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Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

  • Air date:1983-09-05
  • User score:
    8.9
  • Number of episodes:65

List of Episodes

Monster Lake
S1E1
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-05

Runtime: 22 min

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

Down on the Farm
S1E2
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-06

Runtime: 22 min

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

Gadget at the Circus
S1E3
6.5

Air date: 1983-09-07

Runtime: 22 min

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.

The Amazon
S1E4
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-08

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Health Spa
S1E5
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-09

Runtime: 22 min

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

The Boat
S1E6
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-12

Runtime: 22 min

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

Haunted Castle
S1E7
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-13

Runtime: 22 min

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

Race to the Finish
S1E8
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-14

Runtime: 22 min

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.

The Ruby
S1E9
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-15

Runtime: 22 min

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.

A Star is Lost
S1E10
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-16

Runtime: 22 min

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!

All That Glitters
S1E11
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-19

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Movie Set
S1E12
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-20

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Amusement Park
S1E13
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-21

Runtime: 22 min

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

Art Heist
S1E14
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-22

Runtime: 22 min

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

Volcano Island
S1E15
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-23

Runtime: 22 min

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.

The Invasion
S1E16
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-26

Runtime: 23 min

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

The Infiltration
S1E17
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-27

Runtime: 23 min

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.

The Curse of the Pharaoh
S1E18
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-28

Runtime: 22 min

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

M.A.D. Trap
S1E19
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-29

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Basic Training
S1E20
9.0

Air date: 1983-09-30

Runtime: 22 min

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

Sleeping Gas
S1E21
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-03

Runtime: 23 min

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

Gadget's Replacement
S1E22
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-04

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Greenfinger
S1E23
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-05

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Gadget Goes West
S1E24
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-06

Runtime: 22 min

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

Launch Time
S1E25
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-07

Runtime: 22 min

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

Photo Safari
S1E26
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-10

Runtime: 22 min

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

The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper
S1E27
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-11

Runtime: 23 min

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

The Bermuda Triangle
S1E28
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-12

Runtime: 22 min

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.

The Japanese Connection
S1E29
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-13

Runtime: 23 min

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.

Arabian Nights
S1E30
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-14

Runtime: 22 min

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

Clear Case
S1E31
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-17

Runtime: 23 min

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

Dutch Treat
S1E32
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-18

Runtime: 22 min

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

The Great Divide
S1E33
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-19

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Eye of the Dragon
S1E34
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-20

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Doubled Agent
S1E35
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-21

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Plantform of the Opera
S1E36
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-24

Runtime: 22 min

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

Don't Hold Your Breath
S1E37
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-25

Runtime: 23 min

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

Gone Went the Wind
S1E38
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-26

Runtime: 23 min

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

King Wrong
S1E39
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-27

Runtime: 22 min

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!

Pirate Island
S1E40
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-28

Runtime: 22 min

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.

M.A.D. Academy
S1E41
9.0

Air date: 1983-10-31

Runtime: 23 min

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.

No Flies on Us
S1E42
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-01

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Luck of the Irish
S1E43
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-02

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Prince of the Gypsies
S1E44
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-03

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Old Man of the Mountain
S1E45
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-04

Runtime: 22 min

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.

The Emerald Duck
S1E46
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-07

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Do Unto Udders
S1E47
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-08

Runtime: 22 min

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).

Did You Myth Me?
S1E48
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-09

Runtime: 22 min

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

A Bad Altitude
S1E49
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-10

Runtime: 22 min

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".

Funny Money
S1E50
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-11

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Follow That Jet
S1E51
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-14

Runtime: 23 min

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

Dry Spell
S1E52
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-15

Runtime: 23 min

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

Smeldorado
S1E53
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-16

Runtime: 23 min

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.

Quimby Exchange
S1E54
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-17

Runtime: 23 min

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.

Weather In Tibet
S1E55
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-18

Runtime: 22 min

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

Unhenged
S1E56
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-21

Runtime: 23 min

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.

Snakin' All Over
S1E57
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-22

Runtime: 23 min

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

In Seine
S1E58
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-23

Runtime: 23 min

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

Tree Guesses
S1E59
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-24

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Birds of a Feather
S1E60
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-25

Runtime: 23 min

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

So it is Written
S1E61
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-28

Runtime: 23 min

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.

Fang the Wonder Dog
S1E62
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-29

Runtime: 22 min

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

School for Pickpockets
S1E63
9.0

Air date: 1983-11-30

Runtime: 23 min

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

Quizmaster
S1E64
9.0

Air date: 1983-12-01

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Gadget in Winterland
S1E65
7.0

Air date: 1983-12-02

Runtime: 22 min

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.

Top Cast

Don Adams

Don Adams

Inspector Gadget (voice)

Cree Summer

Cree Summer

Penny (voice)

Dan Hennessey

Dan Hennessey

Chief Quimby (voice)

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