The WORST episodes of Inspector Gadget
Every episode of Inspector Gadget ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Gadget's Clean Sweep
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1986
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.
#2 - Tyrannosaurus Gadget
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1985
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.
#3 - Gadget and Old Lace
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/25/1986
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.
#4 - In Seine
Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 11/30/1983
In Paris a M.A.D. agent uses a robot to rob the rich and famous.
#5 - M.A.D. in the Moon
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1985
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.
#6 - Old Man of the Mountain
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/11/1983
Gadget visits the Balkans to stop a war between a tribe of super-strong men (the Dooplas) and a tribe of super-strong women (the Hooplas) while Dr. Claw tries to steal the potion that gives them their uncanny strength--yogurt made from a particular goat's milk.
#7 - No Flies on Us
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/8/1983
In Malaysia, the Wild Man of Borneo (a M.A.D. scientist), has both derived a virus from flies and concocted its antidote. A head-cold-suffering Gadget must stop Dr. Claw's plan to turn everyone on the planet into babbling, bubble-blowing imbeciles.
#8 - So It Is Written
Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 12/5/1983
Gadget arrives in an Arabian country where he is believed to be the prophesied one who will find a long lost treasure cave. Dr. Claw is eager to let his old enemy lead him to the treasure before eliminating him.
#9 - The Emerald Duck
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 11/14/1983
Gadget heads for Mexico, where he must stop "The oldest Mayan artifact known to exist," the Emerald Duck, from falling into the hands of a M.A.D. agent -- a Mexican bandit named Macho Miguel. The Emerald Duck is the key to activating a powerful and ancient weapon.
#10 - Did You Myth Me?
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 11/16/1983
A M.A.D. scientist tries to steal an ancient Greek scroll said to hold the secret of turning lead into gold.
#11 - Pirate Island
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/4/1983
Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain are on vacation in the Caribbean. But before they've had a chance to get any serious R & R on Gadget's dilapidated old rust-bucket of a boat, duty calls and Inspector Gadget is back to work.
#12 - The Capeman Cometh
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1985
Corporal Capeman joins Inspector Gadget posing as his assistant while Gadget pursues the notorious ninja.
#13 - Gone Went the Wind
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/2/1983
A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.
#14 - Tree Guesses
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 12/1/1983
Dr. Claw has concocted a chemical compound that decomposes wood at an accelerated rate, which he threatens to unleash upon the world's forests in exchange for a hefty ransom.
#15 - Gadget Goes West
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/13/1983
Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.
#16 - Unhenged
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 11/28/1983
Gadget must put a stop to M.A.D.'s latest plot for global domination, which involves the kidnapping of the world's leading solar scientists and coercing them to design and construct a solar-powered heat cannon at the grounds of mysterious Stonehenge.
#17 - Plantform of the Opera
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 10/31/1983
M.A.D. agents use an opera house as cover to tunnel into a bank vault while protected by a killer man-eating plant.
#18 - Funny Money
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 11/18/1983
M.A.D. has enlisted the aid of the incarcerated Funny Money counterfeiting gang in a plot to generate millions upon millions of bogus dollars for Dr. Claw to use in his dirty work. Two of the gang's three members manage to escape from prison in order to set up shop, while the last and most talented member, a visually-challenged man named Squint, must be up to the arduous task of bumping off Gadget when he comes to the jail to investigate the break-out.
#19 - Fang the Wonder Dog
Season 1 - Episode 63 - Aired 12/6/1983
Dr. Claw tries to abduct movie star "Fang the Wonder Dog" from the set of his latest film so he can ransom him.
#20 - King Wrong
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/3/1983
In the far-off country of Pianostan, the people remain happy as long as their King is miserable. But M.A.D. has been ensuring that the King is happy in order to disrupt the peace, so Inspector Gadget is sent out to investigate. To further complicate matters, the King looks exactly like the Inspector!
#21 - Weather in Tibet
Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 11/25/1983
Penny teams up with a Tibetan boy to destroy a M.A.D. weather control machine while her uncle blunders around as usual.
#22 - Dry Spell
Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 11/22/1983
A M.A.D. agent and his Blue Trolls causes a drought in Metro City by cutting off the city's mountain water resources.
#23 - School for Pickpockets
Season 1 - Episode 64 - Aired 12/7/1983
Gadget must foil Dr. Claw's plans to steal his new Gadget watch, and close down the school for pickpockets.
#24 - Snakin' All Over
Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 11/29/1983
A M.A.D. agent intends to use his pet snakes to steal a valuable coin collection.
#25 - Gadget and the Red Rose
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1986
Dr. Claw brings gangster Spuds Malone out of retirement to eliminate Gadget with his infamous potato-firing tommy gun "Red Rose".