The BEST episodes of Gargoyles

Every episode of Gargoyles ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Gargoyles!

In Scotland, 994 A.D., the castle Wyvern is guarded by gargoyles, creatures that sleep during the day, turned into stone, and are fearsome warriors during the night. In spite of keeping the castle's inhabitants safe, the gargoyles are not respected nor appreciated by them, except for the Captain of Guard who sees great value and honor in these creatures. After being betrayed by the only human they trusted, most of the gargoyles are killed while sleeping, and out of anger the Magus puts a spell on the surviving gargoyles so they also sleep during the night. In 1994 A.D., the billionaire David Xanatos purchases the castle, moving it to the top of his skyscraper in Manhattan. With the castle above the clouds, the spell is broken and now the Scottish gargoyles live again in a world strange to them. The Clan is still reluctant about trusting humans, but after meeting Elisa Maza they find a reason to befriend humans again.

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City of Stone (4)
star
8.18
146 votes

#1 - City of Stone (4)

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/21/1995

The plan to end the spell is sent into motion, but Demona make 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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City of Stone (3)
star
8.14
151 votes

#2 - City of Stone (3)

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/20/1995

While Xanatos works on breaking the spell, the story of MacBeth continues, as the lord is forced to take up arms against his brother, the King, when the Weird Sisters prophesies his ascension to the throne of Scotland.

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Eye of the Beholder
star
8.12
151 votes

#3 - Eye of the Beholder

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/13/1995

Xanatos proposes to Fox, giving her the Eye of Odin as an engagement present. Soon afterwards, a huge wolf-like humanoid starts appearing throughout the city, devastating everything in it's path while looking for food.

Directors: Frank Paur
Writer: Steve Perry
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Awakening (2)
star
8.10
435 votes

#4 - Awakening (2)

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.

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Temptation
star
8.07
202 votes

#5 - 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.

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Vows
star
8.02
175 votes

#6 - Vows

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/14/1995

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 trough time.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Awakening (5)
star
8.02
292 votes

#7 - Awakening (5)

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.

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City of Stone (1)
star
7.99
175 votes

#8 - City of Stone (1)

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/1995

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.

Directors: Frank Paur
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City of Stone (2)
star
7.95
177 votes

#9 - City of Stone (2)

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/1995

The gargoyles awaken to find nearly all of the inhabitants of New York turned to stone. Nearly a thousand years before, a young man named MacBeth must decide how much he's willing to sacrifice for love.

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Reawakening
star
7.94
216 votes

#10 - Reawakening

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1995

Concluding that science or sorcery alone are not enough to stop the gargoyles, Demona and Xanatos try combine the two, rebuilding a gargoyle from the rubble left at the castle and filling out the rest with cybernetics.

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Awakening (3)
star
7.94
375 votes

#11 - Awakening (3)

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/1994

Not satisfied with Xanatos's explanation, detective Maza decides to take a look around the castle by herself. Xanatos wants the Gargoyles help in retrieving the stolen data.

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Awakening (1)
star
7.93
554 votes

#12 - Awakening (1)

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.

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A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
star
7.90
156 votes

#13 - A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/7/1995

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.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Future Tense
star
7.90
99 votes

#14 - Future Tense

Season 2 - Episode 43 - Aired 4/25/1996

Luck seems upon the company, as they spot the statue of liberty through the mists. But the New York the see is not the one they left... It is a devastated ruin controlled by Xanatos's robot sentries.

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The Mirror
star
7.88
186 votes

#15 - The Mirror

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/11/1995

Demona steels a magical mirror to summon an elf named Puck, and forces him use his magic against Goliath and the humans. The result is however not quite what she had in mind.

Directors: Frank Paur
Writer: Lydia Marano
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Metamorphosis
star
7.88
164 votes

#16 - Metamorphosis

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/1995

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.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Avalon (2)
star
7.83
115 votes

#17 - Avalon (2)

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/21/1995

Goliath, Elisa meet with Katherine, and the Mage. They're under attack from the Archmage, Demona, MacBeth, and 3 of Auberon's children. Elisa knows they'll need more allies in the up coming fight. She goes to wake a human whose been on the island for a long time.

Writer: Lydia Marano
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Awakening (4)
star
7.82
306 votes

#18 - Awakening (4)

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 and old 'friend'. The Gargoyles accept to help Xanatos retrieve his stolen disks from Cyberbiotics.

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High Noon
star
7.79
179 votes

#19 - High Noon

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/25/1995

MacBeth and Demona are working together; they steal Coldstone and use him as bait to lure the gargoyles into a trap. Elisa is to face Demona by herself and save the clan.

Writer: Lydia Marano
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Avalon (1)
star
7.76
119 votes

#20 - Avalon (1)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/20/1995

The police find a strange man in with a sword and full suit of armor walking around the city... looking for a gargoyle named Goliath.

Writer: Lydia Marano
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Deadly Force
star
7.73
252 votes

#21 - Deadly Force

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1994

Broadway accidentally shoots Elisa with her gun. Wrecked by regret, 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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Enter MacBeth
star
7.72
270 votes

#22 - 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.

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The Thrill of the Hunt
star
7.72
215 votes

#23 - The Thrill of the Hunt

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1994

Lexington makes contact with his TV heroes - The Pack - in hopes of finding allies. But for his surprise he finds that they are far from heroic in real life...

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Legion
star
7.72
188 votes

#24 - Legion

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/6/1995

Coldstone is reactivated, but some sort of virus begins to affect him as Goliath tries to get him to join his clan, his mind had been merged with the personalities of two other Gargoyles and one of them holds a grudge seemingly bigger and more malicious than Demona's.

Directors: Frank Paur
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Hunter's Moon (3)
star
7.70
66 votes

#25 - Hunter's Moon (3)

Season 2 - Episode 52 - Aired 5/15/1996

The gargoyles survive the blast, but the clocktower is destroyed. Now they have nothing left but vengeance. Meanwhile, Demona makes the last preparations for conclusion of a centuries old plan...

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