Category: Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena is plagued by nightmares while she and Gabrielle are tracking down Theodorus and the other members of Callisto’s former army. The nightmares are about Callisto herself. Joxer is also looking for Callisto’s army. He is captured by Theodoris and held in an old barn. Xena and Gabrielle arrive and the warriors retreat. Since it is late, the trio decide to stay in the barn that night. Callisto appears again in Xena’s dream and beckons her to follow. The warrior finds herself in Tartarus, where Ares is waiting. He wants Xena to admit that she murdered Callisto. When she does, he puts his plan in motion. He has Callisto sent back in Xena’s body, while Xena is trapped in Tartarus in Callisto’s body. Callisto/Xena wakes Gabrielle and tells her that Callisto has escaped Tatarus and is headed for Amphipolus. She says that Callisto plans on killing her mother. They leave Joxer behind as they head to the village. The real Xena talks with Hades. She convinces him of who she is and of what Ares is up to. He gives her a day to stop Callisto and return her to Tartarus. If she is unsuccessful, he will bring her back and she will remain there forever.

written by Steven L. Sears
directed by Gary Jones
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Hudson Leick (Callisto / Xena), Kevin Smith (Ares), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Darien Takle (Cyrene), David Te Rare (Theodorus), Michael Cooper (Gressius), Lee-Jane Foreman (Arleia)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Joxer arrives one night at Xena and Gabrielle’s camp with a message for Callisto. It’s supposedly a message from the god of war, asking for her to come to an island. They soon learn that several other warlords have received the same message and are gathering at a nearby village. Xena also notices that Gabrielle’s behavior has changed, and that of the villagers as well. The people who are normally even tempered, seem to fly into rages fairly easily. They find Ares in a tavern, drunk. He tells Xena that someone stole his sword and with it his powers. That’s the reason all of these people are hostile. The deposed god asks Xena to help him to recover his sword. Xena realizes that it’s the only way she can get Gabrielle and the others to return to normal. She and Ares travel to an island with the other warriors. They discover that Sisyphus is the one who stole the sword. He tells the group that the one who kills the monster, Brakus, will be the next god of war.

written by Paul Robert Coyle
directed by Charles Siebert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Hudson Leick (Xena), Kevin Smith (Ares), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Charels Siebert (Sisyphus), Bruce Hopkins (Tegason), Marcei Kaima (Sadus), Jason Kennedy (Carus), Chris Ryan (Virgilius), Patricia Donovan (Old Woman), John Smith (Boat Captain), Tony Ward (Messenger)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Xena and Gabrielle are in a village market place shopping for Solstice presents when a boy steals the warrior’s chakram. They chase him to an orphanage. While there, soldiers arrive and threaten to close the orphanage for not paying their taxes. They also want to take them in because they are celebrating the Solstice, which King Silvus had outlawed. Gabrielle manages to talk Xena into trying to find a way to save the orphanage and remove the ban on Solstice celebrations without fighting. With the help of a former toymaker, Senticles, who now works for the king, they find a way into the castle.

written by Chris Manheim
directed by John T. Kretchmer
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Joe Berryman (Senticles), Peter Vere-Jones (King Silvus), Sheri Booth (Melana), Daniel James (Lynal), Tony Bishop (Donkey Owner), Junior Chille (Orphan #4), Johnny Glass (Man), Mike Howell (Guard #1), Jamie Karie-Gatalli (Orphan #2), Gennieve (Orphan #1), Karen Morgan (Woman), Heme Rudolph (First Guard), Nicko Vella (Orphan #3), Lucas Young (Bearded Guard)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

