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Season 1

1983 · 65 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1
Monster Lake
September 5, 198322m

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

Episode 2
Down on the Farm
September 6, 198322m

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

Episode 3
Gadget at the Circus
September 7, 198322m

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.

Episode 4
The Amazon
September 8, 198322m

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.

Episode 5
Health Spa
September 9, 198322m

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

Episode 6
The Boat
September 12, 198322m

Gadget is assigned to board a cruise ship and safeguard the passenger's priceless jewelry from Dr. Claw's clutches.

Episode 7
Haunted Castle
September 13, 198322m

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

Episode 8
Race to the Finish
September 14, 198322m

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.

Episode 9
The Ruby
September 15, 198322m

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.

Episode 10
A Star is Lost
September 16, 198322m

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!

Episode 11
All That Glitters
September 19, 198322m

Gadget is assigned to find El Dorado, the fabled Lost City of Gold, before Dr. Claw's agents find it and tear it apart to melt down the gold.

Episode 12
Movie Set
September 20, 198322m

Gadget falls for actress Lana Lamour unaware that she's a M.A.D. agent and that her movie is M.A.D.'s cover for filming top secret facilities.

Episode 13
Amusement Park
September 21, 198322m

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

Episode 14
Art Heist
September 22, 198322m

Gadget has to stop M.A.D. from looting the New York Museum of Art.

Episode 15
Volcano Island
September 23, 198322m

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.

Episode 16
The Invasion
September 26, 198323m

M.A.D. agents disguised as Martians terrorize Metro City.

Episode 17
The Infiltration
September 27, 198323m

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.

Episode 18
The Curse of the Pharaoh
September 28, 198322m

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

Episode 19
M.A.D. Trap
September 29, 198322m

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.

Episode 20
Basic Training
September 30, 198322m

Gadget must protect a trainload of important computer parts from M.A.D. hijackers.

Episode 21
Sleeping Gas
October 3, 198323m

Gadget is assigned to halt a diabolical M.A.D. scheme: put entire cities to sleep with a powerful sleeping gas.

Episode 22
Gadget's Replacement
October 4, 198322m

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.

Episode 23
Greenfinger
October 5, 198322m

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.

Episode 24
Gadget Goes West
October 6, 198322m

Inspector Gadget arrives at a western tourist town that plays heavily on its cowboy image to stop modern day outlaw Black Bart.

Episode 25
Launch Time
October 7, 198322m

M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.

Episode 26
Photo Safari
October 10, 198322m

Inspector Gadget must stop Dr. Claw from using animals to scare villagers away.

Episode 27
The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper
October 11, 198323m

While Gadget is searching Switzerland for stolen gold, Penny runs afoul of the murderous M.A.D. Agent, The Clockmaker.

Episode 28
The Bermuda Triangle
October 12, 198322m

Ships are vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle, but the seemingly supernatural aspects of the disappearances are subterfuge by Dr. Claw, who is using an enormous machine to swallow oil tankers and ransack them.

Episode 29
The Japanese Connection
October 13, 198323m

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.

Episode 30
Arabian Nights
October 14, 198322m

Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.

Episode 31
Clear Case
October 17, 198323m

South African diamond miners are terrorized by a ghost who is actually a M.A.D. scientist using diamond dust to create invisibility suits.

Episode 32
Dutch Treat
October 18, 198322m

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

Episode 33
The Great Divide
October 19, 198322m

M.A.D. has abducted a prominent seismologist, who is coerced by Dr. Claw to construct a machine capable of generating deadly earthquakes upon the world. Gadget's case takes him deep within the Rocky Mountains, where his misadventures are compounded by a M.A.D. ranger agent and a grizzled, gold-crazed prospector.

Episode 34
Eye of the Dragon
October 20, 198322m

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.

Episode 35
Doubled Agent
October 21, 198322m

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.

Episode 36
Plantform of the Opera
October 24, 198322m

M.A.D. agents use an opera house as cover to tunnel into a bank vault while protected by a killer man-eating plant.

Episode 37
Don't Hold Your Breath
October 25, 198323m

Inspector Gadget is assigned to look into a case of some missing oceanographers who were searching for an undersea city when they disappeared.

Episode 38
Gone Went the Wind
October 26, 198323m

A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.

Episode 39
King Wrong
October 27, 198322m

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!

Episode 40
Pirate Island
October 28, 198322m

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.

Episode 41
M.A.D. Academy
October 31, 198323m

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.

Episode 42
No Flies on Us
November 1, 198322m

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.

Episode 43
Luck of the Irish
November 2, 198322m

Gadget heads to Ireland to locate the Blarney Stone, "The national treasure of Ireland," when it's stolen by M.A.D. agents. While plotting to use a laser cannon to slice up the Stone and smuggle it out of the country, Dr. Claw dispatches the quarrelsome O'Shea Brothers to eliminate Gadget.

Episode 44
Prince of the Gypsies
November 3, 198322m

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, Anya, try to find the real thief.

Episode 45
Old Man of the Mountain
November 4, 198322m

Gadget visits the Balkans to stop a war between a tribe of super-strong men and super-strong women while Dr. Claw tries to steal the potion that gives them their uncanny strength.

Episode 46
The Emerald Duck
November 7, 198322m

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.

Episode 47
Do Unto Udders
November 8, 198322m

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).

Episode 48
Did You Myth Me?
November 9, 198322m

A M.A.D. scientist tries to steal an ancient Greek scroll said to hold the secret of turning lead into gold.

Episode 49
A Bad Altitude
November 10, 198322m

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".

Episode 50
Funny Money
November 11, 198322m

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.

Episode 51
Follow That Jet
November 14, 198323m

Dr. Claw begins making US Airforce jets disappear so that he can create his own private M.A.D. airforce.

Episode 52
Dry Spell
November 15, 198323m

A M.A.D. agent and his Blue Trolls causes a drought in Metro City by cutting off the city's mountain water resources.

Episode 53
Smeldorado
November 16, 198323m

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.

Episode 54
Quimby Exchange
November 17, 198323m

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.

Episode 55
Weather In Tibet
November 18, 198322m

Penny teams up with a Tibetan boy to destroy a M.A.D. weather control machine while her uncle blunders around as usual.

Episode 56
Unhenged
November 21, 198323m

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.

Episode 57
Snakin' All Over
November 22, 198323m

A M.A.D. agent intends to use his pet snakes to steal a valuable coin collection.

Episode 58
In Seine
November 23, 198323m

In Paris a M.A.D. agent uses a robot to rob the rich and famous.

Episode 59
Tree Guesses
November 24, 198322m

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.

Episode 60
Birds of a Feather
November 25, 198323m

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

Episode 61
So it is Written
November 28, 198323m

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.

Episode 62
Fang the Wonder Dog
November 29, 198322m

Dr. Claw tries to abduct movie star "Fang the Wonder Dog" from the set of his latest film so he can ransom him.

Episode 63
School for Pickpockets
November 30, 198323m

Gadget must foil Dr. Claw's plans to steal his new Gadget watch, and close down the school for pickpockets.

Episode 64
Quizmaster
December 1, 198322m

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.

Episode 65
Gadget in Winterland
December 2, 198322m

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. NOTE: This was a re-worked version of the pilot episode "Winter Olympics". Some of the dialogue was re-dubbed to address the purpose of Gadget's mustache, and the standard season 1 opening and ending credits were used.

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