Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Hercules, aided by his best friend Iolaus, goes on many adventures helping people and slaying mythical monsters using his half-god strength.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Cast:Kevin Sorbo , Michael Hurst , Kevin Smith , Robert Trebor , Jeffrey Thomas , Paul Norell , Bruce Campbell , Alexandra Tydings , Liddy Holloway , Tamara Gorski , Gina Torres , Joel Tobeck , Lucy Lawless , Meighan Desmond , Lisa Chappell , Jason Tahu , Sam Sorbo , Patrick Kake

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Wrong Path

Mon, Jan 16, 1995

Hera kills the family of her stepson Hercules, and he decided to take revenge of her by destroying her temples. Meanwhile, Iolaus becomes a stone statue by a she-demon.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Eye of the Beholder

Mon, Jan 23, 1995

The townspeople want Hercules to kill a Cyclops who diverted their river, but Hercules, with Scilla's help, will try to make friends with him instead.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Road to Calydon

Mon, Jan 30, 1995

When Hercules encounters a group of refugees being harassed by Hera, he decides to guide them to safety in the city of Calydon.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Festival of Dionysus

Mon, Feb 6, 1995

A traditional festival dedicated to Dionysus, the god of wine, is about to be celebrated, but this year someone wants to turn it into a massacre with the murder of a fair king. Hercules will try to stop this plan.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Ares

Mon, Feb 13, 1995

Hercules and a female blacksmith, Atalanta, fight Ares, God of War, to prevent him from recruit an army among children and teenagers.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ As Darkness Falls

Mon, Feb 20, 1995

Nemis the Centaur desperately wants to possess Penelope. Hera provides a drug to blind Hercules and a club to kill him. Lyla slips the drug into Hercules' drink. Penelope and her bridesmaid Cheris are kidnapped from Penelope's wedding, and Salmoneus must guide a blinded Hercules to rescue them.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Pride Comes Before a Brawl

Mon, Feb 27, 1995

Iolaus' hurt pride leads him to take a path leading to bandits and a comely maiden -- all a trap set at Hera's direction to justify killing him.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The March to Freedom

Mon, Mar 6, 1995

A treacherous slave dealer, Belus, pretends to lead a group of refugees to safety so he can sell them as slaves. Hercules buys Oi-lan to save her from prostitution and agrees to help her rescue her fiancé Cyrus.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Warrior Princess

Mon, Mar 13, 1995

Xena Warrior Princess wants to take down the "Son of Zeus," and plans to use his best friend, Iolaus to do it by getting him to fall in love with her. Her devious plot threatens to destroy the friendship between Iolaus and Hercules.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Gladiator

Mon, Mar 20, 1995

Hercules volunteers to help a woman show her new son to her husband, being kept as a slave. He and Iolaus arrange to be captured to free Gladius and all the other slaves.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Vanishing Dead

Mon, Apr 24, 1995

The bodies of dead soldiers are disappearing from the battlefield, so Hercules tries to find out what is happening and reconcile Dalin and Poena.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Gauntlet

Mon, May 1, 1995

Xena is back. A captured Salmoneus sees good in her. She butts heads with a lieutenant in her army, saves a baby, and has to walk "the gauntlet." Hercules is hot on her heels, which leads to a confrontation between the two.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Unchained Heart

Mon, May 8, 1995

Darphus, revived by Ares, is pillaging everything in sight to feed a monster called Graegus. Hercules and Xena (now turned to good) are determined to stop him. Iolaus joins Hercules but has trouble believing she is really reformed.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The King of Thieves

Mon, Sep 4, 1995

When Iolaus is accused of a burglary, Hercules must bring back the real thief, Autolycus, before Iolaus is put to death. Meanwhile, King Menelaos' daughter, the would-be lawyer Dirce, demands that Iolaus be put through one ordeal after another to prove his innocence.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ All That Glitters

Mon, Sep 11, 1995

Hercules is concerned when he hears that his old friend King Midas has opened a gambling palace, and then he discovers that Midas' partners are running things at the expense of the victims.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ What's in a Name?