In 1940’s Macedonia, Dr. Janice Covington, an archeologist, is looking for the Xena Scrolls. After finding a telegram that Dr. Covington sent to her father, Melinda Pappas arrives at her dig to help with the translation of the scrolls. A rival archeologist, Dr. John Smythe, sends some men to their camp to take anything that Janice and her crew have found. But she runs them off before they get the chance. A Lieutenant Jacques from French Intelligence is also snooping around. He tells Covington that he was sent to help her. Smythe appears at the camp with a tablet that could be the key to opening up the tomb that Janice has uncovered. He forces Janice to open it at gunpoint. As they enter the tomb, the stairwell colapses. Janice, Mel, and Jacques are seperated from Smythe and his men. Mel translates the writing that is on the walls as saying that they are in the tomb of Ares. The trio soon discover the hidden scrolls, and with them is half of Xena’s chakram. Janice tries to remove it from the stone that it is imbedded in but is unsuccessful. Mel, however, easily extracts the broken weapon. Once it’s in her hand, it seems to pull Mel toward something. She encounters Smythe and his men. Smythe has found the other half of the chakram.

teleplay by Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster
story by Robert Sidney Mellette
directed by Charlie Haskell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Cast: Lucy Lawless (Melinda “Mel” Pappas), Renee O’Connor (Dr. Janice Covington), Ted Raimi (Jacques/Jack Klieman/Joxer), Ted Raimi (Ted), Kevin Smith (Ares), Mark Ferguson (John Smythe), Ajay Vasisht (Nikos), Robert Tapert (Robert Tapert), Reza Nijad (Local), Campbell Rocsselle (Thug #1)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Salmoneus summons Xena and Gabrielle to help him find out who is trying to sabotage his beauty pageant. The pageant is part of the celebrations of a year of peace between three of the territories surrounding the area where the pageant is being held. Xena poses as one of the contestants while Gabrielle acts as her sponsor. Xena manages to meet some of the other contestants in the steam room, but they won’t talk to her. When everyone else has left, she discovers that she has been locked in. She barely escapes in time to make it for the first event. Xena figures out who it was that imprisoned her in the steam room. She confronts Miss Artiphys, who is actually a man. He thinks that she will reveal this to the officials, but she surprises him when she says that she won’t. Gabrielle is unsuccessful in learning anything from the other sponsors. They are all upset with what has been happening with the contestants. Each man threatens to take aggressive action if anything else happens.

written by Chris Manheim
directed by Marina Sargenti
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Robert Trebor (Salmoneous), Karen Dior (Miss Artiphys), Jennifer Becker (Miss Parnassus), Katherine Kennard (Miss Skiros), Timothy Lee (Regent of Skiros), Simone Russell (Miss Mesini), John Sumner (Lord Claron), Calvin Tuteao (Dhoge of Mesini), Stan Wolfgramm (Palantine of Parnassus), Brenda Kindall (Pageant Matron)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Xena has returned to the ruins of Cirra, the place that was once home to Callisto. She is hoping to understand how she became an evil warlord. Gabrielle is kidnapped while she waits for Xena, by a tribe that plans on sacrificing her along with other people that they have captured. During her rescue attempt, Xena is seriously injured. One of the savages tries to kill her while she is down. Gabrielle manages to stop him, but not without being injured herself. Slipping into unconciousness, Xena begans to relive her life from ten years before. At the time she was a pirate with her own ship, and Julius Caesar was her prisoner. Also on board is a stowaway with remarkable skills.

teleplay by R.J. Stewart & Steven L. Sears
story by Robert Tapert
directed by Robert Tapert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Karl Urban (Julius Ceaser), Ebonie Smith (M’Lila), Nathaniel Lees (Nicklio), Grant Boucher (Telos), Rebecca Kopacka (Young Callisto), Slade Leef (Sitacles), Mark Perry (Vicerius), Grant Triplow (Brutus), Rebecca McKinnon (Slave Girl), Dan Ryan (Roman #1)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Keeping with her promise she made to Xena, Gabrielle is taking the warrior’s body back home to Amphipolis. Along the way she is met by bounty hunters. They want to take Xena’s body as proof that she is dead to the warlord that has hired them. But Gabrielle fights them, with help from Iolaus who has just appeared. As Gabrielle continues her journey, she is met by Ephiny and a group of Amazons. Her friend convinces the bard to bring Xena’s body back to the Amazon village for them to honor her with a funeral. Ephiny also tells her about Velasca, Melosa’s adopted daughter. Velasca challanged Melosa for the right to be queen of the Amazons and won. She wants the Amazons to resume their war with the Centaurs. But Gabrielle can stop her since she took the rite of caste and became an Amazon princess. After thinking it through, the bard agrees to become the next queen of the Amazon nation. Not far away, Autolycus steals the dagger of Helios. Soon after he begans to hear Xena’s voice. She tells him that she influenced his decision to steal the dagger and he wants him to travel to the Amazon village and steal her body. Xena knows that she doesn’t have much time to return to life. The only way that she can is through Ambrosia, and the dagger is the key to a crypt that holds the food of the gods.

