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 - 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 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.
#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 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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).
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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!
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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?