Must See Xena
These are the must see episodes of Xena My Choices: SEASON 1: yes, the pilot, Sins of the Past must be seen as it is where Gabrielle and Xena meet; Hooves and Harlots introduces us to the Amazons; Callisto; and Is There a Doctor in the House? (best one of season 1) SEASON 2: Orphan of War; Girls Just Want to Have Fun; Return of Callisto; Intimate Stranger; The Xena Scrolls (just for fun - it's an alt universe/past/future lives thing);Destiny; The Quest; A Day in the Life; SEASON 3: The Furies; Been There Done That; The Deliverer; Gabrielle's Hope;-(IMPORTANT TO STORYLINE, difficult to watch); The Debt (both parts); Maternal Instincts; Bitter Suite; One against an Army; Sacrifice (2 parts); SEASON 4: Adventures in the Sin Trade (2parts); A Family Affair; In Sickness and in Health; A Good Day; Crusader; Past Imperfect; Devi; Between the Lines; The Way; The Convert; Endgame; Ides of March; SEASON 5 Fallen Angel; Chakram; Succession; Lyre, Lyre Hearts on Fire; Amphipolis Under Seige; Looking Death in the Eye; Livia; Eve; Motherhood; SEASON 6: Heart of Darkness; Who's Ghurkahn?; Legacy; the Abyss (not for the story but for the relationship w/Gabby and Xena); The Rheingold Trilogy - (the rheingold, the ring, and the return of the Valkyrie); Old Ares Had a Farm (stupid but fun); The God You Know; When Fates Collide (Written beautifully by Katherine Fugate); Many Happy Returns; and A Friend in Need (2 parts). That is my list of must see Xena. Not all of them are gold, but they help you understand the long-term storyline, the subtext, are stunning and heartbreaking, or funny and necessary... My 2 cents.
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- DirectorDoug LeflerStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorJay Laga'aiaXena, formerly a ruthless warlord, appears on the scene to prove she has changed her ways. While fighting to protect the innocent she rescues a young aspiring bard, Gabrielle, who becomes her traveling companion.Season One: Pilot really, but since Xena was a character from the Hercules series, we got to know the new her, here.
- DirectorJace AlexanderStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorDanielle CormackSomeone is trying to start a war between the Amazons and the centaurs, which Xena tries to prevent after a dying Amazon princess leaves Gabrielle her right of caste.We meet the Amazons here for the first time and it's important for later or I wouldn't suggest watching it.
- DirectorT.J. ScottStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorHudson LeickA blonde woman called Callisto kills innocent people stating she's Xena, Warrior Princess, and Xena and Gabrielle try to stop her. They meet for first time a warrior-wannabe called Joxer, and Xena has to face a dark event from her past related to Callisto and her village, Cirra.Absolutely vital to the next 6 years of the series. Don't miss the history and arrival of one of the most important people in the series besides the main two characters. Really. Hudson Leick is one of the most talented actors ever to show up in this series. Don't miss her introduction here.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.6 (616)TV EpisodeDirectorT.J. ScottStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorRay WoolfWhen Xena and Gabrielle take a wounded and pregnant Ephiny to a healing temple in the middle of a civil war, Xena must take over as healer when the priests would rather pray than act.One of the most moving episodes of the entire series. We begin to see the depth of feeling Xena and Gabrielle have for each other in this. It really shines a light on Xena's transformation from Destroyer of Nations to Warrior Princess. It feels here, as well, that the writers finally seem to have hit their stride with the characters.
- DirectorCharles SiebertStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorDavid TaylorXena and Gabrielle travel to the centaur lands to help them against Dagnine, a man who once fought at Xena's side when she was evil. Dagnine wants the powerful Ixion stone, who was hidden by Borias, Xena's former and now deceased lover. Xena meets there a young boy called Solan who lives with the centaurs, and she tells Gabrielle he's actually her son.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.4 (586)TV EpisodeDirectorT.J. ScottStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiXena, Gabrielle and Joxer face the evil god Bacchus, who turns innocent girls into bloody wild women called the Bacchae. While Bacchus tries to turn Xena and Gabrielle into Bacchae, they will have the help of Orpheus, who has lost his body and is a speaking head.
- DirectorT.J. ScottStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorHudson LeickWhen Callisto escapes from prison, she builds an army of evil and sends Joxer to tell Xena that she's going to continue killing. Perdicus marries Gabrielle, but Callisto interrupts their honeymoon.
- DirectorGary JonesStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorHudson LeickCallisto, with Ares' help, takes Xena's body and leaves Xena, in Callisto's body, in Tartarus.
