Widget the World Watcher (1990)
Widget, the World Watcher is an animated television series which debuted in syndication on September 29, 1990. The series ran for two seasons; in the first season, it aired once a week, and in the second season, the series expanded to 5 days a week. The show featured environmentalist themes and was recognized by the National Education Association as recommended viewing for children.
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Episode 1 - Two Times Widget Equals Trouble
Release Date: 1991-09-23A careless mistake by Mega Brain sends Ratchet, Widget's alter ego, out to trash.
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Episode 2 - You Talkin' to Me?
Release Date: 1991-09-24 -
Episode 3 - Sort It Out
Release Date: 1991-09-25Widget teaches the city people how to recycle.
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Episode 4 - Watcher's Warning
Release Date: 1991-09-26Widget, Mega Brain, Kevin and Brian travel to Planet Scraboolie which is completely polluted and used to be beautiful. Widget wants to ensure the same thing does not happen to Earth.
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Episode 5 - The Great Brain Robbery
Release Date: 1991-09-27Widget's evil twin brother Ratchet captures Mega Brain and turns him into an evil brain.
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Episode 6 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Release Date: 1991-09-30After a video recording of Widget is sent into space, ringmaster brothers Film Flam McSham capture Widget to be in their intergalactic circus.
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Episode 7 - Bonkrz
Release Date: 1991-10-01 -
Episode 8 - Glacier Grabber
Release Date: 1991-10-02Widget, Mega Brain, Kevin, and Brian find that Dr. Dante is in the arctic with a supposedly harmless machine. Widget finds out that the machine is melting all the glaciers.
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Episode 9 - Where's the Beef?
Release Date: 1991-10-03Mega Slank goes to Australia and hypnotizes animals to run his fast food company.
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Episode 10 - Micronauts
Release Date: 1991-10-04Widget and friends try to stop mysterious rain that mutates anything into giant monsters.
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Episode 11 - Watcher from Wayback
Release Date: 1991-10-07Widget travels to Tibet and unexpectedly meets an old World Watcher.
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Episode 12 - Betty and the Beasts
Release Date: 1991-10-08Bob and Betty are capturing animals to make a movie.
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Episode 13 - Maller Crawlers
Release Date: 1991-10-09 -
Episode 14 - Never Cry Wolf
Release Date: 1991-10-10Brian is accidentally turned into a wolf by Mega Brain.
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Episode 15 - All Day Suckers
Release Date: 1991-10-11A race of lollipop people seek water and goes to a greedy businessman who is draining out Earth's water.
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Episode 16 - Fifty Foot Ants
Release Date: 1991-10-14 -
Episode 17 - Half-Pint
Release Date: 1991-10-15 -
Episode 18 - Air For Sale
Release Date: 1991-10-16 -
Episode 19 - Intergalactic Garage Sale
Release Date: 1991-10-17Evil Mega Slank steals many of Earth's most magnificent landmarks for his Intergalactic Garage Sale.
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Episode 20 - The Great Brain Drain
Release Date: 1991-10-18The Watcher Elders inform Widget that Bizarre Brain is causing mayhem and Mega Brain is afraid to help.
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Episode 21 - Dr. Mega-Slank's Pet Palace
Release Date: 1991-10-21Mega Slank is capturing animals from the vet to run his machine.
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Episode 22 - Murtle & Zurtle
Release Date: 1991-10-22Widget tries to reunite a Galapagos turtle couple from a group of pirates.
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Episode 23 - Ratchet Hood
Release Date: 1991-10-23Ratchet and his minions steal money intended for the Help the Earth foundation and Ratchet keeps the money to himself.
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Episode 24 - Crazy 8
Release Date: 1991-10-24Mega Brain suggests that Half Pint could have fun at an intergalactic carnival. However when they get there, it is full of strange people and things.
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Episode 25 - Half-Pint's Ransom
Release Date: 1991-10-25When Half Pint goes to stay with Widget, he gets into lots of mischief with his Teleportation Device.
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Episode 26 - Whatsit to You?
Release Date: 1991-10-28Mega Slank builds a bunch of Widget robots to pollute Earth.
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Episode 27 - Widget and the Sqizzlebonk
Release Date: 1991-10-29Film Flam McSham tries to enslave the Squizzlebonk, a gluttonous monster.
