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Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas is a 1992 Christmas television special spun off from the 1980s animated syndicated television series Inspector Gadget, originally broadcast on NBC on December 4, 1992.

The special was nominated for the 1993 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour). However, it lost to the Batman episode "Robin's Reckoning - Part 1".

Synopsis

The special opens up at the North Pole, where Santa Claus and his elves are busy working on all the toys that he has to deliver this year for Christmas (while singing their own version of "Jingle Bells"). But in the midst of all this, Dr. Claw has managed to sneak into the factory with MAD Cat, and he has also somehow managed to install mind control devices on all the elves. When he activates them, the elves stop moving, and Santa is suddenly grabbed by a big claw that has been installed over his head and dropped through a manhole in the middle of the factory. Once that's done, Dr. Claw takes a seat where Santa was and orders the elves to mess up the toys so that Santa's reputation will be ruined.

Meanwhile, in Metro City, Inspector Gadget is busy going around with his Christmas doings, completely oblivious to the MAD agents sent by Dr. Claw attempting to kill him. In fact, he doesn't even have a clue that there is something funny going on until he visits the mall Santa, which it turns out is really his boss, Police Chief Quimby, in one of his hiding spots. Like in every episode of the original series, he gives Gadget a message about what's going on. And then, true to the original cartoon, Gadget leaves the note to self-destruct in the Chief's face, much to Quimby's annoyance.

Assuming that Dr. Claw has not yet made his move, Gadget heads off to the North Pole, accompanied by his niece Penny and his dog Brain. Upon entering the factory, he firmly believes there is nothing wrong there. He does not even get suspicious when he goes to talk to "Santa", not realizing that he is actually staring Dr. Claw right in the face. Penny and Brain, on the other hand, are not so easily fooled, but when they try to tell Gadget about it, he is sideswiped by the claw that grabbed Santa earlier and thrown onto the conveyor belt with all the mismatched toys that the brainwashed elves are manufacturing. Gadget takes time to examine these toys (in song, to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"), during which Brain tries to keep him out of harm's way like always.

Dr. Claw is not happy to find that this little trap has not gotten rid of "the inside dope", so he instead has Gadget dropped down the manhole he dropped Santa through at the beginning. There, Gadget comes upon the real Santa, but due to his usual absent-minded behavior of mistaking the good guys for the bad guys, arrests him because he thinks this one is the fraud. Brain, who was watching this, reports this to Penny, whom the elves trap inside a giant jack-in-the-box. Brain proceeds to get the keys away from Dr. Claw, who has placed them on MAD Cat's fake antlers. (During this, Claw broods over the Dirty Trick Sled that Santa never brought him in his youth.) After getting the keys, Brain goes to open the cell where Gadget has been interrogating "the fake Santa", using lines of The Night Before Christmas for reference. Gadget, thinking that Brain is an accomplice to "the fake Santa", lassos both of them and heads off to tell "the real Santa" on them.

As Gadget helps "Santa" load the mismatched toys onto the sleigh, Brain springs himself and the real Santa loose, and then follows Penny (having escaped from the jack-in-the-box earlier) to the control room that Dr. Claw mysteriously left vacant. Penny immediately deactivates the mind control, which prompts all the elves to start singing a reprise of their Jingle Bells rewrite. Dr. Claw gets into his jet and prepares to take off with the sleigh full of broken toys. But he doesn't expect the real Santa to show up with half of his reindeer and foil him by unhooking the sleigh from the MAD Jet. Then for good measure, Gadget, who still does not realize that he has been hanging out with his nemesis the whole time, ties the hook to a candy cane prop. The reindeer then break up the ice behind the mad doc, sending him drifting into the distance. After the Chief makes his obligatory appearance to congratulate Gadget and company for saving Christmas and stopping Dr. Claw once more, Santa gives them a ride in his sleigh.

