The BEST episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess season 4

Every episode of Xena: Warrior Princess season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess season 4!

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: 11/28/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
The Ides of March
star
8.81
107 votes

#1 - The Ides of March

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/1999

Callisto returns from Hell with a double mission: corrupt Xena and make Julius Caesar emperor, but plans change when Caesar's allies turn on him and when Roman soldiers capture and crucify Xena and Gabrielle.

Directors: Ken Girotti
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Devi
star
8.37
70 votes

#2 - Devi

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/1999

While travelling in India, Xena and Gabrielle meet Eli, a magician, and Gabrielle suddenly acquires the power to heal and is deemed a Devi, a healing deity but Xena is suspicious of the power's source.

Directors: Garth Maxwell
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Paradise Found
star
8.32
71 votes

#3 - Paradise Found

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/1999

In India, Xena and Gabrielle wake up in a seeming land of paradise where a mystical man named Aidan, teaches Gabrielle the art of meditation, but Xena discovers he's just feeding off Gabrielle's goodness and must let go of all the good in her, in order to save Gabrielle.

Directors: Robert Tapert
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Endgame
star
8.24
70 votes

#4 - Endgame

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/1999

Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons after Ephiny dies at the hand of Brutus. But things become even more complicated when she learns that Caesar's enemy Pompey has taken many of her tribe as slaves. With the help of an eager young Amazon Amarice and the initially reluctant Brutus, Xena shifts the balance of Roman power forever.

Directors: Garth Maxwell
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Between the Lines
star
8.10
105 votes

#5 - Between the Lines

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/20/1999

An Indiana ritual sends Xena's soul into the karmic future for an encounter with the reincarnation of the evil shamoness Alti.

Directors: Rick Jacobson
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A Family Affair
star
8.04
101 votes

#6 - A Family Affair

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1998

When Xena and Joxer travel to Potidaea, they find Hope posing as Gabrielle and they must stop her and her monstrous offspring from destroying the world, and along the way Xena recovers the real Gabrielle.

Directors: Doug Lefler
Writer: Liz Friedman
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In Sickness and in Hell
star
8.03
95 votes

#7 - In Sickness and in Hell

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1998

Xena and Gabrielle, plagued by a myriad of ailments, try to help Joxer defend a Scythian army, while trying not to kill one another.

Directors: Josh Becker
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A Good Day
star
7.95
127 votes

#8 - A Good Day

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1998

Teaming with Greek Soldiers, Xena plots against Caesar and Pompey, whose war between one another has spilled over from Rome to Greece, and Xena plans to send them both back to where they came from.

Directors: Rick Jacobson
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Crusader
star
7.89
126 votes

#9 - Crusader

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1998

Xena meets a woman who preaches ""the way of the light"", but her practices leave something to be desired, when Xena learns of Najara's reform or die policy for prisoners.

Directors: Paul Lynch
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Past Imperfect
star
7.73
94 votes

#10 - Past Imperfect

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/1999

Xena and Gabrielle work to save a village that is being destroyed in exactly the same manner in which she destroyed another village in a battle with the Centaurs years before.

Directors: Garth Maxwell
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A Tale of Two Muses
star
7.57
68 votes

#11 - A Tale of Two Muses

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1998

Xena and Gabrielle help their friend Tara, to change an oppressed town where dancing is outlawed, and they include Autolycus in their plans to cut footloose and fancy free.

Directors: Michael Hurst
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Locked Up and Tied Down
star
7.44
97 votes

#12 - Locked Up and Tied Down

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1998

When Xena allows herself to be tried and convicted of the murder of an innocent woman, who she left to die in the past, Gabrielle struggles to uncover the truth and free Xena from Shark Island Prison.

Directors: Rick Jacobson
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Adventures in the Sin Trade (1)
star
7.41
105 votes

#13 - Adventures in the Sin Trade (1)

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1998

After Gabrielle sacrificed herself to stop Hope, a grief-stricken Xena must travel to the Amazon Land of the Dead to find Gabrielle, and Xena revisits her past with the shamoness Alti, along the way.

Directors: T.J. Scott
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Adventures in the Sin Trade (2)
star
7.39
100 votes

#14 - Adventures in the Sin Trade (2)

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1998

At the Amazon Place of Rest, Xena must battle the evil shamoness Alti and free the spirits of the dead Amazons from her past, before she can continue on to find Gabrielle.

Directors: T.J. Scott
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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The Way
star
7.36
64 votes

#15 - The Way

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/27/1999

Xena seeks the help of the god Krishna, to rescue Gabrielle and Eli from the clutches of Indrajit, the King of the Demons.

Directors: John Fawcett
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Daughter of Pomira
star
7.33
92 votes

#16 - Daughter of Pomira

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/1999

Xena and Gabrielle set out to recover a young girl who was kidnapped six years ago by the Horde, but they don't count on the fact that the child has been raised as one of the Horde and doesn't want to leave the only family she knows.

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The Convert
star
7.08
66 votes

#17 - The Convert

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/24/1999

Najara returns claiming a newfound mantra for nonviolence, while Xena becomes suspicious of her new outlook. Meanwhile, Joxer wrestles with the guilt of his first kill, and stuggles with admitting his guilt to the son of the man he killed.

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Takes One to Know One
star
6.89
70 votes

#18 - Takes One to Know One

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/1999

Family and friends gather for Gabrielle's surprise birthday party only to become suspects in a murder investigation instead when a bounty hunter looking to take Xena in, is murdered. Now Discord, the newly appointed goddess of retribution, has given Xena until sunrise to find the killer or everyone she loves will be taken to the underworld.

Directors: Chris Graves
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
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If the Shoe Fits...
star
6.44
98 votes

#19 - If the Shoe Fits...

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/1999

While journeying to reunite little princess Alecia with her father and the stepmother she dislikes, Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Aphrodite take turns regaling the child with fairy tales with familiar faces.

Directors: Josh Becker
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The Play's the Thing
star
6.44
101 votes

#20 - The Play's the Thing

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/1999

The Queen of Cons, Zera, convinces Gabrielle to base a play on her adventures with Xena, with the hidden motive of running off with the production's investment money.

Directors: Chris Graves
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Déjà Vu All Over Again
star
6.38
95 votes

#21 - Déjà Vu All Over Again

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/1999

A present-day woman believes she's the reincarnation of Xena, the warrior princess, while her disbelieving boyfriend thinks she's crazy, and seeks help from a past life expert, with some familiar faces along the way.

Directors: Renee O'Connor
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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The Key to the Kingdom
star
6.32
97 votes

#22 - The Key to the Kingdom

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/1999

Joxer, Meg and Autolycus team up to steal the infamous ""key"" that's prophecized to lead to the crown of Athena, the joke's on Autolycus when he learns the key is really a baby and Meg wants to be his mother.

Directors: Bruce Campbell
Writer: Eric Morris
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