Episode list for
"Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (1995)

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Episode Count: 111
Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Year: 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: The Wrong Path

Original Air Date: 16 gennaio 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.

Season 1, Episode 2: Eye of the Beholder

Original Air Date: 23 gennaio 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.

Season 1, Episode 3: The Road to Calydon

Original Air Date: 30 gennaio 1995
When Hercules encounters a group of refugees being harassed by Hera, he decides to guide them to safety in the city of Calydon.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Festival of Dionysus

Original Air Date: 6 febbraio 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.

Season 1, Episode 5: Ares

Original Air Date: 13 febbraio 1995
Hercules and a female blacksmith, Atalanta, fight Ares, God of War, to prevent him from recruit an army among children and teenagers.

Season 1, Episode 6: As Darkness Falls

Original Air Date: 20 febbraio 1995
Craesus 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.

Season 1, Episode 7: Pride Comes Before a Brawl

Original Air Date: 27 febbraio 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.

Season 1, Episode 8: The March to Freedom

Original Air Date: 6 marzo 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.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Warrior Princess

Original Air Date: 13 marzo 1995
After Hercules helped him forge a swell knife, Iolaus finds out his village sweetheart Syreene just married another. On the rebound he falls for Xena; Hercules' distrust at first sight is waved by his mother Almene. Xena tells Iolaus she was preparing with some men to chase war lord Petrakis, who terrorizes her native Arcadian fields, to get him to come help; meanwhile she pushes her actual lover Theodorus to go kill Hercules, but he falls to his death in the duel, saying he regrets failing Xena. As Alcmene predicted, Iolaus won't believe his friend over his lover, so Hercules refuses to help the countrymen shed the warrior princess's oppression, till he meets Petrakis, actually an old farmer whose son died another victim of Xena's seduction...

Season 1, Episode 10: Gladiator

Original Air Date: 20 marzo 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.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Vanishing Dead

Original Air Date: 24 aprile 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.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Gauntlet

Original Air Date: 1 maggio 1995
The evil Xena and her mercenaries return; after destroying six villages on a single peninsula, she's heading for Parthis. Begging for his life as a cross-dresser, salesman Salmoneus is spared for her amusement. Hercules sets out when his help is enlisted by his adolescent cousin Roran, whose mother lives in Parthis. When Xena learns her lieutenant Darphus chose which village to attack and ordered women and children slaughtered, she resists and saves a baby, for which Salmoneus finds a shepherdess. The men choose Darphus's side, so Xena is exiled and must run the gauntlet by clobbering, which she survives. Spiros, whose family was killed while he was away trying to get help, attacks Hercules's party and wounds the boy with an arrow, thinking they did the killing. Her scout Deros, who was captured and released by Hercules, warns Xena of his approach. Salmoneus has fled and finds Hercules. Xena captures but releases Spiros, hopes to get her men back by bringing Hercules' head in a duel, but looses and runs. Hercules' quartet faces Darphus' band alone; Xena seizes the opportunity to vanquish Darphus in a duel, but Ares has him resurrected and gives him a monster to destroy Hercules. The baby is Spiros's son.

Season 1, Episode 13: Unchained Heart

Original Air Date: 8 maggio 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.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: The King of Thieves

Original Air Date: 11 settembre 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.

Season 2, Episode 2: All That Glitters

Original Air Date: 18 settembre 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.

Season 2, Episode 3: What's in a Name?

Original Air Date: 25 settembre 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.

Season 2, Episode 4: Siege at Naxos

Original Air Date: 2 ottobre 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.

Season 2, Episode 5: Outcast

Original Air Date: 9 ottobre 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.

Season 2, Episode 6: Under the Broken Sky

Original Air Date: 16 ottobre 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.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Mother of All Monsters

Original Air Date: 23 ottobre 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.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Other Side

Original Air Date: 6 novembre 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.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Fire Down Below

Original Air Date: 13 novembre 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.

Season 2, Episode 10: Cast a Giant Shadow

Original Air Date: 13 novembre 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.

Season 2, Episode 11: Highway to Hades

Original Air Date: 27 novembre 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.

Season 2, Episode 12: The Sword of Veracity

Original Air Date: 15 gennaio 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.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Enforcer

Original Air Date: 22 gennaio 1996
Since Nemesis has refused to kill Hercules, Hera makes her mortal and sends a newly-created and very homicidal Enforcer after her stepson.

Season 2, Episode 14: Once a Hero

Original Air Date: 29 gennaio 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...

Season 2, Episode 15: Heedless Hearts

Original Air Date: 5 febbraio 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...

Season 2, Episode 16: Let the Games Begin

Original Air Date: 19 febbraio 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...

Season 2, Episode 17: The Apple

Original Air Date: 26 febbraio 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.

Season 2, Episode 18: Promises

Original Air Date: 4 marzo 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...

