Inspector Gadget is a media franchise that follows the adventures of a powerful but dimwitted cyborg police inspector named Gadget. Since the original series, there have been many spin-offs based on the show, including additional animated series, video games, and films.
A cyborg police detective works criminal cases for the Chief of Police, fighting (with help from his genius niece Penny and her pet dog Brain) against his arch-nemesis Dr. Claw, who is the leader of an evil organization, known as "M.A.D.".
The special opens up at the North Pole, where Santa Claus and his elves are working on all the toys that Santa will deliver at Christmas. Doctor Claw has managed to sneak into the factory and disguise himself as Santa. He has also managed to install mind-control devices on all the elves, which he then activates, and orders them to capture Santa. His plan is to use the mind-controlled elves to make defective toys, for which the world will blame Santa. Meanwhile, he orders his MAD agents to destroy Gadget. Several attempts are made in the opening credits, all of which fail.
Le détective bionique le plus jeune et le plus maladroit du monde est assisté de sa nounou, l'agent top secret Heather et de son fidèle chien robotique G-9.
The gizmo-gifted but bubble-brained Inspector Gadget returns as the host of these series, giving information about regions of the world.
Jonathan "John" Brown, a man who dreams of helping people by being a police officer, is a security guard working at the Bradford robotics laboratory in Riverton, Ohio, run by Artemus Bradford and his daughter Brenda, to whom John is attracted. Brenda and Artemus are working to create a lifelike robotic foot as part of the Gadget Program, an operation for manufacturing computerized law enforcement officers. One night, sadistic tycoon Sanford Scolex attacks the lab, steals the foot, and murders Artemus before escaping in his limo. Brown then chases him down in his Chevrolet Chevette, and during the ensuing chase, Scolex blows him up in the upside-down wreck and leaves John for dead. Unfortunately, John's bowling ball is launched out of the Chevette by the blast and crushingly smashes Scolex's left hand, forcing him to replace it with a mechanical claw and take the alias "Claw."
Gadget is still a klutz and Dr. Claw has a vicious new plan that makes him a super-hero in disguise to try to ruin Gadget and to take over the world, but as usual Gadget in his zany ways wins.
Inspector Gadget (French Stewart) and his Gadgetmobile (voiced by D.L. Hughley) are having problems in their line of work, mostly because of Gadget's overzealous nature. At this time, Dr. Claw (Tony Martin (Australian actor)) escapes from prison. Mayor Wilson (Sigrid Thornton) takes this opportunity to create G2 (Elaine Hendrix), a female Gadget-type robot that can function normally. Gadget begins to fall in love with G2, though G2 doesn't reciprocate the same feelings towards Gadget.
Gadget has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and recruited by the World Organization of Mega Powers (WOMP), an elite international peacekeeping organization whose goal is to defend humankind from the world's most menacing villains. That may sound like a daunting task, but with the help of some new zany gadgets and a new set of assistants: the Gadgetinis - a team of pint-sized robotic versions of Inspector Gadget who are frequently the unintended victims of his bumbling, Gadget is still up to the task. Just like the old days, Gadget still gets help from his brainy 12-year-old niece, Penny, whether he likes it or not. Penny created the Gadgetinis two plucky teenage robots, the responsible Digit and the mischievous Fidget, to help her uncle, since Brain has now retired from active duty. Agent Fidget and Agent Digit, as Gadget likes to call them, form a comical tandem with their different personalities. Now under the control of Colonel Nozzaire, Lieutenant Gadget must battle long time nemisis Dr. Claw, along with a slew of new baddies, such as villainous mutant monsters and power-hungry space aliens. But in the end, thanks to his heart of gold, his indefatigable spirit and a little help from his brilliant niece Penny, Gadget always manages to save the day. But not without a good bit of property destruction along the way. It seems some things never change
Dr. Claw, after finally being captured by Gadget, breaks out of prison. He uses an agent called Bombaboy and a giant flying lizard to seek revenge on his captors and to initiate yet another scheme to take over the world.
Inspector Gadget, the world's favorite bumbling detective, is back in this all-new animated series that also sees the return of his nemesis, the evil Dr. Claw. With his nephew Talon by his side, Dr. Claw has reactivated his global crime syndicate M.A.D. and has his sights on taking over the world, unless Gadget, his niece Penny and her dog Brain can stop him -- again.