Peter Keefe
Director
Widget the World Watcher (1990)
Season 2
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.
Released Sept. 29, 1990
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Kids, Science Fiction
Keywords: imdb.character-name-as-series-title, imdb.widget-the-alien-character, imdb.three-word-series-title, imdb.living-brain-matter, imdb.shapeshifter, imdb.environmental, imdb.parallel-world, imdb.alien
Production Companies: Calico Entertainment
Network: Syndication
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Two Times Widget Equals Trouble
A careless mistake by Mega Brain sends Ratchet, Widget's alter ego, out to trash.
Sept. 23, 1991, midnight
S2E2 - You Talkin' to Me?
Sept. 24, 1991, midnight
S2E3 - Sort It Out
Widget teaches the city people how to recycle.
Sept. 25, 1991, midnight
S2E4 - Watcher's Warning
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.
Sept. 26, 1991, midnight
S2E5 - The Great Brain Robbery
Widget's evil twin brother Ratchet captures Mega Brain and turns him into an evil brain.
Sept. 27, 1991, midnight
S2E6 - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
After a video recording of Widget is sent into space, ringmaster brothers Film Flam McSham capture Widget to be in their intergalactic circus.
Sept. 30, 1991, midnight
S2E7 - Bonkrz
Oct. 1, 1991, midnight
S2E8 - Glacier Grabber
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.
Oct. 2, 1991, midnight
S2E9 - Where's the Beef?
Mega Slank goes to Australia and hypnotizes animals to run his fast food company.
Oct. 3, 1991, midnight
S2E10 - Micronauts
Widget and friends try to stop mysterious rain that mutates anything into giant monsters.
Oct. 4, 1991, midnight
S2E11 - Watcher from Wayback
Widget travels to Tibet and unexpectedly meets an old World Watcher.
Oct. 7, 1991, midnight
S2E12 - Betty and the Beasts
Bob and Betty are capturing animals to make a movie.
Oct. 8, 1991, midnight
S2E13 - Maller Crawlers
Oct. 9, 1991, midnight
S2E14 - Never Cry Wolf
Brian is accidentally turned into a wolf by Mega Brain.
Oct. 10, 1991, midnight
S2E15 - All Day Suckers
A race of lollipop people seek water and goes to a greedy businessman who is draining out Earth's water.
Oct. 11, 1991, midnight
S2E16 - Fifty Foot Ants
Oct. 14, 1991, midnight
S2E17 - Half-Pint
Oct. 15, 1991, midnight
S2E18 - Air For Sale
Oct. 16, 1991, midnight
S2E19 - Intergalactic Garage Sale
Evil Mega Slank steals many of Earth's most magnificent landmarks for his Intergalactic Garage Sale.
Oct. 17, 1991, midnight
S2E20 - The Great Brain Drain
The Watcher Elders inform Widget that Bizarre Brain is causing mayhem and Mega Brain is afraid to help.
Oct. 18, 1991, midnight
S2E21 - Dr. Mega-Slank's Pet Palace
Mega Slank is capturing animals from the vet to run his machine.
Oct. 21, 1991, midnight
S2E22 - Murtle & Zurtle
Widget tries to reunite a Galapagos turtle couple from a group of pirates.
Oct. 22, 1991, midnight
S2E23 - Ratchet Hood
Ratchet and his minions steal money intended for the Help the Earth foundation and Ratchet keeps the money to himself.
Oct. 23, 1991, midnight
S2E24 - Crazy 8
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.
Oct. 24, 1991, midnight
S2E25 - Half-Pint's Ransom
When Half Pint goes to stay with Widget, he gets into lots of mischief with his Teleportation Device.
Oct. 25, 1991, midnight
S2E26 - Whatsit to You?
Mega Slank builds a bunch of Widget robots to pollute Earth.
Oct. 28, 1991, midnight
S2E27 - Widget and the Sqizzlebonk
Film Flam McSham tries to enslave the Squizzlebonk, a gluttonous monster.
Oct. 29, 1991, midnight
S2E28 - Chaos in Kali-Ko
Dr. Dante is building a giant park and hypnotizes Widget to think he works for him.
Oct. 30, 1991, midnight
S2E29 - Head Game
Ratchet challenges Mega Brain to a set of games against a giant brain in which is not too bright.
Oct. 31, 1991, midnight
S2E30 - Mac Bluff
Nov. 1, 1991, midnight
S2E31 - Great Barrier Thief
Poachers Bob and Betty are capturing sea life in the Great Barrier Reef.
Nov. 4, 1991, midnight
S2E32 - The Brain Who Would Be King
Nov. 5, 1991, midnight
S2E33 - The Uncontrollable Urg
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.
Nov. 6, 1991, midnight
S2E34 - Intergalactic Grudge Match
Ratchet has started an intergalactic grudge match and has pitted Widget against a giant alien wrestler.
Nov. 7, 1991, midnight
S2E35 - Teeny, Weeny, Widget
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.
Nov. 8, 1991, midnight
S2E36 - Scraboolee Jubilee
Nov. 11, 1991, midnight
S2E37 - Culture Crooks
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.
Nov. 12, 1991, midnight
S2E38 - The Library Card
Widget, Mega Brain, Kevin, and Brian go to the library and reimagine the stories they read.
Nov. 13, 1991, midnight
S2E39 - Bonkula
A no-good prankster vampire named Bonkula befriends Kevin and becomes a bad influence to him.
Nov. 14, 1991, midnight
S2E40 - Ratchetland
Ratchet has stolen everybody's garbage bins and waste to make his own amusement park in the waste dump.
Nov. 15, 1991, midnight
S2E41 - Rose Colored Glasses
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.
Nov. 18, 1991, midnight
S2E42 - Crashing Planets
Nov. 19, 1991, midnight
S2E43 - Robo-Zonk
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.
Nov. 20, 1991, midnight
S2E44 - Ghost of a Chance
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.
Nov. 21, 1991, midnight
S2E45 - Rock Around the Cosmos
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.
Nov. 22, 1991, midnight
S2E46 - The Wishing Stone
Nov. 25, 1991, midnight
S2E47 - Time Trippers
Widget and Megabrain travel through time after seeing a news report on how Ratchet made his mutants.
Nov. 26, 1991, midnight
S2E48 - Bungle of the Jungle
Nov. 27, 1991, midnight
S2E49 - Machine Planet
Nov. 28, 1991, midnight
S2E50 - Awesome African Adventure
Widget and Mega Brain go to the African rain forest to aide a sick hippo from a poacher.
Nov. 29, 1991, midnight
S2E51 - Beast Side Story
A fox that lives on the streets is captured by a gang and Widget must stop them.
Dec. 2, 1991, midnight
S2E52 - Mother Slank's Intergalactic Vacation Paradise
Mega Slank's mother takes an underwater vacation, and the submarine is ruining the ocean.
Dec. 3, 1991, midnight
Network: Syndication
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Sept. 29, 1990
Last Air Date: Dec. 3, 1991, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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