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#1 - Faith
Season 5 Episode 1
Aired 10/3/1998
Hercules and Iolaus' attempt to save Sumeria from the wrath of evil deities leads to disastrous consequences.
Director: Michael Hurst
Writer: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
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#2 - Descent
Season 5 Episode 2
Aired 10/10/1998
Hercules, overcome by grief at Iolaus' death, travels to the underworld in hopes of getting him back.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Lisa Klink
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#3 - Revelations
Season 5 Episode 22
Aired 5/22/1999
The real Iolaus returns to warn Hercules of the end of the world.
Director: Bruce Campbell
Writer: George Strayton, Tom O’Neill
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#4 - Darkness Rising
Season 5 Episode 8
Aired 11/21/1998
In Sumeria, Hercules finds a new evil in the guise of a friend.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Lisa Klink
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#5 - Resurrection
Season 5 Episode 3
Aired 10/17/1998
As Hercules comes to terms with his friends' death, he battles a demi-god.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
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#6 - Render Unto Caesar
Season 5 Episode 5
Aired 10/31/1998
Caesar prepares to attack Eire; Hercules helps a demigoddess embrace her new identity: Justice.
Director: John Laing
Writer: Noreen Tobin, Gene O'Neill
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#7 - Let There Be Light
Season 5 Episode 10
Aired 1/16/1999
Hercules, Morrigan and Nebula return to Corinth to confront the evil Dahak, who has possessed Iolaus' body.
Director: Robert Radler
Writer: Noreen Tobin, Gene O'Neill
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#8 - Redemption
Season 5 Episode 11
Aired 1/23/1999
Hercules attempts an exorcism to save Iolaus' soul from the demon Dahak.
Director: Bruce Campbell
Writer: Lisa Klink
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#9 - Once Upon a Future King
Season 5 Episode 19
Aired 5/1/1999
Young Merlin enlists Hercules to save Britain from a cruel and calculating tyrant -- Arthur of Camelot.
Director: Mark Beesley
Writer: Noreen Tobin, Gene O'Neill
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#10 - My Best Girl's Wedding
Season 5 Episode 21
Aired 5/15/1999
Fishermen Hercules and Iolaus 2 get second chances at the ones that got away -- Serena and the mermaid Nautica.
Director: Andrew Merrifield
Writer: Gerry Conway
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#11 - Fade Out
Season 5 Episode 20
Aired 5/8/1999
A curse cooked up by Discord, Deimos and Ares has Hercules fading fast.
Director: Charles Siebert
Writer: Gerry Conway
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#12 - We'll Always Have Cyprus
Season 5 Episode 16
Aired 2/27/1999
Morrigan joins Hercules on his mission to save the Oracle of Cyprus from predictions of her own death.
Director: Garth Maxwell
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Love on the Rocks
Season 5 Episode 18
Aired 4/24/1999
An unsuspecting Iolaus 2 falls in love with Triton's daughter, unaware she is really a mermaid in human form.
Director: Rick Jacobson
Writer: Kevin Maynard
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#14 - For Those of You Just Joining Us
Season 5 Episode 9
Aired 1/9/1999
The writers retreat to a camp, and Kevin Sorbo must rescue them from a would-be murderer without revealing his true identity as Hercules.
Director: Bruce Campbell
Writer: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
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#15 - Sky High
Season 5 Episode 12
Aired 1/30/1999
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.
Director: John Laing
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
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#16 - The Academy
Season 5 Episode 17
Aired 3/27/1999
Hercules, Jason and Iolaus 2 return to Cheiron's academy to stop a band of renegade cadets from taking over the school.
Director: Charlie Haskell
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
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#17 - Norse by Norsevest
Season 5 Episode 6
Aired 11/7/1998
Hercules embarks on an odyssey to save the Norse god Balder from an evil prophecy.
Director: John Laing
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Just Passing Through
Season 5 Episode 14
Aired 2/13/1999
Hercules reminisces about a typical day filled with desperate villagers and derring-do with his late friend, Iolaus.
Director: Charles Siebert
Writer: Noreen Tobin, Gene O'Neill
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#19 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bridge
Season 5 Episode 7
Aired 11/14/1998
Hercules and the Norse god Thor work together to prevent the end of all things.
Director: Michael Hurst
Writer: Gerry Conway
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#20 - Stranger and Stranger
Season 5 Episode 13
Aired 2/6/1999
Hercules travels to the parallel Netherworld to rescue the gods of Olympus before both worlds are destroyed.
Director: Bruce Campbell
Writer: N/A
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#21 - Genies and Grecians and Geeks, Oh My
Season 5 Episode 4
Aired 10/24/1998
Autolycus and Salmoneus steal a magic lamp which has a beautiful and vain genie.
Director: John Cameron
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
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#22 - Greece Is Burning
Season 5 Episode 15
Aired 2/20/1999
Evil designer Onea and the fashion police connive to keep Herc's former dance partner, Althea, from staging a show.
Director: Michael Hurst
Writer: Andrew Landis, Julia Swift
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Faith" is the best rated episode of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" season 5. It scored 7.7/10 based on 399 votes. Directed by Michael Hurst and written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, it aired on 10/3/1998. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Descent".