Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 4

1998 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 4 of Xena: Warrior Princess

The season opens with the search for Gabrielle. Xena travels to the realm of Hades, where she is told that her friend is in the Amazon, the land of the dead. There she discovers that Alti, a former ally of hers, has enslaved the souls of an Amazon tribe. Xena stays to teach them how to fight him, and her former alliance with Alti, marked by betrayal, weighs on her once again. Afterward, Xena and Gabrielle travel through walled villages and roads plagued by warlords and outlaw gangs. Every encounter tests Xena's past, while Gabrielle, young and naive, brings balance to her.

22episodes

Sep 28, 1998premiered

May 17, 1999latest episode

16.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Adventures in the Sin Trade (1)
Sep 28, 1998 · 44 min
After Gabrielle sacrificed herself to stop Hope, a grief-stricken Xena must travel to the Amazon Land of the Dead to find Gabrielle, and Xena revisits her past with the shamoness Alti, along the way.
Directing: T.J. Scott · Writing: R.J. Stewart · Starring: Victoria Pratt, Claire Stansfield, Sheeri Rappaport, Erik Thomson
4x02 Adventures in the Sin Trade (2)
Oct 5, 1998 · 44 min
At the Amazon Place of Rest, Xena must battle the evil shamoness Alti and free the spirits of the dead Amazons from her past, before she can continue on to find Gabrielle.
Directing: T.J. Scott · Writer: R.J. Stewart · Starring: Victoria Pratt, Claire Stansfield, Sheeri Rappaport, Marton Csokas
4x03 A Family Affair
Oct 17, 1998 · 44 min
When Xena and Joxer travel to Potidaea, they find Hope posing as Gabrielle and they must stop her and her monstrous offspring from destroying the world, and along the way Xena recovers the real Gabrielle.
Directed by Doug Lefler · Written by Chris Manheim · Starring Ted Raimi, Geoff Snell, Willa O'Neill, Lisa Crittenden
4x04 In Sickness and In Hell
Oct 24, 1998 · 44 min
Xena and Gabrielle, plagued by a myriad of ailments, try to help Joxer defend a Scythian army, while trying not to kill one another.
Directing: Josh Becker · Writing: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster · Starring: Ted Raimi, Andrew Kovacevich, Campbell Cooley, Timothy Lee
4x05 A Good Day
Oct 26, 1998 · 44 min
Teaming with Greek Soldiers, Xena plots against Caesar and Pompey, whose war between one another has spilled over from Rome to Greece, and Xena plans to send them both back to where they came from.
Directing: Rick Jacobson · Writing: Steven L. Sears · Starring: Caleb Ross, Karl Urban, Darren Young, Caitlin McDougall
4x06 A Tale of Two Muses
Nov 2, 1998 · 44 min
Xena and Gabrielle help their friend Tara, to change an oppressed town where dancing is outlawed, and they include Autolycus in their plans to cut footloose and fancy free.
Directing: Michael Hurst · Writing: Gillian Horvath · Starring: Bruce Campbell, Shiri Appleby, Hemi Rudoph, John Givins
4x07 Locked Up and Tied Down
Nov 9, 1998 · 44 min
When Xena allows herself to be tried and convicted of the murder of an innocent woman, who she left to die in the past, Gabrielle struggles to uncover the truth and free Xena from Shark Island Prison.
Directing: Rick Jacobson · Writer: Hilary Bader · Starring: Patrick Smith, Tanea Heke, Katrina Browne, William Kircher
4x08 Crusader
Nov 16, 1998 · 44 min
Xena meets a woman who preaches ""the way of the light"", but her practices leave something to be desired, when Xena learns of Najara's reform or die policy for prisoners.
Directing: Paul Lynch · Writer: R.J. Stewart · Starring: Kathryn Morris, Terri Douglas, Roy Snow, David Rare
4x09 Past Imperfect
Jan 4, 1999 · 44 min
Xena and Gabrielle work to save a village that is being destroyed in exactly the same manner in which she destroyed another village in a battle with the Centaurs years before.
