The Best Episodes Written By Chris Manheim
Every TV Episode Written by Chris Manheim Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Chris Manheim Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Chris Manheim is "Chakram", rated 9/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by Doug Lefler". "Chakram" aired on 10/4/1999 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Maternal Instincts".
9.0/10 1 votes#1 - Chakram
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1999
After Eli resurrects Xena and Gabrielle, Xena loses her memory of all the violence in her life, and in order to recover her self, she and her friends must join her broken chakram with it's counterpart, but Ares wants them both and will stop at nothing to get them.
Director: Doug Lefler
Writer: Chris Manheim
8.5/10 2 votes#2 - 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
8.0/10 1 votes#3 - Alma Murder
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 3/12/1989
An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writer: Chris Manheim
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - Eternal Bonds
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/14/2000
After the birth of baby Eve, Xena and Gabrielle must protect the infant from the Olympian gods who want to destroy her, while Xena tries to rid herself of a doting Ares and Gabrielle tries to retrieve the antidote for the poison that is slowly killing Joxer.
Director: Mark Beesley
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.5/10 2 votes#5 - Tsunami
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/1998
Xena must board a ship carrying prisoners when Gabrielle, in the belief she's freeing a captured Autolycus, does the same, but they're all wet when a tsunami strikes.
Director: John Laing
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.4/10 9 votes#6 - Mr. Monk Goes to Jail
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/2004
Who would murder a death-row inmate forty-five minutes before his execution--and why? That's the question Captain Stottlemeyer asks Monk--but Monk's response is to ask why it matters. As Monk is hurrying to leave the prison, however, he gets a phone call from his old nemesis, Dale ""the Whale"" Biederbeck, that changes his plans. The police consider Dale a suspect in the inmate's murder (the young man owed him twelve hundred dollars) and refuse to give him a window in his cell until his name is cleared, so Dale strikes a bargain with Monk--solve the case and he'll provide information about Trudy's murder. After interviewing the cook who prepared the dead inmate's last meal, Monk notices that another cook never clocked out the evening before. The missing cook is found dead in a freezer with a wad of bills in his apron pocket--clearly the person who bribed him to poison the inmate was afraid he would talk and killed him, too. On his way out of the prison, he receives another phone call, th
Director: Jerry Levine
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#7 - Old Habits Die Hard
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1987
A terminally ill nun seems to have committed suicide which would be an unacceptable sin.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#8 - Curse of the Daanav
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1988
Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#9 - Night of the Tarantula
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1989
A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - Shear Madness
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1990
Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#11 - Murder, Plain & Simple
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1991
When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 2 votes#12 - 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
7.0/10 2 votes#13 - King Con
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/7/1998
When Joxer is beaten to near-death, Xena teams up with two con artists to avenge Joxer, with a major con scam against a ruthless gaming house owner and his son.
Director: Janet Greek
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#14 - Paradise Found
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1999
In India, Xena and Gabrielle wake up in a seeming land of paradise where a mystical man named Aidan, teaches Gabrielle the art of meditation, but Xena discovers he's just feeding off Gabrielle's goodness and must let go of all the good in her, in order to save Gabrielle.
Director: Robert Tapert
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - Devi
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1999
While travelling in India, Xena and Gabrielle meet Eli, a magician, and Gabrielle suddenly acquires the power to heal and is deemed a Devi, a healing deity but Xena is suspicious of the power's source.
Director: Garth Maxwell
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#16 - The Convert
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/1999
Najara returns claiming a newfound mantra for nonviolence, while Xena becomes suspicious of her new outlook. Meanwhile, Joxer wrestles with the guilt of his first kill, and stuggles with admitting his guilt to the son of the man he killed.
Director: Andrew Merrifield
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 2 votes#17 - Animal Attraction
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1999
While getting a little rest and relaxation in Spamona, Gabrielle tries to train her new horse, Amarice makes a love connection with Joxer's friend, Arman, Joxer pines for Gabrielle, and Xena helps an old frien with a warlord problem, while exhibiting signs of pregnancy.
Director: Rick Jacobson
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 2 votes#18 - Livia
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2000
Twenty-five years have passed when Xena and Gabrielle finally awake from their icy sleep, and they set out to find Xena's daughter, Eve, only to discover the world is not the same and neither is Eve. She's now known as Livia, the Bitch of Rome, a bloodthirsty warrior with Ares as her mentor and lover.
Director: Rick Jacobson
Writer: Chris Manheim
6.5/10 2 votes#19 - The Prodigal
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1996
After freezing in the face of danger, a confused Gabrielle returns home to Potidaea, where she receives a not-so-warm welcome from the people, who have hired a so-called warrior to save them from a warlord.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Chris Manheim
6.5/10 2 votes#20 - Altared States
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/1996
A young boy is hunted by his father and brother. They want to sacrifice him to their god, because their "faith" demands it. It's up to Xena and a drugged Gabrielle to save him.
Director: Michael Levine
Writer: Chris Manheim
6.0/10 1 votes#21 - Snow White, Blood Red
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/1988
A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Chris Manheim
6.0/10 2 votes#22 - 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
6.0/10 4 votes#23 - 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
6.0/10 1 votes#24 - Punch Lines
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/24/2000
Suffering from writers's block, Gabrielle tells Aphrodite about her day in which a depressed god shrunk her and Argo and how she attempted to correct the situation before a very moody Xena catches on. Meanwhile, Xena tries to control her hormone-induced temper but to no avail.
Director: Andrew Merrifield
Writer: Chris Manheim
6.0/10 2 votes#25 - Reflections in Terror
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/21/1984
With a blood sample from the "star-child," Diana creates an uncontrollable and deadly clone which seeks out Elizabeth; Bates tests Julie's loyalty when he suspects she is sympathetic to the Resistance whose headquarters he is preparing to destroy.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Chris Manheim