Yes, the second season of "Inspector Gadget" may be considered blasé and formulaic with its loyal fan base (hence leading to the show's abrupt cancellation in early 1986), but this short is the undisputed best adventure that Gadget, Penny, and Brain face! Dr. Spectrum, the diminutive MAD inventor from "Busy Signal" and "Ghost Catchers", was a deftly ingenious, hi-tech villain to join Dr. Claw's ranks. In this episode, his dream-wave machine, a towering electromagnetic invention engineered to generate nightmare-inducing rays that are subsequently propagated throughout the night on the resting denizens of Metro City, is part of an elaborate plot to exploitatively sell another gizmo of Dr. Spectrum's, a "Dream-Away" machine that filters out the nightmare waves, to the sleepy public for MAD's profit. These "Dream-Away" boxes are fabricated via another cool machine of Spectrum's, a 3-story-tall laser welder! Besides these fantastic set pieces, everything about this short is just absolutely impeccable for a Gadget short: the story, crime, music, soundFX all seamlessly come together in harmony! They just don't make them like this anymore...kudos to DIC animation!!!