The BEST episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess season 2

Every episode of Xena: Warrior Princess season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess season 2!

Xena is as an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent by using her formidable fighting skills to now, help those who are unable to defend themselves. Xena is accompanied by Gabrielle, who during the series changes from a simple farm girl into an Amazon warrior and Xena's comrade-in-arms.

Last Updated: 3/12/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Return of Callisto
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8.73
94 votes

#1 - Return of Callisto

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1996

Gabrielle plans to marry Perdicus, her hometown sweetheart, and must leave Xena and their travels, at the same time that Callisto has escaped from prison and is headed straight for them with vengeance in mind.

Directors: T.J. Scott
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Intimate Stranger
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8.39
84 votes

#2 - Intimate Stranger

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1996

Callisto makes a bargain with Ares, from Tarturus, to switch bodies with Xena, sending Xena into Tarturus and freeing Callisto. Xena, in Callisto's form, makes her own bargain with Hades, to make things right but the only problem is...she has one day to fix it.

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Ten Little Warlords
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8.37
83 votes

#3 - Ten Little Warlords

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1996

Trapped in the body of Callisto, Xena must help a mortal Ares recover his sword and restore him as the god of war. If she doesn't mortals will not be able to control their anger and she'll never recover her own body.

Directors: Charles Siebert
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The Price
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8.10
78 votes

#4 - The Price

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1997

After becoming the hunted prey of the vicious Horde, Xena must lead the local army against them, while Gabrielle tends to the wounded and worries that Xena is returning to her dark and dangerous ways by stooping to the Horde's level.

Directors: Oley Sassone
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A Day in the Life
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8.10
88 votes

#5 - A Day in the Life

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1997

Xena and Gabrielle spend a day trying to save two villages, one from a band of thugs, the other from a giant, while getting on each other's nerves and trying to not kill on another.

Directors: Michael Hurst
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Destiny
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7.83
87 votes

#6 - Destiny

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1997

After being gravely injured, Xena's life flashes before her, including the time when she learned the art of pressure points from a slavegirl and when she met Julius Caesar for the very first time.

Directors: Robert Tapert
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Remember Nothing
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7.78
87 votes

#7 - Remember Nothing

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1996

When Xena defends the Fates's temple, they give her the gift of changing the past: her brother Lyceus never died and she never became the warrior princess...but that also means she never met Gabrielle.

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Blind Faith
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7.78
76 votes

#8 - Blind Faith

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1997

After getting oil in her eys during a fight, Xena goes blind and must deal with a man determined to kill her and rescue Gabrielle before she is forced to marry a king, who has died, or Gabrielle will soon join him.

Directors: Josh Becker
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Lost Mariner
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7.77
83 votes

#9 - Lost Mariner

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1997

After a shipwreck, Xena must rescue Gabrielle from the cursed ship of Cecrops, the lost mariner, where anyone who steps aboard is there until they die.

Directors: Garth Maxwell
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Ulysses
star
7.66
76 votes

#10 - Ulysses

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1997

Xena and Gabrielle must help Ulysses, King of Ithica, who is trying to return to his island homeland after ten years away, but the god of the sea, Poseidon, doesn't make it easy.

Directors: Michael Levine
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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For Him the Bell Tolls
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7.43
74 votes

#11 - For Him the Bell Tolls

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1997

With Xena away on a mission, Gabrielle must contend with Aphrodite, who's interfering in one of Cupid's lovespells that will unite two kingdoms and who's put a spell on Joxer, who behaves like a real hero whenver a bell rings.

Directors: Josh Becker
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A Necessary Evil
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7.42
83 votes

#12 - A Necessary Evil

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1997

Xena, Gabrielle and the Amazons must battle an evil Amazon, who ate ambrosia and is now a god. She wants Gabrielle dead and in order to stop her, Xena and Gabrielle resort to asking for the help of the now immortal Callisto.

Directors: Mark Beesley
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
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7.36
94 votes

#13 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1996

When Orpheus loses the power to subdue the god Bacchus with his music, Xena and Gabrielle risk their lives to end Bacchus's reign of terror.

Directors: T.J. Scott
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The Quest
star
7.35
121 votes

#14 - The Quest

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1997

After Xena's death, Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons, while Autolycus finds himself possessed by the warrior princess, Xena who needs ambrosia to bring herself back to life. But Xena's rebirth and Gabrielle's life are both threatened by an Amazon bent on obtaining the Amazon crown and the ambrosia.

Directors: Michael Levine
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Orphan of War
star
7.30
91 votes

#15 - Orphan of War

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1996

When Xena tries to help the centaurs protect a sacred stone that contains their evil, she encounters someone from her past...her son.

Directors: Charles Siebert
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The Giant Killer
star
7.20
82 votes

#16 - The Giant Killer

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1996

When Gabrielle defends a young Isrealite named David, her life is threatended until Xena proposes to fight her old friend, the giant Goliath in return for freedom for the Philistines.

Directors: Gary Jones
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Warrior...Princess...Tramp
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7.12
82 votes

#17 - Warrior...Princess...Tramp

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1996

When Diana's father takes ill, Xena is summoned and runs into yet another lookalike, a barmaid named Meg, who seems quite taken with Joxer.

Directors: Josh Becker
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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A Solstice Carol
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7.11
94 votes

#18 - 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.

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The Execution
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7.01
71 votes

#19 - The Execution

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/1997

Xena and Gabrielle have only one day to determine what really happened when Gabrielle's friend, Meleagor, is sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit.

Directors: Garth Maxwell
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Here She Comes...Miss Amphipolis
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7.01
87 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Marina Sargenti
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The Xena Scrolls
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6.94
84 votes

#21 - The Xena Scrolls

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1997

In the year 1940, two female archaeologists searching for the Xena scrolls end up in an ancient tomb confronting legendary figures from the past.

Directors: Charlie Haskell
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A Comedy of Eros
star
6.94
81 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Charles Siebert
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