Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 5
The fifth season of Xena: Warrior Princess continues the overarching saga of the titular character, a mighty warrior princess with a dark past who seeks redemption for her previous actions. As an American sword-and-sorcery television series, the production maintains its focus on the adventures of Xena and her companions. Filmed in New Zealand, the season consists of 22 episodes that contribute to the broader narrativ
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Xena is a warrior princess who is actively seeking redemption for her dark past.
- The series is an American sword-and-sorcery production filmed in New Zealand.
- The narrative follows the ongoing adventures of Xena and her companions.
- The show is established as a fantasy series featuring action and adventure elements.
Season overview
The fifth season of Xena: Warrior Princess continues the overarching saga of the titular character, a mighty warrior princess with a dark past who seeks redemption for her previous actions. As an American sword-and-sorcery television series, the production maintains its focus on the adventures of Xena and her companions. Filmed in New Zealand, the season consists of 22 episodes that contribute to the broader narrative arc of the series, which spanned a total of six seasons and 134 episodes between 1995 and 2001. Throughout this installment, the series explores themes of action, adventure, and fantasy, consistent with its established genre. The narrative follows Xena as she navigates various challenges that test her courage and influence the world around her. The production features a recurring cast including Lucy Lawless, Renée O'Connor, Ted Raimi, and Kevin Smith, who continue to portray the characters central to the ongoing story. As the series progresses toward its conclusion, this season serves as a significant chapter in the development of Xena's journey toward atonement, maintaining the dramatic tone and adventurous spirit that characterized the show throughout its original run in first-run syndication.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Fallen Angel
Sep 27, 1999 · 44 min
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 ra
Chakram
Oct 4, 1999 · 44 min
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 w
Succession
Oct 11, 1999 · 44 min
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
Animal Attraction
Oct 18, 1999 · 44 min
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
Them Bones, Them Bones
Nov 1, 1999 · 44 min
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.
Purity
Nov 8, 1999 · 44 min
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.
Back in the Bottle
Nov 15, 1999 · 44 min
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
Little Problems
Nov 22, 1999 · 44 min
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 tw
Seeds of Faith
Jan 10, 2000 · 44 min
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
Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire
Jan 17, 2000 · 44 min
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 oth
Punch Lines
Jan 24, 2000 · 44 min
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 mo
God Fearing Child
Feb 7, 2000 · 44 min
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
Eternal Bonds
Feb 14, 2000 · 44 min
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 Gabriel
Amphipolis Under Siege
Feb 21, 2000 · 44 min
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.
Married with Fishsticks
Feb 28, 2000 · 44 min
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.
Lifeblood
Mar 13, 2000 · 44 min
Xena and Gabrielle travel to the Amazon village to make baby Eve an Amazon princess and find that they must stop a war instead.
Kindred Spirits
Apr 17, 2000 · 44 min
At the Amazon village, Gabrielle is torn between staying as Queen of the Amazons, and sharing adventures with Xena and baby Eve.
Antony & Cleopatra
Apr 24, 2000 · 44 min
When Cleopatra is murdered, Xena poses as the Egyptian queen in order to find out the identity of the killer, while romancing Marc Antony.
Looking Death in the Eye
May 1, 2000 · 44 min
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 pre
Livia
May 8, 2000 · 44 min
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
Eve
May 15, 2000 · 44 min
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.
Motherhood
May 22, 2000 · 44 min
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.