Season 2, Episode 19: King for a Day

Original Air Date: 18 marzo 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...

Season 2, Episode 20: Protean Challenge

Original Air Date: 4 maggio 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...

Season 2, Episode 21: The Wedding of Alcmene

Original Air Date: 29 aprile 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...

Season 2, Episode 22: The Power

Original Air Date: 6 maggio 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...

Season 2, Episode 23: Centaur Mentor Journey

Original Air Date: 13 maggio 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.

Season 2, Episode 24: Cave of Echoes

Original Air Date: 7 giugno 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.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Mercenary

Original Air Date: 7 ottobre 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.

Season 3, Episode 2: Doomsday

Original Air Date: 7 ottobre 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.

Season 3, Episode 3: Love Takes a Holiday

Original Air Date: 21 ottobre 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.

Season 3, Episode 4: Mummy Dearest

Original Air Date: 28 ottobre 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".

Season 3, Episode 5: Not Fade Away

Original Air Date: 4 novembre 1996
A new Enforcer, made of fire, is sent by Hera. She kills Iolaus, but Hades gives Hercules a chance to get his friend back: he must destroy the new Enforcer. He will have the help of the original Enforcer, who has changed a lot in the Other Side and has realized Hera is evil.

Season 3, Episode 6: Monster Child in the Promised Land

Original Air Date: 4 novembre 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.

Season 3, Episode 7: The Green-Eyed Monster

Original Air Date: 11 novembre 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.

Season 3, Episode 8: Prince Hercules

Original Air Date: 25 novembre 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.

Season 3, Episode 9: A Star to Guide them

Original Air Date: 21 dicembre 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.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Lady and the Dragon

Original Air Date: 20 gennaio 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.

Season 3, Episode 11: Long Live the King

Original Air Date: 1 febbraio 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.

Season 3, Episode 12: Surprise

Original Air Date: 3 febbraio 1997
Callisto, Xena's arch-enemy, is given by Hera the chance to escape from Tartarus and become immortal if she can kill Hercules. So Callisto poisons Hercules' family and friends at his birthday party and forces Hercules to help her to find they way to the tree of life, whose apples will heal Hercules' beloved people and will give immortality to Callisto.

Season 3, Episode 13: Encounter

Original Air Date: 10 febbraio 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.

Season 3, Episode 14: When a Man Loves a Woman

Original Air Date: 17 febbraio 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.

Season 3, Episode 15: Judgement Day

Original Air Date: 17 febbraio 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.

Season 3, Episode 16: The Lost City

Original Air Date: 3 marzo 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.

Season 3, Episode 17: Les Contemptibles

Original Air Date: 14 aprile 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?

Season 3, Episode 18: Reign of Terror

Original Air Date: 14 aprile 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.

Season 3, Episode 19: The End of the Beginning

Original Air Date: 21 aprile 1997
Autolycus steals one of his most wished objectives, the Chronos Stone, which makes him and Hercules travel to the past. Autolycus finds a younger himself trying to steal the stone, and they both decide to cooperate. On the other hand, Hercules finds Serena after her sisters' death, so he faces Ares and tries to prevent her from becoming his brother's servant.

Season 3, Episode 20: War Bride

Original Air Date: 28 aprile 1997
When Princess Melissa is kidnapped on the eve of her wedding to Prince Gordius, Hercules must rescue her and prevent a war.

Season 3, Episode 21: A Rock and a Hard Place

Original Air Date: 5 maggio 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.

Season 3, Episode 22: Atlantis

Original Air Date: 12 maggio 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.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Beanstalks and Bad Eggs

Original Air Date: 29 settembre 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.

Season 4, Episode 2: Hero's Heart

Original Air Date: 6 ottobre 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?

Season 4, Episode 3: Regrets... I've Had a Few

Original Air Date: 13 ottobre 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.

Season 4, Episode 4: Web of Desire

Original Air Date: 20 ottobre 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.

Season 4, Episode 5: Stranger in a Strange World

Original Air Date: 27 ottobre 1997
Michael Hurst gets a chance to show his ability at physical comedy in this story when 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.

Season 4, Episode 6: Two Men and a Baby

Original Air Date: 3 novembre 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?

Season 4, Episode 7: Prodigal Sister

Original Air Date: 10 novembre 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.

Season 4, Episode 8: ...And Fancy Free

Original Air Date: 17 novembre 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.

Season 4, Episode 9: If I Had a Hammer

Original Air Date: 12 gennaio 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?

Season 4, Episode 10: Hercules on Trial

Original Air Date: 19 gennaio 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.

Season 4, Episode 11: Medea Culpa

Original Air Date: 26 gennaio 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.

Season 4, Episode 12: Men in Pink

Original Air Date: 2 febbraio 1998
Running away from authorities, Autolycus and Salmoneus join the Widow Twanky female dance company under the names of Autolyca and Salmonella.

