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Hercules:  The Xena Trilogy | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 (6th Season "Reviews by Cruise")

Below is a list of all the Xena: Warrior Princess episodes that have were shown in the US (including the Hercules intro trilogy).  (Episode info (with the exception of Season 6) taken from the September 2000 "Starlog 2000" magazine #278.)

Hercules:  The Xena Trilogy (1995)    
  1. The Warrior Princess
    To kill Hercules, Xena (debuting here) turns Iolaus against him.
  2. The Gauntlet
    Disgusted that her troops (under Darphus) have killed women & children, Xena quits as warlord and endures the brutal going-away gauntlet.
  3. Unchained Heart
    Hercules & Xena share romance as the resurrected Darphus rampages.
Season 1 (1995 - 1996)    
  1. Sins Of The PAst
    Deciding to do good, Xena confronts warlord Draco, who doesn't want her to reform.  Xena acquires a sidekick, Gabrielle.
  2. Chariots Of War
    To defend another village, Xena battles a warlord & his more peaceful son.
  3. Dreamworker
    Gabrielle endures ritual challenges to become bride to Morpheus.  Xena faces herself in dreamland.
  4. Cradle Of Hope
    Xena & Gabrielle try to save a Moses-like abandoned infant (destined to succeed a king, marked for death.)
  5. The Path Not Taken
    To rescue a kidnapped princess, Xena revisits ex-mercenary pal Marcus, now working for an arms dealer.
  6. The Reckoning
    Xena's on trial for murder, defended by Gabrielle.  Ares offers her an unholy bargain for freedom.
  7. The Titans
    Gabrielle releases three Titans from imprisonment.  One goes on a rampage.
  8. Prometheus
    Xena, Hercules, Iolaus & Gabrielle quest for a deadly sword which can free Prometheus from his eternal fate.
  9. Death In Chains
    Hades enlists Xena to rescue his sister Celesta (Death), captive of King Sisyphus, who has thus delayed his own demise.
  10. Hooves And Harlots
    Gabrielle becomes and Amazon heir and learns their ways while Xena tries to prevent an Amazon war with the Centaurs.
  11. The Black Wolf
    Xena tries to rescue her old pal Flora from a dungeon - aided by Salmoneus, Gabrielle & the rebel legend, the Black Wolf.
  12. Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts
    Enmeshed in "The Illiad", Xena goes to Troy at Helen's behest to help end its long war with the Greeks.
  13. Athens City Academy Of The Performing Bards
    In the annual storytelling competition, Gabrielle tells tales of Xena's heroics.
  14. A Fistful Of Dinars
    Xena teams with her former fiancé Petracles & an assassin to seek ambrosia (eating it turns humans into gods). 
  15. Warrior...Princess
    Xena impersonates a real princess, Diana, to foil royal killers.
  16. Mortal Beloved
    In the Underworld, Xena reunites with the dead Marcus to oppose Atyminius, who has stolen Hades' Helmet of Invisibility.
  17. The Royal Couple Of Thieves
    Autolycus, King of Thieves, teams with Xena - all to retrieve a powerful weapon.
  18. The Prodigal
    Gabrielle finds her native village protected by the drunken warrior Meleager and persecuted by a nasty warlord.
  19. Altared States
    Xena must save a boy from being sacrificed by a dad who believes it's divine will.
  20. Ties That Bind
    Xena must deal with a man who claims to be her father Atreus.  But is he?
  21. The Greater Good
    With Xena dying, Gabrielle impersonates her, hoping to protect a village.
  22. Callisto
    Vengeful Callisto (whose family was killed by Xena's men) impersonates Xena.
  23. Death MAsk
    Xena reunites with her older brother as he plans to kill the man who attacked their home village long ago.
  24. Is There A Doctor In The House?
    While helping the wounded at a healing temple and teaching Hippocrates, Xena & Gabrielle try to end another war.
Season 2 (1996 - 1997)    
  1. Orphan Of War
    Aiding the Centaurs, Xena is reunited with her nine-year-old son Solan.
  2. Remember Nothing
    The three Fates show Xena what would have happened had she not  taken up the sword.
