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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 to New York City. When the castle is attacked the

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    Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 21 - Avalon (1)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Avalon (1)

    S2:E21

    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:Lydia Marano

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  2. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 22 - Avalon (2)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Avalon (2)

    S2:E22

    Goliath and Elisa meet with Katherine and the Mage. Under attack from the Archmage, Demona, Macbeth, and 3 of Auberon's children, Elisa knows they'll need more allies in the up coming fight. She goes to wake a human who has been on the island for a long time.

    Director:Dennis Woodyard
    Writer:Lydia Marano

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  3. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 23 - Avalon (3)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Avalon (3)

    S2:E23

    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:Lydia Marano

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  4. Gargoyles Season 3 Episode 1 - The Journey
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Journey

    S3:E1

    Anti-gargoyle group, The Quarrymen organizes to rid Manhattan of gargoyles.

    Director:Charles E. Bastien
    Writer:Greg Weisman

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  5. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 3 - Awakening (3)
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Awakening (3)

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 1 - Awakening (1)
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Awakening (1)

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 2 - Awakening (2)
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Awakening (2)

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 8 - Deadly Force
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Deadly Force

    S1:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  9. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 13 - Reawakening
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Reawakening

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Brynne Chandler Reaves

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  10. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 2 - Metamorphosis
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Metamorphosis

    S2:E2

    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
    Writers:Brynne Chandler Reaves, Lydia Marano

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  11. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 5 - The Mirror
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Mirror

    S2:E5

    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:Lydia Marano

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  12. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 6 - The Silver Falcon
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Silver Falcon

    S2:E6

    Matt Bluestone disappears while looking into his pet obsession - the Illuminati. When Elisa investigates, Broadway insists on tagging along.

    Director:Frank Paur
    Writer:Cary Bates

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  13. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 8 - Vows
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Vows

    S2:E8

    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:Shari Goodhartz

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  14. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 52 - Hunter's Moon (3)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Hunter's Moon (3)

    S2:E52

    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.

    Directors:Dennis Woodyard, Kazuo Terada, Tomomichi Matsukawa
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  15. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 5 - Awakening (5)
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Awakening (5)

    S1:E5

    The Gargoyles attack the data storage facilities, and when they return successful, Xanatos decides they've outlived their usefulness.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 4 - Awakening (4)
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Awakening (4)

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 6 - The Thrill of the Hunt
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Thrill of the Hunt

    S1:E6

    A group of TV show fighters called The Pack appears and seems more than a match for all of the gargoyles.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  18. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 7 - Temptation
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Temptation

    S1:E7

    Demona convinces Brooklyn that humans and gargoyles can never live together, and asks him to help her show Goliath the same.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Brynne Chandler Reaves

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  19. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 9 - Enter MacBeth
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Enter MacBeth

    S1:E9

    As Xanatos is about to get out of prison, he wonders what to do about the Gargoyles. As luck would have it, he is contacted by a stranger calling himself MacBeth who offers to take the creatures off his hands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Steve Perry

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  20. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 10 - The Edge
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Edge

    S1:E10

    Xanatos donates a jewel - the Eye of Odin - to the city's museum. Then he has one of his robot gargoyles steal it back, framing Goliath.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  21. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 11 - Long Way to Morning
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Long Way to Morning

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Brynne Chandler Reaves

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  22. Gargoyles Season 1 Episode 12 - Her Brother's Keeper
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Her Brother's Keeper

    S1:E12

    Xanatos offers Elisa's brother a job as pilot and bodyguard, and he certainly gets his money's worth when Jackal and Hyena are ordered to assassinate him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  23. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 1 - Leader of the Pack
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Leader of the Pack

    S2:E1

    A mysterious masked man, who calls himself Coyote, breaks The Pack out of prison. He appoints himself leader and lead The Pack to set a trap for the gargoyles. Lexington's anger towards The Pack blinds his judgment, putting himself and the clan at risk.

    Director:Frank Paur
    Writer:Steve Perry

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  24. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 3 - Legion
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Legion

    S2:E3

    Coldstone reawakens, but a computer virus leaves him confused and in danger of his mind collapsing permanently.

    Director:Frank Paur
    Writers:Robert N. Skir, Marty Isenberg

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  25. Gargoyles Season 2 Episode 4 - A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time

    S2:E4

    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
    Writers:Brynne Chandler Reaves, Lydia Marano

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Best Episodes Summary

"Avalon (1)" is the best rated episode of "Gargoyles". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Dennis Woodyard and written by Lydia Marano, it aired on 11/20/1995. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Avalon (2)".