8.4/10479 votes#1 - 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
8.3/10391 votes#2 - 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
8.2/10365 votes#3 - 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
8.0/10343 votes#4 - 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
8.2/10333 votes#5 - 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
7.3/10314 votes#6 - The Thrill of the Hunt
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1994
A group of TV show fighters called The Pack appears and seems more than a match for all of the gargoyles.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
7.5/10283 votes#7 - Temptation
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1994
Demona convinces Brooklyn that humans and gargoyles can never live together, and asks him to help her show Goliath the same.
Director: N/A
Writer: Brynne Chandler Reaves
8.2/10306 votes#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
7.4/10275 votes#9 - Enter MacBeth
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/1995
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: N/A
Writer: Steve Perry
7.5/10258 votes#10 - The Edge
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1995
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: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
7.8/10261 votes#11 - 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
7.4/10266 votes#12 - Her Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1995
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: Takamitsu Kawamura, Kazuo Terada
Writer: Michael Reaves
8.1/10249 votes#13 - 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
The Best Episodes of Gargoyles Season 1
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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...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Awakening, Part One" is the best rated episode of "Gargoyles" season 1. It scored 8.4/10 based on 479 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Michael Reaves, it aired on 10/24/1994. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Awakening, Part Two".