Gadget Boy's Adventures in History

Episode 1

The Vulture Has Landed

Sat, Sep 6, 1997 23 mins

Spydra discovers a power plant being generated entirely by a moon stone brought back by the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission.

Episode 2

The Long and Winding Wall

Sat, Sep 13, 1997 23 mins

"Some evil force has removed fire from existence!" exclaims Dabble. And what other evil force could that be but Spydra? She heads back to the time of the cave people, in a vile attempt to steal all the methods of creating fire, thus, eliminating it forever, or until the world agrees to buy it back from her! Gadget Boy, Heather, and G-9 follow her, where they must contend with flippant cave people, skittish buffalo, and one angry volcano!

Episode 3

For Whom the Torch Rolls

Sat, Sep 20, 1997 22 mins

The Olympics are coming to town... but not to Spydravania, and their rebuff of her sends Spydra on yet another rampage.

Episode 4

Madame Spydra Fly

Sat, Sep 27, 1997 23 mins

After losing a 'best-dressed heroine' contest to Heather, Spydra decides to make the world pay.

Episode 5

An Ice Age Runs Through It

Sat, Oct 4, 1997 23 mins

It's off to the Cretaceous period for the Gadget team as Spydra tries to amass an army of dinosaurs

Episode 6

The Three Gadgeteers

Sat, Oct 11, 1997

Episode 7

Hot Time in Old Caves

Sat, Oct 18, 1997

Spydra heads back to the time to steal all the methods of creating fire, thus, eliminating it forever, or until the world agrees to buy it back from her.

Episode 8

Bionic Blunder from Down Under

Sat, Oct 25, 1997 22 mins

The news of an opal discovery in Australia excites Spydra: opal would be the perfect component for her 'Super-City-Destroying Spectro-Blaster!" She must go back in time and pillage the opal mine before it's discovered. Noting the rift in time, Gadget Boy and friends travel back to the Australian Outback, 1915. On their way to stopping Spydra's fiendish plot, Gadget Boy becomes an honored member of an Aboriginal tribe, Agent Heather takes the balloon trip of her life, and G-9 does his best to deal with being taped to the ground by Gadget Boy (so he doesn't 'fall off')!

Episode 9

Some Assembly Required

Sat, Nov 1, 1997 22 mins

In order to force the world to buy her over-priced, worthless new car, the Arachna, Spydra heads back to visit Henry Ford and destroy his original Assembly Line. But Gadget Boy and Co. are close behind, stemming the damage, driving the world toward affordable automobiles, and earning Gadget Boy his driver's license... dated 1909.

Episode 10

Gadget-Stein

Sat, Nov 8, 1997 22 mins

With the invention of her new Metabolizer Helmet, which has the ability to create whatever the wearer is thinking of, Spydra heads back in time to 1861, Switzerland. There she places the cap onto the head of one Mary Shelley, the author of the horror novel Frankenstein. Spydra's diabolical plans include not only making Shelley wear the helmet and fabricate a real Frankenstein monster, but also include having Boris pen Frankenstein himself, but writing in Spydra as the monster! Unfortunately, Gadget Boy thinks he's attending a wild costume party, and not at all trying to save the history of horror in literature!

Episode 11

Ice Station Vulture

Sat, Nov 15, 1997 21 mins

In an attempt to eavesdrop on all the world's communications satellites, Spydra decides to plant her "Polar Controller" satellite-controlling device at the North Pole. But to ensure that no one ever finds it and destroys it, she travels to 1909 to plant it there before explorers Peary and Cook first arrived. She also decides to make sure that the explorers never make it to the pole. But not to worry as Gadget, G-9 and Heather show up to guide each of the explorers and save the day.

Episode 12

Coming in on a Web and a Prayer

Sat, Nov 22, 1997 23 mins

It's Gadget Boy to the rescue when Spydra sojourns to 1903 to stop the Wright brothers from ever pioneering manned motorized flight!