Home video releases

The special made its home video debut with a VHS tape released by Buena Vista Home Video, through the DiC Toon Time Video label, in 1993. The special was then released on VHS again and on DVD for the first time by Sterling Entertainment Group in 2004. Both the VHS tape and the DVD also included two episodes of the original Inspector Gadget series, "The Weather in Tibet" and "So It is Written", with the DVD additionally containing the episode "Birds of a Feather" as a bonus feature. The special was later made available on Apple TV and Amazon Video alongside Sonic Christmas Blast. Cinedigm released the special on DVD again on October 8, 2013; this time, however, it did not contain any bonus episodes.

US releases

International releases

Cast

Voice actor/actress	Character(s)
Don Adams	Inspector Gadget (speaking)
Erica Horn	Penny
Maurice LaMarche	Chief Quimby Inspector Gadget (singing)
Frank Welker	Brain Dr. Claw M.A.D. Cat Santa Claus

External links

WildBrain
WildBrain Spark	"Christmas Tree" • "Twinkle's Wish" • A Holly Johnny Christmas • "Christmas" (Yo Gabba Gabba!) • "A Very Awesome Christmas" • Yo Gabba Gabba!: A Very Awesome Live Holiday Show! • "SheZon's Greetings" • Dorg and the Christmas Fairy • "Johnny's Holiday Light Fight" • "Christmas at Malory Towers"
Studio B Productions	Snowden: Raggedy Ann & Andy's Adventure • "Joy to Yvon" • "Snow Biz" • The Legend of Frosty the Snowman • Tis the Season for Revenge • Secret Santa • "Jungle Bells" / "Goat of Christmas Presents" • "Sleighs of Hazard" • "Jingle Cans" • The Side Show Christmas • "Kid vs. Kat vs. Christmas" • "Fangs for the Memories" • "Hearth's Warming Eve" • "I Heard the Barks on Christmas Day" • "Christmas Evil" • "Hearthbreakers" • "Charles Dickens" • "A Hearth's Warming Tail" • "Robert Edwin Peary" • "The Hearth's Warming Club" • My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Holidays Unwrapped
CINAR / Cookie Jar Entertainment	"The Dogs' Christmas" • Madeline's Christmas • "The Real Story of O Christmas Tree" • "Thomas' Snowsuit" • "50 Below Zero" • "A Gift of Munsch" • "The Night Before Christmas" • "The Perfect Christmas" • "The Best Christmas Present Ever" • "Abe and Babe's Christmas Lesson" • "Sally Cat's Christmas Dream" • "The Big Apple Christmas Caper" • "Santa Needs Help" • "All I Want for Christmouse" • "Christmas Star" • "Snowmobile to Panic" • Arthur's Perfect Christmas • "Caillou's Christmas" • Caillou's Holiday Movie • Gotta Catch Santa Claus • The Velveteen Rabbit • "A Holly Johnny Christmas" • "That's Swellaphant!" • "Caillou’s Perfect Christmas"
DiC Entertainment	"Christmas Memories" • "North Pole Cat" • "Xmas Marks the Spot" • "There's No Such Thing as Stego-Claws" • "The Year Scroogenip Swiped Christmas" • "Koopa Klaus" • "Santa Claus is Coming to Flatbush" • "Merry Christmas, Mr. Carroll" • "Christmas in July" • "The Night Before Cave Christmas" • A Christmas Adventure • "Merry Christmas, Super Dave!" • Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas • A Hollywood Hounds Christmas • "Do Not Reboot 'Til Christmas" • "Kilo Is Coming to Town" • "It's a Gorganus Life" • "Madeline at the North Pole" • "Just Like Old Times" • Twas the Night Before Bumpy • Jingle Bell Rock • Sonic Christmas Blast • The Adventures of Snowden • A Christmas Carol • "Holiday on Ice" • "A Gadget Boy Christmas Around the World" • "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" • "Witchmas Carole" • "The Christmas Phantom" • "Across the Delaware" • "Berry Merry Christmas" • "Santa Claw" • "The Claw Who Stole Christmas"
Ragdoll Productions	"Magical Lights" • "Christmas Tree" • "Making Christmas Cards" • "Crackers" • "Christmas Carols" • "The Perfect Tree"
Decode Entertainment	"Santa Sword is Coming to Town" • "Secret Santa" • "Last Day of Christmas" • "A Very Sadie Christmas" • "His Master's Choice" • "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" • "The Nutcracker" • "The Happy Holidays Issue" • "How to Make a Christmas Miracle" • "Lobster Claus is Coming to Town"
Halifax Films	"Bob's Broken Sleigh" • "A Wish World Christmas"
Iconix Brand Group	A Charlie Brown Christmas • "The Play" • It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown • Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales • "Berry Merry Christmas" • I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown • "Dear Santa Claus" • "Happy First Frost" • "Christmas is Coming" • "Christmas is on Its Way" • "It's Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown" • "Berry Merry Melody" • "Lemon's Name in Lights" • "Happiness is the Gift of Giving" • "Mission Unfrostable" • "Happiness Is Holiday Traditions"
FilmFair	"Paddington's Christmas" • "Paddington and the Christmas Shopping" • "Christmas in Fabuland" • "Huxley Pig's Cinderella"
Nerd Corps Entertainment	"A Christmas Wish" • "Monster Machine Christmas" • Lego Friends: Holiday Special • "Happy Sniffmas" • "A Blazing Amazing Christmas"

