5.5/10363 votesLoading...#1 - Les Contemptibles
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/1997
Brave Marie de Valle inspires thieves, who bear uncanny resemblances to Hercules, Iolaus and Salmoneus, to fight for the French Revolution.
Director: Charlie Haskell
Writer: Brian Herskowitz
5.7/10358 votesLoading...#2 - The Cave of Echoes
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 6/24/1996
A timid young writer descends into the fearsome Cave of Echoes with Hercules and Iolaus to rescue a fair maiden.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: John Schulian, Robert Bielak
5.9/10323 votesLoading...#3 - 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: Julia Swift, Andrew Landis
6.1/10376 votesLoading...#4 - Under the Broken Sky
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1995
Hercules battles a town run by bandits in order to help a farmer reunite with his estranged wife.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: John Schulian
6.1/10339 votesLoading...#5 - Medea Culpa
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/7/1998
Teenage Hercules, Iolaus and Jason battle a fire-breathing monster.
Director: Charles Siebert
Writer: N/A
6.1/10343 votesLoading...#6 - 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
6.1/10334 votesLoading...#7 - 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
6.2/10361 votesLoading...#8 - The Power
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1996
Hercules intervenes when a young man with divine powers is manipulated by a relative into using his gift for villainous purposes.
Director: Charlie Haskell
Writer: Nelson Costello
6.2/10353 votesLoading...#9 - Mummy Dearest
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1996
Hercules helps an Egyptian princess retrieve the stolen mummy of a king, which has come to life and is bent on killing.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Melissa Rosenberg
6.2/10341 votesLoading...#10 - 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
6.2/10328 votesLoading...#11 - 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: Gene O'Neill, Noreen Tobin
6.3/10351 votesLoading...#12 - Monster Child in the Promised Land
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1996
Hercules helps the monster Echidna and the giant Typhon find their kidnapped child.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: John Schulian
6.3/10341 votesLoading...#13 - Reign of Terror
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1997
Mad King Augeus, thinking he is Zeus, becomes Hera's evil puppet.
Director: Rodney Charters
Writer: John Kirk
6.3/10349 votesLoading...#14 - Porkules
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/28/1998
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.
Director: Christopher Graves
Writer: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
6.3/10348 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.3/10339 votesLoading...#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
6.4/10391 votesLoading...#17 - All that Glitters
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1995
Hercules must help King Midas reclaim his realm from vicious gamblers.
Director: Garth Maxwell
Writer: Craig Volk
6.4/10361 votesLoading...#18 - Heedless Hearts
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1996
Hercules falls in love while helping a woman and her band of rebels defeat a tyrannical king.
Director: Peter Ellis
Writer: Robert Bielak
6.4/10342 votesLoading...#19 - The Lady and the Dragon
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1997
A young dragon starts killing warriors and destroying villages at the same time a warlord returns from exile seeking revenge on his enemies.
Director: Oley Sassone
Writer: Michael Berlin, Eric Estrin
6.4/10313 votesLoading...#20 - Rebel With a Cause
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1999
Hercules must help Oedipus and his daughter, Princess Antigone, battle the evil King Creon.
Director: Garth Maxwell
Writer: Lisa Klink
6.4/10331 votesLoading...#21 - Hercules, Tramps & Thieves
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1999
Hercules must prove Autolycus' innocence after he is accused of robbing the first bank of Greece.
Director: Charles Siebert
Writer: Liz Friedman, Vanessa Place
6.4/10314 votesLoading...#22 - A Wicked Good Time
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1999
Discord plots with two witches-in-training to frame Hercules as a warlock.
Director: Adam Nimoy
Writer: Liz Friedman, Vanessa Place
6.5/10365 votesLoading...#23 - Promises
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/1996
Hercules and Iolaus get caught in the middle of a love triangle when they volunteer to help a king.
Director: Stewart Main
Writer: Michael Marks
6.5/10341 votesLoading...#24 - Hero's Heart
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/1997
To relieve his anguish at failing to save a woman's life, Fortune erases Iolaus' memory.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: Jerry Patrick Brown
6.5/10334 votesLoading...#25 - Regrets...I've Had a Few
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1997
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.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
The Worst Episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Every episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys!
The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Syndication
Worst Episodes Summary
"Les Contemptibles" is the worst rated episode of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys". It scored 5.5/10 based on 363 votes. Directed by Charlie Haskell and written by Brian Herskowitz, it aired on 4/7/1997. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Cave of Echoes".