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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Season 5 Episodes

22 Episodes 1998 - 1999

Episode 1

Faith

Mon, Sep 28, 199844 mins

Hercules and Iolaus travel to Sumeria to aid a king persecuted by the gods, in company with Nebula who turns out to be a wandering Sumerian princess. King Gilgamesh, half-god like Hercules, needs the help of someone else with the blood of a god to reach a chalice in which flows nectar that will revive the land.

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Episode 2

Descent

Mon, Oct 5, 199844 mins

Grieving over the loss of Iolaus, Hercules vows to persuade the Sumerian gods to bring him back from their underworld. Reluctantly accompanied by Nebula, he sets off on his quest, but many things stand in their way.

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Episode 3

Resurrection

Mon, Oct 12, 199844 mins

Hercules, having lost his confidence, is washed up on the island of Eire, where Druids claim he is their "Chosen One," brought to them to deal with an evil demigod who is out to destroy them with the help of the horned god Cernunnos.

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Episode 4

Genies and Grecians and Geeks, Oh My!

Mon, Oct 19, 199844 mins

Salmoneus and Autolycus wind up in possession of a sultan's lamp and release a genie who grants them three wishes. But they soon learn to be careful what they wish for. Meanwhile, the sultan wants his lamp back.

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Episode 5

Render Unto Caesar

Mon, Oct 26, 199844 mins

While Hercules tries to help Morrigan to leave her bloodthirsty life and accept to become a Druid, a Roman army led by Julius Caesar arrives to the coasts of Eire. Hercules prepares the Celt defense, while he discovers he's got a lot in common with Morrigan.

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Episode 6

Norse by Norsevest

Mon, Nov 2, 199844 mins

Hercules leaves Eire to travel to Scandinavia, where the god Balder needs his help: he's dreamed he's going to die. Hercules is impressed to meet a god who worries about the mortals and agrees to help him, but danger for Balder arrives in an unexpected way.

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Episode 7

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bridge

Mon, Nov 9, 199844 mins

Hercules is forced to join forces with Thor to stop the evil Loki, who is trying to bring about Ragnarok, the end of all things.

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Episode 8

Darkness Rising

Mon, Nov 16, 199844 mins

Back in Ireland, Dahak kills the druids after trapping Hercules and Morrigan in a cave. Hercules has a vision of Nebula in flames, so he and Morrigan head for Sumeria, where Nebula is delusional, obsessed with dreams of an oddly-acting Iolaus.

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Episode 9

For Those of You Just Joining Us...

Mon, Jan 4, 199944 mins

In this clip show sequel to last season's 'Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hercules,' the staff of 'Hercules' suffer a corporate retreat to improve the show quality. At Camp Wannachuck, staffer Sunny Day will "combine corporate re-engineering techniques with ancient Navajo ritual to enhance the efficiency of your overall group dynamic." But the dysfunctional group dynamic of this group isn't helped by what looks like someone's attempts to eliminate the staff.

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Episode 10

Let There Be Light

Mon, Jan 11, 199944 mins

Hercules, Morrigan, and Nebula head for Greece to save it from Dahak. When they arrive, they discover that the Olympian gods have disappeared, and Iolaus/Dahak has convinced the people he is the apostle of light and Hercules is a homicidal maniac. Imprisoned Titan Mnemosyne tells Hercules that to defeat Dahak, he must retrieve the Stone of Creation. Meanwhile, Nebula helps Dahak's thugs to capture Morrigan and Jason.

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Episode 11

Redemption

Mon, Jan 18, 199944 mins

Hercules and Zarathustra must exorcise Dahak from Iolaus' body to prevent Dahak taking over the world. Meanwhile, Morrigan and Nebula have to prevent Dahak's followers from killing a now-vulnerable Ares, and Dahak shows Hercules how he tempted Iolaus to bring him into the world.

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Episode 12

Sky High

Mon, Jan 25, 199944 mins

Hercules, with Amazon Ephiny, recruits a rag-tag band, including a murderer, in a mission to use explosive crystals to blow a hole in the side of a volcano and stop lava from destroying a town in its path.

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Episode 13

Stranger and Stranger

Mon, Feb 1, 199944 mins

When Hercules jumps through a reopened portal to the alternate world, he hopes to find the Olympian gods and bring them back to Greece. Instead, he finds Clown-Iolaus alive and a sadistic and deadly "Empress" in charge. Hercules impersonates the Sovereign to figure out what has happened and set it right.

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Episode 14

Just Passing Through

Mon, Feb 8, 199944 mins

Hercules, missing the original Iolaus, tells Iolaus II of an adventure where he and Iolaus had to retrieve a stolen ruby from Autolycus, who had a curse looming over him until he returned it.

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Episode 15

Greece Is Burning

Mon, Feb 15, 199944 mins

The characters from "...And Fancy Free" reappear as Althea wants to be a fashion designer but Oena and her lover Count von Verminhaven make fun of Althea and her designs. Hercules encourages Althea and her friends to put on their own fashion show, but Oena and Verminhaven will stop the show by any means possible.

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Episode 16

We'll Always Have Cyprus

Mon, Feb 22, 199944 mins

Morrigan returns and joins Hercules on his mission to save the Oracle of Cyprus from a wronged soul who has returned from the grave to destroy her. As they travel, Hercules learns why Morrigan suddenly left him.

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Episode 17

The Academy

Mon, Mar 15, 199944 mins

Hercules, Jason, and Iolaus II find that their alma mater has been turned into a training school for thugs, and Hercules takes over as temporary headmaster to get the Academy back on track. Jason runs into an old love who surprises him with a teenage daughter.

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Episode 18

Love on the Rocks

Mon, Apr 19, 199944 mins

Discord changes Nautica from a mermaid into a woman. Aphrodite helps Iolaus drive a group of thugs away from a village, which causes Nautica to fall in love with him. As Discord and her thugs try to keep Nautica away from the ocean until sunset, Iolaus falls in love with her and feels guilty because he's not really a brave warrior.

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Episode 19

Once Upon a Future King

Mon, Apr 26, 199944 mins

Taking Excalibur by force translates a violent, tyrannical King Arthur and his witch adviser Mab to Hercules' time, and a young Merlin asks Hercules to come to Britannia. Mab coaches Arthur to get Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake. When Hercules and Morrigan capture Arthur, Mab takes Merlin back to the castle and discovers he hasn't learned to be a sorcerer yet. When Hercules and Morrigan rescue Merlin, Arthur discovers Mab was just using him to get Excalibur.

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Episode 20

Fade Out

Mon, May 3, 199944 mins

A scheme by Ares, Discord and Ares' new lackey Deimos has cursed a whole village into starting to fade out of existence. When Hercules breaks the stone that has caused the curse, he starts to fade away.

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Episode 21

My Best Girl's Wedding

Mon, May 10, 199944 mins

The leader of a group of thugs pulls into a small town to celebrate his wedding - to Iolaus II's love, Nautica. On his way to find Triton, Hercules rescues a woman from bandits, who turns out to be his love, Serena (with Kevin Sorbo's real life wife Sam Sorbo reprising her role). As Iolaus II tries to delay Nautica's wedding, Hercules and Serena try to free Nautica from her forced marriage.

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Episode 22

Revelations

Mon, May 17, 199944 mins

Iolaus returns from beyond the grave to warn Hercules that the end of the world is at hand. The Archangel Michael is bringing about the apocalypse by releasing the Four Horsemen onto the land.

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