Mon, Sep 18, 1995

Hercules' half-brother Iphicles is in love, and pretends to be Hercules in order to woo the stepdaughter of the local warlord. But the real Hercules cannot stand by the warlord expects the fake Hercules to impose his will on innocent villagers.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Siege at Naxos

Mon, Sep 25, 1995

Hercules and Iolaus capture Goth, wanted for war crimes, but are forced to take refuge in abandoned fort while Goth's brother and his army try to rescue him.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Outcast

Mon, Oct 2, 1995

Deric the Centaur, crazed by the loss of his wife Lyla and baby son Kefor in a fire, kills one of the men responsible and threatens the others. Hercules and Salmoneus try to untangle the truth.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Under the Broken Sky

Mon, Oct 9, 1995

Tender love story of a beautiful dancer who tries to bury her grief in men, until her farmer husband finds her and wants to take her home. Meanwhile, the thugs running the town don't like Hercules interfering with their predations.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Mother of All Monsters

Mon, Oct 16, 1995

Hercules has killed so many monsters that Echidna, the Mother of All Monsters, determines to trap him and make him suffer as she has suffered.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Other Side

Mon, Oct 30, 1995

Persephone is kidnapped by Hades, the God of Underworld, so Demeter, the Goddess of Harvest, turns the earth sterile so she forces Hercules to go to the Other Side and rescue her, or Humanity will perish.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Fire Down Below

Mon, Nov 6, 1995

Salmoneus is set up with treasure stolen from Hera. When Hercules convinces Nemesis that Salmoneus is innocent, Hera sends a deadly creature of fire to eliminate all three of them.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Cast a Giant Shadow

Mon, Nov 13, 1995

Hercules and Iolaus fall in with fellow traveler Typhon, a gentle and friendly giant. They are astounded to discover he is married to Echidna, the Mother of All Monsters. Meanwhile, Typhon is saddened to hear Echidna is causing problems and convinces the heroes that she only gets into trouble when he is gone and he needs to get home quickly.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Highway to Hades

Mon, Nov 20, 1995

King Sisyphus has tricked Timuron into dying in Sisyphus' place on his wedding night, taking his place for eternal punishment. Hades gives Hercules, Iolaus, and Timuron's spirit three days to bring Sisyphus back or Timuron will have to bear Sisyphus' sentence forever.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The Sword of Veracity

Mon, Jan 8, 1996

An old comrade of Hercules', Amphion, is now preaching peace but is arrested for murder by the tyrant Traicus. Since Amphion refuses to defend himself, Hercules and Iolaus search for the Sword of Veracity to show Amphion was framed.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Enforcer

Mon, Jan 15, 1996

Since Nemesis has refused to kill Hercules, Hera makes her mortal and sends a newly-created and very homicidal Enforcer after her stepson.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Once a Hero

Mon, Jan 29, 1996

Hercules, Iolaus and some other former Argonauts find out that their former leader Jason is a scared drunk since he left Medea for another and saw his new family murdered; the rule of his kingdom Argos has passed to a regent. Having witnessed an apparently demon-lead party steal the Golden Fleece, they set out once again to bring it back on the Argo. Soon they strife and casualties fall but Hercules guesses the demon's identity, a rival for Jason's throne, when they're trapped in a volcano. Hera has enlisted Marcus the regent to have skeleton warriors destroy them even in case they make it back to Argos...

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Heedless Hearts

Mon, Feb 5, 1996

Hercules and Iolaus, who has visions since lightning struck him for hybris, accept villager Rheanna's plea to free the small kingdom from its oppressive ruler Melkos. Just when Rheanne fell in love with the demi-god, trough a scorned man' sisters treason the rebel party is incarcerated in the palace, but Hercules breaks the jail, but finds someone neither executed...

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Let the Games Begin

Mon, Feb 12, 1996

Hercules stumbles on the n-th battle between Spartans and Eleans. When he helps battered but unbridled cocky Spartan warrior Damon home, his aunt turns out to be an old acquaintance of mythical strength in her own right, Atalanta, who complains his excessive battle courage equals a death-wish. Hercules comes up with an alternative for the battle field as field of honor, Olympic style games, and gets the leaders to agree, but the cruel Elean commander Tarkon calls upon war god Ares who turns four of his man literally into monsters...

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Apple

Mon, Feb 19, 1996

Iolaus has to decide if Aphrodite, Athena or Artemis is the most beautiful goddess. He chooses the Goddess of Love so Aphrodite gives him a magical gift: an apple which will make any woman fall in love with him.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Promises

Mon, Mar 4, 1996

Since the death of his father Palos, Boraeus is king of Zabros. Hercules hears his bride Ramina is kidnapped for ransom by the outlaw Tarlus -who once abandoned Iolaus on a battlefield- and his gang in the hills. Hercules and Iolaus easily free her, but quickly find her missing, apparently caught by primords (a species of ape-men), and yet find that Tarlus goes to great trouble to send them on a wrong trail, so they keep looking for his secret camp, and once there find out that several things are not what they seem...