teleplay by Steven L. Sears
story by Chris Manheim, Steven L. Sears, and R.J. Stewart
directed by Michael Levine
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Bruce Campbell (Autolycus), Danielle Cormack (Ephiny), Melinda Clarke (Velasca), Michael Hurst (Iolaus), Jodie Dorday (Solari), Alexander Tant (Xenan), Michael Dwyer (Ruffian#1), David Fitchew (Vendor), Christian Hodge (Man), Kirstie O’Sullivan (Woman)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Gabrielle asks Ephiny to act as queen of the Amazons in her absence, and she agrees. Just after she hands over the mask, Velasca, battered and bloodied, appears. She is angry with Gabrielle for denying her the mask of queen. Velasca has part of the Ambrosia from the fortress which she eats and transforms into a god. She uses her new powers to attack the village. Xena manages to get Gabrielle to safety and returns to evacuate the Amazons. They retreat to a nearby cave to treat the injured and work on a plan to stop Velasca. Xena asks Ephiny to take some of the Amazons and create a diversion while she and Gabrielle retreat from the area. To fight Velasca, Xena realizes that they need the help of an immortal. She knows that they have no other choice but to enlist the help of Callisto. Callisto agrees only when she learns that she will get a chance to obtain Ambrosia. The unlikely trio set off to trap the self-proclaimed goddess of Chaos.

written by Paul Robert Coyle
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Hudson Leick (Callisto), Melinda Clarke (Velasca), Danielle Cormack (Ephiny), Jodie Dorday (Solari), Mark Webley (Guard #1)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Xena and Gabrielle are attacked one morning while they are sleeping. Their attackers were sent by the warlord Zogrius. He wants to prevent Xena from interfering in his plans of attacking a nearby village. On their way to find the village, they are met by a man, Howar, from another village. He tells them that his village is in danger of being destroyed by a giant. Xena decides to head to his village instead, but she sends Howar to the other village for a message for Zagreas. The warrior and bard find that Howar’s village is deserted except for one woman, Minya. She is thrilled to meet the warrior princess and is willing to do anything to help. Howar returns and tells Xena that Zogrius has called off his attack. The warlord wonders what Xena is up to.

written by R.J. Stewart
directed by Michael Hurst
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Murray Keane (Howar), Allison Wall (Minya), Willy DeWit (Zagreas), Jim Ngaata (Gareth)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Aphrodite is upset that two young people from two different kingdoms have fallen in love and are to be married. When that happens, their fathers who rule the kingdoms plan to demolish some of her temples. She decides to use a spell on Joxer and he will break the couple up. But Gabrielle soon realizes that something isn’t right with him and tries to find a way to end the spell and reunite the couple.

written by Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster
directed by Josh Becker
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Karl Urban (Cupid), Mandie Gillette (Ileandra), Craig Parker (Sarpedon), Ross Jolly (King Barus), Craig Walsh-Wrightson (King Lynaeus), Rachale Davies (Aria), Tai Hadfield (Guard), Mark Jones (Messenger)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Gabrielle recieves an urgent message from her friend, Meleager the Mighty. When she and Xena reach the village, they find that Meleager has just been found guilty of murder. He is to be executed for the crime. Gabrielle is convinced that Meleager is innocent and helps him to escape. Xena intervenes when the bard is mobbed. She tells the judge, Arbus, that she will go after Meleager but Gabrielle will come with her. When they finally catch up to Meleager he confesses that he can’t remember what happened because he was drunk at the time and that he lied to Gabrielle. The bard is hurt that her friend didn’t trust her. He tells them that he knows where the dead man’s sword is because for some reason he held on to it. When he shows Xena the sword, she knows that Meleager is innocent.

