Once again the evil Dr. Claw has unleashed misery onto the world by releasing a horrible new malady called the Madkactus virus. Now it is up to Inspector Gadget, his niece Penny and her dog Brain to stop Dr. Claw's latest plan and save the world yet again. Dec 31, 2003  Inspector Gadget: Mad Robots Invasion is an Action game, developed by Silmarils and published by LSP, which was released in Europe in 2003.

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Japan (season 1)Original language(s)EnglishNo. Of seasons2No. Of episodes86 ProductionExecutive producer(s)Tetsuo KatayamaProducer(s)Running time22 minutesProduction company(s)Season 1 only:DistributorReleaseOriginal network(United States)(France)Audio formatMonoStereoOriginal releaseDecember 4, 1982 ( 1982-12-04)(Pilot episode)September 12, 1983 ( 1983-09-12) –February 1, 1986 ( 1986-02-01)ChronologyFollowed byRelated shows(2015)Inspector Gadget is a animated series co-created by, and 's founder, and was originally syndicated. The series stars the voice of as the titular character, and first premiered on September 12, 1983. It is the first cartoon show to be syndicated by DIC, who specifically created the series to help expand into the North American market, and the first animated series to be presented in. The program originally ran from 1983 to 1986, broadcasting 86 episodes over two seasons, and remained in into the late 1990s.

The show revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, dim-witted detective named Inspector Gadget – a human with various bionic gadgets built into his body - who is sent on missions to thwart plans by his nemesis Dr. Claw, the leader of an evil organization known as 'M.A.D.' , unknowingly being assisted by his niece Penny and their dog Brain.The TV series proved to be a success for DIC, not only encouraging the company to produce additional programs such as, but also helped launch the franchise, including additional animated series and two live action films, as well as. As of today, the rights to the series are owned by through its in-name-only unit,. Contents.Premise Inspector Gadget, the titular character of the series, is a world-famous cyborg who works for a that combats crime across the globe, with each of his missions focused on thwarting the criminal schemes of M.A.D. (which stands for 'Mean And Dirty') - a criminal organization led by the nefarious Dr. Claw, and conducted by his agents.

Missions that he undertakes often occur in a foreign locale, or within the fictional city of Metro City. This section needs expansion. You can help. ( October 2011)The series was created by,. The three developed the project for.

The initial idea for Inspector Gadget came from Heyward, who also wrote the pilot episode with the help of Jean Chalopin in 1982 (', often syndicated as episode #65, 'Gadget in Winterland'). Chalopin, who at the time owned the DIC Audiovisuel studio, helped develop the format and concept for the rest of the episodes together with Bruno Bianchi, who designed the main characters and served as supervising director. Part of the project's existence was to recoup costs incurred by DiC and when their planned project, a spin-off of called, was cancelled due to financial disputes with the estate of creator.According to the DVD bonus film 'Wowsers', a retrospective featurette with co-creators Andy Heyward and Mike Maliani on the four-disc DVD set Inspector Gadget: The Original Series, Gadget went through approximately 350 sketches before reaching his final design. Gadget's design also included a mustache in the pilot before it was dropped for the rest of the series, due to DiC being sued by MGM. A fourth version of the pilot was recorded where lines were added to explain the mustache away. (Penny: 'You know, uncle, I really like your new mustache.' Inspector Gadget: 'It's so that nobody will recognize me.

I'm on vacation - absolutely, totally, and completely off-duty.' )Analysis The titular character of the series, Inspector Gadget, is both a police and a. Gadget is dressed in a raincoat and hat.

When he uses the phrase 'go-go gadget', various 'useful bionic gadgets' are activated and emerge from underneath his coat and hat. The gadgets are built into his body, and often malfunction. Inspector Gadget is a man with enhancements attached to his body. The original television series gave no background for him.