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ King for a Day

Mon, Mar 18, 1996

When a peasant pleads his daughter is completely out of control because of her obsession for Hercules, he tells Iolaus to meet up there again in a week, and to visit distant relatives in nearby Attica, which Iolaus grudgingly does. There he finds he is the spitting image of Orestes, the uselessly spoiled heir to the throne, whose drinks are however spiked so his younger brother, regent Minos, could succeed instead, with general Archeus as the power behind his throne. Loyal courtiers convince Iolaus to take his place temporarily. He does surprisingly well at the coronation and afterward, when Orestes is found abducted, and even falls in reciprocated love with princess Niobe, whose hand in marriage goes with the crown but hated the real prince she didn't see in ten years. Then they free the real heir...

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Protean Challenge

Mon, Apr 22, 1996

Hercules and Iolaus help the sculptor Thanis, who neglects his farm because of his artistic drive, and enjoy his daughter Daniella. When he goes to town for supplies, Iolaus witnesses him commit a senseless crime, which he seems totally oblivious about a minute later, but for which the magistrate, even though an art lover, condemns him to have his hands cut off 'for lack of proof of innocence' to set an example in the hope to stop the recent crime wave. After our heroes encounter more behavior out of character, including each-others, it becomes clear none of them is the actual person, here's a supernatural shape-shifter, and Hercules knew as a child the perfect suspect: Proteus, a minor god...

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Wedding of Alcmene

Mon, Apr 29, 1996

Hercules is startled when his mother Alcemene tells him she and king Jason, his friend the Argonaut, have been secretly in love since Amphitrion's death, and now plan a marriage. Under Corinthian law Jason may not continue to rule with a commoner wife, but can choose an heir- Iphicles is chosen and found in time. Of course Hera has a nasty surprise lurking: Perfidia, Echidia's largest brood, emerges from the sea and devours Jason, so Hercules jumps after him into the giant mouth...

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ The Power

Mon, May 6, 1996

While Hercules walks on the beach, he is attacked by a bunch of robbers, which he easily chases, and sees a young man and his girl friend chased by their cahoots- suddenly the kid tells them off and is obeyed, to his own surprise. In the fishing village, Hercules learns it's Deon, whose father confides to him is also a half-god, and inherited the now appearing power of unconditional persuasion from his mother Aphrodite, but was never told his ancestry. It turns out the brigand leader is Deon's uncle Karis, who hopes to enlist his divine powers by luring him with luxury for his beloved Sirene. Salmoneus finds to his horror the 'primising' call for his talents is from the local dun mongers, the unspeakably smelly Titus brothers. Deon scorns his father, an honest fisherman, for keeping the truth from him, but soon senses uncle Karis is hardly better, while Hercules tries to make truth and justice triumph against appearances...

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Centaur Mentor Journey

Mon, May 13, 1996

Hercules hears from young pupil Theseus that his mentor and virtual stepfather, the centaur Ceridian, is dying and drops everything to rush thereto. He is asked to attempt to talk some sense into a former centaur pupil, Cassius, who has turned on all humans because the local magistrate banned the species from town including the water spring, even forsaking his girlfriend, the local school principal Perdidis's daughter Mirra. Salmoneus, who was promoting 'air sandals', offers to mind Ceridian while Herc braves both angry parties and tries to restore peace and unveils a criminal plot around the magistrate.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ The Cave of Echoes

Mon, Jun 24, 1996

Iolaus and Hercules save the life of the writer Parentheses, who was about to be hanged for writing about the hoods' crimes in Macedonia and insists to accompany them. Then Elopius begs them to save his daughter Melina from an unseen monster in the Cave of Echoes, which Hercules already knew. After reminiscing how he saved Deianeira from Anteus the giant rock monster and defeated some other monsters, and more heroic deeds -taking up over half of the episode- Hercules finds the girl, who just slipped and got her foot caught, while trying to rescue her kitten Zeus, and makes Parentheses pull her out.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Mercenary

Mon, Sep 30, 1996

Hercules and the prisoner he is taking to Sparta live through a shipwreck. Hercules' determination to recapture the man is complicated by his injured arm, pirates searching for gold from the sunken ship, and a desert populated by flesh-eating sand rays.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Doomsday

Mon, Oct 14, 1996

Hercules learns from Katrina, a scribe, that Icarus is dead and his father, Hercules' old friend Daedalus, is being blamed. On the way to Euboa to see Daedalus, Hercules and Katrina see a large flaming crossbow used to destroy a village, and learn it is Daedalus' invention. When evil King Nikolas uses another of Daedalus' inventions to try to destroy Hercules, Daedalus at last realizes that burying his grief in work is hurting other people, but King Nikolas refuses to let Daedalus quit.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Love Takes a Holiday

Mon, Oct 14, 1996

Aphrodite, bored with her role as goddess of love, abandons it to try other activities. Consequently, women lose all interest in men on earth, leading to desperate efforts on the men's parts. When Aphrodite finally realizes who truly loves her, she is reconciled to her traditional role and all is set right.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Mummy Dearest

Mon, Oct 21, 1996

An Egyptian princess travel to Greece to ask Hercules to find an old, walking, dangerous mummy who is being exhibited in Salmoneus' "House of Horrors".

