Mon, Nov 13, 1995
Hercules and Iolaus fall in with fellow traveler Typhon, a gentle and friendly giant. They are astounded to discover he is married to Echidna, the Mother of All Monsters. Meanwhile, Typhon is saddened to hear Echidna is causing problems and convinces the heroes that she only gets into trouble when he is gone and he needs to get home quickly.
Mon, Jan 29, 1996
Hercules, Iolaus, and other former Argonauts find out their former leader Jason is a delusional drunk since he left Medea for another and saw his family murdered; the rule of his kingdom Argos has passed to a regent. Having witnessed an apparently demon-led party steal the Golden Fleece, they set out once again to bring it back on the Argo. There's strife and casualties, but Hercules guesses the supposed demon's identity, a rival for Jason's throne, when they're trapped in a volcano. Hera has enlisted Marcus the regent to have skeleton warriors destroy them even in case they make it back to Argos...
Mon, Feb 5, 1996
Hercules and Iolaus, who has visions since lightning struck him for hybris, accept villager Rheanna's plea to free the small kingdom from its oppressive ruler Melkos. Just when Rheanne fell in love with the demi-god, trough a scorned man' sisters treason the rebel party is incarcerated in the palace, but Hercules breaks the jail, but finds someone neither executed...
Mon, Feb 12, 1996
Hercules stumbles on the n-th battle between Spartans and Eleans. When he helps battered but unbridled cocky Spartan warrior Damon home, his aunt turns out to be an old acquaintance of mythical strength in her own right, Atalanta, who complains his excessive battle courage equals a death-wish. Hercules comes up with an alternative for the battle field as field of honor, Olympic style games, and gets the leaders to agree, but the cruel Elean commander Tarkon calls upon war god Ares who turns four of his man literally into monsters...
Mon, Mar 4, 1996
Since the death of his father Palos, Boraeus is king of Zabros. Hercules hears his bride Ramina is kidnapped for ransom by the outlaw Tarlus -who once abandoned Iolaus on a battlefield- and his gang in the hills. Hercules and Iolaus easily free her, but quickly find her missing, apparently caught by primords (a species of ape-men), and yet find that Tarlus goes to great trouble to send them on a wrong trail, so they keep looking for his secret camp, and once there find out that several things are not what they seem...
Mon, Mar 18, 1996
When a peasant pleads his daughter is completely out of control because of her obsession for Hercules, he tells Iolaus to meet up there again in a week, and to visit distant relatives in nearby Attica, which Iolaus grudgingly does. There he finds he is the spitting image of Orestes, the uselessly spoiled heir to the throne, whose drinks are however spiked so his younger brother, regent Minos, could succeed instead, with general Archeus as the power behind his throne. Loyal courtiers convince Iolaus to take his place temporarily. He does surprisingly well at the coronation and afterward, when Orestes is found abducted, and even falls in reciprocated love with princess Niobe, whose hand in marriage goes with the crown but hated the real prince she didn't see in ten years. Then they free the real heir...
Mon, Apr 22, 1996
Hercules and Iolaus help the sculptor Thanis, who neglects his farm because of his artistic drive, and enjoy his daughter Daniella. When he goes to town for supplies, Iolaus witnesses him commit a senseless crime, which he seems totally oblivious about a minute later, but for which the magistrate, even though an art lover, condemns him to have his hands cut off 'for lack of proof of innocence' to set an example in the hope to stop the recent crime wave. After our heroes encounter more behavior out of character, including each-others, it becomes clear none of them is the actual person, here's a supernatural shape-shifter, and Hercules knew as a child the perfect suspect: Proteus, a minor god...
Mon, Apr 29, 1996
Hercules is startled when his mother Alcemene tells him she and king Jason, his friend the Argonaut, have been secretly in love since Amphitrion's death, and now plan a marriage. Under Corinthian law Jason may not continue to rule with a commoner wife, but can choose an heir- Iphicles is chosen and found in time. Of course Hera has a nasty surprise lurking: Perfidia, Echidia's largest brood, emerges from the sea and devours Jason, so Hercules jumps after him into the giant mouth...
Mon, May 6, 1996
While Hercules walks on the beach, he is attacked by a bunch of robbers, which he easily chases, and sees a young man and his girl friend chased by their cahoots- suddenly the kid tells them off and is obeyed, to his own surprise. In the fishing village, Hercules learns it's Deon, whose father confides to him is also a half-god, and inherited the now appearing power of unconditional persuasion from his mother Aphrodite, but was never told his ancestry. It turns out the brigand leader is Deon's uncle Karis, who hopes to enlist his divine powers by luring him with luxury for his beloved Sirene. Salmoneus finds to his horror the 'primising' call for his talents is from the local dun mongers, the unspeakably smelly Titus brothers. Deon scorns his father, an honest fisherman, for keeping the truth from him, but soon senses uncle Karis is hardly better, while Hercules tries to make truth and justice triumph against appearances...
Mon, May 13, 1996
Hercules hears from young pupil Theseus that his mentor and virtual stepfather, the centaur Ceridian, is dying and drops everything to rush there. He is asked to attempt to talk some sense into a former centaur pupil, Cassius, who has turned on all humans because the local magistrate banned the species from town including the water spring, even forsaking his girlfriend, the local school principal Perdidis's daughter Mirra. Salmoneus, who was promoting 'air sandals', offers to mind Ceridian while Herc braves both angry parties and tries to restore peace and unveils a criminal plot around the magistrate.
Mon, Jun 24, 1996
Iolaus and Hercules save the life of the writer Parentheses, who was about to be hanged for writing about the hoods' crimes in Macedonia and insists to accompany them. Then Elopius begs them to save his daughter Melina from an unseen monster in the Cave of Echoes, which Hercules already knew. After reminiscing how he saved Deianeira from Anteus the giant rock monster and defeated some other monsters, and more heroic deeds -taking up over half of the episode- Hercules finds the girl, who just slipped and got her foot caught, while trying to rescue her kitten Zeus, and makes Parentheses pull her out.