Season 1
6.0/101 votesThe Treasure of Zeus (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1998
Strife tricks Hercules into removing a vase from Hera's cave.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
N/A/100 votesThe Treasure of Zeus (2): Between Friends
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1998
Strife frames Iolaus for stealing money from Kora's in an attempt to get at Hercules and causes Hercules, Iolaus, and Jason to be at odds with each other.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Hilary Bader
N/A/100 votesThe Treasure of Zeus (3): What a Crockery
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1998
After Hercules stole Hera's chalice, he was freed from Zeus' protection, which gave Ares the golden opportunity to kill his hated little brother. Ares uses Strife to lure Hercules to his mother Alcmene's house, where he plans to finish him off for good.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGirl Trouble
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/18/1998
Hercules, Iolaus, and Jason take a boat to Athens to find a new cook for the Academy, but they get more than they bargained for when they learn that the boat is transporting Amazons en route to a slave trader.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Nora Kay Foster, Adam Armus
N/A/100 votesHerc and Seek
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/19/1998
Iolaus' old gang breaks into the Academy and holds Iolaus, Lilith, and Fiducius hostage. While Jason and the other cadets are outside trying to keep them from escaping, Hercules alone is inside trying to save the others—his key advantage being that they don't know he's there.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTeacher's Pests
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/22/1998
Hercules, Iolaus, and Jason are all sent to detention, but Hercules and Jason must cover for Iolaus when he has to leave to start his new job at Kora's.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
N/A/100 votesInn Trouble
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/1998
The boys are left to watch the inn when Kora takes off after Artemis asks her to help find the fruit that was stolen from her temple. Unfortunately trouble ensues when Strife and Discord drop by for a havoc-wreaking visit.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesKeeping Up with the Jasons
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/1998
After Hercules is bested in a practice sword fight by Jason, he asks Hephaestus to build him some new weaponry. Hercules's new sword and shield are made from a metal that no other metal can harm, and this power brings Hercules a lot of trouble and threatens his friendships with Iolaus and Jason.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAmazon Grace
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/26/1998
The trio stumbles across the Amazons once again, and this time they invite the ladies back to the Academy. Unfortunately, when they get there, the King of Athens arrives, claiming the Amazons are his property. This revelation doesn't sit well with the Amazons or Hercules, who must try to solve the situation without anyone getting hurt.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesBattle Lines (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/2/1998
With hatred growing and the facts distorted by lies manufactured by Discord and Strife, Hercules and his friends are running out of time to prevent a war that isn't necessary and to save two people Hercules cares about.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
N/A/100 votesForgery
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/3/1998
Tired of being called a wet blanket by his friends, Hercules requests the fire in Hephaestus's Olympian forge to make him more like his father. Although at first it seems to work, by making Hercules a much more laid-back, fun guy, the side effects quickly put Hercules and his friends in danger. Iolaus and Jason must call on Hephaestus to help restore Hercules to his original self.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Nora Kay Foster, Adam Armus
N/A/100 votesNo Way Out
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/7/1998
Hercules takes Lilith on a field trip to divert her from the surprise party that the others are setting up, but as usual, trouble follows. A cave-in traps them, and Ares attempts to manipulate Lilith into unknowingly poisoning Hercules.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAres on Trial
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/9/1998
After Ares attempts to kill Hercules yet again, he is put on trial by the gods for violating Zeus's order of protection. Ares proceeds to claim he is innocent and asks Hercules to defend him, baffling Hercules, who reluctantly decides to defend Ares.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Michael Edens
N/A/100 votesDown and Out in Academy Hills
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/10/1998
Hercules, Jason, and Iolaus rescue a drowning man after he literally falls from the sky. The funny thing is the man has no idea who he is or where he came from. Hercules soon discovers that the man is actually his half-brother Hephaestus, the God of Steel, and that he's being punished by his mother, Hera, by turning him into a mortal man.
Director: Andrew Merrifield
Writer: Michael Edens
N/A/100 votesWinner Take All
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 10/24/1998
Hercules alienates his friends when he abandons them during a competition called The Games to team up with his two new brothers, Pollux and Castor, who are the mortal sons of Zeus. Things get worse for Hercules when Pollux cheats and injures Jason in the process, causing the two to fight out their differences.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
N/A/100 votesA Serpent's Tooth
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 10/29/1998
Discord and Strife, disguised as a Babylonian traveler and a Sybill, give Jason a gift that turns out to be a baby monster, which Iolaus soon comes to adore. Unknown to the trio, though, is that the monster is capable of burning down anything his venom touches.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Michael Reaves
N/A/100 votesThe Lure of the Lyre
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 10/30/1998
A young minstrel, Orpheus, and his girlfriend, Eurydice, lure Hercules, Iolaus, and Lilith into what they claim is a place where the party never ends, run by Bacchus, the God of Partying and Good Times. In reality, they soon learn, it is the realm of the Bacchae, the vampire-like followers of Bacchus, which they discover only after Lilith has been bitten and is slowly changing into one herself.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Bob Forward
N/A/100 votesFame
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 10/31/1998
Orpheus and Eurydice, both reformed from their days as followers of Bacchus, perform at Kora's in front of a sold-out crowd. But unbeknownst to Eurydice, Orpheus has struck a deadly deal with Bacchus, freeing him and Eurydice if he helps recruit new Bacchae.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Len Uhley
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N/A/100 votesThe Mysteries of Life
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 11/5/1998
The trio discover that Ruff, their monstrous former pet, is being held by a freak show owner. When the ringmaster refuses to sell him, Iolaus and Hercules sneak in and free Ruff, who then escapes and runs rampant, threatening Corinth.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesDad Always Liked Me Best
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 11/6/1998
Hercules meets Lucius, another mortal son of Zeus, who tells him that he is on the trail of Pollux on the request from Zeus himself to deliver Pollux to death for the crime of the death of Castor, their brother. Hercules agrees to join him, unaware that Castor was actually killed by Lucius, who has some ambitious plans that don't include his brothers.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHerc's Nemesis
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/10/1998
Hercules meets Nemesis, the assassin of the gods, and talks her out of blindly killing a mortal just because Hera tells her to. The two then fall victim to Hera, who sends a replacement killer after both of them.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Steven Melching
N/A/100 votesCold Feet
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 11/11/1998
Jason has cold feet about his ability to lead Corinth and runs away, finding himself among a group of villagers terrorized by a warlord, where he must play the hero and stop the bad guy.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Brian Herskowitz
N/A/100 votesMommy Dearests
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 11/12/1998
In attempting to destroy Hercules by killing everyone he cares about, Lucius sets Alcmene's village on fire and then goes after Jason, and it's up to Hercules to stop his half-brother.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Eric Lewald
N/A/100 votesIn Your Dreams
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 11/13/1998
When Ares strikes a deal with Morpheus, the god of dreams, he kidnaps the cadets and sends them into the dream world. Hercules must follow them to the dream realm, where he meets his worst fear, an alternate version of himself who punishes and kills without regret.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSisters
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 11/18/1998
Kora's long-lost sister, Cleo, shows up, causing the green-eyed monster to show up in Kora when her sister steals the spotlight. When Kora attempts to loosen up and be more like Cleo, she gets more than she bargained for when she's mistaken for her sister and is kidnapped by two thugs.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
N/A/100 votesGolden Bow
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 11/19/1998
Kora wins a bow that originally belonged to Artemis in an archery contest and plans to give it back to her. Hercules learns that Kora has been a servant of Artemis' after having been saved by the goddess years ago, just when a thug in league with Strife steals the bow. Hercules attempts to help Kora retrieve it and free her from Artemis's debt.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHome for the Holidays
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 11/20/1998
Hercules takes his friends Iolaus, Jason, and Lilith home to his mother's to celebrate the festival of Persephone. To his surprise he finds his mother not alone as he expected but instead with a handsome suitor named Capaneus.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Hilary Bader
N/A/100 votesCon Ares
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2/1/1999
Hercules and Iolaus set out with Jason to negotiate peace treaties between two kingdoms on the verge of war. On their way, though, they're sidetracked by Discord and Strife, who've been sent by Ares in order to distract the gang from the peace treaties. Herc and the gang come across a farmhand who bears a striking resemblance to Ares. Timor, the farmhand, reluctantly agrees to help Hercules keep Strife and Discord away from Jason by posing as Ares and keeping them on their toes.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGet Jason
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 2/2/1999
A shrewd politician hires an assassin to kill Jason before his coronation in order to clear the path for himself to step in as king of Corinth. However, once Hercules learns of this plan, he attempts to tell everyone, but no one believes him. The problem is that it's Prank Day, and everyone thinks he's setting them up for a joke.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMy Fair Lilith
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 2/3/1999