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Not Fade Away

Mon, Oct 28, 1996

When Hercules visits his mother, stepfather Jason and family tombs in his native Thebes, Hera strikes it with lightning and a fire-breathing enforcer, which ends up killing Iolaus while he rushes to warn Hercules of her lethal mission. Aided by grateful Persephone, Hercules gets permission to retrieve his mate from the underworld if he can eliminate the enforcer before sunset and is given an outdated enforcer as unwanted, yet as it turns out useful, helper. meanwhile Iolaus meets his father Skouros, whom he despises for leaving his mother and him, and comes to terms with his military careerist past.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Monster Child in the Promised Land

Mon, Nov 4, 1996

Echidna has had a new baby, which she and Typhon want to keep from becoming a dangerous monster. But he is kidnapped by a thief who pretended to be a friend of Hercules' so Hercules and Typhon set out to rescue little Obie.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Green-Eyed Monster

Mon, Nov 11, 1996

Hercules is accidentally shot by one of Cupid's arrows and he falls in love with Psyche, the beautiful woman Cupid loves. That makes Cupid turn very jealous, and because of a curse of Hera, he becomes a dangerous green-eyed monster.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Prince Hercules

Mon, Nov 18, 1996

Queen Parnassa's son, heir to the throne, was killed in a war years ago, but the kingdom does not know it. She beseeches their guardian Hera for a replacement son, so Hera destroys Hercules' memory and the queen welcomes him as her long-lost son. Iolaus tries to restore Hercules' memory before he takes an oath to serve Hera.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ A Star to Guide Them

Mon, Dec 9, 1996

In this charming Christmas episode, weak King Polonius receives a prophecy that a newborn baby will reign over his kingdom, and wicked Queen Maliphone convinces him to order the slaughter of all the babies in the kingdom to ensure their unborn child's succession. Hercules shepherds the threatened babies and their mothers to safety.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Lady and the Dragon

Mon, Jan 13, 1997

Cynea uses her beauty to lure men to fight the dragon Braxus for her, not knowing Braxus is serving Cynea's lover Adamis, and her next chosen champion is Iolaus.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Long Live the King

Mon, Jan 20, 1997

Iolaus' cousin King Orestes, who is trying to promote peace between the kingdoms, is in danger because of his naiveté, and Iolaus wants to protect him.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Surprise

Mon, Jan 27, 1997

Hercules finds his family and other birthday party guests poisoned with a fatal drug that also induces violent phantasms, making them turn on each-other. To save them, Hercules's only hope is to help Callisto, Xena's evil arch-enemy, in exchange for the antidote, collect a panacea, apples from the tree of life, which grows in the hellish underworld Tartarus. Only there he discovers, once trapped, it was all another lethal ploy from Hera.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Encounter

Mon, Feb 3, 1997

Part 1 of 3. Villager Hemnor recruits Hercules to save the last golden hind from Prince Nestor. When a young boy is critically injured in one of Nestor's traps, Serena appears and heals him, then disappears. Iolaus, meanwhile, is shot by the hind. Hercules hunts Serena to save Iolaus before it's too late. Ares traps Serena in a thorny hedge, from which Hercules frees her -- but the thorns have caught her blood.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ When a Man Loves a Woman

Mon, Feb 10, 1997

Part 2 of 3. Hercules asks Serena to marry him. When Serena comes to tell him yes, a mortal touches her and she turns to the Golden Hind in front of all the villagers. Iolaus has a bad feeling about Hercules' proposed marriage and decides to leave town. Hercules goes to the Other Side to tell Deianeira he is getting remarried, and she does not take the news well. The gods decide that in order to marry, Hercules and Serena must become fully mortal.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Judgment Day

Mon, Feb 17, 1997

Part 3 of 3. Now mortal, Hercules is both jealous of Serena and touchy about his ability to protect her. He wakes up to find Serena dead. The townspeople are convinced Hercules killed Serena and he's not sure they are wrong. Hercules must evade capture while he tries to figure out who did kill Serena, with the help of an old friend.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ The Lost City

Mon, Feb 24, 1997

Iolaus is trying to find his cousin who disappeared from her village; Moria is reporting his search for a Greek-era tabloid. They fall through a trap door in an abandoned temple and find themselves in a hippie-type commune run by Kamaros as the interpreter of their god, Lorel. Iolaus figures out that the community is kept happy by being fed drugs and tries to free them.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Les Contemptibles

Mon, Apr 7, 1997

France, 1789. An anonymous hero known as the Chartreuse Fox fights for revolution. Meanwhile, a noble woman, Lady Marie DeValle helps François Demarigny to teach two outlaw men using the example of the Greek hero Hercules. However, nothing is what it seems, and who's actually cheating whom?

