About this season
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.
Episodes (52)
1. Two Times Widget Equals Trouble
Aired 23 September 1991 • 30 min
A careless mistake by Mega Brain sends Ratchet, Widget's alter ego, out to trash.
2. You Talkin' to Me?
Aired 24 September 1991 • 30 min
3. Sort It Out
Aired 25 September 1991 • 30 min
Widget teaches the city people how to recycle.
4. Watcher's Warning
Aired 26 September 1991 • 30 min
Widget, 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.
5. The Great Brain Robbery
Aired 27 September 1991 • 30 min
Widget's evil twin brother Ratchet captures Mega Brain and turns him into an evil brain.
6. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Aired 30 September 1991 • 30 min
After a video recording of Widget is sent into space, ringmaster brothers Film Flam McSham capture Widget to be in their intergalactic circus.
7. Bonkrz
Aired 1 October 1991 • 30 min
8. Glacier Grabber
Aired 2 October 1991 • 30 min
Widget, 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.
9. Where's the Beef?
Aired 3 October 1991 • 30 min
Mega Slank goes to Australia and hypnotizes animals to run his fast food company.
10. Micronauts
Aired 4 October 1991 • 30 min
Widget and friends try to stop mysterious rain that mutates anything into giant monsters.
11. Watcher from Wayback
Aired 7 October 1991 • 30 min
Widget travels to Tibet and unexpectedly meets an old World Watcher.
12. Betty and the Beasts
Aired 8 October 1991 • 30 min
Bob and Betty are capturing animals to make a movie.
13. Maller Crawlers
Aired 9 October 1991 • 30 min
14. Never Cry Wolf
Aired 10 October 1991 • 30 min
Brian is accidentally turned into a wolf by Mega Brain.
15. All Day Suckers
Aired 11 October 1991 • 30 min
A race of lollipop people seek water and goes to a greedy businessman who is draining out Earth's water.
16. Fifty Foot Ants
Aired 14 October 1991 • 30 min
17. Half-Pint
Aired 15 October 1991 • 30 min
18. Air For Sale
Aired 16 October 1991 • 30 min
19. Intergalactic Garage Sale
Aired 17 October 1991 • 30 min
Evil Mega Slank steals many of Earth's most magnificent landmarks for his Intergalactic Garage Sale.
20. The Great Brain Drain
Aired 18 October 1991 • 30 min
The Watcher Elders inform Widget that Bizarre Brain is causing mayhem and Mega Brain is afraid to help.
21. Dr. Mega-Slank's Pet Palace
Aired 21 October 1991 • 30 min
Mega Slank is capturing animals from the vet to run his machine.
22. Murtle & Zurtle
Aired 22 October 1991 • 30 min
Widget tries to reunite a Galapagos turtle couple from a group of pirates.
23. Ratchet Hood
Aired 23 October 1991 • 30 min
Ratchet and his minions steal money intended for the Help the Earth foundation and Ratchet keeps the money to himself.
24. Crazy 8
Aired 24 October 1991 • 30 min
Mega 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.
25. Half-Pint's Ransom
Aired 25 October 1991 • 30 min
When Half Pint goes to stay with Widget, he gets into lots of mischief with his Teleportation Device.
26. Whatsit to You?
Aired 28 October 1991 • 30 min
Mega Slank builds a bunch of Widget robots to pollute Earth.
27. Widget and the Sqizzlebonk
Aired 29 October 1991 • 30 min
Film Flam McSham tries to enslave the Squizzlebonk, a gluttonous monster.
28. Chaos in Kali-Ko
Aired 30 October 1991 • 30 min
Dr. Dante is building a giant park and hypnotizes Widget to think he works for him.
29. Head Game
Aired 31 October 1991 • 30 min
Ratchet challenges Mega Brain to a set of games against a giant brain in which is not too bright.
30. Mac Bluff
Aired 1 November 1991 • 30 min
31. Great Barrier Thief
Aired 4 November 1991 • 30 min
Poachers Bob and Betty are capturing sea life in the Great Barrier Reef.
32. The Brain Who Would Be King
Aired 5 November 1991 • 30 min
33. The Uncontrollable Urg
Aired 6 November 1991 • 30 min
On 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.
34. Intergalactic Grudge Match
Aired 7 November 1991 • 30 min
Ratchet has started an intergalactic grudge match and has pitted Widget against a giant alien wrestler.
35. Teeny, Weeny, Widget
Aired 8 November 1991 • 30 min
Widget 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.
36. Scraboolee Jubilee
Aired 11 November 1991 • 30 min
37. Culture Crooks
Aired 12 November 1991 • 30 min
Ratchet 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.
38. The Library Card
Aired 13 November 1991 • 30 min
Widget, Mega Brain, Kevin, and Brian go to the library and reimagine the stories they read.
39. Bonkula
Aired 14 November 1991 • 30 min
A no-good prankster vampire named Bonkula befriends Kevin and becomes a bad influence to him.
40. Ratchetland
Aired 15 November 1991 • 30 min
Ratchet has stolen everybody's garbage bins and waste to make his own amusement park in the waste dump.
41. Rose Colored Glasses
Aired 18 November 1991 • 30 min
Widget, Megabrain and Half Pint travel to a faraway planet to discover a pair of rose-pink goggles that make the wearer see bad things.
42. Crashing Planets
Aired 19 November 1991 • 30 min
43. Robo-Zonk
Aired 20 November 1991 • 30 min
Mega 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.
44. Ghost of a Chance
Aired 21 November 1991 • 30 min
In 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.
45. Rock Around the Cosmos
Aired 22 November 1991 • 30 min
A 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.
46. The Wishing Stone
Aired 25 November 1991 • 30 min
47. Time Trippers
Aired 26 November 1991 • 30 min
Widget and Megabrain travel through time after seeing a news report on how Ratchet made his mutants.
48. Bungle of the Jungle
Aired 27 November 1991 • 30 min
49. Machine Planet
Aired 28 November 1991 • 30 min
50. Awesome African Adventure
Aired 29 November 1991 • 30 min
Widget and Mega Brain go to the African rain forest to aide a sick hippo from a poacher.
51. Beast Side Story
Aired 2 December 1991 • 30 min
A fox that lives on the streets is captured by a gang and Widget must stop them.
52. Mother Slank's Intergalactic Vacation Paradise
Aired 3 December 1991 • 30 min
Mega Slank's mother takes an underwater vacation, and the submarine is ruining the ocean.