I'm sure lots of folks grew vup watching Inspector Gadget...even though it was
technically before my time, re-runs were out in full force when I was growing up and it was always one of my favourite shows.
Well, I just happened to stumble across this site and read the article out of sheer, morbid curiosity:
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/drclaw.html
...suffice to say, I think I'm going to go cry now.