Hurricanes (TV series)
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The Hurricanes animated series was produced by DIC and distributed by BKN for syndication, 65 episodes were animated, and the series first aired in 1993. The series focused on a fictional soccer team headed by the female inheritor of the teams' legacy, Amanda Carey (who,in one episode is revealed to be the youngest soccer team owner in the World Soccer League), and their coach, Jock Stone, whose character was notibly based on Celtic F.C. manager Jock Stein. During the series, they would either be battling a renegade soccer league, The Gorgons managed by Stavros Garkos (whose colors are similar to the Wolverhampton Wanderers and Houston Dynamo), 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").
Most recently, Yahooligans! TV reaired this series on their website but only from the episode "Deep Cover" to the episode "Hurricane Hooligans". For some reason, they have now stopped showing Hurricanes (and all other cartoons). Since then, tv.com was unable to complete their list of Hurricanes episodes. If anyboby knows the remaining episodes will probably be welcome to contribute.
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[edit] 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)
[edit] Plot
[edit] Stavros 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.
[edit] 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: 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 goalie. 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.
[edit] 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 goalie 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.
[edit] List of Hurricanes' opponents
Note: Edit this list with the names of the teams from their corresponding countries
- Garkos Gorgons (Greece)
- Cairo Pharaohs (Egypt)
- Rio de Janeiro Cariocas (Brazil)
- Tokyo Typhoons (Japan)
- Nudelheim and Bayern Munchhausen (Germany)
- Pack Rats (Portugal,Guyana, or Bulgaria)
- Elks (Canada)
- Zambia Zebras (Zambia)
- Timborary Shamrocks (Ireland)
- Inverfinnan Celtics (Scotland,a parody of Celtic FC and Inverness CT)
[edit] Players' Nationalities
- Andy and Jock Stone- Scotland
- Cal Casey-USA
- Jorg and Helmut Beethoven- Germany
- Dino Allegro- Italy
- Wyn Smythe and Napper Thompson- England
- Rude Marley- Jamaica
- Toro Contrais and Lobo- Spain
- Papillion - France
