The Best Episodes of Hercules
Every episode of Hercules ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Hercules!
Follow Herc's many labors during the years he spent training on how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr Phil. Many of the Olympian Gods and Goddesses pay visit to the young hero-to-be and help or hinder him in his new adventures.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Hercules" is "Hercules and the Disappearing Heroes", rated 9.1/10 from 33 user votes. It was directed by Phil Weinstein and written by Robert Cohen. "Hercules and the Disappearing Heroes" aired on 10/5/1998 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Hercules and the Long Nightmare".
9.1/10 33 votes#1 - Hercules and the Disappearing Heroes
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/5/1998
Hecate is kidnapping all of the great heroes, planning to transfer their greatness into a newly created monster.
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Robert Cohen
8.9/10 33 votes#2 - Hercules and the Long Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 2/8/1999
We see how the Greek Gods got their position when helping to build Greece. Morpheus' younger brother Phantasos makes a blanket of nightmares to drag through the night sky giving everyone nightmare because he should've been made The God of Sleep instead of Morpheus. The mortals' nightmares start to concern all the Greek Gods including Morpheus. It's up to Hercules and Phil to stop Phantasos' plot in their shared dreams.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Ken Koonce, Michael Merton
8.8/10 31 votes#3 - Hercules and the Falling Stars
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 11/10/1998
When Hercules tears the stars from the heavens, he frees the constellation Orion, who comes down to earth in order to give the young hero archery lessons. However when the rest of the constellations pour down from the sky and start to attack the neighboring city-states, both Orion and Hercules have a lot of explaining to do.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Jess Winfield
8.7/10 32 votes#4 - Hercules and the Spartan Experience
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 1/4/1999
When Adonis is drafted into the Spartan ROTC, he begs Hercules to save him; so they join him disguised as soldiers, and it's found that Icarus excels at army life.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Nora Kay Foster, Adam Armus
8.7/10 83 votes#5 - Hercules and the Arabian Night
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 2/10/1999
When Hades finds out that there is a problem with one of the dead souls, he goes and finds out that it is Jafar causing the trouble. He gives him back his life so he can get rid of Hercules. Jafar fails, and dares Hades to try and stop Aladdin. The attempt is made with same results. Then they try to get rid of Aladdin and Hercules at the same time by making them believe that Hercules kidnapped Abu and Aladdin kidnapped Icarus. The plan almost works and they leave Herc and Al for dead. But Hercules and Aladdin defeat them by making them think that Aladdin is Hercules and Hercules is Aladdin. Then Jafar goes back to being dead.
Director: Phil Weinstein
8.7/10 37 votes#6 - Hercules and the Yearbook
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 2/17/1999
Taking place after the Hercules movie, Hercules is moving his stuff from Phil's old place to his new place. While looking through the old stuff, Meg finds Herc's old yearbook. Hercules, not wanting to be embarassed, takes the yearbook, and hides it. Meg finds it, and we are shown a clipshow of past episodes, ending with a musical number.
Director: Phil Weinstein, Bob Kline, Eddy Houchins
Writer: Michael Price, Eddie Guzelian, Jan Strnad, Ken Koonce, Michael Merton, Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley, Mirith J. Colao, Gary Sperling, Richard Liebmann-Smith, Michael A. Medlock, Jon Weisman, Marcy Brown, Dennis Haley, Jess Winfield, Richard Stanley, Madellaine Paxson, Bill Motz, Bob Roth, David Hemingson, Kevin D. Campbell
8.7/10 26 votes#7 - Hercules and the Odyssey Experience
Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 2/19/1999
Upon visiting Odysseus's traveling museam, Hercules winds up out to sea with Odysseus's shy and awkward son Telemachus, and three spare ex-crew members of the Argo. The group encounter a number of threats, and Telemachus learns to be self confident in order to save his family.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Gary Sperling
8.6/10 34 votes#8 - Hercules and the Underworld Takeover
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/23/1998
The Queen of the Night, Hecate, plots to overthrow Hades and take over the Underworld, ousting Pain and Panic in the process. The two minions turn to Hercules for help, and convince him to restore Hades back on his throne - Hades being, after all, the lesser of two evils.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 38 votes#9 - Hercules and the Comedy of Arrows
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/29/1998
Icarus poses as a cupid so he can get a love arrow to make Cassandra love him, but the joke's on him when he accidentally uses "loathe" arrows instead. Meanwhile, Pain and Panic get a hold of the loathe arrows and create havoc all over the country.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Laura McCreary
8.6/10 27 votes#10 - Hercules and the Complex Electra
Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 1/13/1999
Hercules falls for the eccentric Electra, and takes on a counter-culture personality in order to get her to like him.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: Emily Kapnek
8.5/10 47 votes#11 - Hercules and the World's First Doctor
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/1998
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, comes to Athens and takes Hercules and Icarus on as assistants during a school internship week. Meanwhile, Hades, fearing a successful doctor will cut down on the number of dead people tricks Hercules into spreading the plague throughout Athens.
