Magic Gadget
- Studio
- DiC Entertainment
- Animation studio
- Nakamura Production, Sunshine Production, Miyuki Production, Studio Take, Kitahara Production
- Distributor
- LBS Communications
Synopsis
The Great Wambini, famed magician and M.A.D. agent, gives a performance Metro City will never forget - with the demise of Inspector Gadget as the planned finale.
Characters
Inspector Gadget, Penny, Chief Quimby, The Great Wambini, The Lesser Wambini
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Ray Jafelice, Dave Cox, Ken Stephenson, Edouard David
- Assisted By
- Yoka Hatano
- Assistant To The Supervising Director
- Toshuki Hiruna
Producing
- Producer
- Jean Chalopin, Andy Heyward, Tetsuo Katayama
- Executive Producers
- Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin, Tetsuo Katayama
- Associate Producers
- Mitsuya Fujimoto, Diana Dru Botsford
Writing
Animation
- Animator
- Izumi Masui, Hiroko Watanabe, Michiyuki Suzuki, Hinako Komatsu, Tomoko Asaki, Kazuhisa Nagai
- Key Animation
- Ikuo Fudanoki, Toshimi Suzuki, Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Yoshio Torii, Yuri Handa, Teruko Mutoh, Motoyoshi Ozono, Maruo Takahashi, Kazuko Shibata, Seiji Nakamata, Keiko Shirai, Hiroyuki Uchida
Voices
- Voice
- Don Adams (Inspector Gadget), Holly Berger (Penny), Maurice LaMarche (Chief Quimby), Louis Nye (The Great Wambini), Frank Welker (The Lesser Wambini), Townsend Coleman, Andy Goldberg, Rita Taggart, Karen Hartman, Marilyn Lightstone, Geneva Ann Simmons, Diane Pershing, Ron House, Diz White
Music
- Music
- Shuki Levy, Haim Saban
Editing
- Editor
- Masatoshi Tsurubuchi, Yoriko Takahashi
Crew
- Created By
- Jean Chalopin, Andy Heyward, Bruno Bianchi
- Creative Supervision
- Jean Chalopin
- Script Coordinator
- Lori Crawford
- Supervising Chief Director
- Bruno Bianchi
- Unit Directors
- Toshiyuki Hiruma, Yasuyoshi Mikamoto
- Story Editing
- Jean Chalopin
- Art Directors
- Toshihisa Tohjo, Jiro Kono, Akira Furuya, Yuko Fujie, Toyo Ebisawa, Mariko Touyama
- Character Design and Development
- Bruno Bianchi, Jean Barbaud, Christian Choquet, Stephan Martiniere, François Allot
- Storyboard Artists
- Saburo Hashimoto, Yuka Hatano, Kiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Yano, Noriko Itakura, Seiji Arahara
- Color Styling
- Reiko Hirayama, Junko Shimada, Emiko Shimanuki, Fumiko Irie
- Layouts
- Akira Kasahara, Takeo Kitahara, Kohzoh Masanobu, Hiroaki Nakajima, Toshio Nitta, Yuko Rikiishi
- Camera Direction
- Akio Saitoh, Ichita Kobayashi, Hiroshi Isagawa
- Voice Recording and Casting Director
- Marsha Goodman
- Talent Coordinators
- Joanne Fink, Rick Dempsey
- Animation Production Managers
- Shigeru Akagawa, Hiroshi Toita
- Animation Production Coordinator
- Shiro Aono
- Timing and Checking Supervisor
- Myrna Bushman
- Checking
- Lisa Wilson, Paul Bononi, Joe Ruiz
- Lip-Sync Editors
- Linda Davies, Woody Yocum
- Track Reading
- Lida Saskova, Trudy Alexander, Theresa Gilroy, Gary Lewis, Rob Rule, Andy Attfield, Allison Brown, Cindy Fret, Kelly Hall, Peter Jones, Fiona Patterson, Brian Jeffrey Street
- Editorial Executive
- William Kowalchuk, Jr.
