Gadget & the Gadgetinis

Gadget & the Gadgetinis
Genre Comedy[1]
Created by Jean Chalopin
Written by Jean Chalopin
Teddy Anasti
Pasty Anasti
Directed by Bruno Bianchi
Voices of Maurice LaMarche
Brian Drummond
Ellen Kennedy
Tegan Moss
Colin Murdock
Teryl Rothery
Alvin Sanders
Opening theme Gadgetinis Theme song
Ending theme Credits with Gadgetinis Theme song
Country of origin Canada
France
Italy
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Jacquline Tordjiman
Producer(s) Bruno Bianchi
Running time About 22 minutes
Production company(s)

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Distributor DHX Media
YTV
Release
Original network YTV
Rai 3
Rai Gulp
ZDF
Fox Kids
Picture format Animation
First shown in Canada
Original release September 1, 2001 – December 27, 2003
Chronology
Related shows Inspector Gadget

Gadget & the Gadgetinis is a Canadian–French-Italian[2] TV series spin-off of the 1983 series Inspector Gadget, developed by DiC Entertainment in cooperation with Haim Saban's SIP Animation and released 2001–2003. There are 52 episodes. Gadget & the Gadgetinis is now property of DHX Media after Cookie Jar Group was bought by DHX Media.

Plot

Inspector Gadget returns to television in his first incarnation in 17 years! Having been recruited by an elite international peacekeeping group called, the World Organization of Mega Powers (WOMP), Inspector Gadget is now Lieutenant Gadget, and fights crime with a pair of mechanical assistants called, the Gadgetinis, who are small robot versions of the Inspector who were created by 12-year-old Penny (due to Brain retiring from active duty) and who are the unintended victims of Gadget's bumbling.

Production

The original creators of Inspector Gadget reunited for this series. Andy Heyward initiated the concept and was one of the executive producers; Jean Chalopin created/developed the show and wrote or co-wrote every episode; while Bruno Bianchi designed the main characters as well as directing and producing the series. Gadget & the Gadgetinis follows basically the same plot as the original series, with the clueless Gadget attempting to fight crime while Penny and her helpers do all the work and he takes full credit for it, when he had no idea what happened. Dr. Claw appears less frequently and there are new villains for the group to contend with.

While Brain and Chief Quimby are mainly absent from the show, they do appear in pictures in Gadget's house. Each also appears as a special guest, and only in one episode each. Brain appears in episode 36, No Brainer which reveals that, having been traumatized after years of pain while saving Gadget and Gadget mistaking him for MAD Agents, he retired from crime-fighting to live in a riverside house, which only Penny knows about. The mere mention of the word "gadget" is enough to drive him frantic. Brain was also mentioned in the episode, Roverre. Chief Quimby appears in episode 45, Super Boss Gadget. They both appear on TV in the episode, Too Many Gadgets. Capeman, Gadget's sidekick from the original cartoon, is absent from this series as well.

The French end credits to the series show a series of sketches of Penny going to visit Brain at his riverside home. The pair enjoy an emotional reunion.

Maurice LaMarche continued as Gadget's voice, reprising his role from the "Sunday Movie Toon", "Inspector Gadget's Last Case", as did Brian Drummond (Dr Claw) and Tegan Moss (Penny).

Jean-Michel Guirao composed the musical underscore, and the main title song for the English-speaking version was written and performed by Mike Piccirillo. However, the Canadian and French theme songs for "Gadgetinis" were explicitly different: The French version's theme, composed by Noam Kaniel and David Vadant, sounded very close to Shuki Levy and Haim Saban's original Inspector Gadget theme, and was in fact based on the original series' theme song. (The French end credits for the show state: "Musique des génériques: Noam Kaniel, David Vadant, K.I.A. productions. D'après le "Thème de l'Inspecteur Gadget". Musique originale de Haim Saban et Shuki Levy.") The reason this was possible - even though DiC Entertainment (which owned Inspector Gadget) no longer had the rights to Levy and Saban's theme music - is probably that Gadget & the Gadgetinis was produced primarily by the French animation studio SIP Animation, owned by Haim Saban.

Characters

Main characters

Lt. Gadget

The Gadgetinis

Penny

Colonel Nozzaire

General Sir

Doctor Claw

Minor characters

Ms. Miffet

Brain

Chief Quimby

Maryland Claw

References

  1. "Gadget & the Gadgetinis". FilmAffinity. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Un Gadget De Trop". Season 1. Episode 6 (in French). Event occurs at 21:00. Missing or empty |series= (help)
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