Gadget Boy & Heather

Gadget Boy
Also known as Gadget Boy & Heather (Season 1 title)
Gadget Boy's Adventures in History (Season 2 title)
Starring Don Adams
Theme music composer Mike Piccirillo
Country of origin Canada
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 52
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) DIC Entertainment
France Animation
Tribune Entertainment
Release
Original network Métropole 6 (France)
First-run syndication, HISTORY KiDS (United States)
TCC (United Kingdom)
SpaceToon Indonesia (Indonesia)
Original release September 9, 1995 – February 28, 1998

Gadget Boy is an animated television series from DIC Entertainment (now known as DHX Media). 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. In fact one could even technically consider this series as a spiritual successor of that franchise. 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 beautiful and 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.

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)

List of Gadget Boy & Heather episodes

Season 1 (1995–1996)

  1. Raiders of the Lost Mummies (9 September 1995)
  2. From Russia with Gadget Boy (16 September 1995)
  3. Don't Burst my Bubble (23 September 1995)
  4. Gadget Boy in Toyland (30 September 1995)
  5. Gadget Boy and the Wee Folk (7 October 1995)
  6. You Oughta Be in Paintings (14 October 1995)
  7. All That Gadgets Is Not Glitter (21 October 1995)
  8. Gadget Boy and the Great Race (28 October 1995)
  9. Gadget Boy and the Ship of Fools (4 November 1995)
  10. Gadget Boy and the Uncommon Cold (11 November 1995)
  11. Double Double Toil and Dabble (18 November 1995)
  12. Gadget Boy Squadron (25 November 1995)
  13. My Gadget Guard (2 December 1995)
  14. Treasure of the Sierra Gadget (9 December 1995)
  15. Gadget Boy and the Dumpling Gang (16 December 1995)
  16. The Day the Gadget Boy Stood Still (23 December 1995)
  17. Monumental Mayhem (30 December 1995)
  18. Jurassic Spydra (6 January 1996)
  19. Gadget Boy's Tiniest Adventure (13 January 1996)
  20. Power of Babble (20 January 1996)
  21. Pirate of the Airwaves (27 January 1996)
  22. Jaws and Teeth Too (3 February 1996)
  23. Eight Hands are Quicker Than Gadget Boy (10 February 1996)
  24. Boris for President (17 February 1996)
  25. All Webbed Up, Nowhere to Go (24 February 1996)
  26. Vulture of the Bride (2 March 1996)

Season 2 (1997–1998)

  1. The Vulture Has Landed (Neil Armstrong, 1969, Moon ) (6 September 1997)
  2. The Long and Winding Wall (The Dragon King, China, 211 BC) (13 September 1997)
  3. For Whom the Torch Rolls (Zeus, 400 BC, Olympia, Greece) (20 September 1997)
  4. Madame Spydra Fly (Matthew C. Perry, 1853, Japan) (27 September 1997)
  5. An Ice Age Runs Through It (Somewhere in 70,000,000 BC) (4 October 1997)
  6. The Three Gadgeteers (The Three Musketeers, 1617, Paris, France) (11 October 1997)
  7. Hot Time in Old Caves (Ned The Neanderthal, 750,000 BC, Southern France) (18 October 1997)
  8. Bionic Blunder from Down Under (James Cook, 1770, Australia) (25 October 1997)
  9. Some Assembly Required (Henry Ford, 1909, Detroit, Michigan) (1 November 1997)
  10. Gadget-Stein (Mary Shelley, 1816, Geneva, Switzerland) (8 November 1997)
  11. Ice Station Vulture (Robert Peary, 1909, North Pole) (15 November 1997)
  12. Coming In on a Web and Prayer (The Wright Brothers, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina) (22 November 1997)
  13. All's Fair at the World Fair (Inventors, 1939, Queens, New York) (29 November 1997)
  14. A Whale of a Sail of a Tail (Sinbad The Sailor, 1300 BC, Phoenicia) (6 December 1997)
  15. An Extinct Possibility (Explorers, 1955, Africa) (13 December 1997)
  16. A Knight to Remember (Henry III of England, 1216, England) (20 December 1997)
  17. No Laughing Matter (Charlie Chaplin, 1920, Hollywood, California) (27 December 1997)
  18. It's Not Easy Staying Green (Hunters, 1970, Brazil) (3 January 1998)
  19. Just Fakir-ing It (Fakirs, 1928, India) (10 January 1998)
  20. Go West Young Vulture (John Sutter, 1850, California) (17 January 1998)
  21. These Are a Few of My Favorite Flying Things (Leonardo da Vinci, 1470, Florence, Italy) (24 January 1998)
  22. Valley of the Vulture (King Tut, 1334 BC, Egypt) (31 January 1998)
  23. The Time Land Forgot (Mayan Natives, 700 AD, Mexico) (7 February 1998)
  24. Three Brainiacs in a Fountain (Marie Curie, 1902, Paris, France, Louis Pasteur, 1864, Paris France & Albert Einstein, 1932, New York City, New York) (14 February 1998)
  25. A Gadget Boy Christmas All Around the World (Turkish bishops, 325 AD Turkey, Italians, Italy - 500 BC & Martin Luther, 1517, Wittenberg, Germany) (21 February 1998)
  26. Back to the Vulture (Mrs. Dabble, 1957, Cleveland, Ohio) (28 February 1998)

DVD release

On February 21, 2012, Mill Creek Entertainment released Gadget Boy's Adventures in History- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. The 3-disc set featured all 26 episodes from the second season of the series.[1] They also release a 10 episode best-of collection on the same day.

All 26 episodes of Gadget Boy & Heather are available on iTunes.

Airing

The series aired 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.

Spacetoon until 2013 and on Net Media channel in the Indonesia. 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.

See also

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