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The Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess

Every episode of Xena: Warrior Princess ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess!

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Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Xena: Warrior Princess Season 4 Episode 21 - The Ides of March
    8.6/10(695 votes)

    #1 - The Ides of March

    S4:E21

    Callisto returns from Hell with a double mission: corrupt Xena and make Julius Caesar emperor, but plans change when Caesar's allies turn on him and when Roman soldiers capture and crucify Xena and Gabrielle.

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:R.J. Stewart

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  2. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 22 - Motherhood
    8.4/10(632 votes)

    #2 - Motherhood

    S5:E22

    Xena faces the gods of Olympus in a battle to the death when she acquires some new powers. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Eve, are fighting battles of their own.

    Director:Rick Jacobson
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1 Episode 22 - Callisto
    8.3/10(795 votes)

    #3 - Callisto

    S1:E22

    The female warrior Callisto, tries to turn the world against Xena by committing acts of terrorism in her name, while Xena struggles to reclaim her true identity and discover why this angry young woman is doing this.

    Director:T.J. Scott
    Writer:R.J. Stewart

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  4. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 2 - Been There, Done That
    8.3/10(711 votes)

    #4 - Been There, Done That

    S3:E2

    The day goes from bad to worse when Joxer is killed, but when the day begins again...and again...Xena realizes she's the only one who knows what's happening and remembers the previous days, she has a second chance to change things.

    Director:Andrew Merrifield
    Writer:Hilary Bader

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  5. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 22 - Sacrifice (2)
    8.3/10(581 votes)

    #5 - Sacrifice (2)

    S3:E22

    When Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, takes the form of her mother and joins forces with Ares to create a race of superbeings, Xena and Gabrielle must stop her reign of terror.

    Director:Rick Jacobson
    Writer:Paul Robert Coyle

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  6. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 6 - The Debt (1)
    8.2/10(635 votes)

    #6 - The Debt (1)

    S3:E6

    When Xena is summoned to the distant kingdom of Chin to kill the Green Dragon, a task she left undone years before, she tells Gabrielle about her past in Chin in an attempt to justify why she must commit murder.

    Director:Oley Sassone
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 7 - The Debt (2)
    8.2/10(633 votes)

    #7 - The Debt (2)

    S3:E7

    After Gabrielle's betrayal of Xena's murderous intentions, Xena is imprisoned by the Green Dragon and sentenced to die, and she reminisces about Lao Mao's teachings and the debt owed to her.

    Director:Oley Sassone
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 11 - Maternal Instincts
    8.2/10(617 votes)

    #8 - Maternal Instincts

    S3:E11

    Maternial instincts are in the air when Gabrielle encounters her evil daughter Hope, who has freed Callisto in order to kill Xena's son, Solan and plans on severing the friendship of Xena and Gabrielle forever.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writer:Chris Manheim

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  9. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 13 - One Against an Army
    8.2/10(649 votes)

    #9 - One Against an Army

    S3:E13

    Xena, alone, must battle the ruthless Persian army and stop them from plundering Greece, as well as save a poisoned Gabrielle who is slowly dying.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writers:Gene O'Neill, Noreen Tobin

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  10. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Episode 12 - Destiny
    8.1/10(668 votes)

    #10 - Destiny

    S2:E12

    After being gravely injured, Xena's life flashes before her, including the time when she learned the art of pressure points from a slavegirl and when she met Julius Caesar for the very first time.

    Director:Robert Tapert
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Episode 15 - A Day in the Life
    8.1/10(745 votes)

    #11 - A Day in the Life

    S2:E15

    Xena and Gabrielle spend a day trying to save two villages, one from a band of thugs, the other from a giant, while getting on each other's nerves and trying to not kill on another.

    Director:Michael Hurst
    Writer:R.J. Stewart

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  12. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 12 - The Bitter Suite
    8.1/10(800 votes)

    #12 - The Bitter Suite

    S3:E12

    After trying to kill one another, grief-stricken Xena and Gabrielle awake in a strange land called Illusia, filled with familiar faces, where they must face the pain and anger caused by the deaths of their children and forgive one another in order to live.

    Director:Oley Sassone
    Writers:Chris Manheim, Steven L. Sears

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  13. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 21 - Eve
    8.1/10(571 votes)

    #13 - Eve

    S5:E21

    Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Virgil try to track down Livia/Eve and have no trouble when they find ravaged villages. After finding her, Xena faces Livia/Eve in battle once again.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writers:George Strayton, Tom O’Neill

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  14. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Episode 13 - The Quest
    8.0/10(655 votes)

    #14 - The Quest

    S2:E13

    After Xena's death, Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons, while Autolycus finds himself possessed by the warrior princess, Xena who needs ambrosia to bring herself back to life. But Xena's rebirth and Gabrielle's life are both threatened by an Amazon bent on obtaining the Amazon crown and the ambrosia.

