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The Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5

Every episode of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5!

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Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 22 - Motherhood
    8.3/10(535 votes)

    S5:E22

    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.

    Director:Rick Jacobson
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 21 - Eve
    8.1/10(471 votes)

    S5:E21

    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.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writers:George Strayton, Tom O’Neill

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  3. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 1 - Fallen Angel
    7.9/10(507 votes)

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 19 - Looking Death in the Eye
    7.9/10(436 votes)

    S5:E19

    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.

    Director:Garth Maxwell
    Writer:Carl Ellsworth

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  5. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 9 - Seeds of Faith
    7.8/10(441 votes)

    S5:E9

    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.

    Director:Garth Maxwell
    Writers:George Strayton, Tom O’Neill

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  6. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 12 - God Fearing Child
    7.8/10(477 votes)

    S5:E12

    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.

    Director:Philip Sgriccia
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 20 - Livia
    7.8/10(448 votes)

    S5:E20

    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.

    Director:Rick Jacobson
    Writer:Chris Manheim

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  8. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 2 - Chakram
    7.7/10(456 votes)

    S5:E2

    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.

    Director:Doug Lefler
    Writer:Chris Manheim

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  9. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 14 - Amphipolis Under Siege
    7.6/10(424 votes)

    S5:E14

    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.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writer:Chris Black

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  10. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 3 - Succession
    7.5/10(421 votes)

    S5:E3

    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.

    Director:Rick Jacobson
    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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  11. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 18 - Antony & Cleopatra
    7.5/10(443 votes)

    S5:E18

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

    Director:Michael Hurst
    Writer:Carl Ellsworth

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  12. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 13 - Eternal Bonds
    7.2/10(417 votes)

    S5:E13

    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.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writer:Chris Manheim

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  13. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 7 - Back in the Bottle
    7.1/10(400 votes)

    S5:E7

    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.

    Director:Rick Jacobson
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 4 - Animal Attraction
    6.9/10(414 votes)

    S5:E4

    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.

    Director:Rick Jacobson
    Writer:Chris Manheim

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  15. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 6 - Purity
    6.9/10(397 votes)

    S5:E6

    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.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writer:Jeff Vlaming

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  16. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 17 - Kindred Spirits
    6.8/10(406 votes)

    S5:E17

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

    Director:Josh Becker
    Writers:George Strayton, Tom O’Neill

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  17. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 5 - Them Bones, Them Bones
    6.7/10(430 votes)

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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  18. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 8 - Little Problems
    6.7/10(410 votes)

    S5:E8

    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.

    Director:Allison Liddi-Brown
    Writer:Gregg Ostrin

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  19. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 10 - Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire
    6.5/10(495 votes)

    S5:E10

    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.

    Director:Mark Beesley
    Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster

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  20. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 16 - Lifeblood
    6.5/10(436 votes)

    S5:E16

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

    Director:Michael Hurst
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 11 - Punch Lines
    6.2/10(411 votes)

    S5:E11

    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.

    Director:Andrew Merrifield
    Writer:Chris Manheim

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  22. Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 15 - Married with Fishsticks
    5.4/10(474 votes)

    S5:E15

    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.

    Director:Paul Grinder
    Writer:Kevin Maynard

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Motherhood" is the best rated episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" season 5. It scored 8.3/10 based on 535 votes. Directed by Rick Jacobson and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/22/2000. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Eve".