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Reign of Terror

Mon, Apr 14, 1997

King Augeus thinks he's Zeus, throws rocks painted with lightning bolts, and has rededicated Aphrodite's temple to Hera. Hercules wants to set the kingdom up to be well-ruled again.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ The End of the Beginning

Mon, Apr 21, 1997

When Hercules visits kingdom Cyrenia, where he spent his short-cut honeymoon with golden hind Serena, thieves king Autolycus manages to steal Chronos's time crystal from the royal palace's museum. Failing to decipher the instructions, he causes a time warp with Hercules to when Ares and Strife killed all other hinds and worked on Serena. While Autolycus and his persona from the past meet and team up to steal the crystal again, Hercules also risks messing up history when interacting with Ares, who realizes what happens, with multiple consequences.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ War Bride

Mon, Apr 28, 1997

When Princess Melissa is kidnapped on the eve of her wedding to Prince Gordius, Hercules must rescue her and prevent a war.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ A Rock and a Hard Place

Mon, May 5, 1997

Suspected murderer Cassus, running from Hercules and the townspeople, takes refuge in an abandoned mine and triggers a cave-in. Trapped and severely injured, Cassus tells several different versions of the murder, as Hercules tries to help Cassus admit the truth and reconcile with his son. Meanwhile, the villagers turn the wait for Cassus to die into a party.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Atlantis

Mon, May 12, 1997

Cassandra, a resident of Atlantis, has dreams of it being destroyed and a mysterious man saving her. When she finds a shipwrecked Hercules on the beach, she recognizes him as the man from her dreams. Hercules convinces her to warn the other Atlanteans of impending disaster, but they refuse to believe her; Hercules is sent to be killed while the king tries to force Cassandra to tell him how Atlantis will be destroyed. Hercules escapes (of course), frees his captured shipmates, and hunts for Cassandra.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Beanstalks and Bad Eggs

Mon, Sep 29, 1997

Hercules promises a dying old woman to find out what happened to her mother, Lianna. After stealing a magic bean from a warlord with Autolycus' help -- well, participation, they climb the resulting beanstalk and find a castle in the clouds. A still-young Lianna is there, along with the cranky giant Typhoon (Typhon's brother), commanded by Hades to guard the last harpy eggs.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Hero's Heart

Mon, Oct 6, 1997

Iolaus' self-esteem is shattered when he is unable to save a woman. He leaves Hercules and lets himself be flattered into serving an evil warlord. But when Hercules faces the warlord's men, will Iolaus sink forever into evil, or will his hero's heart make him fight for right again?

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Regrets... I've Had a Few

Mon, Oct 13, 1997

When Hercules begs an extra day of life for his friend Jaris before Celesta takes him to the Other Side, Jaris kills the town thug he hasn't been able to convict in court and Hercules must stop him before the accumulated evil of killing keeps him out of the Elysian Fields.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Web of Desire

Mon, Oct 20, 1997

Forced ashore in a storm, Hercules and Iolaus and the crew of the ship they were sailing on become prey of a giant arachnid.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Stranger in a Strange World

Mon, Oct 27, 1997

Iolaus is exchanged with another Iolaus from an alternate universe. Hercules tries to teach the clown-Iolaus to be a man while fighter-Iolaus tries to fight 'the Sovereign, ' a tyrant who happens to look just like Hercules.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Two Men and a Baby

Mon, Nov 3, 1997

When Hercules and Iolaus find a baby floating in the river, now-mortal Nemesis is not far behind, and surprised Hercules with the news that this is his son Evander -- but where do Evander's powers come from and why is Ares hunting the baby?

