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The Best Episodes of Inspector Gadget Season 1

Every episode of Inspector Gadget Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Inspector Gadget Season 1!

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Inspector Gadget is a clumsy, dim-witted human cyborg detective with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget stumbles around working the cases while his niece and dog do most of the investigating. Gadget's arch-nemesis

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 8 - Race to the Finish
    7.6/10(138 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 18 - The Curse of the Pharaoh
    7.6/10(113 votes)

    S1:E18

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 19 - M.A.D. Trap
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    S1:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 12 - Movie Set
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 20 - Basic Training
    7.3/10(100 votes)

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 26 - Photo Safari
    7.3/10(97 votes)

    S1:E26

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 35 - Doubled Agent
    7.3/10(103 votes)

    S1:E35

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 7 - Haunted Castle
    7.2/10(122 votes)

    S1:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 9 - The Ruby
    7.2/10(116 votes)

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 14 - Art Heist
    7.2/10(111 votes)

    S1:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 23 - Greenfinger
    7.2/10(99 votes)

    S1:E23

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 29 - The Japanese Connection
    7.2/10(101 votes)

    S1:E29

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 31 - Clear Case
    7.2/10(97 votes)

    S1:E31

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 6 - The Boat
    7.1/10(128 votes)

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 11 - All That Glitters
    7.1/10(107 votes)

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 15 - Volcano Island
    7.1/10(108 votes)

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 22 - Gadget's Replacement
    7.1/10(102 votes)

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 30 - Arabian Nights
    7.1/10(98 votes)

    S1:E30

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 33 - The Great Divide
    7.1/10(98 votes)

    S1:E33

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 36 - Plantform of the Opera
    7.1/10(98 votes)

    S1:E36

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 52 - Dry Spell
    7.1/10(92 votes)

    S1:E52

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 4 - The Amazon
    7.0/10(129 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 5 - Health Spa
    7.0/10(124 votes)

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 27 - The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper
    7.0/10(100 votes)

    S1:E27

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Inspector Gadget Season 1 Episode 28 - The Bermuda Triangle
    7.0/10(100 votes)

    S1:E28

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Race to the Finish" is the best rated episode of "Inspector Gadget" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 138 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/14/1983. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Curse of the Pharaoh".