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Hurricanes (animated series)
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Hurricanes was an animated series produced by DIC Entertainment
, Siriol Productions and Scottish Television
. The show was distributed by Cookie Jar Entertainment
for syndication
outside of the UK, with Scottish Television
controlling the UK rights. The series first aired in 1993 and ended in 1997.
manager Jock Stein
. During the series, the Hurricanes soccer team would either be battling a renegade soccer club, 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 minimum, its most memorable aspect being its theme song ("We're the Hurricanes").
United States
Canada
Australia
Chile
Brazil
In Italy it was renamed Un uragano di goal
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
as a pseudonym
for 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 Hurricanes' status as worlds greatest soccer team and/or make large sums of money. Garkos' interests also include damaging the Hurricanes' image (even when he doesn't seem to gain anything from 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.
Wyn Smithe and Genghis Khan: Wyn and Genghis are Stavros Garkos' best players, and are the ones most often enlisted to assist Stavros with his schemes. It is rare to see the Gorgons playing without them both, except through injury, and even rarer to see one of them appearing in an episode without the other. One instance of this occurring is in When Hurricanes Collide, when Genghis appeared but Wyn did not. Even though Stavros favours them, they have little loyalty in return; they once attempted to steal a gold mine so as to be able to stop working for Stavros.
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.
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.
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.
DiC Entertainment
DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...
, Siriol Productions and Scottish Television
Scottish Television
Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...
. The show was distributed by Cookie Jar Entertainment
Cookie Jar Entertainment
The Cookie Jar Group is an American and Canadian producer of children’s entertainment, consumer products and educational materials...
for syndication
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
outside of the UK, with Scottish Television
Scottish Television
Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...
controlling the UK rights. The series first aired in 1993 and ended in 1997.
Summary
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.Celtic F.C.
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
manager Jock Stein
Jock Stein
John 'Jock' Stein CBE was a Scottish association football player and manager. He became the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967...
. During the series, the Hurricanes soccer team would either be battling a renegade soccer club, 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
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
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 minimum, its most memorable aspect being its theme song ("We're the Hurricanes").
Cast
- Andrew AirlieAndrew AirlieAndrew Airlie is a Scottish-born Canadian actor.He has starred in television series including Breaker High and his TV credits include guest starring in popular television shows such as Monk, Smallville, Stargate SG-1 and The X-Files. He had television regular roles as Mr...
- Andy Stone (voice) - Michael Benyaer - Stats (voice)
- Jay BrazeauJay BrazeauJay Brazeau is a notable Canadian actor and voice actor. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.-Career:His credits include voicing Richard Condie's Oscar-nominated animated short La Salla. He also appeared in two of the first season episodes of Highlander: The Series in 1992...
- Stavros Garkos (voice) - Brent Chapman - Toro Contrais (voice)
- Ian James CorlettIan James CorlettIan James Corlett is a Canadian animation voice artist, writer, and musician. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon....
- 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 McNeilScott McNeilScott McNeil is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
- Cal Casey/Genghis Kahn (voice) - Chiara ZanniChiara ZanniChiara Zanni is a Canadian actress & voice actress, performing in movies such as BIONICLE: Mask of Light as Hahli, playing the role of Hamtaro in the TV anime cartoon series. Young Joe in Cyborg 009, Hamtaro, Jubilee in X-Men: Evolution, Bon Bon in My Little Pony Tales and Nori, the mermaid in...
- Amanda Carey (voice) - Mark HildrethMark Hildreth (actor)Mark Hildreth is a Canadian actor and musician, based in the U.S. He has appeared in many movie and television roles. A graduate of The National Theater School of Canada, Mark Hildreth's theater credits include Hamlet , Bertram in All's well that Ends well , Richard of Gloucester in Richard III and...
- Ingred (voice) - Paul RichardsPaul RichardsPaul Richards may refer to:* Paul Richards * Paul Richards , baseball player, manager, scout and executive* Paul Richards , American actor who starred in the ABC-TV 1963-64 series Breaking Point...
- Super Striker - Rob Wood - Mascot
- Max Simons - Centre back
- Mark PrestonMark PrestonMark Preston is the former Technical Director of the Super Aguri F1 Formula One racing team.-Personal life:Preston was born in Geelong, Australia...
- Centre midfield - Will Brookes - Striker
- Josh Lowth - Centre back
Season 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
Season 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
Season 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
- Lord Napper of Stepney
International Broadcast
United Kingdom-
- CITVCITVCITV is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. CITV itself is the programming block on the main ITV Network .The CITV channel broadcasts from 06:00 to 18:00...
- CITV
United States
Canada
Australia
Chile
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- Canal 13Canal 13 (Chile)Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...