    Director:Michael Levine
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Episode 20 - The Price
    8.0/10(594 votes)

    #15 - The Price

    S2:E20

    After becoming the hunted prey of the vicious Horde, Xena must lead the local army against them, while Gabrielle tends to the wounded and worries that Xena is returning to her dark and dangerous ways by stooping to the Horde's level.

    Director:Oley Sassone
    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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  16. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 4 Episode 20 - Endgame
    8.0/10(554 votes)

    #16 - Endgame

    S4:E20

    Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons after Ephiny dies at the hand of Brutus, and Xena must fave Caesar and Pompey and their armies while keeping an eye on a rebellious Amazon.

    Director:Garth Maxwell
    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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  17. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 19 - Looking Death in the Eye
    8.0/10(533 votes)

    #17 - Looking Death in the Eye

    S5:E19

    In the future, an old Joxer obtains a scroll that tells how Xena and Gabrielle tricked the Fates into setting in motion the twilight of the gods and how Gabrielle and Xena were presumed dead for 25 years and baby Eve went missing.

    Director:Garth Maxwell
    Writer:Carl Ellsworth

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  18. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 6 Episode 10 - Old Ares Had a Farm
    8.0/10(554 votes)

    #18 - Old Ares Had a Farm

    S6:E10

    Xena disguises a mortal Ares as a farmer in the middle of nowhere in order to hide him from warlords seeking revenge.

    Director:Charles Siebert
    Writer:R.J. Stewart

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  19. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 6 Episode 18 - When Fates Collide
    8.0/10(630 votes)

    #19 - When Fates Collide

    S6:E18

    After escaping from Hades and capturing the Fates, Caesar changes the Threads of Fate in order to change his destiny. He makes Xena his empress and rules the world by her side. Gabrielle is a talented playwright and Alti is the High Priestess of Rome, and she wants all the power for herself and will stop at nothing to get it.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Katherine Fugate

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  20. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Episode 5 - Return of Callisto
    7.9/10(677 votes)

    #20 - Return of Callisto

    S2:E5

    Gabrielle plans to marry Perdicus, her hometown sweetheart, and must leave Xena and their travels, at the same time that Callisto has escaped from prison and is headed straight for them with vengeance in mind.

    Director:T.J. Scott
    Writer:R.J. Stewart

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  21. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Episode 7 - Intimate Stranger
    7.9/10(618 votes)

    #21 - Intimate Stranger

    S2:E7

    Callisto makes a bargain with Ares, from Tarturus, to switch bodies with Xena, sending Xena into Tarturus and freeing Callisto. Xena, in Callisto's form, makes her own bargain with Hades, to make things right but the only problem is...she has one day to fix it.

    Director:Gary Jones
    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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  22. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Episode 14 - A Necessary Evil
    7.9/10(621 votes)

    #22 - A Necessary Evil

    S2:E14

    Xena, Gabrielle and the Amazons must battle an evil Amazon, who ate ambrosia and is now a god. She wants Gabrielle dead and in order to stop her, Xena and Gabrielle resort to asking for the help of the now immortal Callisto.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writer:Paul Robert Coyle

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  23. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Episode 4 - The Deliverer
    7.9/10(607 votes)

    #23 - The Deliverer

    S3:E4

    When Xena travels to Brittania to help stop Caesar's invasion, Gabrielle is tricked into losing her blood innocence, by taking the life of an innocent, which binds her to the evil ""one god"" Dahuk.

    Director:Oley Sassone
    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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  24. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 4 Episode 8 - Crusader
    7.9/10(567 votes)

    #24 - Crusader

    S4:E8

    Xena meets a woman who preaches ""the way of the light"", but her practices leave something to be desired, when Xena learns of Najara's reform or die policy for prisoners.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:R.J. Stewart

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  25. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 1 - Fallen Angel
    7.9/10(603 votes)

    #25 - Fallen Angel

    S5:E1

    While Joxer, Amarice and Eli try to recover Xena and Gabrielle's bodies, a war over their souls is waged with Heaven's angels and Hell's demons, which includes Callisto in their ranks.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Ides of March" is the best rated episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess". It scored 8.6/10 based on 695 votes. Directed by Ken Girotti and written by R.J. Stewart, it aired on 5/10/1999. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Motherhood".