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Widget the World Watcher
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Tom Burton
Top Cast
Seasons
Season 1 (1990)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Widget's Great Whale Adventure
1990-09-29Widget reluctantly travels to Earth and he saves a whale caught by some poachers.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 2: Gorilla My Dreams
1990-10-06On a school trip, Kevin and Brian adopt a gorilla named Johnny Africa.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 3: Kona, the Captive Whale
1990-10-13On a trip with Kevin, Brian, and Kristine, Widget assumes the zookeeper of a baby whale named Kona is hurting her; while really the zookeeper is just doing his job.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 4: Widget of the Jungle
1990-10-20Widget travels to the jungles of Africa where evil poachers, Bob and Betty try to capture an elephant for his tusks.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 5: Widget's Walkabout
1990-10-27Widget travels to Australia to ensure its red kangaroos enjoy their new habitat.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 6: Amazon Adventure
1990-11-03Construction men are building a giant highway through the rainforest, cutting down special trees used by the natives as medicine.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 7: Mediterranean Adventure
1990-11-10A trip to the Mediterranean Sea gets Kevin, Brian, Kristine, and Mega Brain captured by fishermen, while Widget has to help out a cattle farmer.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 8: Slime Sleuths
1990-11-17Dr. Dante presumably has invented a machine to solve the issue of toxic waste disposal. Widget wonders about that when problems arise when the barrels containing the waste are reused.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 9: Rock 'n' Roll Widget
1990-11-24Episode 10: Teacher's Pets
1990-12-01Widget gets to be the children's substitute teacher of biology and zoology after their regular teacher keeps having car trouble.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 11: The Carnival Kids
1990-12-08Episode 12: Mega-Slank from Titanium
1990-12-15The evil Mega Slank steals animals to bring back to his planet.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 13: That's the Spirit
1990-12-22Season 2 (1991)
No overview available.
52 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Two Times Widget Equals Trouble
1991-09-23A careless mistake by Mega Brain sends Ratchet, Widget's alter ego, out to trash.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 2: You Talkin' to Me?
1991-09-24Episode 3: Sort It Out
1991-09-25Widget teaches the city people how to recycle.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 4: Watcher's Warning
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 5: The Great Brain Robbery
1991-09-27Widget's evil twin brother Ratchet captures Mega Brain and turns him into an evil brain.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 6: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 7: Bonkrz
1991-10-01Episode 8: Glacier Grabber
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 9: Where's the Beef?
1991-10-03Mega Slank goes to Australia and hypnotizes animals to run his fast food company.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 10: Micronauts
1991-10-04Widget and friends try to stop mysterious rain that mutates anything into giant monsters.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 11: Watcher from Wayback
1991-10-07Widget travels to Tibet and unexpectedly meets an old World Watcher.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 12: Betty and the Beasts
1991-10-08Bob and Betty are capturing animals to make a movie.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 13: Maller Crawlers
1991-10-09Episode 14: Never Cry Wolf
1991-10-10Brian is accidentally turned into a wolf by Mega Brain.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 15: All Day Suckers
1991-10-11A race of lollipop people seek water and goes to a greedy businessman who is draining out Earth's water.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 16: Fifty Foot Ants
1991-10-14Episode 17: Half-Pint
1991-10-15Episode 18: Air For Sale
1991-10-16Episode 19: Intergalactic Garage Sale
1991-10-17Evil Mega Slank steals many of Earth's most magnificent landmarks for his Intergalactic Garage Sale.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 20: The Great Brain Drain
1991-10-18The Watcher Elders inform Widget that Bizarre Brain is causing mayhem and Mega Brain is afraid to help.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 21: Dr. Mega-Slank's Pet Palace
1991-10-21Mega Slank is capturing animals from the vet to run his machine.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 22: Murtle & Zurtle
1991-10-22Widget tries to reunite a Galapagos turtle couple from a group of pirates.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 23: Ratchet Hood
1991-10-23Ratchet and his minions steal money intended for the Help the Earth foundation and Ratchet keeps the money to himself.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 24: Crazy 8
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 25: Half-Pint's Ransom
1991-10-25When Half Pint goes to stay with Widget, he gets into lots of mischief with his Teleportation Device.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 26: Whatsit to You?
1991-10-28Mega Slank builds a bunch of Widget robots to pollute Earth.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 27: Widget and the Sqizzlebonk
1991-10-29Film Flam McSham tries to enslave the Squizzlebonk, a gluttonous monster.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 28: Chaos in Kali-Ko
1991-10-30Dr. Dante is building a giant park and hypnotizes Widget to think he works for him.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 29: Head Game
1991-10-31Ratchet challenges Mega Brain to a set of games against a giant brain in which is not too bright.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 30: Mac Bluff
1991-11-01Episode 31: Great Barrier Thief
1991-11-04Poachers Bob and Betty are capturing sea life in the Great Barrier Reef.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 32: The Brain Who Would Be King
1991-11-05Episode 33: The Uncontrollable Urg
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 34: Intergalactic Grudge Match
1991-11-07Ratchet has started an intergalactic grudge match and has pitted Widget against a giant alien wrestler.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 35: Teeny, Weeny, Widget
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 36: Scraboolee Jubilee
1991-11-11Episode 37: Culture Crooks
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 38: The Library Card
1991-11-13Widget, Mega Brain, Kevin, and Brian go to the library and reimagine the stories they read.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 39: Bonkula
1991-11-14A no-good prankster vampire named Bonkula befriends Kevin and becomes a bad influence to him.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 40: Ratchetland
1991-11-15Ratchet has stolen everybody's garbage bins and waste to make his own amusement park in the waste dump.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 41: Rose Colored Glasses
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 42: Crashing Planets
1991-11-19Episode 43: Robo-Zonk
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 44: Ghost of a Chance
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 45: Rock Around the Cosmos
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.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 46: The Wishing Stone
1991-11-25Episode 47: Time Trippers
1991-11-26Widget and Megabrain travel through time after seeing a news report on how Ratchet made his mutants.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 48: Bungle of the Jungle
1991-11-27Episode 49: Machine Planet
1991-11-28Episode 50: Awesome African Adventure
1991-11-29Widget and Mega Brain go to the African rain forest to aide a sick hippo from a poacher.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 51: Beast Side Story
1991-12-02A fox that lives on the streets is captured by a gang and Widget must stop them.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 52: Mother Slank's Intergalactic Vacation Paradise
1991-12-03Mega Slank's mother takes an underwater vacation, and the submarine is ruining the ocean.
Runtime: 30 min