- DirectorCharlie HaskellStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiIn 1940, two archaeologists look for the legendary scrolls that Gabrielle wrote about her adventures with Xena.
- DirectorRob TapertStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorEbonie SmithXena is seriously hurt in Cirra's ruins by a huge log and she enters into a coma. While Gabrielle carries her to a doctor in order to try to save her life, she remembers how ten winters ago she met Julius Caesar and became the Destroyer of Nations.
- DirectorMichael LevineStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorBruce CampbellGabrielle's attempt to take Xena's body to be buried with her brother are complicated by would-be thieves, Amazon dynasty squabbles, and Xena's attempts to communicate through Autolycus.
- DirectorMichael HurstStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorMurray KeaneHow do they use the bathroom? How do they make decisions? How do they cook an eel when their frying pan is broken? and is there a romantic relationship between Xena and Gabrielle?. All is revealed in a day in the life of Xena and Gabrielle, as Xena and Gabrielle battles a warlord and his army who plan to loot a village and save another village from being destroyed by a giant.
- DirectorGilbert M. ShiltonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorKevin SmithThe Furies, at Ares' instigation, condemn Xena to persecution and madness for failure to avenge the murder of her father. As Xena descends into madness, Gabrielle is her only grip on reality. Xena must convince the Furies that Ares' charge is untrue.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated8.2 (651)TV EpisodeDirectorAndrew MerrifieldStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiXena lives again and again the same day, until she finds the way to stop a carnage. It seems that Gabrielle leaves some strange love marks on Xena's neck. The main characters die a few times: Xena once, Gabrielle a pair of times, Joxer at least thrice (once by Xena's Chakram).
- DirectorOley SassoneStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorKevin SmithXena travels to Britannia to assist her former ally Boadicea in her rebellion against Caesar. Gabrielle travels with her and makes a new friend, Khrafstar, who tells her about his one god. However, Gabrielle doesn't know that this journey will change her life forever.
- DirectorCharles SiebertAndrew MerrifieldStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorPeter FeeneyGabrielle is haunted by having killed, and told by banshees that she is carrying the "Child of Darkness."
- DirectorOley SassoneStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorJacqueline KimXena is asked to come to the far kingdom of Chin to kill a person. She decides to do it, although Gabrielle doesn't understand why Xena is going to give up the last years she has dedicated to the Greater Good and become a murderer again. While they're travelling, Xena tells Gabrielle a story of her past which would explain what she is going to do.
- DirectorOley SassoneStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorJacqueline KimAfter being betrayed by Gabrielle, Xena is carried to the Green Dragon's prison, where she'll wait her execution. There she continues remembering the days she spent with Lao Ma, and the chance she gave her to change her life.
- DirectorMark BeesleyStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorAmy MorrisonXena and Gabrielle travel to the centaurs' lands to celebrate a treaty and visit Solan. However, Hope's back, now as a young girl, and she frees Callisto from the lava pit.
- DirectorOley SassoneStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiXena and Gabrielle face their anger and deceptions in an odd in-between world, guided by Solan, Xena's son. This is the first musical episode of Xena: Warrior Princess to feature its own original soundtrack.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated8.2 (590)TV EpisodeDirectorPaul LynchStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorDouglas KamoWhen the Persian army lands, intending to capture Greece, they expect easy pickings -- but Xena and an injured Gabrielle are in their way.
- DirectorDavid Warry-SmithStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorKevin SmithOne of Gabrielle's friends, Seraphin, is about to be sacrificed to a goddess. Xena and Gabrielle assume the goddess is Callisto and stop the sacrifice, but Seraphin tells them she wants to die to bring the Goddess to the world. Then Xena realizes the new goddess is Hope, whose rebirth would be one of the steps of Dahak's entrance in the world.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiHope has emerged from her cocoon and he looks exactly like Gabrielle. She prepares with Ares the sacrifice which will bring Dahak into our world, but Callisto gets bored of her and joins Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer to kill her, on condition that Xena kills her too so that there will be no afterlife for her.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.0 (560)TV EpisodeDirectorT.J. ScottStarsLucy LawlessMarton CsokasClaire StansfieldXena, anxious to know Gabrielle is safe in a good afterlife, seeks her in the Amazon Land of the Dead. In flashback, Xena learns to walk in the Land of the Dead from the shamaness Alti while pregnant with Borias' child.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated6.9 (542)TV EpisodeDirectorT.J. ScottStarsLucy LawlessMarton CsokasClaire StansfieldXena and her allies must learn the new Holy Word in order to defeat Alti and release the Amazon dead to cross over to their Land of the Dead.
