Inspector Gadget Season 1

(1983) September - November | # of Episodes : 65

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Series Details

Seasons: 2

Total Episodes: 86

Creators: Bruno Bianchi , Jean Chalopin , Andy Heyward

Networks: Syndication , FR3

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 5, 1983

Recent Air Date: Nov 13, 1985

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: TV-Y

Website: Link

Production Companies: DiC Entertainment , Nelvana , FR3 , Tokyo Movie Shinsha

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Main Cast

Don Adams

Inspector Gadget (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Cree Summer

Penny (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Dan Hennessey

Chief Quimby (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 20%

Episodes

Episode 1

05 September 1983 - Monster Lake

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

Episode 2

06 September 1983 - Down on the Farm

M.A.D. tries to do Gadget in by locking him in a missile hidden in a farm's grain silo.

Episode 3

07 September 1983 - Gadget at the Circus

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.

Episode 4

08 September 1983 - The Amazon

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.

Episode 5

09 September 1983 - Health Spa

Dr. Claw tricks Gadget into attending a "vacation" at a M.A.D.-trapped health spa. Can Penny and Brain save him?

Episode 6

12 September 1983 - The Boat

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

Episode 7

13 September 1983 - Haunted Castle

While searching for a crime-fighters' convention in Transylvania Gadget arrives at a castle that Dr. Claw has booby-trapped to kill him.

Episode 8

14 September 1983 - Race to the Finish

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.

Episode 9

15 September 1983 - The Ruby

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.

Episode 10

16 September 1983 - A Star is Lost

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!

Episode 11

19 September 1983 - All That Glitters

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.

Episode 12

20 September 1983 - Movie Set

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.

Episode 13

21 September 1983 - Amusement Park

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

Episode 14

22 September 1983 - Art Heist

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

Episode 15

23 September 1983 - Volcano Island

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.

Episode 16

26 September 1983 - The Invasion

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

Episode 17

27 September 1983 - The Infiltration

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.

Episode 18

28 September 1983 - The Curse of the Pharaoh

M.A.D. agents disguised as mummies and ancient Egyptian gods try to loot the tomb of a newly discovered pharaoh.

Episode 19

29 September 1983 - M.A.D. Trap

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.

Episode 20

30 September 1983 - Basic Training

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

Episode 21

03 October 1983 - Sleeping Gas

Gadget is assigned to halt a diabolical M.A.D. scheme: put entire cities to sleep with a powerful sleeping gas.

Episode 22

04 October 1983 - Gadget's Replacement

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.

Episode 23

05 October 1983 - Greenfinger

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.

Episode 24

06 October 1983 - Gadget Goes West

Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.

Episode 25

07 October 1983 - Launch Time

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

Episode 26

10 October 1983 - Photo Safari

Inspector Gadget must stop Dr. Claw from using animals to scare villagers away.

Episode 27

11 October 1983 - The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper

While Gadget is searching Switzerland for stolen gold, Penny runs afoul of the murderous M.A.D. Agent, The Clockmaker.

Episode 28

12 October 1983 - The Bermuda Triangle

Ships are vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle, but the seemingly supernatural aspects of the disappearances are subterfuge by Dr. Claw, who is using an enormous machine to swallow oil tankers and ransack them.

Episode 29

13 October 1983 - The Japanese Connection

Penny won a computer contest and is in Japan helping her local counterpart, Atsuko, to foil an alliance between Dr. Claw and his Japanese counterpart, Iji Waruda-san.

Episode 30

14 October 1983 - Arabian Nights

Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.

Episode 31

17 October 1983 - Clear Case

South African diamond miners are terrorized by a ghost who is actually a M.A.D. scientist using diamond dust to create invisibility suits.

Episode 32

18 October 1983 - Dutch Treat

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

Episode 33

19 October 1983 - The Great Divide

Gadget visits the Balkans to stop a war between a tribe of super-strong men and super-strong women while Dr. Claw tries to steal the potion that gives them their uncanny strength.

Episode 34

20 October 1983 - Eye of the Dragon

Gadget is sent to Hong Kong to recover the priceless jewel the Eye of the Dragon and foil an alliance between Dr. Claw and Hong Kong's crime-lord Mr. Chow.

Episode 35

21 October 1983 - Doubled Agent

M.A.D. engineers an android replica of Inspector Gadget that is used to steal from Metro City's banks in order to have the real Gadget framed for armed-robbery. With our hero wrongfully incarcerated, Dr. Claw sets his sights on kidnapping the Shah of Freeland and demanding a hefty ransom for his release.

Episode 36

24 October 1983 - Plantform of the Opera

M.A.D. agents use an opera house as cover to tunnel into a bank vault while protected by a killer man-eating plant.

Episode 37

25 October 1983 - Don't Hold Your Breath

Inspector Gadget is assigned to look into a case of some missing oceanographers who were searching for an undersea city when they disappeared.