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-|writer=Jack Hanrahan<br>Eleanor Burian-Mohr
+|writer=Jack Hanrahan<br />Eleanor Burian-Mohr
 |release=December 4, 1992
-|runtime=25 minutes
+|runtime=24 minutes
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-'''''Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas''''' is a 1992 [[Christmas]] television special based on the 1980s animated television series ''[[wikipedia:Inspector Gadget|Inspector Gadget]]'', originally broadcast on [[wikipedia:NBC|NBC]] on December 4, 1992.
+'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is a 1992 [[Christmas]] television special spun off from the 1980s animated syndicated television series ''{{W|Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)|Inspector Gadget}}'', originally broadcast on [[NBC]] on December 4, 1992.
-The special was nominated for the 1993 [[wikipedia:Primetime Emmy Award|Primetime Emmy Award]] for [[wikipedia:Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)|Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)]]. However, it lost to the ''[[wikipedia:Batman: The Animated Series|Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Robin's Reckoning - Part 1".
+The special was nominated for the 1993 {{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour)}}. However, it lost to the ''{{W|Batman: The Animated Series|Batman}}'' episode "Robin's Reckoning - Part 1".
-== Synopsis ==
+==Synopsis==
-The special opens up at the North Pole, where [[Santa Claus#inspectorgadget|Santa Claus]] and his elves are busy working on all the toys that he has to deliver (while singing their own version of "[[Jingle Bells]]"). But in the midst of this, [[Dr. Claw]] has managed to sneak into the factory, and he has also somehow managed to install mind control devices on all the elves. When he activates them, the elves stop moving, and Santa is suddenly grabbed by a big claw that has been installed over his head and dropped through a manhole in the middle of the factory. Once that's done, Dr. Claw takes a seat where Santa was and orders the elves to mess up the toys so that Santa's reputation will be ruined.
+The special opens up at the North Pole, where [[Santa Claus#inspectorgadget|Santa Claus]] and his elves are busy working on all the toys that he has to deliver this year for Christmas (while singing their own version of "[[Jingle Bells (song)|Jingle Bells]]"). But in the midst of all this, [[Dr. Claw]] has managed to sneak into the factory with MAD Cat, and he has also somehow managed to install mind control devices on all the elves. When he activates them, the elves stop moving, and Santa is suddenly grabbed by a big claw that has been installed over his head and dropped through a manhole in the middle of the factory. Once that's done, Dr. Claw takes a seat where Santa was and orders the elves to mess up the toys so that Santa's reputation will be ruined.
 [[File:InspectorGadget.jpg|thumb|250px|Gadget visits the mall Santa (actually a disguised Chief Quimby).]]
-Meanwhile, [[Inspector Gadget]] is busy going around with his Christmas doings, completely oblivious to the MAD agents attempting to kill him. In fact, he doesn't even have a clue that there is something funny going on until he visits the mall Santa, which it turns out is really Chief Quimby in one of his hiding spots. Like in every episode of the original series, he gives Gadget a message about what's going on. And then, true to the original cartoon, he leaves the note to self-destruct in the Chief's face.
