Gargoyles

22min

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Action & Adventure

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 gargoyles are awakened from a 1000 year curse.

Episodes

Cast

Awakening (1)

1. Awakening (1)

22min

24th Oct 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.

Awakening (2)

2. Awakening (2)

22min

25th Oct 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.

Awakening (3)

3. Awakening (3)

22min

26th Oct 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.

Awakening (4)

4. Awakening (4)

22min

27th Oct 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.

Awakening (5)

5. Awakening (5)

22min

28th Oct 1994

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

The Thrill of the Hunt

6. The Thrill of the Hunt

22min

4th Nov 1994

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

Temptation

7. Temptation

22min

11th Nov 1994

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

Deadly Force

8. Deadly Force

22min

18th Nov 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.

Enter MacBeth

9. Enter MacBeth

22min

6th Jan 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.

The Edge

10. The Edge

22min

13th Jan 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.

Long Way to Morning

11. Long Way to Morning

22min

20th Jan 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.

Her Brother's Keeper

12. Her Brother's Keeper

22min

27th Jan 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.

Reawakening

13. Reawakening

22min

3rd Feb 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.

First air date

24th Oct 1994

Last air date

15th Feb 1997

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks