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24 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
Mon, Sep 4, 199544 mins
When Iolaus is accused of a burglary, Hercules must bring back the real thief, Autolycus, before Iolaus is put to death. Meanwhile, King Menelaos' daughter, the would-be lawyer Dirce, demands that Iolaus be put through one ordeal after another to prove his innocence.
Episode 2
Mon, Sep 11, 199544 mins
Salmoneus picks up Hercules to visit friend king Midas's realm's new gambling and pleasure palace. To their astonishment, the royal guards now terrorize the people, with draconian punishments for petty crimes. Worse, real power has shifted, as nearly all income, to the palace's manager Segallus, who plans to marry Midas's beloved Flaxen, and his even meaner business partner Hispides. Disapproving Hercules is drawn in, forced to perform an unprecedented gauntlet to save the royal lives.
Episode 3
Mon, Sep 18, 199544 mins
Hercules' half-brother Iphicles is in love, and pretends to be Hercules in order to woo the stepdaughter of the local warlord. But the real Hercules cannot stand by the warlord expects the fake Hercules to impose his will on innocent villagers.
Episode 4
Mon, Sep 25, 199544 mins
Visiting Naxos city, Hercules and Iolaus find it once more under the rapacious terror of the brothers Goth and Bedar, who lead a bunch of war criminals. The heroes capture Goth to have him tried in Athens, but need to seek shelter in the citadel.Tthey find its garrison dead, there's only old drunk Claridon 'the brave' and his daughter. Still they put up a brave defense when the fiends lay siege and field their secret weapon, a monster.
Episode 5
Mon, Oct 2, 199544 mins
In an Athenian village, centaur Deric enjoyed for years a peaceful life with wife Lyla and their son Kefor (3). Just before Hercules and Iolaus come visit Deric anonymously, a local gang of 'Cretans' has tried to chase the centaurs and semi-accidentally torched his home. Lyla died in the fire, but Kefor and Deric got away. Hercules experiences the gang's violent aggression towards all foreigners. He has the magistrate promise a trial after Deric kills one of his wife's murderers and tricks the villager posse to get to the centaurs first, then tries to work out a peaceful solution.
Episode 6
Mon, Oct 9, 199544 mins
Hercules and Salmoneus arrive in a town where nobody stands up to the thugs of Pilot, who also owns the 'house of pleasure'. They meet old Atticus, who wants only to be reunited with his wife Lucina, who entered 'exotic dancing' after the death of their son. Beacuse his men can't defeat Hercules, Pilot offers a 1000 dinars bounty, which attracts many thugs from far.
Episode 7
Mon, Oct 16, 199544 mins
Hercules finally finds the time for a visit, with Iolaus, to his mortal mother Alcmene. To their surprise, she got engaged to apparently perfect Demetrius, in fact an ally of Echidna, the vindictive mother of many monsters slain by Hercules. Alcemene is abducted to her cave by Demetrius and a band of magical archers, one of which manages to wound Hercules badly. The heroes still enter to fight, while Alcmene verbally stands up to thus further enraged Echidna.
Episode 8
Mon, Oct 30, 199544 mins
Persphone is taken to his underworld realm by divine Hades, in fact her lover. The earth falls barren as her mother, fertility goddess Demeter, mourns and neglects nature. Hercules perilously enters Hades to retrieve her, must finds she already accepted food there, so a compromise is he last hope.
Episode 9
Mon, Nov 6, 199544 mins
Through a dodgy middleman, Salmoneus buys the forbidden treasure, which King Ores received from Hera, as a reward and test before Hercules deposed him. Each time pieces sold 'in sacrilege' turn up, Hera's henchmen have an excuse to strike. Hercules takes them on, even the terrible Pyro, who consists on rapidly moving fire.
