Hurricanes (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Hurricanes


format = Animated television series
runtime = 30 min incl. commercials
creator = ?
starring = see cast list
country = ?
network = syndicated
first_aired = 12 September 1993
last_aired = 1 January 1997
num_episodes = 65
list_episodes =
website =
imdb_id = 0115209
tv_com_id = 5002

"Hurricanes" was an animated series produced by DIC and distributed by BKN for syndication. The series first aired in 1993 and ended in 1997.

The series focused on a fictional soccer team headed by the female inheritor of the teams' legacy, Amanda Carey and their coach, Jock Stone. Stone was notably based on Celtic F.C. manager Jock SteinFact|date=July 2007. During the series, the Hurricanes soccer team would either be battling a renegade soccer league, The Gorgons managed by Stavros Garkos, for pitch supremacy or having wild, unpredictable adventures off the field in exotic world touring locations.

Despite such a lengthy episode number, and a cult following among British football fans who watched it faithfully in reruns during the football seasons, the Hurricanes remains a fairly dormant and minor addition to BKN's library, and its impact worldwide is barely minimumFact|date=July 2007, its most memorable aspect being its theme song ("We're the Hurricanes").Fact|date=July 2007

Cast

*Andrew Airlie .... Andy Stone (voice)
*Michael Benyaer .... Stats (voice)
*Jay Brazeau .... Stavros Garkos (voice)
*Brent Chapman .... Toro Contrais (voice)
*Ian James Corlett .... Dino Allegro/Jorg Beethoven (voice)
*Lesley Fitzsimmons .... Sheila Stone (voice)
*Christopher Gaze .... Napper Thompson/Georgie Wright (voice)
*Colin Heath .... Papillon (voice)
*Stuart Hepburn .... Coach Jock Stone (voice)
*Carl Hibbert .... Winston Honeychurch (voice)
*Chris Humphreys .... Helmut Beethoven/Wyn Smithe (voice)
*Cusse Mankuma .... Rude Marley (voice)
*Scott McNeil .... Cal Casey/Genghis Kahn (voice)
*Chiara Zanni .... Amanda Carey (voice)
*Mark Hildreth .... Ingred (voice)

Episodes

eason One 1993

#Deep Cover
#Family Feud
#Stowaway
#Toro
#Midfield Dribble
#Go Ape!
#Bloodmatch
#Around the World in 90 Minutes
#Home Game
#The Team that Time Forgot
#Hot Dog
#Reunion in Rio
#Papillon and the Princess

eason Two 1994

#Phantom Fan
#A Game of Two Halves
#Boot of All Evil
#Topper's Typo
#Techno-Team
#Missing in Moscow
#There's Only One Jock Stone
#Soccer Safari
#Love at First Byte
#The Serpent's Tail
#Traitor
#Escape to Freedom
#Marley in Chains

eason Three 1995

#Team Spirit
#Terror in Transylvania
#Water, Water, Everywhere
#When Hurricanes Collide
#One Million Years F.C.
#Big Sister, Big Trouble
#Balancing Act
#Ecosphere to Death
#Serpents of the Nile
#The Flying Eye
#Football Fugitives
#Hurricane Hooligans
#???

eason Four 1996

eason Five 1997

Plot

tavros Garkos

Stavros Garkos is the villain who owns the Garkos Gorgons, a soccer team of thugs who often use dirty tricks not only to defeat the Hurricanes, but also help Stavros Garkos in other dirty schemes. He's voiced by Jay Brazeau. He runs Garkos Enterprises and is known for using the name Medusa for pseudonym in some of his companies and breaking Medusa-head staffs during moments of anger.

Stavros Garkos is the most persistent of the villains from "Hurricanes". In most of his appearances, he tries to steal the Hispanola Hurricanes's status as world's best soccer team and/or make big amounts of money. Garkos's interests also include damaging the Hurricanes's image (even when he doesn't seem to get anything with this) and his attempts in 'proving' soccer as a Greek sport.

Stavros Garkos holds many companies around the world. Even though it was never stated which ones are branches of Garkos Enterprises and which ones are not. Stavros Garkos also owns an unnamed insurance company that covers the above-mentioned satellite. Garkos Enterprises has an office in London, even though it was unclear which kind of activities he develops there.

The Garkos Gorgons

The Gorgons are a team of violent players who usually utilize illegal tactics inside or outside the field. Their headquarters is inside a volcano in the Island of Garkos. The team's colors are similar to the Wolverhampton Wanderers. The team includes:

Wyn Smithe and Genghis Khan: They're Stavros Garkos's best players and the ones who are often enlisted to help him with his dirty schemes. They once tried to steal a gold mine so they would have enough money to stop working for him. It's so hard to see the Gorgons playing without them, except when an injury keeps them from playing. Even harder is one of them appearing in an episode where the other one doesn't. The first (if not only) time it happened was in "When Hurricanes Collide", when Genghis appeared but Wyn didn't. When Amanda accused Stavros Garkos of trying to kill Winston Honeychurch in "Target: Winston", he told them to help her to find the truth, this proving them so clumsy trying to do right than they are trying to do wrong.

Rebo: Rebo's biggest role in Stavros Garkos's dirty schemes was in "Blood Match", when Rebo stole Dino Allegro's lucky charm, damaging his abilities as the Hurricanes's main goalkeeper. He also makes a cameo helping Wyn and Genghis to keep the Hurricanes from playing a fund-raiser game to save Inverfinnan Park, home to Jock Stone's former team Inverfinnan Celtics (a spoof of Celtic FC of Scotland), from being bought by Garkos. Most of Rebo's other appearances is simply playing soccer.

Benny the Viking: This unpopular Swede is hated by his fellow patriots for his dirty play. Stavros Garkos tries to revert it by hiring a publicist who puts Benny to compete against Cal Casey on a game show where Casey not only defeats Benny, but also teaches him the value of good sportsmanship. A lesson that he only practices at his home country, this enhancing his popularity for a price Stavros Garkos didn't like to pay.

Lobo: Lobo was once nominated for the title of Spain's best soccer player. His rival for the title was Toro, from the Hurricanes. To help his player to get the title, Stavros Garkos kidnaps Toro's sister, Maria, as part of a plan to ruin his popularity.

Relatives of Stavros Garkos

Stavros Garkos sometimes enlists the help of some relatives for some dirty tactics. Here we have some of them:

Spiro Garkos: Stavros's brother. Spiro is nowhere to be seen without a uniform and on his very first appearance he's called by Amanda a "mister-in-charge-of-everything". What could be noticed from his first appearance in "Stowaway", when he was revealed to be the coach of the Gorgons' Youth Team, the Police Chief of the Island of Garkos and the head of Child Welfare. In "Around the World in 90 Minutes", Spiro is the admiral of the Garkon Navy and helped his brother to take over the aircraft carrier the Hurricanes were using to play soccer at sea. He also makes a cameo appearance in "There's Only One Jock Stone" as captain of Stavros Garkos's cruise ship.

Melinda Garkos: Stavros's sister. Melinda helps her brother in anything he wants to, no matter how low she has to get. Her low acts include making people ruined by Stavros Garkos sell their homes to him ("Water, Water, Everywhere"), stealing artifacts from ancient Egyptian Pyramids ("Serpents of the Nile"), passing herself as the legendary Medusa ("The curse of the gorgon"), and helping the Gorgons to forge evidence to blackmail referees on("Dino's snapshoot")

Irena Bole: Stavros's niece. Stavros Garkos had a scheme involving a childhood friend of Cal Casey. This friend had criminal records and is now a goalkeeper for the L.A. Lasers. Irena only agreed to help her uncle in exchange of becoming the first female vice-president of Garkos Enterprises. When the plan fails, Garkos says he wouldn't hire her even as a coffee-lady. Since she's single (she's called Ms.) and doesn't bear the name Garkos, we can assume Spiro and Melinda aren't Stavros Garkos's only siblings.

Stavros Garkos IV: Stavros's namesake and look-alike great-grandson from the future. Stavros Garkos had mortgaged all his companies to bet against the Hurricanes and lost. Because of that, all Stavros IV inherited was his soccer team. To revert this situation, Stavros IV sends a robot player named The Relegator to change the game results. Stavros Garkos was reluctant about this because he couldn't have a great-grandson for not even having grandchildren, as he stated, but he started believing when the bet (something he never expected to meet someone who already knew about) was mentioned. For a final test, Garkos asks the Relegator what he thinks about rules and he says they must be broken, this making Stavros believe he's been sent by a Garkos. The robot fails and the Plan B destroys a factory, forcing Garkos to pay for the damages, creating an alternate future where Stavros IV washes the Hurricanes's uniforms. Since this was a dream of Napper Thompson, it doesn't affect the continuity of the series. Dream or not, this is, so far, the strongest clue pointing Stavros Garkos as a father of at least one child.