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Prodigal Sister

Mon, Nov 10, 1997

Thirteen years after a raid by a group of renegade Amazons blinded Ruun, killed his parents, and kidnapped his sister, he still wants to rescue her and kill all Amazons -- but she may have become one.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ ...And Fancy Free

Mon, Nov 17, 1997

In order to help a village girl, Althea, Hercules accepts to be her partner in a dance contest. They both attend the dance classes of a very extravagant teacher, the Widow Twanky.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ If I Had a Hammer

Mon, Jan 12, 1998

Salmoneus drafts Hercules to pose for an art class -- nude. Meanwhile, Atalanta builds a metal statue of, and Hephaistos brings him to life, looking just like Hercules but totally lacking life skills. And who should show up to steer him in the wrong direction but Discord?

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Hercules on Trial

Mon, Jan 19, 1998

A man pretending to be Hercules is killed while rescuing two children from a collapsed mine, and prosecutor Spencius accuses the real Hercules of the man's death as well as disrespecting the gods. As Spencius examines witnesses who had encountered Hercules and twists their stories into showing Hercules in a bad light, Hercules battles his own conscience as to how responsible he is for others' actions, leading to an impassioned Spartucus-style speech at the end.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Medea Culpa

Mon, Jan 26, 1998

Hercules, Iolaus, and Jason flashback to tackling a monster with the help of Medea, a young woman they encounter along the road, but who may have her own agenda.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Men in Pink

Mon, Feb 2, 1998

Running away from authorities, Autolycus and Salmoneus join the Widow Twanky female dance company under the names of Autolyca and Salmonella.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Armageddon Now: Part 1

Mon, Feb 9, 1998

Hope frees Callisto, now a god. Callisto and Ares bring the Sovereign into Greece to take his pendant of hind's blood, the only substance that can kill a god, but leave him free to distract Hercules.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Armageddon Now: Part 2

Mon, Feb 16, 1998

Ares sends Iolaus back in time to protect Alcmene from Callisto, while both Hercules and the Sovereign are locked in a middle-world, unable to affect either of their worlds.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hercules

Mon, Feb 23, 1998

Envelope show in which Kevin Sorbo doesn't show up for filming in New Zealand after an earthquake hits Los Angeles, and the rest of the staff frantically tries to either locate him or find a replacement.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Porkules

Mon, Mar 16, 1998

Discord uses Artemis' stolen bow to turn Hercules into a pig. Iolaus makes Autolycus, who stole the bow from Artemis' temple and sold it to Discord, help recover it.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ One Fowl Day

Mon, Mar 23, 1998

Ares wants to punish Iolaus for turning Discord into a chicken, so he starts by chaining Iolaus and Autolycus together and gradually adds other punishments as the day goes on. Meanwhile, Aphrodite uses Artemis' bow to turn pig-Katherine into a lovely human woman, and Hercules tries to show her how humans live.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ My Fair Cupcake

Mon, Apr 13, 1998

Autolycus steals an invitation to a ball to be given by the bachelor Prince of Antioch to meet every eligible princess in the area, and coaxes Cupcake to masquerade as a princess so he can steal the famous Antioch sapphire. Meanwhile, someone is trying to start a war with Antioch, and Hercules and Iolaus try to prevent it.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ War Wounds

Mon, Apr 20, 1998

Hard feelings between townspeople and old soldiers lead to fighting in Corinth, and King Iphicles has been imprisoning the soldiers under miserable conditions. Hercules and Iolaus try to reconcile the factions and free the imprisoned soldiers.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Twilight

Mon, Apr 27, 1998

Part 1 of 3. Learning that Alcmene is dying, Hercules and Iolaus rush to her side. In flashback, Young Hercules, Iolaus, and Jason go off to their first war. An ambush kills most of their comrades, and when they reach the supposed safety of a barricaded trench, they find it full of dead soldiers as well. They rescue a wounded opponent, who eventually takes them to confer with his king, resulting in a ceasefire.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Top God

Mon, May 4, 1998

Part 2 of 3. As Hercules grieves for Alcmene, Zeus points out that Hercules is now free to become a full god. Hercules considers the good he can do as a god as well as the change in his relationship to his friends. In flashback, Apollo turns Young Hercules into a full god by feeding him ambrosia. But his new abilities and showing off alienate his old friends, while the callous way Apollo treats mortals irritates Young Hercules and he asks Zeus to take away his godhood.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Reunions

Mon, May 11, 1998

Part 3 of 3. Hercules starts to suspect that Zeus had ulterior motives to make him a god. Iolaus goes to visit his mother and is hurt by the resentment of her new husband. Hera imprisons Alcmene's spirit and threatens to torture her forever unless Zeus surrenders his godhood; then Hercules must save the now-mortal Zeus from Ares and head to Olympus for the final battle with Hera.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Faith

Mon, Sep 28, 1998

Hercules and Iolaus travel to Sumeria to aid a king persecuted by the gods, in company with Nebula who turns out to be a wandering Sumerian princess. King Gilgamesh, half-god like Hercules, needs the help of someone else with the blood of a god to reach a chalice in which flows nectar that will revive the land.