- Assisted by
- Bonnie Sehenuk
- Post Production Second Director
- Wataru Date
- Music Selected by
- Toujobeppu Sei, Marty Wereski
- Sound Mixer
- Haruhiko Tanba
- Sound Effects
- Masakazu Yokoyama
- Music
- Shuki Levy, Haim Saban
- Production Assistants
- Mike Maliani, Alan Lee, Christian Zibach, Michael Thornton, Shimura Takahiro, Jay Francis, Kenneth Y. Duer, Hideki Akayama, Jeffrey Thorin, Kazuyoshi Morita, Yasuhiro Takei, Kimiko Monden, Mariko Kawashima, Masamichi Ozaki, Ikuno Sato, Keiko Murata, Masako Nishida, Chizuko Moriai, Mikihito Iwata
- Executives in Charge of Production
- Kevin O'Donnell, Thierry P. Laurin
Companies and other credits
- © 1985 DiC Audiovisuel and LBS Communications
- Inc
Production notes
Go, Gadget, go...
Poor Inspector Gadget. He had all the James Bond gadgets, but none of the cool. In fact, his niece Penny and dog Brain were often two steps ahead of him in solving the crime, or even correcting his mistakes. Bond would never have stood for that.
As voiced by Don Adams? best known for his role as secret agent Maxwell Smart on the series Get Smart!? Gadget was a bumbling inspector, despite being blessed with the ability to fly, bounce, and stretch his arms to great lengths with the command, "Go, Go Gadget Arms!"
His boss, Quimby, handed out Gagdet's assignments, which usually involved battling the evil Dr. Claw and his cat, Madcat. Those gadgets included: pop-up rollerskates, extendable arms, a helicopter-hat, etc. Despite the arsenal at his disposal (which is just as likely to misfire as work properly), Gadget never seems to be able to catch the illusive mastermind Dr. Claw. Claw headed an organization called "MAD" (Mean And Dirty). Though his face was never shown, Claw's menacingly hoarse voice (by voice-vet Frank Welker) was enough to scare the pants off many a young viewer.
Don Adams is said to have quit the series before the end of its run, which left the title character to be voiced by an actor who didn't sound at all like Adams. The series was originally syndicated from 1983 to 1985 before gaining its greatest exposure on Nickelodeon from 1987 to 1992. Near the end of its Nickelodeon run, CBS reran the show on Saturday afternoons, while NBC presented a nighttime special, Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas, on December 4, 1992.
More recently, Matthew Broderick and Rupert Everett? as Gadget and Claw, respectively?starred in a blockbuster live-action update of the film, released by Disney in 1999.
Poor Inspector Gadget. He had all the James Bond gadgets, but none of the cool. In fact, his niece Penny and dog Brain were often two steps ahead of him in solving the crime, or even correcting his mistakes. Bond would never have stood for that.
As voiced by Don Adams? best known for his role as secret agent Maxwell Smart on the series Get Smart!? Gadget was a bumbling inspector, despite being blessed with the ability to fly, bounce, and stretch his arms to great lengths with the command, "Go, Go Gadget Arms!"
His boss, Quimby, handed out Gagdet's assignments, which usually involved battling the evil Dr. Claw and his cat, Madcat. Those gadgets included: pop-up rollerskates, extendable arms, a helicopter-hat, etc. Despite the arsenal at his disposal (which is just as likely to misfire as work properly), Gadget never seems to be able to catch the illusive mastermind Dr. Claw. Claw headed an organization called "MAD" (Mean And Dirty). Though his face was never shown, Claw's menacingly hoarse voice (by voice-vet Frank Welker) was enough to scare the pants off many a young viewer.
Don Adams is said to have quit the series before the end of its run, which left the title character to be voiced by an actor who didn't sound at all like Adams. The series was originally syndicated from 1983 to 1985 before gaining its greatest exposure on Nickelodeon from 1987 to 1992. Near the end of its Nickelodeon run, CBS reran the show on Saturday afternoons, while NBC presented a nighttime special, Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas, on December 4, 1992.
More recently, Matthew Broderick and Rupert Everett? as Gadget and Claw, respectively?starred in a blockbuster live-action update of the film, released by Disney in 1999.