Episode
Inspector Gadget: Gadget Meets the Grappler
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Inspector Gadget
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1985-10-02
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Gadget Meets the Grappler is Episode 3 in Season 2 of Inspector Gadget. It aired on 1985-10-02. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 2: The Incredible Shrinking Gadget
Professor Dumkopf of M.A.D. is back, this time with a shrink-ray gun he uses repeatedly on Inspector Gadget in an attempt to shrink him into nothingness.
Episode 4: Focus on Gadget
When a space station orbiting Earth goes silent, Gadget must investigate. Penny and Brain tag along aboard the space shuttle that takes Gadget to his destination, where Penny discovers that the station's soft-spoken HAL-like supercomputer is under the control of two M.A.D. agents, Dr. Null and Dr. Void. Their evil plot involves a giant magnifying glass that can aim and intensify the sun's rays towards Earth.
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Professor Dumkopf of M.A.D. unleashes the Linguinis, five little imp-like creatures, on Inspector Gadget's house with the mission of deep-sixing the Inspector.
Episode 5: M.A.D. in the Moon
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Episode 6: N.S.F. Gadget
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Episode 7: Magic Gadget
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Episode 8: The Great Wambini's Seance
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Episode 9: Wambini Predicts
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Episode 10: Bad Dreams are Made of This
Something ominous is inexplicably causing the citizens of Metro City to be beset by unstoppable nightmares. Penny's nightmare is that her computerbook falls into the hands of M.A.D.
Episode 11: Ghost Catchers
Dr. Spectrum of M.A.D. invents "Ghost Globules" -- pellets that produce glowing ghostly critters. He plans to sets them loose on Metro City, then offer to sell people a spray that will banish them. Inspector Gadget investigates a costume party while on the trail.
Episode 12: Busy Signal
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
Episode 13: The Capeman Cometh
Corporal Capeman joins Inspector Gadget posing as his assistant while Gadget pursues the notorious ninja.