Episode 10
Mon, Nov 13, 199544 mins
Hercules and Iolaus fall in with fellow traveler Typhon, a gentle and friendly giant. They are astounded to discover he is married to Echidna, the Mother of All Monsters. Meanwhile, Typhon is saddened to hear Echidna is causing problems and convinces the heroes that she only gets into trouble when he is gone and he needs to get home quickly.
Episode 11
Mon, Nov 20, 199544 mins
King Sisyphus has tricked Timuron into dying in Sisyphus' place on his wedding night, taking his place for eternal punishment. Hades gives Hercules, Iolaus, and Timuron's spirit three days to bring Sisyphus back or Timuron will have to bear Sisyphus' sentence forever.
Episode 12
Mon, Jan 8, 199644 mins
The Athenian magistrate's delegate in Pluribus, Traicus, enjoys terrorizing his citizens. Only veteran Amphion, whom Hercules and Iolaus come visit, dares speak up, but he's charged with murder and refuses to plead innocence due to a war trauma. Hercules decides to prove his innocence with the sword of veracity, which prevents lying. Hestia priestess Lea helps him and Iolaus on a perilous quest for it in cursed caves.
Episode 13
Mon, Jan 15, 199644 mins
Since Nemesis has refused to kill Hercules, Hera makes her mortal and sends a newly-created and very homicidal Enforcer after her stepson.
Episode 14
Mon, Jan 29, 199644 mins
Hercules, Iolaus, and other former Argonauts find out their former leader Jason is a delusional drunk since he left Medea for another and saw his family murdered; the rule of his kingdom Argos has passed to a regent. Having witnessed an apparently demon-led party steal the Golden Fleece, they set out once again to bring it back on the Argo. There's strife and casualties, but Hercules guesses the supposed demon's identity, a rival for Jason's throne, when they're trapped in a volcano. Hera has enlisted Marcus the regent to have skeleton warriors destroy them even in case they make it back to Argos...
Episode 15
Mon, Feb 5, 199644 mins
Hercules and Iolaus, who has visions since lightning struck him for hybris, accept villager Rheanna's plea to free the small kingdom from its oppressive ruler Melkos. Just when Rheanne fell in love with the demi-god, trough a scorned man' sisters treason the rebel party is incarcerated in the palace, but Hercules breaks the jail, but finds someone neither executed...
Episode 16
Mon, Feb 12, 199644 mins
Hercules stumbles on the n-th battle between Spartans and Eleans. When he helps battered but unbridled cocky Spartan warrior Damon home, his aunt turns out to be an old acquaintance of mythical strength in her own right, Atalanta, who complains his excessive battle courage equals a death-wish. Hercules comes up with an alternative for the battle field as field of honor, Olympic style games, and gets the leaders to agree, but the cruel Elean commander Tarkon calls upon war god Ares who turns four of his man literally into monsters...
Episode 17
Mon, Feb 19, 199644 mins
Hercules visits the highly desirable wedding of Epius, the son of the king of Delos and Thera, the daughter of the king of Syos, two neighboring kingdoms who were sworn enemies. Meanwhile Iolaus hasn't learned the lesson of Paris of Troy: he accepts the job -wisely refused by their father Zeus- to judge the beauty contest between three goddesses; instead of the physical and military skills Artemis offers him, or the wisdom Athena tempts him with, he lets Aphrodite bribe him with a golden apple which can make any mortal woman love him. Unfortunately his successful first attempt turns out to be on- the royal bride Thera...
Episode 18
Mon, Mar 4, 199644 mins
Since the death of his father Palos, Boraeus is king of Zabros. Hercules hears his bride Ramina is kidnapped for ransom by the outlaw Tarlus -who once abandoned Iolaus on a battlefield- and his gang in the hills. Hercules and Iolaus easily free her, but quickly find her missing, apparently caught by primords (a species of ape-men), and yet find that Tarlus goes to great trouble to send them on a wrong trail, so they keep looking for his secret camp, and once there find out that several things are not what they seem...
