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The Best Episodes of Gargoyles

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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. 8.4/10(490 votes)

    #1 - Awakening (1)

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    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.

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  2. 8.3/10(400 votes)

    #2 - Awakening (2)

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    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.

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  3. 8.2/10(373 votes)

    #3 - Awakening (3)

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    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.

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  4. 8.2/10(341 votes)

    #4 - Awakening (5)

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

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  5. 8.2/10(314 votes)

    #5 - Deadly Force

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    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.

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  6. 8.1/10(255 votes)

    #6 - Reawakening

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    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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  8. 8.0/10(350 votes)

    #7 - Awakening (4)

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    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.

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  9. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Hunter's Moon (3)

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    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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  10. 7.8/10(268 votes)

    #9 - Long Way to Morning

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    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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  11. 7.8/10(127 votes)

    #10 - The Journey

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

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  12. 7.6/10(81 votes)

    #11 - Angels in the Night

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    The gargoyles are blamed for damage done by the Quarrymen.

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  13. 7.5/10(289 votes)

    #12 - Temptation

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    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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  14. 7.5/10(266 votes)

    #13 - The Edge

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    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.

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  15. 7.5/10(122 votes)

    #14 - Ransom

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    Baby Alex is kidnapped, and his captors want to trade a gargoyle for him.

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  16. 7.5/10(89 votes)

    #15 - Genesis Undone

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    Thailog and the other clones have started to fail.

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    Writer:Cary Bates
  17. 7.4/10(282 votes)

    #16 - Enter MacBeth

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    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.

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  18. 7.4/10(272 votes)

    #17 - Her Brother's Keeper

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    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.

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  19. 7.4/10(89 votes)

    #18 - The Dying of the Light

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    Hudson's eye starts to fail and fears he will be useless to the clan.

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  20. 7.3/10(320 votes)

    #19 - The Thrill of the Hunt

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

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  21. 7.2/10(90 votes)

    #20 - ...For It May Come True

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    Goliath, knocked out during a battle, wakes up to find himself human.

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  22. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Hunter's Moon (1)

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    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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  23. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Hunter's Moon (2)

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    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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  24. 7.0/10(79 votes)

    #23 - Generations

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    Despite Demona's past evil, Angela believes that her mother can be saved.

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  25. 6.9/10(86 votes)

    #24 - And Justice for All

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    Goliath is wrongly accused of a crime and insists on standing trial.

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  26. 6.8/10(89 votes)

    #25 - Runaways

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    Brooklyn feels unwanted and falls in with a group of runaway street kids.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Awakening (1)" is the best rated episode of "Gargoyles". It scored 8.4/10 based on 490 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Michael Reaves, it aired on 10/24/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Awakening (2)".