- DirectorDoug LeflerStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiXena and Joxer travel to Poteidaia, where they find Gabrielle. But, after some strange attacks, Xena starts suspecting that the woman that's supposed to be Gabrielle is indeed Hope, and that her child, the Destroyer, could be alive.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.2 (525)TV EpisodeDirectorJosh BeckerStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiBoth Xena and Gabrielle suffer from disgusting diseases when they have to protect a village from an army of Scythians.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorKarl UrbanThe never ending war between Caesar and Pompey comes to a stalemate when Xena intervenes to save a Greek village.
- DirectorPaul LynchStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorKathryn MorrisXena finds a heavy rival in her love to Gabrielle: the leader of a fundamentalist religion who seduces the blonde bard.
- DirectorGarth MaxwellStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorMarton CsokasXena has to face a copycat of her former cruel warlord self, while remembering the last days of her former lover, Borias.
- DirectorGarth MaxwellStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorMonroe ReimersXena and Gabrielle arrive to India, where they meet a mysterious man, Eli, and Gabrielle finds out she has healing powers.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorClaire StansfieldXena and Gabrielle save a woman in India from dying in the fire pit where her husband's corpse is being burnt. She sends them to the future, where Xena is a pacifist and Gabrielle a male warrior, to fight Alti's reincarnation.
- DirectorJohn FawcettStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTimothy OmundsonXena loses her arms, just to gain four of them, fighting a Hindi demon, having god Krishna as an ally. Gabrielle, instead, embraces the non-violent way.
- DirectorAndrew MerrifieldStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiJoxer kills for the first time, and Najara is back. The fanatic crusader claims she's changed and has forsaken violence. Xena refuses to believe her, but Gabrielle considers it's possible after Najara says she changed after meeting Eli.
- DirectorGarth MaxwellStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorJennifer SkyEphiny, Queen of the Amazons, dies in a battle against the Romans, killed by Caesar's right hand, Brutus. Gabrielle must return as the new Queen to the Amazon territory, where she has to decide whether she forgives Brutus or not. However, Brutus is not the only menace: Pompey is also planning to attack them.
- DirectorKen GirottiStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTimothy OmundsonWhen Caesar, advised by Callisto, fixes a price for Xena's head, the Warrior Princess believes it's finally the time to kill him - even if that may lead her and Gabrielle to the death by crucifixion she saw in Alti's vision.
- DirectorJohn FawcettStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiXena and Gabrielle's souls reach Heaven, but they have to face their old enemy, Callisto, who is now a demon and kidnaps Gabrielle and carries her to Hell. In the Earth, Joxer, Amarice and Eli decide to recover Xena and Gabrielle's bodies from the crosses where they died.
- DirectorDoug LeflerStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiAfter coming back to life, Xena forgets her life as a warrior. Meanwhile, Ares and another god of war, Kal, try to get a new chakram, the Chakram of Light, which has the power to kill gods, but can only be taken by an absolutely pure soul.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorJenya LanoFused together into a single body by the ruthless Ares, Xena and Gabrielle are forced to battle the female warrior Mavican -- to the death.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated6.6 (553)TV EpisodeDirectorMark BeesleyStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiXena and Gabrielle organize a musical contest in Melodia, musical capital of Greece, to decide who gets Terpsichore's Lyre. Xena has to face her mother, Cyrene, who's looking for a father for her still unborn grandchild; Gabrielle has to face Draco, who's still in love with her; and Joxer has to face his brother Jace, because their relation isn't really close. This is the second musical episode of Xena: Warrior Princess to feature its own soundtrack.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.5 (490)TV EpisodeDirectorMark BeesleyStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorParis JeffersonXena, Gabrielle and Eve arrive to Amphipolis, where the villagers decide to face their patron goddess, Athena, whose army has put the town under siege until she kills Xena's daughter.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated8.0 (493)TV EpisodeDirectorGarth MaxwellStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiOld Joxer tells his children the story of the last adventure of Xena and Gabrielle, when they tried to trick the gods in order to stop them from attacking them and their beloved ones.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiXena and Gabrielle awaken in the ice tomb where Ares put their bodies when he thought were dead. They find out that those events happened 25 years before and Eve has grown up as a Roman, Livia, who is now a bloodthirsty warrior who is trying to eliminate Eli's cult.
