5th Sep 1983

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

6th Sep 1983

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

7th Sep 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.

8th Sep 1983

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.

9th Sep 1983

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

12th Sep 1983

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

13th Sep 1983

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

14th Sep 1983

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.

15th Sep 1983

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.

16th Sep 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!

19th Sep 1983

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.

20th Sep 1983

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.

21st Sep 1983

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

22nd Sep 1983

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

23rd Sep 1983

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.

26th Sep 1983

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

27th Sep 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.

28th Sep 1983

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

29th Sep 1983

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.

30th Sep 1983

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

3rd Oct 1983

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

4th Oct 1983

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.

5th Oct 1983

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.

6th Oct 1983

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

7th Oct 1983

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

10th Oct 1983

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

11th Oct 1983

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

12th Oct 1983

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.

13th Oct 1983

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.

14th Oct 1983

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

17th Oct 1983

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

18th Oct 1983

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

19th Oct 1983

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.

20th Oct 1983

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.

21st Oct 1983

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.

24th Oct 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.

25th Oct 1983

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

26th Oct 1983

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

27th Oct 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!

28th Oct 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.

31st Oct 1983

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.

1st Nov 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.

2nd Nov 1983

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.

3rd Nov 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.

4th Nov 1983

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.

7th Nov 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.

8th Nov 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).

9th Nov 1983

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

10th Nov 1983

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".

11th Nov 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.

14th Nov 1983

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

15th Nov 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.

16th Nov 1983

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.

17th Nov 1983

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.

18th Nov 1983

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

21st Nov 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.

22nd Nov 1983

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

23rd Nov 1983

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

24th Nov 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.

25th Nov 1983

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

28th Nov 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.

29th Nov 1983

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

30th Nov 1983

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

1st Dec 1983

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.

2nd Dec 1983

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.