The Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.5/10(518 votes)

   #1 - Orphan of War

   S2:E19/30/1996

   When Xena tries to help the centaurs protect a sacred stone that contains their evil, she encounters someone from her past...her son.

   Director:Charles Siebert

   Writer:Steven L. Sears

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   Director:Charles Siebert

   Writer:Steven L. Sears
2. 

   7.5/10(545 votes)

   #2 - Remember Nothing

   S2:E210/7/1996

   When Xena defends the Fates's temple, they give her the gift of changing the past: her brother Lyceus never died and she never became the warrior princess...but that also means she never met Gabrielle.

   Director:Anson Williams

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Anson Williams

   Writer:Unknown
3. 

   6.5/10(507 votes)

   #3 - The Giant Killer

   S2:E310/14/1996

   When Gabrielle defends a young Isrealite named David, her life is threatended until Xena proposes to fight her old friend, the giant Goliath in return for freedom for the Philistines.

   Director:Gary Jones

   Writer:Terence Winter

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   Director:Gary Jones

   Writer:Terence Winter
4. 

   6.0/10(558 votes)

   #4 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

   S2:E410/28/1996

   When Orpheus loses the power to subdue the god Bacchus with his music, Xena and Gabrielle risk their lives to end Bacchus's reign of terror.

   Director:T.J. Scott

   Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

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   Director:T.J. Scott

   Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
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   7.5/10(599 votes)

   #5 - Return of Callisto

   S2:E511/4/1996

   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

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   Director:T.J. Scott

   Writer:R.J. Stewart
6. 

   7.5/10(539 votes)

   #6 - Warrior... Princess... Tramp

   S2:E611/11/1996

   When Diana's father takes ill, Xena is summoned and runs into yet another lookalike, a barmaid named Meg, who seems quite taken with Joxer.

   Director:Josh Becker

   Writer:R.J. Stewart

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   Director:Josh Becker

   Writer:R.J. Stewart
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7. 

   7.0/10(538 votes)

   #7 - Intimate Stranger

   S2:E711/18/1996

   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

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   Director:Gary Jones

   Writer:Steven L. Sears
8. 

   7.0/10(535 votes)

   #8 - Ten Little Warlords

   S2:E811/25/1996

   Trapped in the body of Callisto, Xena must help a mortal Ares recover his sword and restore him as the god of war. If she doesn't mortals will not be able to control their anger and she'll never recover her own body.

   Director:Charles Siebert

   Writer:Paul Robert Coyle

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   Director:Charles Siebert

   Writer:Paul Robert Coyle
9. 

   6.5/10(527 votes)

   #9 - A Solstice Carol

   S2:E912/9/1996

   During Winter Solstice, Xena and Gabrielle visit a town where it's Scrooge-like King has deemed that celebrating the holiday is a crime.

   Director:John T. Kretchmer

   Writer:Chris Manheim

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   Director:John T. Kretchmer

   Writer:Chris Manheim
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    6.0/10(533 votes)

    #10 - The Xena Scrolls

    S2:E101/13/1997

    In the year 1940, two female archaeologists searching for the Xena scrolls end up in an ancient tomb confronting legendary figures from the past.

    Director:Charlie Haskell

    Writer:Robert Sidney Mellette

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    Director:Charlie Haskell

    Writer:Robert Sidney Mellette
11. 

    5.7/10(559 votes)

    #11 - Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis

    S2:E111/20/1997

    Xena masquerades as a beauty pageant contestant, to stop a sabateur, bent on destroying a peace treaty between two warlords.

    Director:Marina Sargenti

    Writer:Chris Manheim

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    Director:Marina Sargenti

    Writer:Chris Manheim
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    8.0/10(589 votes)

    #12 - Destiny

    S2:E121/27/1997

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Robert Tapert

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13. 

    7.8/10(577 votes)

    #13 - The Quest

    S2:E132/3/1997

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Michael Levine

    Writer:Unknown
14. 

    8.0/10(543 votes)

    #14 - A Necessary Evil

    S2:E142/10/1997

    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

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    Director:Mark Beesley

    Writer:Paul Robert Coyle
15. 

    8.7/10(672 votes)

    #15 - A Day in the Life

    S2:E152/17/1997

    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

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    Director:Michael Hurst

    Writer:R.J. Stewart
16. 

    7.0/10(537 votes)

    #16 - For Him the Bell Tolls

    S2:E162/24/1997

    With Xena away on a mission, Gabrielle must contend with Aphrodite, who's interfering in one of Cupid's lovespells that will unite two kingdoms and who's put a spell on Joxer, who behaves like a real hero whenver a bell rings.

    Director:Josh Becker

    Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

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    Director:Josh Becker

    Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
17. 

    7.5/10(475 votes)

    #17 - The Execution

    S2:E174/7/1997

    Xena and Gabrielle have only one day to determine what really happened when Gabrielle's friend, Meleagor, is sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit.

    Director:Garth Maxwell

    Writer:Paul Robert Coyle

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    Director:Garth Maxwell

    Writer:Paul Robert Coyle
18. 

    8.5/10(489 votes)

    #18 - Blind Faith

    S2:E184/14/1997

    After getting oil in her eys during a fight, Xena goes blind and must deal with a man determined to kill her and rescue Gabrielle before she is forced to marry a king, who has died, or Gabrielle will soon join him.

    Director:Josh Becker

    Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

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    Director:Josh Becker

    Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
19. 

    7.5/10(490 votes)

    #19 - Ulysses

    S2:E194/28/1997

    Xena and Gabrielle must help Ulysses, King of Ithica, who is trying to return to his island homeland after ten years away, but the god of the sea, Poseidon, doesn't make it easy.

    Director:Michael Levine

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Michael Levine

    Writer:Unknown
20. 

    8.5/10(514 votes)

    #20 - The Price

    S2:E205/5/1997

    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

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    Director:Oley Sassone

    Writer:Steven L. Sears
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    7.0/10(500 votes)

    #21 - Lost Mariner

    S2:E215/12/1997

    After a shipwreck, Xena must rescue Gabrielle from the cursed ship of Cecrops, the lost mariner, where anyone who steps aboard is there until they die.

    Director:Garth Maxwell

    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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    Director:Garth Maxwell

    Writer:Steven L. Sears
22. 

    7.0/10(514 votes)

    #22 - A Comedy of Eros

    S2:E225/19/1997

    When Cupid's infant son, Bliss, runs amok putting love spells on unsuspecting people, Xena falls in love with the warlord, Draco, Draco falls for Gabrielle and Gabrielle gets the hots for Joxer.

    Director:Charles Siebert

    Writer:Chris Manheim

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    Director:Charles Siebert

    Writer:Chris Manheim