Every season of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys!

Hercules drops his vengeful quest in order to aid a village enthralled by a snake-woman.

The Wrong Path

A misunderstood cyclops keeps water from frightened villagers.

Eye of the Beholder

When a refugee takes a bejeweled chalice from a deserted temple, Hera's rage erupts.

The Road to Calydon

Power-hungry Pentheus plots the assassination of his father, King Iphicles, at the festival of Dionysus.

The Festival of Dionysus

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

Ares

Nemis the centaur crashes a wedding and kidnaps the bride, Penelope.

As Darkness Falls

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

Pride Comes Before a Brawl

Hercules liberates a young woman from slavery and battles a notorious slave trader.

The March to Freedom

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

The Warrior Princess

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

Gladiator

Hercules fights Ares and his vicious dog for the souls of fallen warriors.

The Vanishing Dead

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

The Gauntlet

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

Unchained Heart

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

The King of Thieves

Hercules must help King Midas reclaim his realm from vicious gamblers.

All that Glitters

Hercules' brother steals his identity to pursue the leader's stepdaughter.

What's in a Name?

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

Siege at Naxos

Hercules defends a young woman and her centaur husband against prejudice.

Outcast

Hercules battles a town run by bandits in order to help a farmer reunite with his estranged wife.

Under the Broken Sky

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

The Mother of All Monsters

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

The Other Side

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

The Fire Down Below

Maceus plans to avenge his brother's death by luring Hercules into battle with the monster Echidna.

Cast a Giant Shadow

Hercules must capture King Sisyphus and return him to the Underworld.

Highway to Hades

To save a friend from execution, Hercules must retrieve a sword that renders people incapable of lying.

The Sword of Veracity

Hercules' good time at a harvest festival is interrupted by the arrival of an assassin sent by his vindictive stepmother.

The Enforcer

Hercules and Iolaus help Jason and the Argonauts recover the Golden Fleece.

Once a Hero

Hercules falls in love while helping a woman and her band of rebels defeat a tyrannical king.

Heedless Hearts

Hercules promotes peace by organizing an athletic competition between the warring Spartans and Eleans, thus creating the Olympic Games.

Let the Games Begin

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

The Apple

Hercules and Iolaus get caught in the middle of a love triangle when they volunteer to help a king.

Promises

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

King for a Day

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.

Protean Challenge

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

The Wedding of Alcmene

Hercules intervenes when a young man with divine powers is manipulated by a relative into using his gift for villainous purposes.

The Power

The centaurs' struggle for equal rights threatens to turn violent.

Centaur Mentor Journey

A timid young writer descends into the fearsome Cave of Echoes with Hercules and Iolaus to rescue a fair maiden.

The Cave of Echoes

A storm at sea maroons Hercules on an island where he deals with pirates, sand monsters and a wanted killer he is transporting to Sparta.

Mercenary

Hercules intervenes when he discovers that his friend, the inventor Daedalus, is creating weapons of mass destruction for an evil king.

Doomsday

Iagos hatches a scheme to gain the Shield of Perseus from Hephaestus by taking advantage of his lovelorn boss's loneliness.

Love Takes a Holiday

Hercules helps an Egyptian princess retrieve the stolen mummy of a king, which has come to life and is bent on killing.

Mummy Dearest

Iolaus will forever remain in the afterlife unless Hercules makes good on his deal with the god of the underworld to destroy Hera's latest assassin.

Not Fade Away

Hercules helps the monster Echidna and the giant Typhon find their kidnapped child.

Monster Child in the Promised Land

Hercules and Cupid get caught in the middle of a plot by jealous Aphrodite to marry off a mortal female whose beauty is drawing attention away from her.

The Green-Eyed Monster

Queen Parnassa strikes Hercules with amnesia so he will believe she is his mother and agree to lead her army.

Prince Hercules

Iolaus' dream directs him and Hercules northward on a mission of mercy.

A Star to Guide Them

A young dragon starts killing warriors and destroying villages at the same time a warlord returns from exile seeking revenge on his enemies.

The Lady and the Dragon

Iolaus assumes the identity of murdered Orestes to continue the king's quest for peace.

Long Live the King

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

Surprise

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

Encounter (1)

Hercules gives up his godly powers to wed Serena, the Golden Hind.

When a Man Loves a Woman (2)

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

Judgment Day (3)

Iolaus' search for his missing cousin Regina takes him to a commune where everyone has been brainwashed by a seemingly benevolent leader.

The Lost City

Brave Marie de Valle inspires thieves, who bear uncanny resemblances to Hercules, Iolaus and Salmoneus, to fight for the French Revolution.

Les Contemptibles

Mad King Augeus, thinking he is Zeus, becomes Hera's evil puppet.

Reign of Terror

The Chronos Stone takes Hercules five years into the past, where he meets Serena, the Golden Hind, once again.