  3. The Giant Killer
    In a battle between the Israelites & Philistines, Xena faces Goliath.
  4. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
    It's Xena vs. the Bacchae, who have put their vampiric bite on Gabrielle.
  5. Return Of Callisto
    Callisto kills Gabrielle's husband, Perdicus.  Xena lets Callisto meet quicksand death.
  6. Warrior...Princess...Tramp
    Xena must protect her royal look-alike Diana from a deadly plan involving another look-alike, the trollop Meg.
  7. Intimate Stranger
    Callisto escapes the Underworld through Xena's dreams.
  8. Ten Little Warlords
    Trapped in Callisto's body, Xena enters a deadly elimination competition.  The winner will replace Ares as god of war.
  9. A Solstice Carol
    Xena & Gabrielle teach a yuletide lesson to a Scrooge-like king.
  10. The Xena Scrolls
    It's Raiders of the Lost Ark as an archaeologist (Gabrielle's relative) teams with Xena & Joxer's descendants in 1940 Macedonia to find the "Xena Scrolls."
  11. Here She Comes...Miss Amphipolis
    Xena goes undercover as a contestant in the Miss Known World beauty pageant (emceed by Salmoneus) to stop a war.
  12. Destiny
    While lying injured, Xena recalls her past relationship with Julius Caesar.
  13. The Quest
    The "dead" Xena's spirit hijacks Autolycus' body to help her.  Gabrielle faces her Amazon destiny and Velasca.
  14. A Necessary Evil
    Xena uses one nasty immortal (Callisto) to stop another (Velasca).
  15. A Day In The Life
    Xena & Gabrielle work, play and save villages from giants & warlords.
  16. For Him The Bell Tolls
    Teaching Cupid a lesson, Aphrodite transforms Joxer into a mighty war hero who'll break up a royal romance.
  17. The Execution
    Gabrielle & Xena aid Meleager, who's scheduled to be executed for a murder he doesn't remember committing.
  18. Blind Faith
    A blind Xena teams with warlord wannabe Palamon to rescue Gabrielle from a sham wedding, followed by live creamation.
  19. Ulysses
    Gabrielle & Xena sail against the sea god Poseidon and pirates as they aid Ulysses on his return odyssey.
  20. The Price
    Reverting to warrior ways, Xena marshals besieged soldiers against the Horde.
  21. Lost Mariner
    Xena must rescue Gabrielle from the ship of Cecrops the Lost Mariner, all while challenging a wrathful Poseidon.
  22. A Comedy Of Eros
    Cupid's son Bliss misuses his dad's love arrows.  Xena falls for Draco, who goes for Gabrielle who simmers for Joxer.
Season 3 (1997 - 1998)    
  1. The Furies
    The Furies curse Xena with insanity for not  avenging her father's death. 
  2. Been There, Done That
    Xena relives the same day again & again until she can set all wrongs right.
  3. The Dirty Half Dozen
    Gabrielle & Xena team with a band of rogues to stop another warlord.
  4. The Deliverer
    As Xena confronts Julius Caesar, Gabrielle gets pregnant by the demonic Dahak.
  5. Gabrielle's Hope
    Gabrielle delivers Dahak's daughter, Hope - an accursed child whom Xena believes must  be destroyed.
  6. The Debt
    Xena travels to China to repay a debt.
  7. The Debt II
    Captive Xena - betrayed by Gabrielle - escapes using skills learned in China.
  8. The King Of Assassins
    Joxer encounters his evil twin, master assassin Jett.  Jett's target:  Cleopatra.
  9. Warrior...Priestess...Tramp
    Xena, Meg & the Hestian Virgin priestess Leah - all look-alikes - double & redouble each other to foil a conspiracy.
  10. The Quill Is Mightier...
    Whatever Gabrielle writes with her magical quill becomes reality.
  11. Maternal Instincts
    Hope resurrects Callisto - with deadly results for Xena's son Solan and Xena & Gabrielle's friendship.
  12. The Bitter Suite
    In an all-musical fantasy, Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer, Callisto & Ares find new operatic heights of love & vengence. 
  13. One Against An Army
    With Gabrielle dying from a poisoned arrow, Xena must stop an army.