Episode 38

26 October 1983 - Gone Went the Wind

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

Episode 39

27 October 1983 - King Wrong

In the far-off country of Pianostan, the people remain happy as long as their King is miserable. But M.A.D. has been ensuring that the King is happy in order to disrupt the peace, so Inspector Gadget is sent out to investigate. To further complicate matters, the King looks exactly like the Inspector!

Episode 40

28 October 1983 - Pirate Island

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.

Episode 41

31 October 1983 - M.A.D. Academy

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.

Episode 42

01 November 1983 - No Flies on Us

In Malaysia, the Wild Man of Borneo (a M.A.D. scientist), has both derived a virus from flies and concocted its antidote. A head-cold-suffering Gadget must stop Dr. Claw's plan to turn everyone on the planet into babbling, bubble-blowing imbeciles.

Episode 43

02 November 1983 - Luck of the Irish

Gadget heads to Ireland to locate the Blarney Stone, "The national treasure of Ireland," when it's stolen by M.A.D. agents. While plotting to use a laser cannon to slice up the Stone and smuggle it out of the country, Dr. Claw dispatches the quarrelsome O'Shea Brothers to eliminate Gadget.

Episode 44

03 November 1983 - Prince of the Gypsies

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.

Episode 45

04 November 1983 - Old Man of the Mountain

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.

Episode 46

07 November 1983 - The Emerald Duck

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.

Episode 47

08 November 1983 - Do Unto Udders

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).

Episode 48

09 November 1983 - Did You Myth Me?

A M.A.D. scientist tries to steal an ancient Greek scroll said to hold the secret of turning lead into gold.

Episode 49

10 November 1983 - A Bad Altitude

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".

Episode 50

11 November 1983 - Funny Money

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.

Episode 51

14 November 1983 - Follow That Jet

Dr. Claw begins making US Airforce jets disappear so that he can create his own private M.A.D. airforce.

Episode 52

15 November 1983 - Dry Spell

A M.A.D. agent and his Blue Trolls causes a drought in Metro City by cutting off the city's mountain water resources.

Episode 53

16 November 1983 - Smeldorado

Dr. Claw creates a ray that turns gold into smelly cheese, planning to change it back once the government empties Fort Knox of the foul smelling stuff.

Episode 54

17 November 1983 - Quimby Exchange

Gadget is assigned to protect "Nervous Nick" Defecto, a former M.A.D. agent, from Dr. Claw's wrath. In revenge, Dr. Claw takes Chief Quimby hostage and offers him in exchange for his wayward agent.

Episode 55

18 November 1983 - Weather In Tibet

Penny teams up with a Tibetan boy to destroy a M.A.D. weather control machine while her uncle blunders around as usual.

Episode 56

21 November 1983 - Unhenged

Gadget must put a stop to M.A.D.'s latest plot for global domination, which involves the kidnapping of the world's leading solar scientists and coercing them to design and construct a solar-powered heat cannon at the grounds of mysterious Stonehenge.

Episode 57

22 November 1983 - Snakin' All Over

A M.A.D. agent intends to use his pet snakes to steal a valuable coin collection.

Episode 58

23 November 1983 - In Seine

In Paris a M.A.D. agent uses a robot to rob the rich and famous.

Episode 59

24 November 1983 - Tree Guesses

Dr. Claw has concocted a chemical compound that decomposes wood at an accelerated rate, which he threatens to unleash upon the world's forests in exchange for a hefty ransom.

Episode 60

25 November 1983 - Birds of a Feather

In Turkey a M.A.D. agent uses his birds to steal a very valuable gemstone from an exhibition.

Episode 61

28 November 1983 - So it is Written

Gadget arrives in an Arabian country where he is believed to be the prophesied one who will find a long lost treasure cave. Dr. Claw is eager to let his old enemy lead him to the treasure before eliminating him.

Episode 62

29 November 1983 - Fang the Wonder Dog

Dr. Claw tries to abduct movie star "Fang the Wonder Dog" from the set of his latest film so he can ransom him.

Episode 63

30 November 1983 - School for Pickpockets

Gadget must foil Dr. Claw's plans to steal his new Gadget watch, and close down the school for pickpockets.

Episode 64

01 December 1983 - Quizmaster

A slick game show host mesmerizes contestants when they enter his TV program's sealed "21"-like booth, which is outfitted with hypnotic lights. The contestants are then commanded to rob banks and turn over the stolen loot to Dr. Claw. Gadget investigates, but becomes another victim of the hypnosis.

Episode 65

02 December 1983 - Gadget in Winterland

Gadget goes to the Winterland Resort where the world's athletes are gathered for the opening of the Olympic games. Dr.Claw tries to ruin the Olympics by replacing the torch bearer with a M.A.D. Agent and replacing the torch with dynamite. NOTE: This was a re-worked version of the pilot episode "Winter Olympics". Some of the dialogue was re-dubbed to address the purpose of Gadget's mustache, and the standard season 1 opening and ending credits were used.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Jean Chalopin Patrick Loubert Andy Heyward
Department	Role	Name

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