+Meanwhile, in Metro City, [[Inspector Gadget]] is busy going around with his Christmas doings, completely oblivious to the MAD agents sent by Dr. Claw attempting to kill him. In fact, he doesn't even have a clue that there is something funny going on until he visits the mall Santa, which it turns out is really his boss, Police Chief Quimby, in one of his hiding spots. Like in every episode of the original series, he gives Gadget a message about what's going on. And then, true to the original cartoon, Gadget leaves the note to self-destruct in the Chief's face, much to Quimby's annoyance.
 [[File:GadgetOnBike.jpg|thumb|250px]]
-Assuming that Dr. Claw has not yet made his move, Gadget heads off to the North Pole, accompanied by his niece Penny and his dog Brain. Upon entering the factory, he firmly believes there is nothing wrong there. He does not even get suspicious when he goes to talk to "Santa", not realizing that he is actually staring Dr. Claw right in the face. Penny and Brain, on the other hand, are not so easily fooled. But when they try to tell Gadget about it, he is sideswiped by the claw that grabbed Santa earlier and thrown onto the conveyor belt with all the mismatched toys that the brainwashed elves are manufacturing. Gadget takes time to examine these toys (in song, to the tune of "[[The Twelve Days of Christmas]]"), during which Brain tries to keep him out of harm's way.
+Assuming that Dr. Claw has not yet made his move, Gadget heads off to the North Pole, accompanied by his niece [[Penny (Inspector Gadget)|Penny]] and his dog [[Brain (Inspector Gadget)|Brain]]. Upon entering the factory, he firmly believes there is nothing wrong there. He does not even get suspicious when he goes to talk to "Santa", not realizing that he is actually staring Dr. Claw right in the face. Penny and Brain, on the other hand, are not so easily fooled, but when they try to tell Gadget about it, he is sideswiped by the claw that grabbed Santa earlier and thrown onto the conveyor belt with all the mismatched toys that the brainwashed elves are manufacturing. Gadget takes time to examine these toys (in song, to the tune of "[[The Twelve Days of Christmas]]"), during which Brain tries to keep him out of harm's way like always.
-Dr. Claw is not happy to find that this little trap has not gotten rid of "the inside dope", so he instead has Gadget dropped down the manhole he dropped Santa through at the beginning. There, Gadget comes upon the real Santa, but arrests him because he thinks this one is the fraud. Brain, who was watching this, reports this to Penny, whom the elves trap inside a giant jack-in-the-box. Brain proceeds to get the keys away from Dr. Claw, who has placed them on Mad Cat's fake antlers. (During this, Claw broods over the Dirty Trick Sled that Santa never brought him in his youth.) After getting the keys, Brain goes to open the cell where Gadget has been interrogating "the fake Santa", using lines of ''[[The Night Before Christmas]]'' for reference. Gadget, thinking that Brain is an accomplice to "the fake Santa", lassos both of them and heads off to tell "the real Santa" on them.
+Dr. Claw is not happy to find that this little trap has not gotten rid of "the inside dope", so he instead has Gadget dropped down the manhole he dropped Santa through at the beginning. There, Gadget comes upon the real Santa, but due to his usual absent-minded behavior of mistaking the good guys for the bad guys, arrests him because he thinks this one is the fraud. Brain, who was watching this, reports this to Penny, whom the elves trap inside a giant jack-in-the-box. Brain proceeds to get the keys away from Dr. Claw, who has placed them on MAD Cat's fake antlers. (During this, Claw broods over the Dirty Trick Sled that Santa never brought him in his youth.) After getting the keys, Brain goes to open the cell where Gadget has been interrogating "the fake Santa", using lines of ''[[The Night Before Christmas]]'' for reference. Gadget, thinking that Brain is an accomplice to "the fake Santa", lassos both of them and heads off to tell "the real Santa" on them.