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Episode 28 - Chaos in Kali-Ko
Release Date: 1991-10-30Dr. Dante is building a giant park and hypnotizes Widget to think he works for him.
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Episode 29 - Head Game
Release Date: 1991-10-31Ratchet challenges Mega Brain to a set of games against a giant brain in which is not too bright.
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Episode 30 - Mac Bluff
Release Date: 1991-11-01 -
Episode 31 - Great Barrier Thief
Release Date: 1991-11-04Poachers Bob and Betty are capturing sea life in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Episode 32 - The Brain Who Would Be King
Release Date: 1991-11-05 -
Episode 33 - The Uncontrollable Urg
Release Date: 1991-11-06On a Watcher Scout trip; Widget, Half Pint, and Brian hear the story of the Urg, an always angry monster that lives on Widget's home planet.
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Episode 34 - Intergalactic Grudge Match
Release Date: 1991-11-07Ratchet has started an intergalactic grudge match and has pitted Widget against a giant alien wrestler.
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Episode 35 - Teeny, Weeny, Widget
Release Date: 1991-11-08Widget suggests that Kevin and Brian visit the agricultural fair, held by Flim Flam McSham. Widget is separated from the others when he is shrunken to the size of a mouse.
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Episode 36 - Scraboolee Jubilee
Release Date: 1991-11-11 -
Episode 37 - Culture Crooks
Release Date: 1991-11-12Ratchet and his mutant minions have stolen an ancient artifact from the museum and it's up to Widget, Mega Brain, and Half Pint to get it back.
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Episode 38 - The Library Card
Release Date: 1991-11-13Widget, Mega Brain, Kevin, and Brian go to the library and reimagine the stories they read.
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Episode 39 - Bonkula
Release Date: 1991-11-14A no-good prankster vampire named Bonkula befriends Kevin and becomes a bad influence to him.
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Episode 40 - Ratchetland
Release Date: 1991-11-15Ratchet has stolen everybody's garbage bins and waste to make his own amusement park in the waste dump.
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Episode 41 - Rose Colored Glasses
Release Date: 1991-11-18Widget, Megabrain and Half Pint travel to a faraway planet to discover a pair of rose-pink goggles that make the wearer see bad things.
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Episode 42 - Crashing Planets
Release Date: 1991-11-19 -
Episode 43 - Robo-Zonk
Release Date: 1991-11-20Mega Brain creates a robot named Robo-Zonk, who instantly befriends Half Pint. When Half Pint creates more robots, they go against him and it is up to Widget to stop them.
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Episode 44 - Ghost of a Chance
Release Date: 1991-11-21In an environmental takeoff of A Christmas Carol, Widget is visited by three ghosts, a Viking who engaged in deforestation, an American pioneer who participated in the buffalo slaughter, and a British big game hunter who contributed to extinction of some animals. The ghosts tell Widget that they are punished until they teach a living person of their wrong acts, and Widget sees their chance for atonement when the city's mayor is making a secret deal for a polluting factory to be built.
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Episode 45 - Rock Around the Cosmos
Release Date: 1991-11-22A parody of Star Wars, Widget goes after Flim Flam after an evil plan by Bizarre Brain spirals out of control. They are helped by Princess Erin, (Widget has a crush on her) who is used against her will by Bizarre Brain to destroy Earth.
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Episode 46 - The Wishing Stone
Release Date: 1991-11-25 -
Episode 47 - Time Trippers
Release Date: 1991-11-26Widget and Megabrain travel through time after seeing a news report on how Ratchet made his mutants.
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Episode 48 - Bungle of the Jungle
Release Date: 1991-11-27 -
Episode 49 - Machine Planet
Release Date: 1991-11-28 -
Episode 50 - Awesome African Adventure
Release Date: 1991-11-29Widget and Mega Brain go to the African rain forest to aide a sick hippo from a poacher.
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Episode 51 - Beast Side Story
Release Date: 1991-12-02A fox that lives on the streets is captured by a gang and Widget must stop them.
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Episode 52 - Mother Slank's Intergalactic Vacation Paradise
Release Date: 1991-12-03Mega Slank's mother takes an underwater vacation, and the submarine is ruining the ocean.