Season 4, Episode 13: Armageddon Now: Part 1

Original Air Date: 9 febbraio 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.

Season 4, Episode 14: Armageddon Now: Part 2

Original Air Date: 16 febbraio 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.

Season 4, Episode 15: Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hercules

Original Air Date: 23 febbraio 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.

Season 4, Episode 16: Porkules

Original Air Date: 16 marzo 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.

Season 4, Episode 17: One Fowl Day

Original Air Date: 23 marzo 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.

Season 4, Episode 18: My Fair Cupcake

Original Air Date: 13 aprile 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.

Season 4, Episode 19: War Wounds

Original Air Date: 20 aprile 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.

Season 4, Episode 20: Twilight

Original Air Date: 27 aprile 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.

Season 4, Episode 21: Top God

Original Air Date: 4 maggio 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.

Season 4, Episode 22: Reunions

Original Air Date: 11 maggio 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.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Faith

Original Air Date: 28 settembre 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.

Season 5, Episode 2: Descent

Original Air Date: 5 ottobre 1998
After Iolaus' death in Sumeria, Hercules and Nebula start a dangerous journey to the Underworld to try and get him back to life.

Season 5, Episode 3: Resurrection

Original Air Date: 12 ottobre 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.

Season 5, Episode 4: Genies and Grecians and Geeks, Oh My!

Original Air Date: 19 ottobre 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.

Season 5, Episode 5: Render Unto Caesar

Original Air Date: 26 ottobre 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.

Season 5, Episode 6: Norse by Norsevest

Original Air Date: 2 novembre 1998
Hercules leaves Eire to travel to Scandinavia, where the god Balder needs his help: he's dreamt he's going to die. Hercules gets impressed to meet a god who worries about the mortals and agrees to help him, but danger for Balder arrives in an unexpected way.

Season 5, Episode 7: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bridge

Original Air Date: 9 novembre 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.

Season 5, Episode 8: Darkness Rising

Original Air Date: 9 novembre 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.

Season 5, Episode 9: For Those of You Just Joining Us...

Original Air Date: 9 gennaio 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.

Season 5, Episode 10: Let There Be Light

Original Air Date: 16 gennaio 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.

Season 5, Episode 11: Redemption

Original Air Date: 23 gennaio 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.

Season 5, Episode 12: Sky High

Original Air Date: 30 gennaio 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.

Season 5, Episode 13: Stranger and Stranger

Original Air Date: 1 febbraio 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.

Season 5, Episode 14: Just Passing Through

Original Air Date: 8 febbraio 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.

Season 5, Episode 15: Greece Is Burning

Original Air Date: 22 febbraio 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.

Season 5, Episode 16: We'll Always Have Cyprus

Original Air Date: 1 marzo 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.

Season 5, Episode 17: The Academy

Original Air Date: 15 marzo 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.

Season 5, Episode 18: Love on the Rocks

Original Air Date: 1 marzo 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.

Season 5, Episode 19: Once Upon a Future King

Original Air Date: 26 aprile 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.

Season 5, Episode 20: Fade Out

Original Air Date: 3 maggio 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.

Season 5, Episode 21: My Best Girl's Wedding

Original Air Date: 10 maggio 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 Jenkins reprising her role). As Iolaus II tries to delay Nautica's wedding, Hercules and Serena try to free Nautica from her forced marriage.

Season 5, Episode 22: Revelations

Original Air Date: 17 maggio 1999
Iolaus is back and a divine being wants to make sure it's the end of the world... But what's really happening?

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Be Deviled

Original Air Date: 27 settembre 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 Jenkins 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?

Season 6, Episode 2: Love, Amazon Style

Original Air Date: 4 ottobre 1999
A tribe of Amazons starts obeying Deimos' orders after Aphrodite accidentally casts a spell on them.

Season 6, Episode 3: Rebel with a Cause

Original Air Date: 16 ottobre 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.

Season 6, Episode 4: Darkness Visible

Original Air Date: 18 ottobre 1999
An old friend requests Hercules' help against vampires attacking his people -- but he is hiding a dark secret.

Season 6, Episode 5: Hercules, Tramps & Thieves

Original Air Date: 1 novembre 1999
Hercules tries to clear Autolycus of charges of robbing a bank, while Autolycus' gorgeous ex-wife Luscious has her own plans.

Season 6, Episode 6: City of the Dead

Original Air Date: 8 novembre 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.

Season 6, Episode 7: A Wicked Good Time

Original Air Date: 15 novembre 1999
Lilith's daughter, Cesca, enters into the dangerous world of witchcraft.

Season 6, Episode 8: Full Circle

Original Air Date: 20 novembre 1999
When Zeus uses Evander, Ares and Nemesis' son, to rescue Hera from Tartarus, the Earth is in danger.

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