 [[File:InspectorGadgetWithSanta.jpg|thumb|250px]]
-As Gadget helps "Santa" load the mismatched toys onto the sleigh, Brain springs himself and the real Santa loose, and then follows Penny (having escaped from the jack-in-the-box earlier) to the control room that Dr. Claw mysteriously left vacant. Penny immediately deactivates the mind control, which prompts all the elves to start singing a reprise of their ''Jingle Bells'' rewrite. Dr. Claw gets into his jet and prepares to take off with the sleigh full of broken toys. But he doesn't expect the real Santa to show up with half of his reindeer and foil him by unhooking the sleigh from the MAD Jet. Then for good measure, Gadget, who ''still'' does not realize that he has been hanging out with his nemesis the whole time, ties the hook to a candy cane prop. The reindeer then break up the ice behind the mad doc, sending him drifting into the distance. After the Chief makes his obligatory appearance to congratulate Gadget and company for saving Christmas, Santa gives them a ride in his sleigh.
+As Gadget helps "Santa" load the mismatched toys onto the sleigh, Brain springs himself and the real Santa loose, and then follows Penny (having escaped from the jack-in-the-box earlier) to the control room that Dr. Claw mysteriously left vacant. Penny immediately deactivates the mind control, which prompts all the elves to start singing a reprise of their ''Jingle Bells'' rewrite. Dr. Claw gets into his jet and prepares to take off with the sleigh full of broken toys. But he doesn't expect the real Santa to show up with half of his reindeer and foil him by unhooking the sleigh from the MAD Jet. Then for good measure, Gadget, who ''still'' does not realize that he has been hanging out with his nemesis the whole time, ties the hook to a candy cane prop. The reindeer then break up the ice behind the mad doc, sending him drifting into the distance. After the Chief makes his obligatory appearance to congratulate Gadget and company for saving Christmas and stopping Dr. Claw once more, Santa gives them a ride in his sleigh.
-== Home video releases ==
+==Home video releases==
-The special made its home video debut with a VHS tape released by [[wikipedia:Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Entertainment]] in 1993. It was released on VHS again by [[wikipedia:Lions Gate Entertainment|Lions Gate Entertainment]] on October 16, 2001. The special was then released on VHS again and on DVD for the first time by Sterling Entertainment Group in 2004. Both the VHS tape and the DVD also included two episodes of the original ''Inspector Gadget'' series, "The Weather in Tibet" and "So It is Written", with the DVD additionally containing the episode "Birds of a Feather" as a bonus feature. The special was later made available on [[wikipedia:iTunes|iTunes]] alongside ''[[Sonic Christmas Blast]]''. New Video Group released the special on DVD again on October 8, 2013; this time, however, it did not contain any bonus episodes.