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S5.E2 ∙ Descent

Mon, Oct 5, 1998

After Iolaus' death in Sumeria, Hercules and Nebula start a dangerous journey to the Underworld to try and get him back to life.

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S5.E3 ∙ Resurrection

Mon, Oct 12, 1998

Still shocked after Iolaus' death, Hercules leaves Sumeria and is shipwrecked. He arrives to Eire, where he's recognized as the Chosen One and faces an evil demigoddess called Morrigan who's killing the druids.

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S5.E4 ∙ Genies and Grecians and Geeks, Oh My!

Mon, Oct 19, 1998

Autolycus and Salmoneus wind up owning a genie-in-a-bottle used by its former owner to trick greedy salesmen -- and he wants it back.

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S5.E5 ∙ Render Unto Caesar

Mon, Oct 26, 1998

While Hercules tries to help Morrigan to leave her bloodthirsty life and accept to become a Druid, a Roman army led by Julius Caesar arrives to the coasts of Eire. Hercules prepares the Celt defense, while he discovers he's got a lot in common with Morrigan.

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S5.E6 ∙ Norse by Norsevest

Mon, Nov 2, 1998

Hercules leaves Eire to travel to Scandinavia, where the god Balder needs his help: he's dreamed he's going to die. Hercules is impressed to meet a god who worries about the mortals and agrees to help him, but danger for Balder arrives in an unexpected way.

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S5.E7 ∙ Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bridge

Mon, Nov 9, 1998

Odin is fatalistic, Balder dead, Thor banished, and Loki hiding, but when Hercules cannot prevent the third tragedy that would make Ragnarok inevitable, he is determined to revenge their loss on Loki.

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S5.E8 ∙ Darkness Rising

Mon, Nov 16, 1998

Back in Ireland, Dahok kills the druids after trapping Hercules and Morrigan in a cave. Hercules has a vision of Nebula in flames, so he and Morrigan head for Sumeria, where Nebula is delusional, obsessed with dreams of an oddly-acting Iolaus.

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S5.E9 ∙ For Those of You Just Joining Us...

Mon, Jan 4, 1999

In this clip show sequel to last season's 'Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hercules,' the staff of 'Hercules' suffer a corporate retreat to improve the show quality. At Camp Wannachuck, staffer Sunny Day will "combine corporate re-engineering techniques with ancient Navajo ritual to enhance the efficiency of your overall group dynamic." But the dysfunctional group dynamic of this group isn't helped by what looks like someone's attempts to eliminate the staff.

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S5.E10 ∙ Let There Be Light

Mon, Jan 11, 1999

Hercules, Morrigan, and Nebula head for Greece to save it from Dahok. When they arrive, they discover that the Olympian gods have disappeared, and Iolaus/Dahok has convinced the people he is the apostle of light and Hercules is a homicidal maniac. Imprisoned Titan Mnemosyne tells Hercules that to defeat Dahok, he must retrieve the Stone of Creation. Meanwhile, Nebula helps Dahok's thugs to capture Morrigan and Jason.

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S5.E11 ∙ Redemption

Mon, Jan 18, 1999

Hercules and Zarathustra must exorcise Dahak from Iolaus' body to prevent Dahak taking over the world. Meanwhile, Morrigan and Nebula have to prevent Dahak's followers from killing a now-vulnerable Ares, and Dahak shows Hercules how he tempted Iolaus to bring him into the world.

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S5.E12 ∙ Sky High

Mon, Jan 25, 1999

Hercules and Ephiny try to redirect a volcano by hauling Atlantean crystals to its top, with the help of a convicted murderer and his victim's father.

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S5.E13 ∙ Stranger and Stranger

Mon, Feb 1, 1999

When Hercules jumps through a reopened portal to the alternate world, he hopes to find the Olympian gods and bring them back to Greece. Instead, he finds Clown-Iolaus alive and a sadistic and deadly "Empress" in charge. Hercules impersonates the Sovereign to figure out what has happened and set it right.

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S5.E14 ∙ Just Passing Through

Mon, Feb 8, 1999

Hercules tells Iolaus II about the time he and the original Iolaus had to quickly find a stolen ruby before its gold panther came to life and destroyed the village.

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S5.E15 ∙ Greece Is Burning

Mon, Feb 15, 1999

The characters from "...And Fancy Free" reappear as Althea wants to be a fashion designer but Oena and her lover Count von Verminhaven make fun of Althea and her designs. Hercules encourages Althea and her friends to put on their own fashion show, but Oena and Verminhaven will stop the show by any means possible.

