Were there ever any Standards & Practices problems with Gargoyles? Did anyone ever complain about the series content?
Greg’s answers: We had no censors on Gargoyles. We did have an executive in charge of Broadcast Standards and Practices. Her name was Adrienne Bello. (Still is, actually.) She loved the show and is a personal friend. She understood that some things were necessary to story, and that in context they wouldn’t be that bad. Duncan’s magical death wasn’t problematic. But we weren’t allowed to stab him, because we didn’t want anyone getting a kitchen knife and imitating that. Fox and Xanatos did live together at the Eyrie before they got married, but they also had separate bedrooms until they got married. I’m not saying nothing ever happened between them, and certainly we were walking a line, but I think we were always responsible to the young end of our audience. Adrienne allowed us to do this without compromising the shows integrity. […] I think while I was at Disney, we received two letters of complaint about the show. Both had nothing to do with content. In fact, it was clear from the c
