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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

"Chakram" is the best rated episode written by Chris Manheim. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Doug Lefler. It aired on 10/4/1999 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Maternal Instincts".

  • Chakram
    9.0/101 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

  • Maternal Instincts
    8.5/102 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

  • Alma Murder
    8.0/101 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

  • Eternal Bonds
    8.0/101 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

  • Tsunami
    7.5/102 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

  • Mr. Monk Goes to Jail
    7.4/109 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

  • Old Habits Die Hard
    7.0/101 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

  • Curse of the Daanav
    7.0/101 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

  • Night of the Tarantula
    7.0/101 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

  • Shear Madness
    7.0/101 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

  • Murder, Plain & Simple
    7.0/101 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

  • A Comedy of Eros
    7.0/102 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

  • King Con
    7.0/102 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

  • Paradise Found
    7.0/101 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

  • Devi
    7.0/101 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

  • The Convert
    7.0/101 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

  • Animal Attraction
    7.0/102 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

  • Livia
    7.0/102 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

  • The Prodigal
    6.5/102 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

  • Altared States
    6.5/102 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

  • Snow White, Blood Red
    6.0/101 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

  • A Solstice Carol
    6.0/102 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

  • Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis
    6.0/104 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

  • Punch Lines
    6.0/101 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

  • Reflections in Terror
    6.0/102 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