• 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)
    • 1. Winter Olympics

      10 Sep '83
      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.
    • 2. Monster Lake

      17 Sep '83
      Gadget looks for a missing scientist who vanished at a lake rumored to harbor a monster.
    • 3. Down at the Farm

      24 Sep '83
      M.A.D. tries to do Gadget in by locking him in a missile hidden in a farm's grain silo.
    • 4. Gadget at the Circus

      01 Oct '83
      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.
    • 5. Viaggio in Amazzonia

      08 Oct '83
      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.
    • 6. Health Spa

      15 Oct '83
      Dr. Claw tricks Gadget into attending a "vacation" at a M.A.D.-trapped health spa. Can Penny and Brain save him?
    • 7. The Boat

      22 Oct '83
      Gadget is assigned to board a cruise ship and safeguard the passenger's priceless jewelry from Dr. Claw's clutches.
    • 8. Haunted Castle

      29 Oct '83
      While searching for a crime-fighters' convention in Transylvania Gadget arrives at a castle that Dr. Claw has booby-trapped to kill him.
    • 9. Race to the Finish

      05 Nov '83
      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.
    • 10. The Ruby

      12 Nov '83
      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.
    • 11. A Star is Lost

      19 Nov '83
      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!
    • 12. All That Glitters

      26 Nov '83
      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.
    • 13. Movie Set

      03 Dec '83
      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.
    • 14. Amusement Park

      10 Dec '83
      Gadget has to find the bomb Dr. Claw has hidden in Metro City's amusement park.
    • 15. Art Heist

      17 Dec '83
      Gadget has to stop M.A.D. from looting the New York Museum of Art.
    • 16. Volcano Island

      24 Dec '83
      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.
    • 17. The Invasion

      31 Dec '83
      M.A.D. agents disguised as Martians terrorize Metro City.
    • 18. The Infiltration

      07 Jan '84
      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.
    • 19. The Curse of the Pharoah

      14 Jan '84
      M.A.D. agents disguised as mummies and ancient Egyptian gods try to loot the tomb of a newly discovered pharoah.
    • 20. M.A.D. Trap

      21 Jan '84
      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.
    • 21. Basic Training

      28 Jan '84
      Gadget must protect a trainload of important computer parts from M.A.D. hijackers.
    • 22. Sleeping Gas

      04 Feb '84
      Gadget is assigned to halt a diabolical M.A.D. scheme: put entire cities to sleep with a powerful sleeping gas.
    • 23. Gadget's Replacement

      11 Feb '84
      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.
    • 24. Greenfinger

      18 Feb '84
      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.
    • 25. Gadget Goes West

      25 Feb '84
      Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.