The Worst Episodes of Inspector Gadget

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   6.2/10(92 votes)

   #1 - The Emerald Duck

   S1:E4611/7/1983

   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.

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   6.2/10(89 votes)

   #2 - School for Pickpockets

   S1:E6311/30/1983

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

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   6.3/10(87 votes)

   #3 - In Seine

   S1:E5811/23/1983

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

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   6.3/10(82 votes)

   #4 - Gadget Meets the Grappler

   S2:E310/2/1985

   The Gadget clan faces one last threat from M.A.D.'s Dr. Dumbkopf, which involves battling his hulking, irascible humanoid assistant named the Grappler. Fortunately, sweets, candies, and ultimately Penny's kindness help in soothing the soul of this misunderstood beast and thwarting Dr. Dumbkopf for the last time.

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   6.3/10(84 votes)

   #5 - Wambini Predicts

   S2:E910/16/1985

   The Great Wambini goes to Alpakistan to win the King's diamond-spitting llama by making three accurate predictions. Gadget is sent along to investigate M.A.D. involvement, and ends up playing in the National Floobyball Tournament.

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   6.4/10(89 votes)

   #6 - Tree Guesses

   S1:E5911/24/1983

   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.

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   6.5/10(184 votes)

   #7 - Down on the Farm

   S1:E29/6/1983

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

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   6.5/10(99 votes)

   #8 - Gadget Goes West

   S1:E2410/6/1983

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

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   6.6/10(111 votes)

   #9 - A Star is Lost

   S1:E109/16/1983

   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!

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    6.6/10(107 votes)

    #10 - Amusement Park

    S1:E139/21/1983

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

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    6.6/10(105 votes)

    #11 - The Infiltration

    S1:E179/27/1983

    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.

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    6.6/10(97 votes)

    #12 - Prince of the Gypsies

    S1:E4411/3/1983

    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, Anya, try to find the real thief.

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    6.6/10(81 votes)

    #13 - Crash Course in Crime

    S2:E1410/29/1985

    While Gadget trains his new assistant Capeman, Dr. Claw launches a crime spree to celebrate M.A.D.'s anniversary.

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    6.7/10(172 votes)

    #14 - Monster Lake

    S1:E19/5/1983

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

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    6.7/10(145 votes)

    #15 - Gadget at the Circus

    S1:E39/7/1983

    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.

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    6.7/10(95 votes)

    #16 - Pirate Island

    S1:E4010/28/1983

    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.

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    6.7/10(92 votes)

    #17 - Do Unto Udders

    S1:E4711/8/1983

    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).

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    6.7/10(90 votes)

    #18 - Weather In Tibet

    S1:E5511/18/1983

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

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    6.7/10(87 votes)

    #19 - Unhenged

    S1:E5611/21/1983

    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.

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    6.7/10(85 votes)

    #20 - N.S.F. Gadget

    S2:E610/9/1985

    M.A.D. gains control of Metro City's banks, by tapping into an orbiting satellite. With the added distraction of "Crazy Gas", a substance that induces hallucinations in their victims, can even Inspector Gadget ever hope to regain control of the city's bank accounts?

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    6.7/10(89 votes)

    #21 - Busy Signal

    S2:E1210/23/1985

    Under the guise of a local telephone company, M.A.D. inventor Dr. Spectrum and his goons systemically target the mansions of Metro City's elite neighborhoods and proceed to burglarize them with the dial of a number and with a zap of a teleportation gun to send the loot straight into Claw's hands.penny,is,caguht,and,odered,to,be,sent,to,doctor,claw

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    6.7/10(84 votes)

    #22 - Gadget's Roma

    S2:E1711/5/1985

    Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain travel back in time again -- on this occasion, to ancient Rome to prevent Dr. Claw's own time traveler, Thelma Bodkin, from deciphering an ancient mosaic and stealing the treasure it describes.

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    6.8/10(100 votes)

    #23 - Sleeping Gas

    S1:E2110/3/1983

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

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    6.8/10(99 votes)

    #24 - Launch Time

    S1:E2510/7/1983

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

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    6.8/10(99 votes)

    #25 - Dutch Treat

    S1:E3210/18/1983

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

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