+The special made its home video debut with a VHS tape released by {{W|Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment|Buena Vista Home Video}}, through the DiC Toon Time Video label, in 1993. The special was then released on VHS again and on DVD for the first time by Sterling Entertainment Group in 2004. Both the VHS tape and the DVD also included two episodes of the original ''Inspector Gadget'' series, "The Weather in Tibet" and "So It is Written", with the DVD additionally containing the episode "Birds of a Feather" as a bonus feature. The special was later made available on {{W|iTunes|Apple TV}} and {{w|Amazon Video}} alongside ''[[Sonic Christmas Blast]]''. Cinedigm released the special on DVD again on October 8, 2013; this time, however, it did not contain any bonus episodes.
+;US releases
-<gallery widths="200" captionalign="center" bordersize="none" spacing="small" position="center">
+<gallery widths="200" bordercolor="transparent" spacing="small" hideaddbutton="true">
-InspectorGadgetXmas_VHS_1996.jpg|{{Gallery note|VHS|Buena Vista Home Video, 1993}}
+InspectorGadgetXmas VHS 1996.jpg|{{GNH|VHS|Buena Vista Home Video<br>1993}}
-InspectorGadgetXmas_VHS_2001.jpg|{{Gallery note|VHS|Lions Gate Entertainment, 2001}}
-InspectorGadgetChristmas_VHS_2004.jpg|{{Gallery note|VHS|Sterling Entertainment Group, 2004}}
+InspectorGadgetChristmas VHS 2004.jpg|{{GNH|VHS|Sterling Entertainment Group<br>2004}}
-InspectorGadgetXmas_DVD_2006.jpg|{{Gallery note|DVD|Sterling Entertainment Group, 2004}}
+InspectorGadgetXmas DVD 2006.jpg|{{GNH|DVD|Sterling Entertainment Group<br>2004}}
-InspectorGadgetSavesChristmas_DVD_2013.jpg|{{Gallery note|DVD|New Video Group, 2013}}
+InspectorGadgetSavesChristmas DVD 2013.jpg|{{GNH|DVD|Cinedigm Entertainment<br>October 8, 2013}}
 </gallery>
+;International releases
-== Cast ==
+<gallery widths="200" bordercolor="transparent" spacing="small" hideaddbutton="true">
+Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas VHS UK.jpg|{{GNH|VHS (UK)|Tempo Video<br>c.1993}}
+Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas VHS UK 1997.jpg|{{GNH|VHS (UK)|Channel 5 Video<br>October 27, 1997}}
+InspectorGadgetXmas VHS 2001.jpg|{{GNH|VHS (Canada)|{{w|Lionsgate|Lions Gate Home Entertainment}}<br>October 16, 2001}}
+</gallery>
+==Cast==
 {| class="wikitable"
-! Voice actor !! Character
+! Voice actor/actress !! Character(s)
-|-
-| {{w|Don Adams}}
-| [[Inspector Gadget]]
 |-
+| {{w|Don Adams}} || [[Inspector Gadget]] {{s|(speaking)}}
-| {{w|Erica Horn}}
-| Penny
 |-
+| {{w|Erica Horn}} || [[Penny (Inspector Gadget)|Penny]]
-| [[Maurice LaMarche]]
+|-valign=top
-| Chief Quimby
+| [[Maurice LaMarche]] || [[Chief Quimby]]<br />Inspector Gadget {{s|(singing)}}
-|-valign="top"
+|-valign=top
-| [[Frank Welker]]
-| Brain<br />[[Dr. Claw]]<br />[[Santa Claus#inspectorgadget|Santa Claus]]
+| [[Frank Welker]] || [[Brain (Inspector Gadget)|Brain]]<br />[[Dr. Claw]]<br />M.A.D. Cat<br />[[Santa Claus#inspectorgadget|Santa Claus]]
 |}
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 * "[[A Gadget Boy Christmas All Around the World]]"
 * "[[Santa Claw]]"
+* "[[The Claw Who Stole Christmas]]"
 ==External links==
-* [[w:c:inspectorgadget:Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas|Inspector Gadget Wiki: Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas]]
+* {{Interwiki|inspectorgadget|Inspector Gadget Wiki}}
 * {{imdb title|0285225}}
 * {{Bcdb title|47787}}
-{{Cookie Jar Group}}
+{{DHX Media}}
 [[Category:Specials]]
 [[Category:DiC Entertainment]]
 [[Category:Originally aired on NBC]]
 [[Category:Santa Claus filmography]]
-[[Category:Released in the 1990s]]
+[[Category:1992 releases]]
 [[Category:Award-nominated specials]]
+[[Category:Santa's Reindeer filmography]]

Changes: Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas

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Contents

Synopsis

Home video releases

Cast

See also

External links