Gadget Boy & Heather

Gadget Boy
Also known as Gadget Boy & Heather (Season 1 title)
Gadget Boy's Adventures in History (Season 2 title)
Format Animated series
Country of origin France
United States
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 52
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel M6 (France)
First-run syndication (United States)
BBC 1/Cartoon Network UK (United Kingdom)
Original run 1995 – 1998

Gadget Boy & Heather (also known as Gadget Boy) was an animated television series from DiC Entertainment. The series debuted in 1995 in first-run syndication in the United States and on M6 in France.

This series is about "Gadget Boy", a bionic kid-detective with a personality similar to that of Inspector Gadget. He was conceived as a bionic "child" with the personality of a "perfect adult detective" (although as with the aforementioned Inspector Gadget, he is anything but). Just as maladroit as the original Inspector Gadget, Gadget Boy was usually bailed out of situations by the more practical Heather, though he was also helped greatly by his myriad high-tech gadgets and extendable arms and legs. Gadget Boy's bionic implants were installed by Switzerland-based inventor Myron Dabble (Maurice LaMarche) who has an unrequited crush on Heather. Gadget Boy and Heather receive their assignments from Italy-based Chief Stromboli (Maurice LaMarche), who, much like Chief Quimby, is a frequent, long-suffering victim of Gadget Boy's bungling. Gadget Boy is assisted by the resourceful agent Heather (Tara Charandoff), a very tall equivalent of sorts to Penny (the difference being that Heather is in her late teens or early 20s). He is also assisted by a robotic dog named G-9 (Maurice LaMarche), who serves as the "Brain" of this series, which shows through his morphing capabilities to get the gang out of the stickiest situations.

The main villain of this series, instead of Dr. Claw, is the mask-wearing six-armed villainess Spydra (Louise Vallance) who is accompanied by Boris, a frequently abused, wisecracking, sarcastic vulture with a Russian accent, along with her henchmen Mulch and his twin brother Houmous, all played by Maurice LaMarche.

The main title theme song was written and performed by Mike Piccirillo. Musical underscore composers were Mike Piccirillo and Jean-Michel Guirao.

Contents

Characters

Heroes

Villains

Other characters

Gadget Boy's Adventures in History

In 1997, Gadget Boy appeared in Gadget Boy's Adventures in History, a special educational series. In this series, the young detective has to stop the evil Spydra across time. This version, like Inspector Gadget's Field Trip, an Inspector Gadget spin off, aired on The History Channel, and airs on This is for Kids on This TV until September 23, 2011.

At times Spydra's fails to use or change time to her liking during the series.

Episode list

(Episodes are in chronological order, with place and time by it in parenthesis)

Season 1

  1. Raiders of the Lost Mummies
  2. From Russia with Gadget Boy
  3. Don't Burst my Bubble
  4. Gadget Boy in Toyland
  5. Gadget Boy and the Wee Folk
  6. You Oughtta Be in Pictures
  7. All That Gadgets Is Not Glitter
  8. Gadget Boy and the Great Race
  9. Gadget Boy and the Ship of Fools
  10. Gadget Boy and the Uncommon Cold
  11. Double Double Toil and Dabble
  12. Gadget Boy Squadron
  13. My Gadget Guard
  14. Treasure of the Sierra Gadget
  15. Gadget Boy and the Dumpling Gang
  16. The Day the Gadget Boy Stood Still
  17. Monumental Mayhem
  18. Jurassic Spydra
  19. Gadget Boy's Tiniest Adventure
  20. Power of Babble
  21. Pirate of the Airwaves
  22. Jaws and Teeth
  23. Eight Hands are Quicker Than Gadget Boy
  24. Boris for President
  25. All Webbed Up, Nowhere to Go
  26. Vulture of the Bride

Season 2

  1. The Vulture Has Landed (Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA - Moon, 1969)
  2. The Long and Winding Wall (China, 211 BC)
  3. For Whom the Torch Rolls (Greece, 400 BC)
  4. Madame Spydra Fly (Japan, 1853)
  5. An Ice Age Runs Through It (Cretaceous Period)
  6. The Three Gadgeteers (Paris, France - 1617)
  7. Hot Time in Old Caves (750,000 BC)
  8. Bionic Blunder from Down Under (Australia, 1915)
  9. Some Assembly Required (Detroit, Michigan, USA - 1908)
  10. Gadget-Stein (Geneva, 1816)
  11. Ice Station Vulture (North Pole, 1909)
  12. Coming In on a Web and Prayer (Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA - 1903)
  13. All's Fair at the World Fair (Queens, New York, USA - 1939)
  14. A Whale of a Sail of a Tail (Phoenicia, 1300 BC)
  15. An Extinct Possibility (Rhodesia, 1955)
  16. A Knight to Remember (England, 1215)
  17. No Laughing Matter (Hollywood, California, USA - 1920)
  18. It's Not Easy Staying Green (1970)
  19. Just Fakir-Ing It (India, 1928)
  20. Go West Young Vulture (California, USA - 1850)
  21. These Are a Few of My Favourite Flying Things (Florence, Italy - 15th century)
  22. Valley of the Vulture (Egypt - 1922)
  23. The Time Land Forgot (Mexico - 1000 AD)
  24. Three Brainiacs in a Fountain (Marie Curie, pasteurization inventor Louis Pasteur, and general all-around smart guy Albert Einstein)
  25. A Gadget Boy Christmas All Around the World (Old Befana of Italy and Martin Luther, Myra, Turkey - 325 AD, Germany - 1517 AD)
  26. Back to the Vulture (1950s)

Airing

The series airs regularly in the UK in the early hours of the morning on Cartoon Network until 2009 and on Boomerang channel. In the United States, reruns were shown on Toon Disney, between 1998 and 2001. Until September 23, 2011, in the United States, the series airs on the This TV network. From 1998 to 2000, the series was broadcast in Canada on Family.

Gadget Boy also made an appearance (of sorts) on Inspector Gadget's Field Trip in an episode where he fell into the Fountain of Youth.

Broadcast stations

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