The BEST episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess season 5

Every episode of Xena: Warrior Princess season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess season 5!

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: 9/3/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Looking Death in the Eye
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9.09
98 votes

#1 - Looking Death in the Eye

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/2000

In the future, an old Joxer obtains a scroll that tells how Xena and Gabrielle tricked the Fates into setting in motion the twilight of the gods and how Gabrielle and Xena were presumed dead for 25 years and baby Eve went missing.

Directors: Garth Maxwell
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Motherhood
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9.08
102 votes

#2 - Motherhood

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/2000

Xena faces the gods of Olympus in a battle to the death when she acquires some new powers. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Eve, are fighting battles of their own.

Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Amphipolis Under Siege
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8.91
96 votes

#3 - Amphipolis Under Siege

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/21/2000

On a visit home to see her mother, Xena, Gabrielle and baby Eve are trapped in Amphipolis when Athena and her army surround the village and plan to kill Xena's child.

Directors: Mark Beesley
Writer: Chris Black
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Eve
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8.90
98 votes

#4 - Eve

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2000

Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Virgil try to track down Livia/Eve and have no trouble when they find ravaged villages. After finding her, Xena faces Livia/Eve in battle once again.

Directors: Mark Beesley
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Livia
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8.74
99 votes

#5 - Livia

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2000

Twenty-five years have passed when Xena and Gabrielle finally awake from their icy sleep, and they set out to find Xena's daughter, Eve, only to discover the world is not the same and neither is Eve. She's now known as Livia, the Bitch of Rome, a bloodthirsty warrior with Ares as her mentor and lover.

Directors: Rick Jacobson
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Succession
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8.72
98 votes

#6 - Succession

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1999

Ares decides to pit Mavican, Xena, and Gabrielle in a fight to the death in an unkown arena. One catch, Xena and Gabrielle share one body and Mavican is determined to fill-out her destiny of the one who kills Xena.

Directors: Rick Jacobson
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God Fearing Child
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8.65
97 votes

#7 - God Fearing Child

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/7/2000

Xena and Gabrielle team up with Hercules, when Zeus declares that Xena's unborn child must die so that the prophecy will not be fulfilled. Meanwhile, Xena decides to travel to the underworld to retrieve Hade's helmet of invisiblity to allow her and her baby to hide, and runs into her son, Solan who has chosen to live in Tarturus.

Directors: Philip Sgriccia
Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Fallen Angel
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8.64
105 votes

#8 - Fallen Angel

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1999

While Joxer, Amarice and Eli try to recover Xena and Gabrielle's bodies, a war over their souls is waged with Heaven's angels and Hell's demons, which includes Callisto in their ranks.

Writer: R.J. Stewart
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Chakram
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8.61
101 votes

#9 - Chakram

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1999

After Eli resurrects Xena and Gabrielle, Xena loses her memory of all the violence in her life, and in order to recover her self, she and her friends must join her broken chakram with it's counterpart, but Ares wants them both and will stop at nothing to get them.

Directors: Doug Lefler
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Purity
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8.14
64 votes

#10 - Purity

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1999

Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer journey to Chin, when Lao Mao's daughter summons Xena to help protect her mother's book of wisdom from falling into the hands of her evil sister.

Directors: Mark Beesley
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
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Seeds of Faith
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8.01
96 votes

#11 - Seeds of Faith

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/10/2000

When Eli preaches of the death of the Olympian gods, Xena and Gabrielle attempt to protect him from Ares but to no avail, while guidance is dished out by the angel Callisto and the secret of Xena's child's conception is revealed.

Directors: Garth Maxwell
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Back in the Bottle
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7.97
62 votes

#12 - Back in the Bottle

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1999

After a vision Xena, Gabrielle, and Joxer return to Chin, where they are reunited with Kao Syn. Where they must defeat the warlord Khan, who has joined forces with the evil spirits of Pao Tsu and Ming Ten, aka The Green Dragon, and knows the recipe of the deadly black powder.

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Eternal Bonds
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7.89
94 votes

#13 - Eternal Bonds

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/14/2000

After the birth of baby Eve, Xena and Gabrielle must protect the infant from the Olympian gods who want to destroy her, while Xena tries to rid herself of a doting Ares and Gabrielle tries to retrieve the antidote for the poison that is slowly killing Joxer.

Directors: Mark Beesley
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Antony & Cleopatra
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7.72
96 votes

#14 - Antony & Cleopatra

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/24/2000

When Cleopatra is murdered, Xena poses as the Egyptian queen in order to find out the identity of the killer, while romancing Marc Antony.

Directors: Michael Hurst
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Little Problems
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7.35
71 votes

#15 - Little Problems

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1999

Thanks to Aphrodite, Xena is trapped in the body of a little girl and must help the child deal with the grief over her mother's death, while Gabrielle and Aphrodite separate the two before sunset as well as keep Xena's body safe from the bad guys.

Writer: Gregg Ostrin
Animal Attraction
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7.22
73 votes

#16 - Animal Attraction

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1999

While getting a little rest and relaxation in Spamona, Gabrielle tries to train her new horse, Amarice makes a love connection with Joxer's friend, Arman, Joxer pines for Gabrielle, and Xena helps an old frien with a warlord problem, while exhibiting signs of pregnancy.

Directors: Rick Jacobson
Them Bones, Them Bones
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7.17
63 votes

#17 - Them Bones, Them Bones

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1999

Xena and Gabrielle cross over to the spirit realm to stop Alti from draining Xena's baby's lifeforce, so she can enter the physical world in the child's body.

Directors: John Fawcett
Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire
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7.01
68 votes

#18 - Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/17/2000

Xena holds a battle of the bands contest in a quest for peace between Amazons and a lovesick-for-Gabrielle Draco, in the musical capital of Greec. Meanwhile Joxer runs into his other brother, the flamboyant Jace and Xena tries to evade her mother's attempts at matchmaking.

Directors: Mark Beesley
Kindred Spirits
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6.46
65 votes

#19 - Kindred Spirits

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/17/2000

At the Amazon village, Gabrielle is torn between staying as Queen of the Amazons, and sharing adventures with Xena and baby Eve.

Directors: Josh Becker
Punch Lines
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6.38
63 votes

#20 - Punch Lines

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/24/2000

Suffering from writers's block, Gabrielle tells Aphrodite about her day in which a depressed god shrunk her and Argo and how she attempted to correct the situation before a very moody Xena catches on. Meanwhile, Xena tries to control her hormone-induced temper but to no avail.

Lifeblood
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5.93
68 votes

#21 - Lifeblood

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/13/2000

Xena and Gabrielle travel to the Amazon village to make baby Eve an Amazon princess and find that they must stop a war instead.

Directors: Michael Hurst
Married with Fishsticks
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5.40
68 votes

#22 - Married with Fishsticks

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/28/2000

When Gabrielle hits her head and falls into the ocean, she gets amnesia and a merman tries to convince her that she's his wife and mother to his fishy offspring.

Directors: Paul Grinder