GET SMART WAS ANOTHER INSPIRATION.ĭon Adams played secret agent Maxwell Smart, TV's “bumbling detective” archetype.

Heyward remembered the Blue Falcon not being the smartest of heroes, and he came up with the Inspector Gadget concept from there. The Blue Falcon hero needed the help of his dog sidekick Dynomutt, who was always outfitted with a bunch of contraptions. THE MAIN INFLUENCE BEHIND THE SHOW WAS A CARTOON ABOUT A ROBOTIC DOG.Īndy Heyward worked on the Hanna-Barbera show Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, which began in 1976 as part of Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour before joining Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics one year later. The classic cartoon ran original episodes for only three seasons, from 1983 to 1986, but played in syndication throughout the remainder of the decade, and well into the 1990s, and motion pictures were made about the dimwitted cyborg detective, who needed the help of his niece Penny and her dog Brain to defeat Dr. With a CGI reboot about to hit Netflix, now is a perfect time to think back to Inspector Gadget.

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