Gargoyles Season 1

Gargoyles Season 1 has built a real following on among viewers who want their sci-fi to think as hard as it looks. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 485 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Keith David anchors it with a performance that grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Gargoyles Season 1 is worth clearing space for. Gargoyles Season 1 uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. Season 1 of Gargoyles includes 13 episodes. It aired from October 1994 to February 1995. This season stars Keith David, Salli Richardson-Whitfield and Ed Asner. Keith David and Salli Richardson-Whitfield lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1994. Gargoyles Season 1 resists the temptation to explain everything, trusting the audience to sit with ambiguity. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Gargoyles Season 1 is satisfying on multiple levels — something to watch and something to think about after. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Keith David's performance is the anchor the more ambitious moments need. The world-building pays off in ways you will not anticipate on a first watch.

🎬 Gargoyles Season 1 — Episode Guide

Awakening (1)

1994-10-24

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)

1994-10-25

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 i...

Awakening (3)

1994-10-26

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)

1994-10-27

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 Xanato...

Awakening (5)

1994-10-28

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

The Thrill of the Hunt

1994-11-04

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

Temptation

1994-11-11

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

Deadly Force

1994-11-18

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...

Enter MacBeth

1995-01-06

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.

E10

The Edge

1995-01-13

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.

E11

Long Way to Morning

1995-01-20

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.

E12

Her Brother's Keeper

1995-01-27

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.

E13

Reawakening

1995-02-03

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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