The BEST episodes written by Chris Manheim
#1 - Livia
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 5 - Episode 20
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.
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#2 - Chakram
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 5 - Episode 2
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.
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#3 - Devi
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 4 - Episode 14
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.
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#4 - Paradise Found
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 4 - Episode 13
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.
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#5 - King Con
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 15
When Joxer is beaten to near-death, Xena teams up with two con artists to avenge Joxer, with a major con scam against a ruthless gaming house owner and his son.
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#6 - Eternal Bonds
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 5 - Episode 13
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.
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#7 - Altared States
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 1 - Episode 19
A young boy is hunted by his father and brother. They want to sacrifice him to their god, because their "faith" demands it. It's up to Xena and a drugged Gabrielle to save him.
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#8 - Remember Nothing
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 2
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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#9 - Maternal Instincts
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 11
Maternial instincts are in the air when Gabrielle encounters her evil daughter Hope, who has freed Callisto in order to kill Xena's son, Solan and plans on severing the friendship of Xena and Gabrielle forever.
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#10 - Tsunami
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 19
Xena must board a ship carrying prisoners when Gabrielle, in the belief she's freeing a captured Autolycus, does the same, but they're all wet when a tsunami strikes.
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#11 - The Prodigal
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 1 - Episode 18
After freezing in the face of danger, a confused Gabrielle returns home to Potidaea, where she receives a not-so-warm welcome from the people, who have hired a so-called warrior to save them from a warlord.
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#12 - Curse of the Daanav
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 14
Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.
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#13 - Mr. Monk Goes to Jail
Monk - Season 2 - Episode 16
When a death row inmate is poisoned to death 45 minutes before his scheduled execution, Monk is brought in to find out why and runs into his nemesis, Dale the Whale (Tim Curry), who will offer Monk information about Trudy if he finds who killed the inmate. The suspects, however, are endless, including the prison librarian (Kathy Baker), another inmate (Danny Trejo), and even neo-Nazis.
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#14 - Shear Madness
Murder, She Wrote - Season 6 - Episode 20
Jessica’s cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.
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#15 - The Bitter Suite
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 3 - Episode 12
After trying to kill one another, grief-stricken Xena and Gabrielle awake in a strange land called Illusia, filled with familiar faces, where they must face the pain and anger caused by the deaths of their children and forgive one another in order to live.
#16 - Murder, Plain and Simple
Murder, She Wrote - Season 7 - Episode 20
When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.
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#17 - Old Habits Die Hard
Murder, She Wrote - Season 4 - Episode 4
A terminally ill nun seems to have committed suicide which would be an unacceptable sin.
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#19 - Animal Attraction
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 5 - Episode 4
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.
#20 - Night of the Tarantula
Murder, She Wrote - Season 6 - Episode 7
A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.
#21 - A Solstice Carol
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 9
During Winter Solstice, Xena and Gabrielle visit a town where it's Scrooge-like King has deemed that celebrating the holiday is a crime.
#22 - The Convert
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 4 - Episode 18
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.
#23 - Alma Murder
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 15
An old English professor is caught red-handed over a young girl's body and insists he did it, but a young man later confesses. Whodunit?
#24 - Snow White, Blood Red
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 4
A blizzard interrupts a skiing vacation and traps everyone, including a killer.
#25 - Coal Miner's Slaughter
Murder, She Wrote - Season 5 - Episode 5
The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.
#26 - Love's Deadly Desire
Murder, She Wrote - Season 9 - Episode 22
The death of a novelist's assistant seemed to be a case of mistaken identity.
#27 - Here She Comes...Miss Amphipolis
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 11
Xena masquerades as a beauty pageant contestant, to stop a sabateur, bent on destroying a peace treaty between two warlords.
#28 - A Comedy of Eros
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 2 - Episode 22
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.
#29 - Punch Lines
Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 5 - Episode 11
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.
#30 - Hidden Talents
Hotel - Season 3 - Episode 20
The TV show, Catch A Rising Star, uses the hotel ballroom for the finals of its talent contest, in which the top prize is a recording contract and $10,000 in cash. The hotel also welcomes top scientists in a NASA think tank, and FBI security is heavy. Julie unwittingly becomes a finalist in the talent contest because Dave and Megan submitted her tape. Although Julie would like the $10,000 to give to her grandfather's medical clinic in Africa, she's not interested in a singing career. Among the NASA scientists is Claire Talbot Ames, wife of Mike Ames, Peter's college roommate. When Claire finds evidence that Mike is a spy, she consults Peter. Peter and FBI agents catch Mike photographing a top-secret project, and Mike is gunned down. Hysterical, Claire rushes to the van where FBI agents have carried Mike's body. She finds him alive. It turns out that Mike was working with the Soviets, and his so-called shooting death was his way out.
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