  14. Forgiven
    To Gabrielle's chagrin, Tara - who wants to be Xena's sidekick - tags along.
  15. King Con
    Xena, Joxer & pals try to sting a den of royal-sponsored gamblers.
  16. When In Rome...
    It's Julius Caesar time again.
  17. Forget Me Not
    Gabrielle recalls past events with her "guide" Ares and tries not  to remember.
  18. Fins, Femmes And Gems
    Aphrodite's spell causes comedic chaos as Joxer apes it up, Gabrielle falls in love with herself & Xena goes fishing.
  19. Tsunami
    Xena , Gabrielle & Autolycus try to escape a sinking, capsized ship.
  20. The Vanishing Act
    Autolycus & Xena try to recover a missing statue - which he didn't  steal.
  21. Sacrifice, Part 1
    Hope, Callisto & Ares resurface as Dahak tempts Gabrielle's friend Seraphin.
  22. Sacrifice, Part 2
    Hope gets pregnant by Ares.  Hope, Gabrielle & Callisto all "die".
Season 4 (1998 - 1999)    
  1. Adventures In The Sin Trade I
    Searching for Gabrielle, Xena visits the Amazon Land of the Dead.
  2. Adventures In The Sin Trade II
    In the Amazon afterlife, Xena battles the witch Alti.  Can Xena rescue Gabrielle?
  3. A Family Affair
    Hope and Gabrielle's deadly grandkid show up for a visit to Gabrielle's family.
  4. In Sickness And In Hell
    Plagued by ailments, Xena, Gabrielle & Joxer attempt to stop a band of Scythians & rescue the horsenapped Argo.
  5. A Good Day
    Xena becomes involved in the Roman civil war between Caesar & Pompey.
  6. A Tale Of Two Muses
    It's Footloose  time as Xena, Gabrielle & Autolycus try to change minds in a town where dancing is banned. 
  7. Locked Up And Tied Down
    Xena becomes a prisoner on Shark Island for a crime committed years ago.
  8. Crusader
    Entranced by the peace princess Najara, Gabrielle joins her holy crusade.
  9. Past Imperfect
    Xena takes command of a besieged city, realizing she's fighting herself (i.e. an enemy using Xena's past tactics). 
  10. Key To The Kingdom
    Meg, Autolycus & Joxer play "Three Stooges & a Baby" with a hijacked kid.
  11. Daughter Of Pomira
    Can a young girl - stolen and raised by the Horde - bring peace in a long-simmering almost-war?
  12. If The Shoe Fits
    Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer & Aphrodite take turns relating a Cinderella-like fairy tale.
  13. Paradise Found
    A spiritual Gabrielle & the increasingly volatile Xena discover that "Paradise" is a mirage offering its own dangers.
  14. Devi
    Traveling in India, Xena & Gabrielle meet the mystic Eli.  Gabrielle exhibits a Devi's powers, but does this mean she's by demon possessed?
  15. Between The Lines
    Xena & Gabrielle travel to a future which might  be - where they oppose Alti.
  16. The Way
    Aided by the god Krishna, a multi-armed Xena fights to save Eli & newly non-violent Gabrielle.
  17. The Play's The Thing
    Gabrielle's first play is produced with blood, thunder & producer scams.
  18. The Convert
    Joxer makes his first kill and deals with the consequences.  Najara - who has escaped from jail - complicates matters.
  19. Takes One To Know One
    Gabrielle's surprise birthday party serves up a murder, but just which one of the friends or family did it?
  20. Endgame
    Brutus kills Amazon leader Ephiny.  Xena & Gabrielle aid the Amazons against the Romans.  Xena beheads Pompey.
  21. Ides Of March
    As a resurrected Callisto plots anew, Julius Caesar meets his bloody destiny.  Xena & Gabrielle are crucified.
  22. Deja Vu All Over Again
    It's a modern psychic "channeling" when patients recall their past lives as Xena & co.  (Directed by Reneé O'Connor.)
Season 5 (1999 - 2000)    
  1. Fallen Angel
    Crucified, Gabrielle & Xena now embark on epic afterlife adventure.  Haunted by Callisto, they're both angelic & demonic.