written by Paul Robert Coyle
directed by Michael Levine
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Tim Thomerson (Meleager), Tony Blackett (Arbus), Douglas Kamo (Sullus), Alvin Fitisemanu (Hawker), Jonathon Acorn (Slim Man), Ann Baxter (Elderly Woman), Colin Francis (Hurried Villager), Matthew Jeffs (Head Guard), Patrick Kuhtze (Other Guard), Dean Stewart (Executioner)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Gabrielle is kidnapped and the warrior who took her, Palaemon, tells Xena that he killed her. The two warriors fight and Xena soon realizes that he lied. During the fight, Xena is accidentally sprayed in the face with a dye. One of the ingredients in the dye could permanently blind her, unless she receives treatment within twenty four hours. But Xena is more concerned with rescuing Gabrielle. She makes Palaemon act as her guide to the bard. Having been taken to a castle, Gabrielle is told that she will be married to the king. She is taken to her chambers to be prepared for meeting some of the people and for the ceremony.

written by Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster
directed by Josh Becker
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Jeremy Callaghan (Palaemon), Chris Bailey (Apex), Sydney Jackson (Vidalus), Graham Lauder (Lagos), Ajay Vasisht (Vendor)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Xena and Gabrielle meet Ulysses and offer to help regain control of his ship, which is being held by pirates. Poseidon, god of the sea, warns them not to try to sail to Ithaca. He tries to stop them by having the Sirens sing, but Xena ties Ulysses below deck. When they reach Ithaca, an old friend of Ulysses greets them. He tells them Peneolpe had believed her husband to be dead. She is being forced to find someone to replace him as king.

written by R.J. Stewart
directed by Michael Levine
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: John D’Aquino (Ulysses), Charles Siebert (Poseidon), Rachel Blakely (Penelope), Carl Bland (Layos), Tim Raby (Meticles), Geoffrey Knight (1st Pirate), Donna Pivac (1st Siren)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Xena and Gabrielle find an Athenian soldier who washed up in the river they were fishing in. He manages to tell them that he was attacked by the Horde before he dies. They look back to the river and see more bodies.

When they head away from the river, they run into the Horde and so they turn back to the river. Spotting a canoe in the water, they make their escape with it. When they are finally able to stop for a bit, Xena tells Gabrielle about her army’s encounter with the Horde. The warrior tells her that they will have a hard time getting away from the Horde. The Horde attack when Xena and Gabrielle return to the river, but more Athenian soldiers appear and drive the warriors back. The soldiers take the two women to their fortress. Inside the fortress, the men have given up hope of defeating the Horde. When Xena sees this and learns that their commander is dead, she takes control.

written by Steven L. Sears
directed by Oley Sassone
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Paul Glover (Menticles), Mark Perry (Galipan), Tamati Rice (Garel), Brent Gilbert (Drowned Athenian), Bob Johnson (Athenian #2), Phillip Jones (Wounded Athenian), Allen O’Halloran (Fatigued/Gashed Athenian), Sam Williams (Hordemasater)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Xena and Gabrielle are separated after the ship they were on sinks during a storm. The bard is picked up by Cecrops, the lost mariner, whose ship was cursed three hundred years before by Poseidon. Xena has her hands full on shore with pirates who wish to capture her. She learns from them which ship picked up Gabrielle. She makes the decision to try and reach that ship. Once aboard, Xena convinces Cecrops to head east toward the whirlpool Charybdis and the part of the island where his late love, Tyrie, had lived. When they do, Poseidon appears and offers Xena and Gabrielle the opportunity to leave the ship. Realizing that she is close to figuring out how to break the curse, Xena turns him down.

written by Steven L. Sears
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Tony Todd (Cecrops), Charles Siebert (Poseidon), Nigel Harbrow (Basculis), George Henare (Hidsim), Frank Iwan Jr. (Colfax), Michael Hollows (Tig), John Smith (Bloomer)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell