8.6/10267 votesLoading...#1 - The Mirror
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/11/1995
Demona steals a magical mirror to summon an elf named Puck. She forces him to use his magic against Goliath and the humans. However, the result is not quite what she had in mind...
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: N/A
8.5/10242 votesLoading...#2 - City of Stone, Part Four
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 9/21/1995
The plan to end the spell is sent into motion, but Demona makes preparations to stop it. In the past, MacBeth must decide if his alliance with the gargoyles is worth a war with England.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
8.4/10487 votesLoading...#3 - Awakening, Part One
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/1994
In 994, a band of Vikings attack castle Wyvern in Scotland, but are driven back by the gargoyles protecting it. While retreating, they vow revenge... and someone in the castle may just want to help them with that.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
8.4/10259 votesLoading...#4 - City of Stone, Part One
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/1995
While Demona prepares to cast a spell on the entire city through a pirate TV broadcast, she remembers her life after Goliath and the others had been turned to stone by the Magus.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
8.3/10395 votesLoading...#5 - Awakening, Part Two
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/1994
Goliath returns to the castle to find all but a handful of his clan destroyed, and the humans abducted. The gargoyles defeat the Vikings and rescue the captives, but a tragic misunderstanding leaves them cursed to remain stone statues day and night... until a rich 20th century businessman takes an interest in them.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
8.2/10370 votesLoading...#6 - Awakening, Part Three
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/1994
Not satisfied with Xanatos's explanation for the strange happenings around his tower, Detective Maza decides to take a look around the castle by herself. Xanatos wants the Gargoyles help in retrieving some stolen data.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
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8.2/10338 votesLoading...#7 - Awakening, Part Five
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1994
The Gargoyles attack the data storage facilities, and when they return successful, Xanatos decides they've outlived their usefulness.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
8.2/10312 votesLoading...#8 - Deadly Force
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1994
Broadway accidentally shoots Elisa with her gun. Wracked with guilt, he takes her to the hospital and then goes off on his own to take his frustration out on an criminal he can find. When the others hear, they assume it was the work of a gangster Elisa was investigating, and set out to take him down - permanently.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
8.2/10219 votesLoading...#9 - City of Stone, Part Two
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/1995
The gargoyles awaken to find nearly all of New York City's denizens turned to stone. A millennium before, a young man named Macbeth must decide how much he's willing to sacrifice for love.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
8.2/10220 votesLoading...#10 - City of Stone, Part Three
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 9/20/1995
While Xanatos works to break the spell, the story of Macbeth continues, as the lord must take up arms against his brother when the Weird Sisters foretell his ascension to the throne of Scotland.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
8.2/10200 votesLoading...#11 - The Gathering, Part Two
Season 2 Episode 45 - Aired 4/30/1996
Oberon besieges Xanatos' skyscraper, determined to let nothing stand between him and the child.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gary Sperling
8.1/10253 votesLoading...#12 - Reawakening
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1995
Concluding that science and sorcery alone are not enough to stop the gargoyles, Demona and Xanatos try to combine them. Employing a mixture of rubble from gargoyles destroyed at Castle Wyvern in 994 AD and Xanatos' cybernetics, they create and awaken Coldstone.
