The BEST episodes of Inspector Gadget

Every episode of Inspector Gadget ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Inspector Gadget!

A cyborg police detective works criminal cases for the Chief of Police, fighting (with help from his genius niece Penny and her pet dog Brain) against his arch-nemesis Dr. Claw, who is the leader of an evil organization, known as "M.A.D.".

Last Updated: 1/26/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Gadget's Replacement
star
7.75
16 votes

#1 - Gadget's Replacement

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/11/1983

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.

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A Bad Altitude
star
7.50
10 votes

#2 - A Bad Altitude

Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 11/17/1983

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".

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Greenfinger
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7.50
14 votes

#3 - Greenfinger

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/12/1983

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assigned to protect Professor Greenfinger who has developed a super plant growth formula, but Greenfinger has already been replaced by a M.A.D. agent.

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Volcano Island (aka Gadget Goes Hawaiian)
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7.39
23 votes

#4 - Volcano Island (aka Gadget Goes Hawaiian)

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/30/1983

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.

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The Infiltration
star
7.32
19 votes

#5 - The Infiltration

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/4/1983

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.

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The Japanese Connection
star
7.25
12 votes

#6 - The Japanese Connection

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/20/1983

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.

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Focus on Gadget
star
7.25
8 votes

#7 - Focus on Gadget

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1985

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.

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A Star Is Lost
star
7.24
54 votes

#8 - A Star Is Lost

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/23/1983

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!

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Haunted Castle
star
7.15
60 votes

#9 - Haunted Castle

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/20/1983

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

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Dutch Treat
star
7.14
14 votes

#10 - Dutch Treat

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/25/1983

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

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Double Agent
star
7.13
8 votes

#11 - Double Agent

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 10/28/1983

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.

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The Amazon
star
7.11
65 votes

#12 - The Amazon

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/15/1983

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.

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Amusement Park
star
7.10
52 votes

#13 - Amusement Park

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/28/1983

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

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Health Spa
star
7.05
57 votes

#14 - Health Spa

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/1983

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

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Winter Olympics (aka Gadget in Winterland)
star
7.04
135 votes

#15 - Winter Olympics (aka Gadget in Winterland)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1983

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.

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Monster Lake
star
7.04
107 votes

#16 - Monster Lake

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1983

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

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Magic Gadget
star
7.00
48 votes

#17 - Magic Gadget

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1985

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.

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Race to the Finish
star
7.00
51 votes

#18 - Race to the Finish

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/21/1983

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.

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Gadget at the Circus
star
7.00
65 votes

#19 - Gadget at the Circus

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/14/1983

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.

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Birds of a Feather
star
7.00
9 votes

#20 - Birds of a Feather

Season 1 - Episode 61 - Aired 12/2/1983

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

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Bad Dreams Are Made of This
star
7.00
11 votes

#21 - Bad Dreams Are Made of This

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1985

Something ominous is inexplicably causing the citizens of Metro City to be beset by unstoppable nightmares.

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The Ruby
star
6.98
51 votes

#22 - The Ruby

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/22/1983

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.

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Gadget in Mini-Madness
star
6.97
40 votes

#23 - Gadget in Mini-Madness

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1985

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.

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The Curse of the Pharaoh (aka Poot-Ta-Foot's Curse)
star
6.94
18 votes

#24 - The Curse of the Pharaoh (aka Poot-Ta-Foot's Curse)

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/5/1983

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

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Down on the Farm
star
6.92
79 votes

#25 - Down on the Farm

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1983

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

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