Episode 19
Mon, Mar 18, 199644 mins
When a peasant pleads his daughter is completely out of control because of her obsession for Hercules, he tells Iolaus to meet up there again in a week, and to visit distant relatives in nearby Attica, which Iolaus grudgingly does. There he finds he is the spitting image of Orestes, the uselessly spoiled heir to the throne, whose drinks are however spiked so his younger brother, regent Minos, could succeed instead, with general Archeus as the power behind his throne. Loyal courtiers convince Iolaus to take his place temporarily. He does surprisingly well at the coronation and afterward, when Orestes is found abducted, and even falls in reciprocated love with princess Niobe, whose hand in marriage goes with the crown but hated the real prince she didn't see in ten years. Then they free the real heir...
Episode 20
Mon, Apr 22, 199644 mins
Hercules and Iolaus help the sculptor Thanis, who neglects his farm because of his artistic drive, and enjoy his daughter Daniella. When he goes to town for supplies, Iolaus witnesses him commit a senseless crime, which he seems totally oblivious about a minute later, but for which the magistrate, even though an art lover, condemns him to have his hands cut off 'for lack of proof of innocence' to set an example in the hope to stop the recent crime wave. After our heroes encounter more behavior out of character, including each-others, it becomes clear none of them is the actual person, here's a supernatural shape-shifter, and Hercules knew as a child the perfect suspect: Proteus, a minor god...
Episode 21
Mon, Apr 29, 199644 mins
Hercules is startled when his mother Alcemene tells him she and king Jason, his friend the Argonaut, have been secretly in love since Amphitrion's death, and now plan a marriage. Under Corinthian law Jason may not continue to rule with a commoner wife, but can choose an heir- Iphicles is chosen and found in time. Of course Hera has a nasty surprise lurking: Perfidia, Echidia's largest brood, emerges from the sea and devours Jason, so Hercules jumps after him into the giant mouth...
Episode 22
Mon, May 6, 199644 mins
While Hercules walks on the beach, he is attacked by a bunch of robbers, which he easily chases, and sees a young man and his girl friend chased by their cahoots- suddenly the kid tells them off and is obeyed, to his own surprise. In the fishing village, Hercules learns it's Deon, whose father confides to him is also a half-god, and inherited the now appearing power of unconditional persuasion from his mother Aphrodite, but was never told his ancestry. It turns out the brigand leader is Deon's uncle Karis, who hopes to enlist his divine powers by luring him with luxury for his beloved Sirene. Salmoneus finds to his horror the 'primising' call for his talents is from the local dun mongers, the unspeakably smelly Titus brothers. Deon scorns his father, an honest fisherman, for keeping the truth from him, but soon senses uncle Karis is hardly better, while Hercules tries to make truth and justice triumph against appearances...
Episode 23
Mon, May 13, 199644 mins
Hercules hears from young pupil Theseus that his mentor and virtual stepfather, the centaur Ceridian, is dying and drops everything to rush there. He is asked to attempt to talk some sense into a former centaur pupil, Cassius, who has turned on all humans because the local magistrate banned the species from town including the water spring, even forsaking his girlfriend, the local school principal Perdidis's daughter Mirra. Salmoneus, who was promoting 'air sandals', offers to mind Ceridian while Herc braves both angry parties and tries to restore peace and unveils a criminal plot around the magistrate.
Episode 24
Mon, Jun 24, 199644 mins
Iolaus and Hercules save the life of the writer Parentheses, who was about to be hanged for writing about the hoods' crimes in Macedonia and insists to accompany them. Then Elopius begs them to save his daughter Melina from an unseen monster in the Cave of Echoes, which Hercules already knew. After reminiscing how he saved Deianeira from Anteus the giant rock monster and defeated some other monsters, and more heroic deeds -taking up over half of the episode- Hercules finds the girl, who just slipped and got her foot caught, while trying to rescue her kitten Zeus, and makes Parentheses pull her out.