Garkos Enterprises

Stavros Garkos holds many companies around the world. Even though it was never stated which ones are branches of Garkos Enterprises and which ones are not, here we can see a list of these companies:

Gorgon World: A nightmarish theme park Stavros Garkos has built in L.A. by destroying Cal Casey's neighborhood. Garkos intended to destroy a Sports Centre where underprivileged kids could learn soccer, so he could build a parking lot for his park. The park and this story took place in "Home Game". It was never revealed if Garkos ever opened this park, or what happened to it.

Garkos International Holding: First (or only) mentioned in "Hot Dog", this holding company holds The Hotel Jasper, where Stavros Garkos tried to frame Rude Marley. It's unknown what else is held by Garkos International Holding.

Medusa Arms Hotel: Only seen in "Target: Winston", this is, according to Amanda, the hotel where the Gorgons go to sleep when they are in Hispanola. It was never said if the hotel belongs to Garkos or not, but the name "Medusa" and its connections to the Gorgons make us assume it does belong to him.

Medusa Gold-Mining Company: First seen in "Team Spirit", Garkos utilized it to extract gold from a piece of land stolen from Native Americans.

Garkos Finance Company: In "Techno-Team", this company helped Stavros Garkos to take over Walker Laboratories when its former owner, Mickey Walker, had missed the deadline to pay the mortgage.

Medusa Network: Objecting to have a Television network that would show sportive events around the world, Stavros Garkos opened Medusa Network in "When Hurricanes Collide". When Garkos tried to use its satellite to destroy a space station where five of the Hurricanes were located, Dino lets the satellite loose in space. It is unclear if Garkos ever placed it back on its original orbit or not.

Stavros Garkos also owns an unnamed insurance company that covers the above-mentioned satellite.

In "Ecosphere of Death", Stavros Garkos gambles against a casino owner named Jackson Black and wins Black's ecosphere. Part of the deal was that every time Garkos won, Black would have a chance to recover what he lost. So, Black made a bet against the Gorgons. The Hurricanes won the game and Garkos had to return the ecosphere.

In "The Flying Eye", Garkos tried to force relatives of Amanda Carey out of their land so he would open a water park developed by Garkos Enterprises.

Garkos Enterprises has an office in London, even though it was unclear which kind of activities he develops there.

List of Hurricanes' opponents

Note: Edit this list with the names of the teams from their corresponding countries
*The Careless Whispers (Greece)
*Fulham FC (Egypt)
*Barefoot Slum City (Brazil)
*The Horishima Bombs (Japan)
*Hitler Harriers (Germany)
*Real Grease (Spain)
*Fritzl's Basement Bargains (Austria)
*The Moose Lovers (Canada)
*Spearthrower FC (Zambia)
*Glasgae Headbutters (Scotland, a parody of Inverness CT)
*Paris Defoe-Jermaine (parody of Paris Saint-Germain).
*The Burrito Brigade (Mexico)
*A.C. Alittlesilhouetteofaman (Italy's A.C. Milan)

Players' Nationalities

*Heroin McLard - Scotland
*Chad Bombragheads - USA
*Jurgen Nazi - Germany
*Domino Pizza - Italy
*Herbert Lolcrumpets - England
*Negroid Spliff - Jamaica
*Jose Spic - Spain
*Gerard Frogeater - France
*Hjing-Pang Noodles - Japan

DVD Release

DIC Entertainment currently has no plans to release the animated show on DVD at this time.

External links

* [http://www.dicentertainment.com/shows/index.php?show=31&category=ActionComedyEuro%20Content "Hurricanes" on the DIC website (with a clip of the theme tune)]
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* [http://www.tv.com/hurricanes/show/5002/summary.html?q=hurricanes&tag=search_results;title;0 Tv.com - Hurricanes]