The End of the Beginning

A peace treaty unravels when the daughter of a dying king fails to preserve it.

War Bride

A murder suspect escapes and flees into an old mine; Hercules is trapped in a cave-in.

A Rock and a Hard Place

Hercules and Cassandra try to warn Atlantis of imminent doom.

Atlantis

Hercules and Autolycus climb a beanstalk to rescue a captured lady.

Beanstalks and Bad Eggs

To relieve his anguish at failing to save a woman's life, Fortune erases Iolaus' memory.

Hero's Heart

Hercules reminisces about the accidental death of a childhood bully, when Celesta arrives to take the brother of the deceased boy to the Elysian Fields.

Regrets...I've Had a Few

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

Web of Desire

As Hercules and Iolaus save a princess from sacrifice, Zeus' lightning bolts open a portal to a parallel universe of doubles.

Stranger in a Strange World

Nemesis asks Hercules and Iolaus to help keep her baby away from his biological father, Ares.

Two Men and a Baby

Outlaw Amazons blind a boy and kidnap his sister, making her one of them.

Prodigal Sister

Hercules two-steps his way into the Panathenaia to help a teenager fulfill her dream of winning the cutthroat dance competition.

...And Fancy Free

The blacksmith Atalanta forges a perfect likeness of Hercules, which raises havoc when it comes to life.

If I Had A Hammer...

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

Hercules on Trial

Teenage Hercules, Iolaus and Jason battle a fire-breathing monster.

Medea Culpa

Fugitives Salmoneus and Autolycus join widow Twanky's all-girl dance troupe

Men in Pink

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.

Armageddon Now (1)

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

Armageddon Now (2)

Producers and writers panic when, after a severe earthquake, Kevin Sorbo disappears.

Yes, Virginia, There is a Hercules

Iolaus and Autolycus race to save Hercules after he is put on a butcher's chopping block following his transformation into a pig by Discord.

Porkules

Ares makes Iolaus and Autolycus pay dearly for turning Discord into a chicken; Katherine would rather be a pig.

One Fowl Day

Chorus girl Cupcake poses as a princess so Autolycus can steal a sapphire.

My Fair Cupcake

Led by Ajax, angry veterans march against Hercules' brother, King Iphicles.

War Wounds

Hercules reminisces about his first battle against the Parthans as he comforts his dying mother, Alcmene, and confronts his father, Zeus.

Twilight

After Alcmene dies, Zeus asks Hercules to give up mortality and join him ruling the gods of Olympus.

Top God

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

Reunions

Hercules and Iolaus' attempt to save Sumeria from the wrath of evil deities leads to disastrous consequences.

Faith

Hercules, overcome by grief at Iolaus' death, travels to the underworld in hopes of getting him back.

Descent

As Hercules comes to terms with his friends' death, he battles a demi-god.

Resurrection

Autolycus and Salmoneus steal a magic lamp which has a beautiful and vain genie.

Genies and Grecians and Geeks, Oh My

Caesar prepares to attack Eire; Hercules helps a demigoddess embrace her new identity: Justice.

Render Unto Caesar

Hercules embarks on an odyssey to save the Norse god Balder from an evil prophecy.

Norse by Norsevest

Hercules and the Norse god Thor work together to prevent the end of all things.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bridge

In Sumeria, Hercules finds a new evil in the guise of a friend.

Darkness Rising

The writers retreat to a camp, and Kevin Sorbo must rescue them from a would-be murderer without revealing his true identity as Hercules.

For Those of You Just Joining Us

Hercules, Morrigan and Nebula return to Corinth to confront the evil Dahak, who has possessed Iolaus' body.

Let There Be Light

Hercules attempts an exorcism to save Iolaus' soul from the demon Dahak.

Redemption

Hercules, with the help of the Amazon Ephiny, the Centaur Nagus and a youth marked for murder, must stop a volcano from destroying the people of Mount Pelion.

Sky High

Hercules travels to the parallel Netherworld to rescue the gods of Olympus before both worlds are destroyed.

Stranger and Stranger

Hercules reminisces about a typical day filled with desperate villagers and derring-do with his late friend, Iolaus.

Just Passing Through

Evil designer Onea and the fashion police connive to keep Herc's former dance partner, Althea, from staging a show.

Greece Is Burning

Morrigan joins Hercules on his mission to save the Oracle of Cyprus from predictions of her own death.

We'll Always Have Cyprus

Hercules, Jason and Iolaus 2 return to Cheiron's academy to stop a band of renegade cadets from taking over the school.

The Academy

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

Love on the Rocks

Young Merlin enlists Hercules to save Britain from a cruel and calculating tyrant -- Arthur of Camelot.

The Best Seasons of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

The Best Seasons of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Season 1

Season 2

Season 6

Season 5

Season 4

Season 3