

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  25. Inspector Gadget Season 2 Episode 19 - Gadget Meets the Clan
    6.8/10(77 votes)

    #25 - Gadget Meets the Clan

    S2:E19

    Dr. Claw hires a retired mob boss, the wheelchair-bound Great Great Godfather, to assassinate Inspector Gadget.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Emerald Duck" is the worst rated episode of "Inspector Gadget". It scored 6.1/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/7/1983. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Gadget Meets the Grappler".