8.5/10654 votesLoading...#1 - The Ides of March
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/1999
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
8.3/10598 votesLoading...#2 - Motherhood
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/2000
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: N/A
8.2/10742 votesLoading...#3 - Callisto
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/1996
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
8.2/10668 votesLoading...#4 - Been There, Done That
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1997
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
8.2/10608 votesLoading...#5 - One Against an Army
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/1998
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
Writer: Noreen Tobin, Gene O'Neill
8.2/10546 votesLoading...#6 - Sacrifice (2)
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/23/1998
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
8.1/10627 votesLoading...#7 - Destiny
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1997
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: N/A
8.1/10596 votesLoading...#8 - The Debt (1)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1997
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: N/A
8.1/10592 votesLoading...#9 - The Debt (2)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1997
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: N/A
8.1/10582 votesLoading...#10 - Maternal Instincts
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/7/1998
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
8.1/10753 votesLoading...#11 - The Bitter Suite
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/14/1998
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
Writer: Chris Manheim, Steven L. Sears
8.1/10541 votesLoading...#12 - Eve
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2000
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
Writer: George Strayton, Tom O’Neill
8.0/10610 votesLoading...#13 - The Quest
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1997
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: N/A
8.0/10698 votesLoading...#14 - A Day in the Life
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1997
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
8.0/10592 votesLoading...#15 - When Fates Collide
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 5/11/2001
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
7.9/10631 votesLoading...#16 - Return of Callisto
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1996
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
7.9/10574 votesLoading...#17 - Intimate Stranger
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1996
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
7.9/10579 votesLoading...#18 - A Necessary Evil
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1997
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
7.9/10551 votesLoading...#19 - The Price
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1997
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
7.9/10528 votesLoading...#20 - Endgame
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/1999
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
7.9/10504 votesLoading...#21 - Looking Death in the Eye
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/2000
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
7.9/10522 votesLoading...#22 - Old Ares Had a Farm
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/15/2001
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
7.8/10656 votesLoading...#23 - The Royal Couple of Thieves
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1996
Xena enlists the help of Autolycus, the King of Thieves, in order to steal a treasure chest from a warlord and return it to its rightful owners - unless Autolycus has something to say about that.
Director: John Cameron
Writer: Steven L. Sears
7.8/10630 votesLoading...#24 - The Greater Good
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1996
Xena helps Salmoneus, aka Lord Seltzer, when a warlord wants him dead, due to a bad transaction. Meanwhile, a mysterious blond woman is stalking Xena.
Director: Gary Jones
Writer: Steven L. Sears
7.8/10570 votesLoading...#25 - The Deliverer
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1997
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
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!
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...
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Top Episode Ratings Summary
"The Ides of March" is the best rated episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess". It scored 8.5/10 based on 654 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".