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Michael Price
8.5/10 46 votes#12 - Hercules and the Argonauts
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/8/1998
Hercules is introduced to Jason, the Argonaut, a great seafaring hero and one of the most patient men of all time, having spent 30 years searching for the Golden Fleece - and not having found it yet. Jason invites Hercules on board for a journey, and gives him a chance to seek the Fleece with him.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: Michael A. Medlock
8.5/10 29 votes#13 - Hercules and the Golden Touch
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 11/12/1998
Hercules turns into a secret agent when he journeys to the kingdom of Lycia to stop the madman King Midas from turning all he touches into gold.
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Jon Weisman
8.4/10 43 votes#14 - Hercules and the Pool Party
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/10/1998
Hades decides to throw a pool party, and invites all of Olympus to take a dip in the Lethe Waters of Forgetfulness, causing them all lose to their memories. Meanwhile, with the gods out of commission the whole world is in chaos.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: Ken Koonce, Michael Merton
8.3/10 51 votes#15 - Hercules and the River Styx
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/7/1998
Hades makes a deal with Poseidon to hand over Athens, in order to rule the whole country, causing Athens to becomes a place of doom and Prometheus Academy to become the home base of torment for students.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: Jess Winfield
8.3/10 28 votes#16 - Hercules and the Parent's Weekend
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 10/3/1998
It's Parents Weekend, and Hercules can hardly wait for Zeus and Hera to show up but when his mortal adopted folks show up instead, he's crushed. And in turn so are they at his disappointment.
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Bill Braunstein
- 8.3/10 36 votes
#17 - Hercules and the Phil Factor
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 10/16/1998
When Phil suffers through a mid-life crisis, he abandons the training program, quits his gig as Hercules' mentor and gets a job selling spears door-to-door. And it's up to Hercules to win him back!
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Marcy Brown, Dennis Haley
8.3/10 28 votes#18 - Hercules and the Song of Circe
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 10/29/1998
While on spring break at the seaside, everyone is having fun in the sun except Cassandra, who is content to read despite Icarus' determined efforts to get her attention. When she finally blows her top, he winds up sobbing in Hercules' arms and is charmed by the mysterious Circe.
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Michael Price
8.2/10 43 votes#19 - Hercules and the Prince of Thrace
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/11/1998
When Adonis wants a swimming pool, his servants accidentally awaken Earth goddess Gaia, and she curses Adonia to die before nightfall. This in turn causes Adonis to swallow his pride and beg Hercules for help.
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Madellaine Paxson, Bill Motz, Bob Roth
8.2/10 32 votes#20 - Hercules and the Hostage Crisis
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 10/2/1998
A terrorist group, representing the imprisoned Titans, takes the school hostage and demands Hercules as their prisoner.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: Jess Winfield
8.2/10 33 votes#21 - Hercules and the Jilt Trip
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 11/6/1998
Hercules' heart is broken when his girlfriend (of only three days) breaks up with him, so Phil takes the kid on a trip designed to take his mind off of things. But Herc meets Lavinia on this trip, who is eager to get married...to him...and not only is he faced with rejecting her, but her previous boyfriend just happens to be the same guy Herc conquered that very trip.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: Mirith J. Colao
8.2/10 35 votes#22 - Hercules and the Minotaur
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 11/13/1998
Daedalus, the famous inventor-architect and father of Icarus, is commissioned by the evil King Minos of Crete to build the Labyrinth. Father and son travel to Crete to complete the project, unaware that it will soon house a terrible monster - and his new Athenian victim for the twisted king's pleasure.
Director: Bob Kline
Writer: Randolph Heard
8.2/10 31 votes#23 - Hercules and the Green-Eyed Monster
Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 1/16/1999
Jealous of his father getting remarried, Icarus takes Pandora's box of mysteries and releases them during the wedding.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Madellaine Paxson
8.1/10 44 votes#24 - Hercules and the Tapestry of Fate
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/14/1998
Icarus' bright idea once again backfires when he talks Hercules into visiting the Fates to convince them into reweaving their cosmic Tapestry so that the boys can score some hot concert tickets. However when they refuse, Icarus takes things into his own hands and messes with the Tapestry himself and trouble insues.
Director: Eddy Houchins
Writer: Brian Swenlin
8.1/10 37 votes#25 - Hercules and the Living Legend
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/15/1998
The Lord of the Dead enlists the aid of former hero Achilles to help him distract Phil from training his would-be hero Hercules, by returning Achilles to his former glory.
Director: Phil Weinstein
Writer: Richard Stanley