• Air date: 14 Sep '85 21 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 (21)
    • 1. Magic Gadget

      14 Sep '85
      The Great Wambini, famed magician and M.A.D. agent, gives a performance Metro City will never forget -- with the demise of Inspector Gadget as the planned finale.
    • 2. The Great Wambini's Seance

      21 Sep '85
      All the pets in Metro City are being kidnapped, and M.A.D. is the likely suspect. Could the Great Wambini be the key to the case?
    • 3. Wambini Predicts

      28 Sep '85
      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.
    • 4. The Capeman Cometh

      05 Oct '85
      Corporal Capeman joins Inspector Gadget posing as his assistant while Gadget pursues the notorious ninja.
    • 5. Crashcourse in Crime

      12 Oct '85
      While Gadget trains his new assistant Capeman, Dr. Claw launches a crime spree to celebrate M.A.D.'s anniversary.
    • 6. Gadget's Gadgets

      19 Oct '85
      Inspector Gadget and Capeman are both sent to a clinic run by M.A.D. They tell Gadget that they are going to test his gadgets, but in reality they plan to destroy them.
    • 7. Gadget in Minimadness

      26 Oct '85
      Professor Dumkopf of M.A.D. unleashes the Linguinis, five little imp-like creatures, on Inspector Gadget's house with the mission of deep-sixing the Inspector.
    • 8. The Incredible Shrinking Gadget

      02 Nov '85
      Professor Dumkopf of M.A.D. is back, this time with a shrink-ray gun he uses repeatedly on Inspector Gadget in an attempt to shrink him into nothingness.
    • 9. Gadget Meets the Grappler

      09 Nov '85
      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.
    • 10. Ghost Catchers

      16 Nov '85
      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.
    • 11. Busy Signal

      23 Nov '85
      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.
    • 12. Bad Dreams are Made of This

      30 Nov '85
      Something ominous is inexplicably causing the citizens of Metro City to be beset by unstoppable nightmares.
    • 13. Focus on Gadget

      07 Dec '85
      When a space station orbiting Earth goes silent, Gadget must investigate. Penny and Brain tag along aboard the space shuttle that takes Gadget to his destination, where Penny discovers that the station's soft-spoken HAL-like supercomputer is under the control of two M.A.D. agents, Dr. Null and Dr. Void. Their evil plot involves a giant magnifying glass that can aim and intensify the sun's rays towards Earth.
    • 14. Mad in the Moon

      14 Dec '85
      Using bombs disguised as kewpie dolls, Dr. Claw and his agents, Null and Void, scheme to alter the surface of the moon so that it will resemble the M.A.D. logo.
    • 15. N.S.F. Gadget

      21 Dec '85
      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?
    • 16. Tyrannosaurus Gadget

      28 Dec '85
      A M.A.D. agent devises a plot to bring dinosaurs back into the 20th Century so Dr. Claw can crush Metro City, while at the same time killing Gadget's ancestors to ensure he never exists in the present.
    • 17. Gadget's Roma

      04 Jan '86
      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.
    • 18. Gadget's Clean Sweep

      11 Jan '86
      M.A.D. agents travel back in time to 19th-century England to steal the crown jewels and wipe out Inspector Gadget's ancestors, chimney sweeps named Chimney and Char Gadget. Gadget is assigned to follow them back in time and stop them.
    • 19. Gadget Meets the Clan

      18 Jan '86
      Dr. Claw hires a retired mob boss, the wheelchair-bound Great Great Godfather, to assassinate Inspector Gadget.
    • 20. Gadget and Old Lace

      25 Jan '86
      Dr. Claw seeks the wise advice of his mentor in destroying Gadget and winds up with two Black Widows who believe assassinating Gadget would be their cup of tea.
    • 21. Gadget and the Red Rose

      01 Feb '86
      Dr. Claw brings gangster Spuds Malone out of retirement to eliminate Gadget with his infamous potato-firing tommy gun "Red Rose".