One character who persisted through many versions of the comedy development was Morgan, the gargoyles' human friend.

However, some of the characters created in this early stage would later evolve into the final characters in the action-adventure series.

The comedy development went through several versions before eventually being scrapped in favor of a more serious treatment of the subject matter. Now it's the twentieth century, the gargoyles are awake, and they are ready to party. The jostling from the castle being placed atop the skyscraper is enough to wake the sleeping gargoyles. Then a wealthy businessman moves the castle where the gargoyles are napping to the top of his skyscraper, largely because he can. Since gargoyles turn to stone whenever they fall asleep, they remain stone for the next thousand years. Eventually, the gargoyles are tricked into consuming 1000 year sleeping potion. But unlike the noble protectors of the finalized series, these gargoyles were mischievous troublemakers who frequently drove the local humans nuts. The basic premise remained the same: approximately one thousand years ago, gargoyles were not merely stone statues, but real flesh and blood creatures. Gargoyles was originally pitched as a comedy-adventure series, more in the vein of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, but in the modern world. But the series regulars were considered to be:

The series revolved around the adventures of the Manhattan Clan and their human allies, and occasionally, their enemies. Now here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect-frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. During the opening title sequence of Gargoyles, clips from the show (many of them from the five-part pilot episode, 'Awakening') are set to an instrumental score by Carl Johnson.ĭuring the second season, in order to familiarize new viewers with the show's backstory, Keith David (the voice of Goliath) provided a voice-over that played over the theme tune.

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