The spin-off television series (1995-1998) gives an origin story for him. In this version, Gadget was conceived as a bionic child who has the mind of an adult detective. His bionic enhancements are creations of Myron Dabble, an inventor who lives in. The various hidden appliances within Gadget render him a cyborg equivalent of a, a. The enhancements were intended to grant him status as a 'super sleuth'. His body has been upgraded, but his intellect has received no equivalent enhancements. Inspector Gadget has access to many different weapons and gadgets, but seems to lack in intellect.

He habitually blunders his way through cases, in a style similar to. Terry Rowan describes Gadget as 'clumsy' and 'dimwitted'. Despite his advanced equipment, Gadget is clueless and incompetent. He constantly faces obstacles and perils, but manages to survive by either his own good luck or covert help by Penny and Brain. The car which Inspector Gadget drives is a. Inspector Gadget's boss is Chief Quimby. Inspector Gadget is covertly assisted by his niece Penny, who is typically the person who actually solves their cases.

Penny is a master of investigation and technology. Her main technological devices are a computer in the form of a book, and a that is actually a device with multiple uses. She secretly monitors her uncle's activities and intervenes to help him.

She foils the plans of M.A.D. Due to the secrecy of her activities, she never receives credit for them and only her dog is aware of them. Penny herself is assisted by her pet dog Brain. Brain has human-level intellect and is. Brain is often tasked with keeping Inspector Gadget safe and uses various disguises. The second season of the series also introduced an actual for Inspector Gadget, called Corporal Capeman.

The main opponents to Gadget and his supporting cast are the members of the evil organization M.A.D. Gadget's is Dr. Claw, the leader of the organization. Claw serves mostly as an.

Typically only his hands and arms are visible. His hands are covered.

Claw is depicted sitting in front of a, from where he monitors the developments of his various schemes. His headquarters are located at an old. Niall Richardson and Adam Locks, scholars, cite Inspector Gadget as an example of the 'physical cyborg' concept. These types of characters are part man, and part machine. The concept was popularized by cinema and television. The writers cite as other examples of this type Steve Austin, and.In their published book, the editors of interpret the series as implying serious problems for Penny.

The parents of Penny never appear in the television series and are not even mentioned. The implication is that the parents have either disappeared or are deceased. Like many child characters from 'classic cartoons', Penny is an.

Inspector Gadget is her. While Penny is referred to as Gadget's 'niece' and not as his, the editors question whether the two characters are biologically related.

There is no resemblance in the physical features of Inspector Gadget and Penny. Penny also differs from Inspector Gadget in behavior and in her superior competence. A of the series is how Inspector Gadget handles explosives. He disposes clearly-labeled explosive devices by 'carelessly tossing' them away. The devices always end up exploding in proximity to Inspector Gadget's employer. The editors see Inspector Gadget as incapable of surviving on his own and point that his machinery tends to malfunction. A recurring situation in the series, is Inspector Gadget warning Penny not to follow him on a mission supposedly too dangerous for her.

The editors view Penny as having no choice in actually ignoring the warnings. If she fails to ensure Inspector Gadget's survival, she will lose her legal guardian and end up in an.According to the A Dictionary of Sociology, Inspector Gadget is a series. It is one of several works in this genre to be inspired by the concept of the cyborg, as defined in the 1960s by electronic engineers. The term referred to with enhancements which would be capable of surviving in extraterrestrial environments. The idea was that advancements in engineering would enable human functions to be replaced with mechanical parts and computer-controlled systems. Clynes and Kline were not science fiction writers, but their concept inspired 'much science fiction writing'.

Besides Inspector Gadget and its eponymous character, other examples cited in the dictionary include RoboCop, Steve Austin, and the. Animation historian David Perlmutter places the series in its historical content for American television animation. He considers the original Inspector Gadget television series to be the first production of intended for American television and the most famous creation of this production company. He states that the series set the company on the course that it would follow for the next three decades but he considers most of its subsequent series to be less successful.Despite being an inspector, Gadget is depicted more as a 'globe-trotting secret agent' than a detective. The series was action-oriented, but much of the action was intended to be comical. It managed to effectively blend elements of and, in a manner that was unusual for the 1980s.

