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The Best Episodes of Gargoyles

Every episode of Gargoyles ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Gargoyles!

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 The Mirror
    8.6/10(276 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for City of Stone (4)
    8.5/10(253 votes)

    #2 - City of Stone (4)

    S2:E12

    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.

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  3. Background image for City of Stone (1)
    8.4/10(269 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for Awakening (1)
    8.3/10(504 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Awakening (2)
    8.3/10(408 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Awakening (3)
    8.2/10(382 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Awakening (5)
    8.2/10(349 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Deadly Force
    8.2/10(323 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
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  10. Background image for City of Stone (2)
    8.2/10(229 votes)

    #9 - City of Stone (2)

    S2:E10

    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.

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  11. Background image for City of Stone (3)
    8.2/10(231 votes)

    #10 - City of Stone (3)

    S2:E11

    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.

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  12. Background image for The Gathering (2)
    8.2/10(205 votes)

    #11 - The Gathering (2)

    S2:E45

    Oberon besieges Xanatos' skyscraper, determined to let nothing stand between him and the child.

    Director:Bob Kline
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  13. Background image for Reawakening
    8.1/10(263 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for Future Tense
    8.1/10(189 votes)

    #13 - Future Tense

    S2:E43

    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.

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  15. Background image for Awakening (4)
    8.0/10(358 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
    8.0/10(240 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Vows
    8.0/10(251 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for The Gathering (1)
    8.0/10(197 votes)

    #17 - The Gathering (1)

    S2:E44

    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:Bob Kline
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  19. Background image for Hunter's Moon (3)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for Metamorphosis
    7.9/10(244 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Eye of the Beholder
    7.9/10(257 votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for Long Way to Morning
    7.8/10(275 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.

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  23. Background image for The Cage
    7.8/10(204 votes)

    #22 - The Cage

    S2:E20

    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.

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  24. Background image for Avalon (1)
    7.8/10(204 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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  25. Background image for Avalon (3)
    7.8/10(203 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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  26. Background image for Hunter's Moon (1)
    7.8/10(188 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Mirror" is the best rated episode of "Gargoyles". It scored 8.6/10 based on 276 votes. Directed by Frank Paur and written by Lydia Marano, it aired on 9/11/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "City of Stone (4)".