  2. Chakram
    Resurrected by Eli, Xena & Gabrielle live again.  But Xena has lost her warrior ways.  Can she reclaim her lethal skills?
  3. Succession
    The deadly Mavican challenges Xena, hoping to succeed her as warrior princess.
  4. Animal Attraction
    While Amarice gets sweet on a guy and Gabrielle trains a wild horse, Xena learns she is pregnant.
  5. Them Bones, Them Bones
    Alti's evil spirit targets the soul of Xena's unborn child.  Gabrielle & Xena fight her in the spirit world.
  6. Purity
    Xena journeys to China once more, where she meets Lao Ma's twin daughters.  One's evil, one's not.
  7. Back In The Bottle
    Using Lao Ma's powers, Xena must defeat Chinese warlord Khan & his hordes.  They're armed with deadly black powder.
  8. Little Problems
    Thanks to Aphrodite, Xena soul is trapped inside a young girl, but she can still fight.
  9. Seeds Of Faith
    The Twilight begins.  Eli opposes Ares and dies for it.  Xena learns that Callisto will be reincarnated as her child.
  10. Lyre, Lyre, Hearts On Fire
    It's a battle of the bands in this rock musical showdown - and everybody sings.
  11. Punch Lines
    Gabrielle gets small as she relates past adventures to amuse the god of despair.
  12. God Fearing Child
    Hercules helps out as Xena gives birth to Eve.  Zeus decrees the child must die - and to protect her, Herc kills Zeus.
  13. Eternal Bonds
    Various gods' followers keep trying to kill Eve.  Xena deals with Ares (who wants her to bear his child) while Gabrielle heals a poisoned, lovesick Joxer.
  14. Amphipolis Under Siege
    In an effort to destroy Eve, Athena & her forces attack Xena's hometown.
  15. Married With Fishsticks
    Going Overboard, Gabrielle believes she's the wife of a Joxer-like merman & mother of three unruly sea kids. 
  16. Life Blood
    Gabrielle arranges to make Eve an Amazon princess while Xena works to derail an Amazonian war.  (This episode includes footage from the unsold Amazon High  pilot.)
  17. Kindred Spirits
    When Joxer inadvertently breaks a few Amazonian laws, he faces a duel to the death - with Xena. 
  18. Antony And Cleopatra
    Cleopatra is assassinated and Xena impersonates her to discover whodunnit.  Marc Antony?  Octavius?  Etu, Brutus?
  19. Looking Death In The Eye
    Trying to fulfill (& yet avoid) the Fates' prophecy, Xena engineers Eve's "demise" by kidnapping Celesta, goddess of death.  Xena & Gabrielle "die", too.
  20. Livia
    Some 25 years later, Xena & Gabrielle awake and travel with the now-older Joxer & his son Virgil to Rome.  There, Xena faces an adult Eve (now known as the woman warrior Livia, killer of Eli's followers).
  21. Eve
    In a reign of terror against her Mom, Livia/Eve slaughters village after village.  Eventually, she kills Joxer.  Can Xena save Eve from the darker angels of her nature?
  22. Motherhood
    It's the Twilight of the Gods as the Olympians seek to destroy Eve.  Xena - now blessed with the power to slay gods - kills Poseidon, Hades, Discord, Artemis, Athena & others.  Her courage really does  change the world.
Season 6 (2000 - 2001)    
  1. Coming Home (Review By Cruise)
    Fed up with being mortal, Ares calls upon Xena to help him restore his godhood, unaware that the Furies are conspiring against him.  (Written by the one and only Missy Good!)
  2. The Haunting Of Amphipolis (Review By Cruise)
    Xena is forced to battle Mephistopheles when she returns to Amphipolis with Gabrielle and Eve to find her home haunted by evil.
  3. Heart Of Darkness (Review By Cruise)
    Xena fights to avoid inheriting the throne of Mephistopheles by devising a plan to turn the cocky archangel Lucifer into the King of Hell.
  4. Who's Gurkhan? (Review By Cruise)
    When Gabrielle learns that her niece has been captured by the vicious raider Gurkhan, she sets sail for North Africa on a rescue mission with Xena, Eve and Virgil.
