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 is Dr. Claw, the leader of an evil organisation, known as "M.A.D."
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- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes aired
- 86
- Latest aired
- S02E21
- Total runtime
- 1d 7h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1983 – December 1983 65 episodes
- the show was away for 1 year and 10 months
- Season 2 September 1985 – November 1985 21 episodes
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S01E01 Monster Lake
September 5 · 22min find the promo
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Gadget looks for a missing scientist who vanished at a lake rumored to harbor a monster.
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S01E02 Down on the Farm
September 6 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E03 Gadget at the Circus
September 7 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E04 The Amazon
September 8 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E05 Health Spa
September 9 · 22min find the promo
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Dr. Claw tricks Gadget into attending a "vacation" at a M.A.D.-trapped health spa. Can Penny and Brain save him?
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S01E06 The Boat
September 12 · 22min find the promo
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Gadget is assigned to board a cruise ship and safeguard the passenger's priceless jewelry from Dr. Claw's clutches.
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S01E07 Haunted Castle
September 13 · 22min find the promo
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While searching for a crime-fighters' convention in Transylvania Gadget arrives at a castle that Dr. Claw has booby-trapped to kill him.
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S01E08 Race to the Finish
September 14 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E09 The Ruby
September 15 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E10 A Star is Lost
September 16 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E11 All That Glitters
September 19 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E12 Movie Set
September 20 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E13 Amusement Park
September 21 · 22min find the promo
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Gadget has to find the bomb Dr. Claw has hidden in Metro City's amusement park.
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S01E14 Art Heist
September 22 · 22min find the promo
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Gadget has to stop M.A.D. from looting the New York Museum of Art.
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S01E15 Volcano Island
September 23 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E16 The Invasion
September 26 · 23min find the promo
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M.A.D. agents disguised as Martians terrorize Metro City.
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S01E17 The Infiltration
September 27 · 23min find the promo
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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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S01E18 The Curse of the Pharaoh
September 28 · 22min find the promo
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M.A.D. agents disguised as mummies and ancient Egyptian gods try to loot the tomb of a newly discovered pharaoh.
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S01E19 M.A.D. Trap
September 29 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E20 Basic Training
September 30 · 22min find the promo
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Gadget must protect a trainload of important computer parts from M.A.D. hijackers.
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S01E21 Sleeping Gas
October 3 · 23min find the promo
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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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S01E22 Gadget's Replacement
October 4 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E23 Greenfinger
October 5 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E24 Gadget Goes West
October 6 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E25 Launch Time
October 7 · 22min find the promo
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M.A.D. tries to sabotage a NASA mission.
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S01E26 Photo Safari
October 10 · 22min find the promo
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Inspector Gadget must stop Dr. Claw from using animals to scare villagers away.
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S01E27 The Coo-Coo-Clock Caper
October 11 · 23min find the promo
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While Gadget is searching Switzerland for stolen gold, Penny runs afoul of the murderous M.A.D. Agent, The Clockmaker.
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S01E28 The Bermuda Triangle
October 12 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E29 The Japanese Connection
October 13 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S01E30 Arabian Nights
October 14 · 22min find the promo
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Gadget is sent to the wealthy Middle-Eastern kingdom of Yetzanistan to safeguard a sacred sword.
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S01E31 Clear Case
October 17 · 23min find the promo
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South African diamond miners are terrorized by a ghost who is actually a M.A.D. scientist using diamond dust to create invisibility suits.
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S01E32 Dutch Treat
October 18 · 22min find the promo
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Inspector Gadget hunts for diamond smugglers in the land of tulips and chocolate.
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S01E33 The Great Divide
October 19 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E34 Eye of the Dragon
October 20 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E35 Doubled Agent
October 21 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E36 Plantform of the Opera
October 24 · 22min find the promo
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M.A.D. agents use an opera house as cover to tunnel into a bank vault while protected by a killer man-eating plant.
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S01E37 Don't Hold Your Breath
October 25 · 23min find the promo
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Inspector Gadget is assigned to look into a case of some missing oceanographers who were searching for an undersea city when they disappeared.
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S01E38 Gone Went the Wind
October 26 · 23min find the promo
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A M.A.D. scientist at the North Pole creates a machine to cause windstorms all over the globe.
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S01E39 King Wrong
October 27 · 22min find the promo
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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!
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S01E40 Pirate Island
October 28 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E41 M.A.D. Academy
October 31 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S01E42 No Flies on Us
November 1 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E43 Luck of the Irish
November 2 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E44 Prince of the Gypsies
November 3 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E45 Old Man of the Mountain
November 4 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E46 The Emerald Duck
November 7 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E47 Do Unto Udders
November 8 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E48 Did You Myth Me?
November 9 · 22min find the promo
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A M.A.D. scientist tries to steal an ancient Greek scroll said to hold the secret of turning lead into gold.
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S01E49 A Bad Altitude
November 10 · 22min find the promo
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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".
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S01E50 Funny Money
November 11 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E51 Follow That Jet
November 14 · 23min find the promo
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Dr. Claw begins making US Airforce jets disappear so that he can create his own private M.A.D. airforce.
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S01E52 Dry Spell
November 15 · 23min find the promo
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A M.A.D. agent and his Blue Trolls causes a drought in Metro City by cutting off the city's mountain water resources.
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S01E53 Smeldorado
November 16 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S01E54 Quimby Exchange
November 17 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S01E55 Weather In Tibet
November 18 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E56 Unhenged
November 21 · 23min find the promo
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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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S01E57 Snakin' All Over
November 22 · 23min find the promo
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A M.A.D. agent intends to use his pet snakes to steal a valuable coin collection.
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S01E58 In Seine
November 23 · 23min find the promo
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In Paris a M.A.D. agent uses a robot to rob the rich and famous.
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S01E59 Tree Guesses
November 24 · 22min find the promo
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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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S01E60 Birds of a Feather
November 25 · 23min find the promo
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In Turkey a M.A.D. agent uses his birds to steal a very valuable gemstone from an exhibition.
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S01E61 So it is Written
November 28 · 23min find the promo
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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.
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S01E62 Fang the Wonder Dog
November 29 · 22min find the promo
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Dr. Claw tries to abduct movie star "Fang the Wonder Dog" from the set of his latest film so he can ransom him.
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S01E63 School for Pickpockets
November 30 · 23min find the promo
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Gadget must foil Dr. Claw's plans to steal his new Gadget watch, and close down the school for pickpockets.
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S01E64 Quizmaster
December 1 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S01E65 Gadget in Winterland
December 2 · 22min find the promo
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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.