The TV series was created for the market and turned out to be a profitable hit. A total of 86 episodes were produced.

In part, its success was fueled by good publicity. In the United States, the series received unusually extensive press coverage for a work of television animation. The attention of the press was attracted by the casting of Don Adams in the title role. Besides his own ineptness, Inspector Gadget's effectiveness as a detective was undermined by his cheerful.

As conceived by, from Inspector Gadget's view of the world, the sun is always shining. He is usually unable to perceive danger. Inspector Gadget's villains are similarly ineffective. Their attempts to get rid of Inspector Gadget are as flawed as those of to get rid of his own opponents.

Penny is a more effective character than her uncle. Despite being a girl, she is the one actually conducting investigations and solving cases. She was often kidnapped, but this did not reduce the importance of the character to the series. Perlmutter considers Penny to be an unusually resourceful and intelligent female character, by the standards of the 1980s. Penny's 'computer book' was effectively a, an, and a. Perlmutter considers this element of the series to have anticipated real-life technological advancements in these fields. Brain seems to have a superhuman intellect and is a master of disguise.

He acts more like Penny's than her pet dog. Is depicted as an efficient criminal cartel, and its leader Dr. Claw is seemingly an effective administrator.

However, most of Claw's agents are depicted as, and Perlmutter finds them similar to the characters depicted. Claw himself is the most menacing figure among them. At the end of episodes, Dr. Claw's wrathful and intimidating voice is heard, threatening to 'get' Inspector Gadget when their paths next cross. Besides the main cast of the series, the episodes feature another recurring character, Chief Quimby.

Chief Quimby informs Inspector Gadget about his assignments through self-destructing paper messages. Inevitably, the messages blow up the Chief himself. The explosions are played for laughs. Due to various recurring elements in the series, often the basic plot of each episode was the same. The geographic location of each episode differed, however, and provided for some variety in the series. The series effectively provided viewers with both comedic and dramatic moments. Despite the censorship standards for American animated series in effect during the 1970s and 1980s, the series also included elements of comedy.

This was nearly forbidden at the time, but the censorship was less strict for syndication series and the studio got away with it. The success of Inspector Gadget encouraged DIC to invest in the production of more animated series for the American market, starting with (1983). Multiple new series were produced in 1984.

Production Writers writer was the head writer for season 1, which was co-produced by DiC. As Nelvana was no longer part of the production by season 2, the show was written by the DIC studio employees Eleanor Burian-Mohr, Mike O'Mahoney, Glen Egbert,. Hanrahan and Burian-Mohr would later write the Christmas special as well as many episodes of the spinoff series, and Burian-Mohr additionally wrote dialogue for the educational show.Animation After the, the first 64 22½-minute episodes were written, designed, storyboarded, and voice-recorded in Canada at Animation Studio (which co-produced the series under DiC's supervision), with creative supervision by Jean Chalopin. Bruno Bianchi was the Supervising Director. Most of those episodes were animated in, by, while a few episodes were animated in by, before being finished in post production by DiC and Nelvana. The pilot episode, 'Winter Olympics' (a.k.a. 'Gadget in Wonderland' ), was animated by TMS's subsidiary; Telecom Animation Film and had a slightly higher budget than the rest of the episodes.Nelvana was not involved with the show's 21-episode second season, in which pre-production was now moved to DiC's own Los Angeles-based headquarters.

The animation and post-production was generally done at K.K. DiC Asia (later Creativity & Development Asia), a Japanese animation house Jean Chalopin co-founded that DiC had some ownership in at the time.Voice cast The role of Inspector Gadget went through two different voice actors for the pilot episode before was cast. In the first version of the pilot episode, the voice of Inspector Gadget was provided. A second version of the pilot was made with the only difference being re-recording all of White's dialogue with a deep-toned. Eventually, producers decided to cast actor Don Adams in the role, re-recording all of Inspector Gadget's dialogue in the pilot to make it more reminiscent of Maxwell Smart. A fourth version of the pilot was made for broadcast with re-recording one line as Inspector Gadget to explain the mustache.Dr. A kingdom for keflings online.

