When I was a child I use to love watching Inspector Gadget on the Television. Everything to entertain a child with comical humour, action and technology glued together with interesting and well written characters that a child could relate too.
What made the show appealing was the good music and animation along with futuristic technology and good story lines to fit in to the theme of the show about how a inept detective with gadgetry beats a sinister global organisation (MAD) without realising his niece Penny and her dog is doing all the work. The intelligent and remarkable character of Penny for a child viewing audience makes the audience relate to the programme to help her uncle Gadget who is there purely for Clouseau type humour which also made it fun. Apart from treating the audience with intelligence it was also educational in that it showed the audience in view of the show about world cultures were ever MAD was.
Although the formula was simple it worked when produced and was entertaining and exciting without the flash and commercial ostentation of other cartoons of the time but purely with the merit of writing and animation. The 1980s were a great time to be a child as there was no end of good entertainment and this is one of those cartoons that emphasis this.
What made the show appealing was the good music and animation along with futuristic technology and good story lines to fit in to the theme of the show about how a inept detective with gadgetry beats a sinister global organisation (MAD) without realising his niece Penny and her dog is doing all the work. The intelligent and remarkable character of Penny for a child viewing audience makes the audience relate to the programme to help her uncle Gadget who is there purely for Clouseau type humour which also made it fun. Apart from treating the audience with intelligence it was also educational in that it showed the audience in view of the show about world cultures were ever MAD was.
Although the formula was simple it worked when produced and was entertaining and exciting without the flash and commercial ostentation of other cartoons of the time but purely with the merit of writing and animation. The 1980s were a great time to be a child as there was no end of good entertainment and this is one of those cartoons that emphasis this.