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The Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2

Every episode of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2!

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...
Genres:DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Syndication
Episodes
22
Avg. Rating
7.5
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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Orphan of War" is the best rated episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 563 votes. Directed by Charles Siebert and written by Steven L. Sears, it aired on 9/30/1996. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Remember Nothing".

  • Orphan of War
    7.4/10(563)

    #1 - Orphan of War

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/30/1996

    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

  • Remember Nothing
    7.7/10(594)

    #2 - Remember Nothing

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 10/7/1996

    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: N/A

  • The Giant Killer
    6.8/10(559)

    #3 - The Giant Killer

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 10/14/1996

    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

  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
    7.4/10(605)

    #4 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 10/28/1996

    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

    Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

  • Return of Callisto
    7.9/10(636)

    #5 - 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

  • Warrior... Princess... Tramp
    7.5/10(586)

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

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 11/11/1996

    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

  • Intimate Stranger
    7.9/10(579)

    #7 - 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

  • Ten Little Warlords
    7.7/10(580)

    #8 - Ten Little Warlords

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 11/25/1996

    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

  • A Solstice Carol
    6.8/10(571)

    #9 - A Solstice Carol

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 12/9/1996

    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

  • The Xena Scrolls
    7.0/10(577)

    #10 - The Xena Scrolls

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 1/13/1997

    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

  • Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis
    7.1/10(596)

    #11 - Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 1/20/1997

    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

  • Destiny
    8.1/10(630)

    #12 - 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

  • The Quest
    8.0/10(614)

    #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

  • A Necessary Evil
    7.9/10(584)

    #14 - 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

  • A Day in the Life
    8.0/10(701)

    #15 - 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

  • For Him the Bell Tolls
    7.4/10(585)

    #16 - For Him the Bell Tolls

    Season 2 Episode 16

    Aired 2/24/1997

    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

    Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

  • The Execution
    7.1/10(528)

    #17 - The Execution

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 4/7/1997

    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

  • Blind Faith
    7.5/10(537)

    #18 - Blind Faith

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 4/14/1997

    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

    Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

  • Ulysses
    7.0/10(538)

    #19 - Ulysses

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 4/28/1997

    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: N/A

  • The Price
    7.9/10(555)

    #20 - 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

  • Lost Mariner
    7.6/10(541)

    #21 - Lost Mariner

    Season 2 Episode 21

    Aired 5/12/1997

    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

  • A Comedy of Eros
    7.2/10(557)

    #22 - A Comedy of Eros

    Season 2 Episode 22

    Aired 5/19/1997

    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