10.0/101 votes#1 - Gladiator
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/2/1995
Wicked Menas Maxius pits slaves against wild animals for his amusement.
Director: Garth Maxwell
Writer: John Schulian
9.0/103 votes#2 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/5/1995
A misunderstood cyclops keeps water from frightened villagers.
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: John Schulian
8.8/104 votes#3 - The Warrior Princess
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/26/1995
Princess Xena uses Iolaus to lure Hercules into a death trap.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: John Schulian
7.7/103 votes#4 - Unchained Heart
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/21/1995
Xena's former lieutenant, Darphus, rises from the dead to carry out Ares' evil plan.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: John Schulian
7.5/102 votes#5 - Down for the Count (2)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: John Schulian
6.8/108 votes#6 - The Wrong Path
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/1995
Hercules drops his vengeful quest in order to aid a village enthralled by a snake-woman.
Director: Doug Lefler
Writer: John Schulian
6.7/103 votes#7 - Amen... Send Money
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1987
The fury of feuding TV evangelists hits Tubbs when he is accused raping a parishoner.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#8 - Night of the Shriekers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/2003
Burt finds and kills a Shrieker in the valley, only to learn it was a part of a government funded project to train Shriekers for rescue missions. But when a storm knocks out the equipment controlling them, the remaining Shriekers escape and multiply. Now to survive, the Perfection residents must make a stand at Burt's place.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#9 - King of the Greenie Board (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1999
While patrolling the Mediterranean near Yugoslavia and against the orders of Harm, his division commander, Lt. Buxton fires on what he believes is a Serbian armored car about to attack Kosovar refugees. As Buxton and his pals are celebrating his victory back aboard the aircraft carrier, however, the grave news arrives: those ""Serbs"" Buxton attacked and killed were, in fact, Russian peacekeepers, and Buxton made the mistake while under Harm's command. Mac prosecutes what appears to be an open-and-shut case of a Marine weapons expert accused of reckless endangerment.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#10 - True Callings
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1999
Harms fitness report is coming up and the realization that maybe it really is too late to be a fighter pilot. During a dangerous mission over hostile Serbian territory, Harm's wingman's plane is shot up and Harm performs top-gun maneuvers to keep the disabled plane aloft until it's over friendly territory. Meanwhile, with a new Gunny in the office, Bud & Tiner fall over themselves as they compete against each other in an online auction to purchase tickets to a concert, in order to impress the Admiral. They end up looking foolish when it is discovered that the Gunny got the same tickets for free.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#11 - The Colonel's Wife
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1999
Harm and Mac are sent to Panama to investigate the wife of a Marine officer, Olivia Dunston, suspected of smuggling drugs into the U.S. When faced with the evidence, Olivia feebly denies the allegations, leaving Mac thinking that she's guilty of the charges.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#12 - Ghosts of Christmas Past
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1999
On Christmas Eve, Harm pays his annual visit to the Vietnam Memorial to honor his father who was shot down on Christmas Eve, 1969. At the memorial, Harm meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman, who claims to have known Harm, Sr. She used to be a singer in a traveling USO tour and she met Harm's father shortly before his fateful flight. In an unusual casting twist, Harm stars as his father in this episode, and many familiar faces show up playing different roles.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#13 - Promises
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/28/2000
Harm and Mac face-off in court when a female seaman, charged with desertion, claims she left because her recruiter lied to her about what her duties would be. Meanwhile, Admiral Chegwidden takes the case of an old friend whose impressive career is threatened because of the side effects of Viagra.
Director: Arthur W. Forney
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#14 - Overdue & Presumed Lost
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/2000
Harm and Chegwidden fight an attempt by a salvage hunter to excavate the remains of a submarine that disappeared in 1941, just before the attack of Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, Bud takes on the heavy burden of trying to keep an obese petty officer from being discharged for failing to lose weight.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: John Schulian
6.0/101 votes#15 - Real Deal SEAL
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/2000
Lt. Curtis Rivers (Montel Williams), a Medal of Honor-winning Navy SEAL, is court-martialed for punching a Congressional candidate who falsely claims to be a Navy SEAL. Rivers explains that he is on a crusade to expose Navy SEAL impostors. In order to prove his point to Harm, who is assigned to defend him, Rivers places him in the center of a dangerous plot to expose another false SEAL. Though Rivers assures Harm that his safety is in the hands of two legitimate former SEALS, he finds himself alone in court when Harm misses the trial to pursue a lead on the would-be assassin.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: John Schulian
- 6.0/102 votes
#16 - Mona Lisa
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2001
An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: John Schulian
5.3/103 votes#17 - Heroes of the Revolution
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/1987
An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: John Schulian
5.0/102 votes#18 - Down for the Count (1)
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1987
Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: John Schulian
5.0/101 votes#19 - Project 4-12
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/27/2003
Larry returns to Perfection and wants to learn more about Cletus Poffenberger. Tyler tells him the story of when the Perfection residents first met Cletus and had to face his increasingly dangerous pet, Four-Twelve.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: John Schulian
4.3/103 votes#20 - Vote of Confidence
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/12/1988
A prominent senatorial candidate is arrested during a raid of a mobile whorehouse.
Director: Randy Roberts
Writer: John Schulian
3.0/101 votes#21 - The Key
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/25/2003
Frank returns to Perfection with some help in another attempt to kill El Blanco and retrieve the key he swallowed. Meanwhile, Larry encounters a creature in a barn and tries to figure of what it is.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Schulian
1.0/101 votes#22 - Under the Broken Sky
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1995
Hercules battles a town run by bandits in order to help a farmer reunite with his estranged wife.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: John Schulian
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"Gladiator" is the best rated episode written by John Schulian. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Garth Maxwell. It aired on 4/2/1995 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Eye of the Beholder".