• Air date: 10 Sep '83 65 episodes
      Inspector Gadget is an animated television series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, dim-witted cyborg detective named lnspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr. Claw, the leader of an evil organization, known as "M.A.D." This is the first syndicated cartoon show from DIC Entertainment. lt originally ran from 1983 to 1986 and remained in syndication into the late 1990s. It continues to air successfully in reruns around the world. The series was produced by companies in France, Canada, the United States, Taiwan, and Japan. It was a co-production between DIC Entertainment in France and Nelvana in Canada; the animation work was outsourced to foreign studios such as Tokyo Movie Shinsha in Japan and Cuckoo's Nest Studio in Taiwan. It was the first animated television series to be presented in stereo.
  • List of Episodes (65)
    • 26. Launch Time

      03 Mar '84
      M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.
    • 27. Photo Safari

      10 Mar '84
      Inspector Gadget must stop Dr. Claw from using animals to scare villagers away.
    • 28. The Coo Coo Clock Caper

      17 Mar '84
      While Gadget is searching Switzerland for stolen gold, Penny runs afoul of the murderous M.A.D. Agent, The Clockmaker.
    • 29. Bermuda Triangle

      24 Mar '84
      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.
    • 30. The Japanese Connection

      20 Mar '84
      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.
    • 31. Arabian Nights

      31 Mar '84
      Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.
    • 32. A Clear Case

      07 Apr '84
      South African diamond miners are terrorized by a ghost who is actually a M.A.D. scientist using diamond dust to create invisibility suits.
    • 33. Dutch Treat

      14 Apr '84
      Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.
    • 34. The Great Divide

      21 Apr '84
      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.
    • 35. Eye of the Dragon

      28 Apr '84
      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.
    • 36. Doubled Agent

      05 May '84
      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.
    • 37. Plantform of the Opera

      12 May '84
      M.A.D. agents use an opera house as cover to tunnel into a bank vault while protected by a killer man-eating plant.
    • 38. Don't Hold Your Breath

      19 May '84
      Inspector Gadget is assigned to look into a case of some missing oceanographers who were searching for an undersea city when they disappeared.
    • 39. Gone Went the Wind

      26 May '84
      A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.
    • 40. King Wrong

      02 Jun '84
      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!
    • 41. Pirate Island

      09 Jun '84
      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.
    • 42. M.A.D. Acadamy

      16 Jun '84
      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.
    • 43. No Flies on Us

      23 Jun '84
      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.
    • 44. Luck of the Irish

      30 Jun '84
      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.
    • 45. Prince of the Gypsies

      07 Jul '84
      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.
    • 46. Old Man of the Mountain

      14 Jul '84
      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.
    • 47. The Emerald Duck

      21 Jul '84
      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.
    • 48. Do Unto Udders

      28 Jul '84
      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).
    • 49. Did You Myth Me?

      04 Aug '84
      A M.A.D. scientist tries to steal an ancient Greek scroll said to hold the secret of turning lead into gold.
    • 50. A Bad Altitude

      11 Aug '84
      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".