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.".
#1 - Don't Hold Your Breath
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/1/1983
Inspector Gadget is assigned to look into a case of some missing oceanographers who were searching for an undersea city when they disappeared.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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".
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Clear Case
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/24/1983
South African diamond miners are terrorized by a ghost who is actually a M.A.D. scientist using diamond dust to create invisibility suits.
#14 - Busy Signal
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1985
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.
#15 - Wambini Predicts
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1985
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.
#16 - Quimby Exchange
Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 11/24/1983
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.
#17 - Do Unto Udders
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/15/1983
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).
#18 - Prince of the Gypsies
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/10/1983
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, Sonya, try to find the real thief.
#19 - Eye of the Dragon
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/27/1983
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.
#20 - Arabian Nights
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/21/1983
Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.
#21 - M.A.D. Trap
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/6/1983
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.
#22 - Quizmaster
Season 1 - Episode 65 - Aired 12/8/1983
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.
#23 - Gadget Meets the Clan
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/18/1986
Dr. Claw hires a retired mob boss, the wheelchair-bound Great Great Godfather, to assassinate Inspector Gadget.
#24 - Follow That Jet
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 11/21/1983
Dr. Claw begins making US Airforce jets disappear so that he can create his own private M.A.D. airforce.
#25 - Smeldorado
Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 11/23/1983
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.