The BEST episodes of Inspector Gadget season 1
Every episode of Inspector Gadget season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Inspector Gadget season 1!
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 - 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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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".
Watch Now:Amazon#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assigned to protect Professor Greenfinger who has developed a super plant growth formula, but Greenfinger has already been replaced by a M.A.D. agent.
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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.
#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.
#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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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!
#8 - 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.
#9 - Dutch Treat
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/25/1983
Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - 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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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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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?
#14 - 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.
#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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Art Heist
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/29/1983
Gadget has to stop M.A.D. from looting the New York Museum of Art.
#23 - The Boat
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/19/1983
Gadget is assigned to board a cruise ship and safeguard the passenger's priceless jewelry from Dr. Claw's clutches.
#24 - 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.
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Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 11/7/1983
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.
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