Director: N/A
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
8.1/10185 votesLoading...#13 - Future Tense
Season 2 Episode 43 - Aired 4/25/1996
Fortune smiles upon the company, as they spot the Statue of Liberty through the mists. The city is not as they left it... Rather, it is a devastated ruin controlled by Xanatos' robot sentries.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marty Isenberg, Robert N. Skir
8.0/10348 votesLoading...#14 - Awakening, Part Four
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1994
Elisa and Goliath are ambushed in the park by a group of commandos. They try to escape, but dawn comes and Goliath turns to stone, leaving Elisa having to lead the pursuers away alone. Upon Goliath's return to the castle, Xanatos reunites him with an old 'friend'. The Gargoyles accept to help Xanatos retrieve his stolen disks from Cyberbiotics.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
8.0/10231 votesLoading...#15 - A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/7/1995
An archeological dig uncovers a set of scrolls, believed to contain Merlin's spells. Macbeth sends his mercenaries to try to capture the scrolls, but the gargoyles manage to stop them, getting separated from Hudson and Broadway in the process, both having one of the two scroll containers.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
8.0/10241 votesLoading...#16 - Vows
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/14/1995
Xanatos and Fox are getting married, and the groom asks Goliath to be his best man. Unsurprisingly, it turns out to be another of Xanatos's schemes, this time to obtain an piece of an artifact Goliath has - the Phoenix Gate, capable of opening doorways through time.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: N/A
8.0/10192 votesLoading...#17 - The Gathering, Part One
Season 2 Episode 44 - Aired 4/29/1996
Oberon has gathered his children... save one. Puck remains somewhere in the mortal realm, and Oberon takes a gargoyle hound to Manhattan to track him. Meanwhile, Xanatos' and Fox's families have their own gathering to celebrate a birth.
Director: N/A
Writer: Gary Sperling
8.0/101 votesLoading...#18 - Hunter's Moon: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 52 - Aired 5/15/1996
After learning that the Clan survived the destruction of the clock tower, the Hunters expose their existence to the public while Demona prepares her masterplan to exterminate humanity.
Director: Dennis Woodyard
Writer: N/A
7.9/10237 votesLoading...#19 - Metamorphosis
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/1995
Someone is taking people off the street and turning them into gargoyle-like creatures. Unsurprisingly, the trail leads to leads to one of Xanatos's labs and the noted geneticist, Anton Sevarius.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
7.9/10246 votesLoading...#20 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 9/13/1995
Xanatos proposes to Fox, giving her the Eye of Odin as an engagement present. Soon afterwards, a huge lupine creature appears throughout the city, devastating everything in it's path.
Director: Frank Paur
Writer: Steve Perry
7.8/10264 votesLoading...#21 - Long Way to Morning
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/1995
Demona forces Goliath into a confrontation, wounding him badly and leaving Hudson to protect him until dawn... A situation that reminds the old gargoyle of a mission he led over a millennia ago to recover a book of spells from the Archmage necessary to save the poisoned Prince.
Director: N/A
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
7.8/10195 votesLoading...#22 - The Cage
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 11/16/1995
The Mutates, burning for revenge against the clan, return. Goliath decides to take strong measures and find a cure for them, all with the unwilling aid of Dr. Sevarius.
Director: Dennis Woodyard
Writer: N/A
7.8/10196 votesLoading...#23 - Avalon, Part 1
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 11/20/1995
Tommy, the boy Goliath and his clan befriended 1000 years ago, arrives in Manhattan. He needs help in Avalon. Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx go with him to help and see what happened to the Gargoyle eggs.
Director: Dennis Woodyard
Writer: N/A
7.8/10195 votesLoading...#24 - Avalon, Part 3
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 11/22/1995
With the Archmage's millennia-spanning plot nearing completion, Goliath decides they must try to recapture one of the items that gives the magician his power. Meanwhile, Elisa and the Magus investigate the legend of the sleeping King - Arthur Pendragon.
Director: Dennis Woodyard
Writer: N/A
7.8/10181 votesLoading...#25 - M.I.A.
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 12/21/1995
Sent to London, Goliath comes in contact with the remnants of a local gargoyle clan, and is accused of leading one of their members to his death - 40 years before.
Director: Dennis Woodyard
Writer: Robert Cohen
The Best Episodes of Gargoyles
Every episode of Gargoyles ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Gargoyles!
In Scotland, 994 A.D. Goliath and his clan of gargoyles defend a medieval castle. In present day, David Xanatos buys the castle and moves it...
Genres:AnimationSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure
Episodes
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Mirror" is the best rated episode of "Gargoyles". It scored 8.6/10 based on 267 votes. Directed by Frank Paur and written by N/A, it aired on 9/11/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "City of Stone, Part Four".