  5. LEGACY (Review By Cruise)
    Gabrielle takes a look at how she's come to kill out of instinct. 
    (Written by the one and only Missy Good!)
  6. The Abyss (Review By Cruise)
    Xena and Gabrielle are forced into a deadly confrontation with cannibals when they go in search of Virgil.
  7. The Rheingold (Review By Cruise)
    Xena embarks on a deadly mission involving her dark past when the Norse warrior Beowulf approaches her for help.
  8. The RING (Review By Cruise)
    Xena must battle a monster of her own making to recover the destructive Rheingold ring she forged in her days as an evil warrior.
  9. Return Of The Valkyrie (Review By Cruise)
    Xena battles to regain her memory and reverse the curse of the Rheingold ring.
  10. Old Ares Had A Farm (Review By Cruise)
    Xena disguises Ares as a farmer to hide him from warlords seeking revenge.
  11. Dangerous Prey (Review By Cruise)
    Xena becomes the ultimate prey for a deranged Amazon hunter, Prince Morloch.  (Directed by Reneé O'Connor.)
  12. The God You Know (Review By Cruise)
    The Archangel Michael summons Xena to kill the now immortal Roman emperor Caligula, who has been murdering innocents in his quest for absolute power.
  13. You Are There (Review By Cruise)
    In an ancient world meets modern-day satire, a tabloid TV reporter stalks Xena and Gabrielle, determined to get a juicy scoop on the Warrior Princess.
  14. Path Of Vengeance (Review By Cruise)
    Xena and Gabrielle fight to save Eve from execution when she returns to Amazon lands to make amends for her past. This is where Eve is put on trial by the Amazons.
  15. To Helicon And Back (Review By Cruise)
    When the Amazon Queen Varia is kidnapped by a masked warrior, Gabrielle leads the Amazons to Helicon on a bloody rescue mission. Xena tries to save Private Ryan.
  16. Send In The Clones (Review By Cruise)
    In modern-day New York City, three fans utilize cloning techniques to reproduce Xena and Gabrielle so that they can combat the evil in the world. But rather than awaken the “good” Xena they find themselves face-to-face with the “evil” Xena, who is being manipulated by her former running partner, Alti.
  17. The Last Of The Centaurs
    Xena and Gabrielle become embroiled in a conflict between centaurs and Lord Belach, whose daughter has run off with one of the hoofed creatures. Xena has conflicted emotions, however, as Belach is the son of her past lover Borias and the centaur, Xenan, is the son of the deceased Ephiny.
  18. When Fates Collide
    After escaping from Hades, Caesar takes control of the Fates' “Loom of Life,” which he uses to splice the past with a new future---a future in which
    Xena becomes his wife and Brutus remains his loyal aide. In the rearranged world, Gabrielle is a playwright for whom Xena feels an intense attraction. Sensing their bond, Caesar charges Gabrielle with being an assassin, and orders that she be crucified.
  19. Many Happy Returns (Review By Cruise)
    While on their way to deliver Hermes' helmet to Thebes, Xena and Gabrielle save a young virgin from being sacrificed by a group of religious zealots.
  20. Soul Possession
    When an ancient scroll chronicling the life of Xena surfaces in the present, conflicts arise among the modern-day reincarnations of Xena, Gabrielle, Ares, and Joxer.
  21. A Friend In Need - Part 1 (Review By CruiseSPECIAL "AFIN" SECTION
    After six seasons, the adventure series bows out with a two-part storyline set in feudal Japan. Although executive producer Rob Tapert admits “there's no way we can satisfy everybody” with the finale, he does promise the resolution will “surprise and entertain” viewers. Part 1 opens with Xena being summoned to the city of Higuchi, where a samurai ghost is fighting to enslave 20,000 people. It's revealed that Xena's dark past inadvertently caused the warrior to become the evil "Lord of the Dark Land." So, with Gabrielle by her side, Xena vows to stop the slaughter in order to make amends for past misdeeds.
  22. A Friend In Need - Part 2 (Review By CruiseSPECIAL "AFIN" SECTION
    Xena and Gabrielle face the greatest threat they've ever known when they go up against the evil Yodoshi and an army of 20,000 elite Samurai warriors.

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