Cat, and Brain were voiced by Frank Welker. Welker and Adams recorded their dialogue in separate recordings in Los Angeles, while the rest of the first season's cast recorded in Toronto.

Initially replaced Welker as Dr. Claw for 25 episodes following the pilot before Welker was called in to replace him for those episodes. However, Welker was unable to re-record a few episodes, where Francks' voice remained. Francks remained with the show, however, and usually performed the voice of a henchman of Dr. Sometimes Francks would portray a secondary M.A.D. Agent, with Welker (who usually performed the voices of the agents otherwise) as the other in episodes where Francks' voice was necessary.

Penny was originally voiced by in the pilot and was subsequently portrayed by Don Francks' daughter, for the rest of the first season in her first voice acting role. Chief Quimby was voiced by in the original pilot, and later by for the remainder of the first season.When production of Inspector Gadget moved from in Toronto to DiC's headquarters in Los Angeles for the second season, all of the Canadian-based voice artists were replaced. Holly Berger replaced Cree Summer Francks as the voice of Penny while replaced Dan Hennessey as the voice of Chief Quimby. Occasionally, LaMarche would fill in for Don Adams as Inspector Gadget whenever necessary.Music The theme music was inspired by 's movement ' and was composed. For many years, Levy had a partnership with his friend, with Levy composing the music and Saban running the business.

Their records company, Saban Records, (now ) has provided music for many DiC cartoons and children's shows in the 1980s and 1990s, and is still running today.Many of the background music cues were a variation of the Gadget melody. Even at festivals or dances in the cartoon, the Gadget theme was often played. Occasionally during an episode, such as in Launch Time and Ghost Catchers, Inspector Gadget would hum his theme. Levy also had a range of other musical cues for each character, as well as cues for the various moods of the scenes. Penny and Brain each had several different versions of their respective musical themes.The theme song was sampled in the song ' by and and 'Rockin' to the P.M.' By on the album. It was also sampled on ',' performed by, which served as the theme song for the.In her book Robot Takeover: 100 Iconic Robots of Myth, Popular Culture & Real Life, singer says she considers the theme music to be widely recognizable around the world.

The series was a 'global hit' and its theme song became 'iconic'. However, she notes that copies of the original television soundtrack had become extremely rare by 2010. See also: Season 1 The pilot episode featured a slightly different opening and closing credits and a moustached Gadget.

In a later version of the pilot, dialogue by Penny and Inspector Gadget was re-dubbed explaining Inspector Gadget's mustache as a disguise for the holiday. Since DiC was a French company looking to expand its operations to the US, the show was produced for release in both France and the USA.

It was broadcast in North America in September 1983, nine months after the pilot was previewed on five stations. A month later, the series premiered in France, whose version also featured a theme song with French lyrics and the French title Inspecteur Gadget appearing in front of the episode.The first season was aired on weekdays from September 12, 1983 to December 9, 1983 and comprised 65 episodes.Season 2 The first season episodes were repeated during the 1984–, with 21 new episodes airing on Saturdays for the second season of Inspector Gadget from September 1985 to February 1986. Several changes were made to the established formula.The format of the series changed significantly. In the second season, the episodes would feature three short segments in a row sharing the same general theme and often the same villains, who were still not arrested by the end of their final episode. Many of the episodes revolved around M.A.D. Trying to get rid of Inspector Gadget, instead of Dr. Claw's crimes and plots to dominate the world from the first season.New characters and settings were introduced.

Inspector Gadget, Penny, and Brain moved into a high-tech house filled with many gadgets. In the season's fourth episode, Corporal Capeman was introduced as Inspector Gadget's sidekick.Broadcast history In the, the series originally ran from 1983 to 1986 in national and remained in syndication into the late-1990s. Repeats of the series briefly appeared on 's lineup from 1991-1992.

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