Episode 13

All's Fair at the World's Fair

Sat, Nov 29, 1997 23 mins

Gadget Boy's very existence is in jeopardy as Spydra goes to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City to destroy the first prototype robots ever made.

Episode 14

A Whale of a Sail of a Tale

Sat, Dec 6, 1997 23 mins

Spydra loses an International Boat Race to Gadget Boy, and infuriated, she decides to ruin the history of boating.

Episode 15

An Extinct Possibility

Sat, Dec 13, 1997 23 mins

No one will sell Spydra land to build her new, improved Spydravania.

Episode 16

A Knight to Remember

Sat, Dec 20, 1997 23 mins

Spydra wants her production of Shakespeare's King John to be perfect.

Episode 17

No Laughing Matter

Sat, Dec 27, 1997 23 mins

Spydra realizes what's missing from her life: laughter.

Episode 18

It's Not Easy Staying Green

Sat, Jan 3, 1998 23 mins

All Spydra needs to bring the world to its knees is a whole lot of the rare Humongous Fungus, which causes anyone who eats it to hiccup violently.

Episode 19

Just Fakir-ing It

Sat, Jan 10, 1998 23 mins

In order to enact the power of a mystical sun-controlling ruby, Spydra takes Boris back to India in 1928 and enrolls him as a student of a great swami master.

Episode 20

Go West Young Vulture

Sat, Jan 17, 1998 22 mins

Gadget Boy and Co. head back to California in the Wild West 1849, time of the Gold Rush, and the perfect time for Spydra to steal the gold she needs to repair the Spydra-Chron's rapidly failing Time-Ometer. From the Assayers office, to panning for gold, to mining the enormous Calaveras gold nugget. Gadget Boy, who thinks he's in a modern-day tourist mining town, accidentally destroys Mulch and Humus. And Agent Heather, with the help of the local native Americans, tricks Spydra. Apparently fool's gold isn't the only fool in them thar hills.

Episode 21

These Are a Few of My Favorite Flying Things

Sat, Jan 24, 1998 22 mins

Spydra journeys back to 15th century Florence Italy in an attempt to steal Leonardo Da Vinci's famous perpetual motion machine, not realizing his inventions only exist on paper.

Episode 22

Valley of the Vulture

Sat, Jan 31, 1998 22 mins

Spydra's got a taste for Tut and nothing's going to satiate it except a trip back to the Nile River Valley. Destination Egypt, 1922. And her goal? To steal all of King Tut's treasures before the world even knows they exist, beating archeologist Howard Carter to the site and making off with the goods herself. But once again her plans are foiled as Gadget Boy and Co. arrive to throw a mummy wrench into her plans in this rollicking Egyptian tomb adventure.

Episode 23

The Time Land Forgot

Sat, Feb 7, 1998 23 mins

The Gadget Boy team are sent back to 700 A.D. Mexico.

Episode 24

Three Brainiacs in a Fountain

Sat, Feb 14, 1998 23 mins

The 'three brainiacs' in question are chemist Marie Curie, pasteurization inventor Louis Pasteur, and general all-around smart guy Albert Einstein.

Episode 25

A Gadget Boy Christmas Around the World

Sat, Feb 21, 1998 23 mins

Traumatized by an early piano recital of "Jingle Bells," Spydra decides to eliminate Christmas once and for all by destroying its very roots.

Episode 26

Back to the Vulture

Sat, Feb 28, 1998 22 mins

Spydra is tired of being outwitted by "that dullard Dabble" and his brilliant inventions and tired of being chased through time by Gadget Boy and Co. So she goes "Back to the Future," to Cleveland, Ohio in 1957 to meet up with Dabble's parents-to-be - Myra and Skippy Dabble. Spydra plans to destroy Myra's prototype for Time Travel so that Spydra will be the only one skipping through time. When Boris falls into the Beatnik way of life, our heroes help Myra and Skippy keep their present intact while using the orbit of Sputnik II to Time-Travel themselves back home... with a Russian Astro-pet for the Chief.