- DirectorMark BeesleyStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiLivia refuses to accept she's Eve, the daughter of Xena, and keeps killing the followers of Eli even in a more cruel way to please Ares and become the Empress of Rome.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiWhen the Olympians gods discover that Livia is Eve, they again fear the Twilight prophecy. Athena sends the Furies to a special mission: they must turn Gabrielle mad until she kills Eve. However, when Eve is initiated in the Way of Love, Xena is given the power to kill gods.
- DirectorMark BeesleyStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorAdrienne WilkinsonAn archangel called Lucifer is sent to Earth to force Xena to go to Hell as the new Queen and thus close the portal to Hell before evil takes control of the people, but the Warrior Princess decides to trick him to take her place.
- DirectorMichael HurstStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorAdrienne WilkinsonGabrielles comes home to Potedaia, where she meets her sister Lila. There, Lila tells her that a man called Gurkhan kidnapped her daughter, Sarah, and eventually killed her parents and her husband. Looking for revenge, Gabrielle decides to Gurkhan's palace in the walled city of Moghador, in Northern Africa, with Xena, Eve and Virgil.
- DirectorChris Martin-JonesStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorAlison BruceXena and Gabrielle are welcome to the deserts of North Africa by a group of nomads. However, guilt starts haunting Gabrielle when she accidentally kills one of the nomads, thinking he was attacking them.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorWilliam Gregory LeeWhile fighting a tribe of scary cannibals, Xena and Gabrielle declare finally in plain words their love for each other, as "soul mates".
- DirectorJohn FawcettStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorBrittney PowellA Norse man called Beowulf shows Xena a strange padlock which reminds her of her past in the Norselands. The next morning, Xena's gone: she's travelling with Beowulf to mend some actions from her past, and Gabrielle decides to follow them. She finally reaches the Norselands, where she meets a woman called Brunnhilda who tells her about Xena's past as an evil valkyrie and her relationship with Odin, and how he told her where the powerful Rheingold was kept.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorBrittney PowellGabrielle, Brunnhilda and Beowulf find Xena alive after the Grindl's attack. When they arrive to the mine where the Grindl is hidden, Xena reveals the monster was once the valkyrie Grinhilda, who put the Rheingold Ring on her finger as a desperate attempt to stop Xena's reign of terror.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.1 (497)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn FawcettStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorBrittney PowellOne year after the fight in the swamp against Odin and the Valkyries, Beowulf and his sidekick, Wiglaf, visit King Hrothgar of Denmark the day of his wedding. Beowulf gets shocked when he discovers the bride is Xena, who's lost her memory and everyone calls Wealthea. After the wedding, Beowulf persuades Xena about who she is and what she has to do: come back to the swamp to awake Gabrielle - if Grinhilda doesn't kill them before.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.9 (512)TV EpisodeDirectorCharles SiebertStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorKevin SmithXena, Gabrielle and Ares enjoy the country life while hiding from a bunch of angry warlords pursuing the former god of War.
- DirectorGarth MaxwellStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorAdrienne WilkinsonArchangel Michael asks Xena and Gabrielle to kill Caligula, Emperor of Rome turned into a god, who is pursuing Eve and the other Elijans. When Xena arrives to Rome, Ares prevent her from killing Caligula, because that would mean Aphrodite's death.
- DirectorJohn FawcettStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorTed RaimiJulius Caesar escapes from the Underworld and changes the loom of the Fates, so he changes destiny. He now is married with Xena and rule powerful Roman Empire, Gabrielle is a successful theatre writer who misses a more interesting life and Joxer is a Roman soldier.The most beautiful and poignant episode of all of them. I truly wish this had been the last rather than the ending we were given. But, alas, my heart got broken later again with the last two episodes. I would love it if Katherine Fugate was signed on for the revival of Xena. She and several other writers just GOT the relationship with Xena and Gabrielle. Writers make it best or worst, and Katherine made this episode, unmistakably, the very best.
- DirectorMark BeesleyStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorAlexandra TydingsHappy birthday again, Gabrielle! This time the girls fall victims of their reciprocal practical jokes, but with the help of Aphrodite and a lovely poem by Sappho the couple will make peace and will fly to the sunset.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.6 (520)TV EpisodeDirectorRob TapertStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorMichelle AngA dead woman from Xena's past sends a monk to ask the warrior princess for help. Xena and Gabrielle travel to the far land of Japa, which Xena visited a long time ago, to face an evil spirit and his army.
- 1995–200145mNot Rated7.7 (573)TV EpisodeDirectorRob TapertStarsLucy LawlessRenée O'ConnorMichelle AngWhen Xena dies in order to fight Yodoshi as a ghost, Gabrielle starts a dangerous journey to retrieve her friend's body and put her ashes into the Fountain of Strength, which will bring her back from the dead.