(1997–2001)
- Canal 13
Brazil
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- SBT
In Italy it was renamed Un uragano di goal
Stavros Garkos
Stavros Garkos is the villainVillain
A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters...
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
Jay Brazeau
Jay Brazeau is a notable Canadian actor and voice actor. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.-Career:His credits include voicing Richard Condie's Oscar-nominated animated short La Salla. He also appeared in two of the first season episodes of Highlander: The Series in 1992...
. He runs Garkos Enterprises and is known for using the name Medusa
Medusa
In Greek mythology Medusa , " guardian, protectress") was a Gorgon, a chthonic monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. The author Hyginus, interposes a generation and gives Medusa another chthonic pair as parents. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone...
as a pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
for 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 Hurricanes' status as worlds greatest soccer team and/or make large sums of money. Garkos' interests also include damaging the Hurricanes' image (even when he doesn't seem to gain anything from 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
Insurance
In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...
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 includes:Wyn Smithe and Genghis Khan: Wyn and Genghis are Stavros Garkos' best players, and are the ones most often enlisted to assist Stavros with his schemes. It is rare to see the Gorgons playing without them both, except through injury, and even rarer to see one of them appearing in an episode without the other. One instance of this occurring is in When Hurricanes Collide, when Genghis appeared but Wyn did not. Even though Stavros favours them, they have little loyalty in return; they once attempted to steal a gold mine so as to be able to stop working for Stavros.
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
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
patriots
Patriotism
Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy...
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
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
where Casey not only defeats Benny, but also teaches him the value of good sportsmanship
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors...
. 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
Uniform
A uniform is a set of standard clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates...
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
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
Pyramids (Serpents of the Nile), passing herself as the legendary Medusa
Medusa
In Greek mythology Medusa , " guardian, protectress") was a Gorgon, a chthonic monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. The author Hyginus, interposes a generation and gives Medusa another chthonic pair as parents. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone...
(The curse
Curse
A curse is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some other entity—one or more persons, a place, or an object...
of the gorgon
Gorgon
In Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a terrifying female creature. The name derives from the Greek word gorgós, which means "dreadful." While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature, the term commonly refers to any of three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a...
), 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
Namesake
Namesake is a term used to characterize a person, place, thing, quality, action, state, or idea that has the same, or a similar, name to another....
and look-alike
Look-alike
A look-alike is a person who closely resembles another person. In popular Western culture, a look-alike is a person who bears a close physical resemblance to a celebrity, politician or member of royalty. Many look-alikes earn a living by making guest appearances at public events or performing on...
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
Parking lot
A parking lot , also known as car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles. Usually, the term refers to a dedicated area that has been provided with a durable or semi-durable surface....
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
Holding company
A holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow...
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
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as 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
Time limit
A time limit or deadline is a narrow field of time, or particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished.In project management, deadlines are most often associated with milestone goals....
to pay the mortgage.
Medusa Network: Objecting to have a Television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
that would show sportive events around the world, Stavros Garkos opened Medusa Network in When Hurricanes Collide. When Garkos tried to use its satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
to destroy a space station
Space station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing...
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
Insurance
In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...
company that covers the above-mentioned satellite.
In Ecosphere of Death, Stavros Garkos gambles against a casino
Casino
In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...
owner named Jackson Black and wins Black's ecosphere
Ecosphere
Ecosphere has several different meanings:* In ecology the term ecosphere can refer to the Earth's spheres, a planetary ecosystem consisting of the atmosphere, the geosphere , the hydrosphere, and the biosphere....
. 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
Water park
A waterpark is an amusement park that features waterplay areas, such as water slides, splash pads, spraygrounds , lazy rivers, or other recreational bathing, swimming, and barefooting environments...
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- Garkos Gorgons (GreeceGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
) - Cairo Pharaohs (EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
) - Rio de Janeiro Cariocas (BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
) - Tokyo Typhoons (JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
) - Nudelheim and Bayern Munchhausen (GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - Real Azul and Pamplona (SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
) - Montserrat Pack Rats (MontserratMontserratMontserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...
) - Elks (CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
) - Standish Park Rangers FC (EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) - Zambia Zebras (ZambiaZambiaZambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
) - Timborary Shamrocks (IrelandIrelandIreland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
) - Inverfinnan Celtics (ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
; a parody of Celtic FC and Inverness CTInverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club are a Scottish football club from Inverness who compete in the Scottish Premier League. They are currently managed by Terry Butcher and assistant manager Maurice Malpas...
) - DC Milan (ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
); AC Milan's ladies team.
DVD release
Cookie Jar Entertainment currently has no plans to release the animated show on DVD at this time.External links
- http://www.cjar.com/cj_shows_hurricanes.php