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The Best Episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

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The Best Episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

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  1. Background image for Love on the Rocks
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Love on the Rocks

    S5:E18

    An unsuspecting Iolaus 2 falls in love with Triton's daughter, unaware she is really a mermaid in human form.

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  2. Background image for My Best Girl's Wedding
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - My Best Girl's Wedding

    S5:E21

    Fishermen Hercules and Iolaus 2 get second chances at the ones that got away -- Serena and the mermaid Nautica.

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  3. Background image for The King of Thieves
    7.5/10(446 votes)

    #3 - The King of Thieves

    S2:E1

    Iolaus faces execution for a robbery committed by Autolycus, king of thieves.

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    Director:Doug Lefler
  4. Background image for Armageddon Now (1)
    7.5/10(382 votes)

    #4 - Armageddon Now (1)

    S4:E13

    Callisto joins forces with Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, in an effort to go back in time and prevent the birth of Hercules by killing his mother.

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  5. Background image for Unchained Heart
    7.4/10(474 votes)

    #5 - Unchained Heart

    S1:E13

    Xena's former lieutenant, Darphus, rises from the dead to carry out Ares' evil plan.

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  6. Background image for The Warrior Princess
    7.3/10(572 votes)

    #6 - The Warrior Princess

    S1:E9

    Princess Xena uses Iolaus to lure Hercules into a death trap.

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  8. Background image for The Gauntlet
    7.3/10(497 votes)

    #7 - The Gauntlet

    S1:E12

    After Darphus mutinies, warrior princess Xena joins Hercules to take back her troops.

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    Director:Jack Perez
  9. Background image for The Other Side
    7.3/10(403 votes)

    #8 - The Other Side

    S2:E8

    Hercules descends to Hades to rescue Persephone and sees his late wife.

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  10. Background image for The Wedding of Alcmene
    7.3/10(391 votes)

    #9 - The Wedding of Alcmene

    S2:E21

    The wedding of Hercules' mother to the legendary Greek hero Jason is threatened by another of Hera's plots to kill Hercules.

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  11. Background image for Web of Desire
    7.3/10(370 votes)

    #10 - Web of Desire

    S4:E4

    Hercules and Iolaus team up with a woman pirate to battle a queen who is now part arachnid.

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  12. Background image for Armageddon Now (2)
    7.3/10(392 votes)

    #11 - Armageddon Now (2)

    S4:E14

    Hercules is trapped in the nether world with his evil double, while Iolaus tries to prevent Callisto from killing Alcmene.

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    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Reunions
    7.2/10(343 votes)

    #12 - Reunions

    S4:E22

    Hercules battles the gods to return Alcmene's soul to the Elysian Fields.

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  14. Background image for Gladiator
    7.1/10(464 votes)

    #13 - Gladiator

    S1:E10

    Wicked Menas Maxius pits slaves against wild animals for his amusement.

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  15. Background image for The Fire Down Below
    7.1/10(398 votes)

    #14 - The Fire Down Below

    S2:E9

    After Salmoneus sells off Hera's treasure, Hercules must save him from the fiery monster Pyro.

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    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for King for a Day
    7.1/10(374 votes)

    #15 - King for a Day

    S2:E19

    Royal look-alike Iolaus stands in for Orestes at his coronation and wedding to prevent usurper Minos from taking the throne.

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  17. Background image for Protean Challenge
    7.1/10(375 votes)

    #16 - Protean Challenge

    S2:E20

    A friend of Hercules and Iolaus is accused of theft when an angry god distorts reality by making people appear to have performed acts they didn't.

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  18. Background image for Hercules on Trial
    7.1/10(355 votes)

    #17 - Hercules on Trial

    S4:E10

    A court tries Hercules for the accidental death of an impersonator.

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    Director:John Laing
  19. Background image for The Mother of All Monsters
    7.0/10(411 votes)

    #18 - The Mother of All Monsters

    S2:E7

    Hercules' mother is a pawn in a deadly plot for revenge by Echidna, whose monster children Hercules has slain.

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  20. Background image for The Apple
    7.0/10(404 votes)

    #19 - The Apple

    S2:E17

    Iolaus is used as a pawn by the scheming love goddess Aphrodite to prevent a marriage between the children of two feuding kings.

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    Director:Kevin Sorbo
  21. Background image for Surprise
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Surprise

    S3:E12

    Callisto drops in on Hercules' surprise birthday party, bent on a mission of immortality.

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  22. Background image for Encounter (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Encounter (1)

    S3:E13

    Ares' murder plot backfires when the Golden Hind falls for Hercules.

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  23. Background image for Judgment Day (3)
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Judgment Day (3)

    S3:E15

    Waking from a nightmare, Hercules finds Serena dead and himself accused of murder.

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  24. Background image for Ares
    6.9/10(502 votes)

    #23 - Ares

    S1:E5

    Hercules faces Ares, whose boy soldiers feed the god's blood lust.

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  25. Background image for Pride Comes Before a Brawl
    6.9/10(450 votes)

    #24 - Pride Comes Before a Brawl

    S1:E7

    Only a selfless act will gain the gods' pardon for condemned Iolaus.

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    Director:Peter Ellis
  26. Background image for Siege at Naxos
    6.9/10(416 votes)

    #25 - Siege at Naxos

    S2:E4

    Hercules and Iolaus incur the wrath of a horde of barbarians when they capture the group's leader.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Love on the Rocks" is the best rated episode of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Rick Jacobson and written by Kevin Maynard, it aired on 4/24/1999. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "My Best Girl's Wedding".