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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...

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  1. Background image for Awakening (3)
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for Awakening (1)
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Awakening (2)
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Deadly Force
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - 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
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  5. Background image for Hunter's Moon (3)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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  6. Background image for Awakening (5)
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Awakening (4)
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for The Thrill of the Hunt
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - 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
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  10. Background image for Temptation
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Temptation

    S1:E7

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

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  11. Background image for Enter MacBeth
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - 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
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  12. Background image for Hunter's Moon (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Hunter's Moon (1)

    S2:E50

    Elisa is transferred to the night shift and given a new partner. Demona is stealing large quantities of a powerful disinfectant from Xanatos. And there's a new hunter in town, out to make sure every last gargoyle is dead...

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  13. Background image for Hunter's Moon (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Hunter's Moon (2)

    S2:E51

    Goliath swears revenge against the Hunters for what they did to Angela, and flies out to take the battle to them.

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  14. Background image for The Edge
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #13 - 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
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  15. Background image for Long Way to Morning
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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  16. Background image for Her Brother's Keeper
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    #15 - 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
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  17. Background image for Reawakening
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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  18. Background image for Leader of the Pack
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #17 - 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
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  19. Background image for Metamorphosis
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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  20. Background image for Legion
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Legion

    S2:E3

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

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  21. Background image for A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
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    #20 - 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.

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  22. Background image for The Mirror
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    #21 - 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
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  23. Background image for The Silver Falcon
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    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for Eye of the Beholder
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    #23 - Eye of the Beholder

    S2:E7

    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
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  25. Background image for Vows
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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  26. Background image for City of Stone (1)
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    #25 - City of Stone (1)

    S2:E9

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Awakening (3)" is the best rated episode of "Gargoyles". It scored 8.3/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/26/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Awakening (1)".