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S5.E16 ∙ We'll Always Have Cyprus

Mon, Feb 22, 1999

Hercules returns to Cyprus, where he spent his last days with Morrigan, and remembers the end of their relationship. Meanwhile, a woman has come back from the dead looking for revenge against Cyprus' Oracle.

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S5.E17 ∙ The Academy

Mon, Mar 15, 1999

Hercules, Jason, and Iolaus II find that their alma mater has been turned into a training school for thugs, and Hercules takes over as temporary headmaster to get the Academy back on track. Jason runs into an old love who surprises him with a teenage daughter.

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S5.E18 ∙ Love on the Rocks

Mon, Apr 19, 1999

Discord changes Nautica from a mermaid into a woman. Aphrodite helps Iolaus drive a group of thugs away from a village, which causes Nautica to fall in love with him. As Discord and her thugs try to keep Nautica away from the ocean until sunset, Iolaus falls in love with her and feels guilty because he's not really a brave warrior.

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S5.E19 ∙ Once Upon a Future King

Mon, Apr 26, 1999

Taking Excalibur by force translates a violent, tyrannical King Arthur and his witch adviser Mab to Hercules' time, and a young Merlin asks Hercules to come to Britannia. Mab coaches Arthur to get Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake. When Hercules and Morrigan capture Arthur, Mab takes Merlin back to the castle and discovers he hasn't learned to be a sorcerer yet. When Hercules and Morrigan rescue Merlin, Arthur discovers Mab was just using him to get Excalibur.

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S5.E20 ∙ Fade Out

Mon, May 3, 1999

Hercules and Iolaus II find a town where people are literally fading to death. When the only way to lift the curse is for Hercules to take it on himself, Hercules and Iolaus II search for the remaining stone eyes to end the curse.

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S5.E21 ∙ My Best Girl's Wedding

Mon, May 10, 1999

The leader of a group of thugs pulls into a small town to celebrate his wedding - to Iolaus II's love, Nautica. On his way to find Triton, Hercules rescues a woman from bandits, who turns out to be his love, Serena (with Kevin Sorbo's real life wife Sam Sorbo reprising her role). As Iolaus II tries to delay Nautica's wedding, Hercules and Serena try to free Nautica from her forced marriage.

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S5.E22 ∙ Revelations

Mon, May 17, 1999

Iolaus is back and a divine being wants to make sure it's the end of the world... But what's really happening?

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Be Deviled

Mon, Sep 27, 1999

Arciana and a group of criminals break out of prison to search for the Sword of Hera. Kevin Sorbo's real-life wife Sam Sorbo reprises her role of Serena -- sort of. Hercules realizes this isn't his Serena. This being calls herself "Sin" and says she wants to help recapture Xerxos, who escaped from her realm of punishment. Hercules reluctantly accepts her power and gradually becomes more vicious as they continue to pursue Xerxos and Arciana. Can Iolaus uncover Serena's hidden agenda in time to save Hercules?

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S6.E2 ∙ Love, Amazon Style

Mon, Oct 4, 1999

A tribe of Amazons starts obeying Deimos' orders after Aphrodite accidentally casts a spell on them.

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S6.E3 ∙ Rebel with a Cause

Mon, Oct 11, 1999

The shade of Oedipus' wife/mother Jocasta threatens him with continued suffering unless their daughter Antigone is made queen of Thebes. But Antigone, heartbroken and bitter, is more interested in drinking herself to death.

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S6.E4 ∙ Darkness Visible

Mon, Oct 18, 1999

An old friend requests Hercules' help against vampires attacking his people -- but he is hiding a dark secret.

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S6.E5 ∙ Hercules, Tramps & Thieves

Mon, Nov 1, 1999

Hercules tries to clear Autolycus of charges of robbing a bank, while Autolycus' gorgeous ex-wife Luscious has her own plans.

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S6.E6 ∙ City of the Dead

Mon, Nov 8, 1999

Queen Nefertiti of Egypt wants a peaceful alliance with Greece, but her children want to revive Egypt's warlike history. When her son Ramses is convicted of treason but set free by his mother, he goes after the Necromicon in the City of the Dead.

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S6.E7 ∙ A Wicked Good Time

Mon, Nov 15, 1999

Lilith's daughter, Cesca, enters into the dangerous world of witchcraft.

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S6.E8 ∙ Full Circle

Mon, Nov 22, 1999

When Zeus uses Evander, Ares and Nemesis' son, to rescue Hera from Tartarus, the Earth is in danger.