When a king offers his daughter's hand in marriage as a gift to Jason for his coronation, he pleads with Lilith to masquerade as his bride rather than marry someone he doesn't know or love. The problem is that the princess's jealous boyfriend shows up and is out to get Jason, and it's up to Hercules to straighten out the whole mess while keeping the king from finding out and keeping Jason alive.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHind Sight
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 2/4/1999
When Artemis's favorite creature, a Golden Hind, is spotted, Hercules and Kora team up to try to keep the beautiful and rare creature out of the fatal hands of the hunters who are tracking her, as well as keep her away from two other hunters, Jason and Iolaus.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Michael Edens
N/A/100 votesThe Head That Wears the Crown
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 2/5/1999
On the eve of Jason's coronation, a monster ravages the countryside in order to extract revenge on Jason's father for an attack made on her ten years before. Deciding on how to deal with the situation puts Jason and Hercules at odds with one another.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesMe, Myself and Eye
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 2/17/1999
After Hercules comes into possession of a mystical eye that allows the bearer to see into the future, the three blind women who share it invoke Artemis's help in recovering it. The result curses his friends, causing Jason to be turned into a pig and Iolaus to be attacked by plants.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
N/A/100 votesThe Skeptic
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 2/22/1999
When a new cadet named Pythagrius claims he doesn't believe in the gods of Mount Olympus, Strife bets another god named Fatsus that he can make the cadet believe in gods. Fatsus, who can only see prophecies of bad things to come, takes that bet, and Strife's stunts cause a bigger threat as his attempts put Hercules and the academy in danger.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Jan Strnad
N/A/100 votesIolaus Goes Stag
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 2/23/1999
Iolaus attempts to prove to his uncle that he has what it takes to be a hunter just like him, and with Hercules and Jason in tow, he heads out on a deer hunt. When Iolaus goes after the Golden Hind, though, Artemis punishes him by switching his body with that of a deer.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesAdventures in the Forbidden Zone
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 2/24/1999
Hercules clashes with a new cadet named Theseus, which starts out as a rivalry and ends up as a battle for survival when Theseus challenges Herc to a chariot race. The problem is the race takes place next to the area known as the Forbidden Zone, where mortals go in but don't come out, and its next victims may be Herc, Theseus, and Iolaus.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Julia Jane Lewald
N/A/100 votesThe Prize
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 2/25/1999
Ares must enter a talent show at Kora's Inn when he learns that one of the prizes would complete his set of the Chronos stones that enabled Zeus to defeat the Titans. The catch is a mortal must willingly give it to him, so with Strife and Discord in tow, he enters intent on winning and more than willing to cheat to get it, leaving Hercules and his friends to stop him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Jessica Scott, Mike Wollaeger
N/A/100 votesThe Beasts Beneath
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 2/26/1999
Hercules, Iolaus, Lilith, Theseus, and fellow cadet Marco find themselves trapped in a large area of sand known as the Dune Sea. It's known as forbidden, and for a reason too, since it is inhabited by sand sharks who hunt anyone foolish enough to enter the area. Of the five cadets who entered, one will not leave.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Nora Kay Foster, Adam Armus
N/A/100 votesParents' Day
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 3/2/1999
It's Parents Day at the Academy, and Iolaus hires two actors to pretend to be his parents so his real ones don't find out how poor his grades are and to not be disappointed in him once again. Things get complicated fast when the actors are revealed as thieves, Iolaus's real parents show up, and Hercules must keep Alcmene from discovering Iolaus's deception and revealing the truth. Meanwhile, Lilith's sister visits and announces she plans to take Lilith home.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesA Life for a Life
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 3/8/1999
Ares kidnaps Cheiron, and it is up to Hercules, Iolaus, and Lilith to decipher the three clues Cheiron left in order to find him, but Ares is hoping they succeed, because he plans on Hercules trading his life for that of Cheiron.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Julia Jane Lewald, Michael Edens
N/A/100 votesUnder Seige
Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 5/10/1999
When the Amazons attack the Academy with missile-like weapons forged by Hephaestus, it's up to Hercules to ensure that no one gets hurt and to figure out the real reason for the attack. The real threat is actually Ares, who has Cyane under his control and is orchestrating all of this for one reason: to destroy Hercules.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Hilary Bader
N/A/100 votesMila
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 5/11/1999
Hercules and Iolaus meet up with a young Amazon named Mila, who is searching for the father she never knew, which Ares thinks is a great opportunity. Ares claims that he is Mila's father in order to get her under his control. His goal: he wants her to kill Hercules.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesIll Wind
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 5/13/1999
When Cyane falls ill, the Amazons seek out Hercules for his help. Amazon Queens have a special aura given to them by the gods that allows them to communicate through a person's memories. Hercules must decipher how to cure Cyane when she uses this power on him and uses flashes of his memories to try to communicate with him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesValley of the Shadow
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 5/14/1999
Hercules, Iolaus, and Theseus follow the advice of a mysterious old man and go hunting in an area rich with game. What they don't know, however, is that the area is Hera's Valley, which is protected by a dangerous monster. Another fact that they're unaware of is that the strange old man is really Zeus, King of the Gods and Hercules's father, and that he is testing his son with this challenge.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