Directed by Garth Maxwell · Written by Steven L. Sears · Starring Marton Csokas, Mark Ferguson, Catherine Boniface, Paul Gittins
4x10 The Key to the Kingdom
Jan 11, 1999 · 44 min
Joxer, Meg and Autolycus team up to steal the infamous ""key"" that's prophecized to lead to the crown of Athena, the joke's on Autolycus when he learns the key is really a baby and Meg wants to be his mother.
Directing: Bruce Campbell · Writing: Eric Morris · Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Peter Mason, Geoffrey Knight
4x11 Daughter of Pomira
Jan 18, 1999 · 44 min
Xena and Gabrielle set out to recover a young girl who was kidnapped six years ago by the Horde, but they don't count on the fact that the child has been raised as one of the Horde and doesn't want to leave the only family she knows.
Directing: Patrick R. Norris · Writing: Linda McGibney · Starring: Frederick Bedford, Andrew Kovacevich, Bruce Hopkins, Beth Allen
4x12 If the Shoe Fits...
Jan 25, 1999 · 44 min
While journeying to reunite little princess Alecia with her father and the stepmother she dislikes, Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Aphrodite take turns regaling the child with fairy tales with familiar faces.
Directing: Josh Becker · Writing: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster · Starring: Alexandra Tydings, Ted Raimi, Olivia Tennet, Chris Ryan
4x13 Paradise Found
Feb 1, 1999 · 44 min
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.
Directing: Robert Tapert · Writing: Chris Manheim · Starring: Jeremy Roberts, Mervyn Smith
4x14 Devi
Feb 8, 1999 · 44 min
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.
Directing: Garth Maxwell · Writing: Chris Manheim · Starring: Timothy Omundson, Monroe Reimers, Alex Reekers
4x15 Between the Lines
Feb 15, 1999 · 44 min
An Indiana ritual sends Xena's soul into the karmic future for an encounter with the reincarnation of the evil shamoness Alti.
Directing: Rick Jacobson · Writing: Steven L. Sears · Starring: Claire Stansfield, Gabriella Larkin, Tharini Mudaliar, Ajayshri
4x16 The Way
Feb 22, 1999 · 44 min
Xena seeks the help of the god Krishna, to rescue Gabrielle and Eli from the clutches of Indrajit, the King of the Demons.
Directing: John Fawcett · Writing: R.J. Stewart · Starring: Timothy Omundson, Jake McKinnon, Rajneel Singh, Rajeev Varma
4x17 The Play's the Thing
Mar 1, 1999 · 44 min
The Queen of Cons, Zera, convinces Gabrielle to base a play on her adventures with Xena, with the hidden motive of running off with the production's investment money.
Directing: Christopher Graves · Writing: Ashley Gable, Thomas A. Swyden · Starring: Alison Wall, Mark Hadlow, Ted Raimi, Mark Nua
4x18 The Convert
Apr 19, 1999 · 44 min
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.
Directing: Andrew Merrifield · Writing: Chris Manheim · Starring: Kathryn Morris, Ted Raimi, Steve Wright, Mfundo Morrison
4x19 Takes One to Know One
Apr 26, 1999 · 44 min
Family and friends gather for Gabrielle's surprise birthday party only to become suspects in a murder investigation instead when a bounty hunter looking to take Xena in, is murdered. Now Discord, the newly appointed goddess of retribution, has given Xena until sunrise to find the killer or everyone she loves will be taken to the underworld.
Directing: Christopher Graves · Writing: Jeff Vlaming · Starring: Bruce Campbell, Alison Wall, Meighan Desmond, Ted Raimi
4x20 Endgame
May 3, 1999 · 44 min
Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons after Ephiny dies at the hand of Brutus, and Xena must fave Caesar and Pompey and their armies while keeping an eye on a rebellious Amazon.
Directed by Garth Maxwell · Written by Steven L. Sears · Starring David Franklin, Jennifer Sky, Karl Urban, Danielle Cormack
4x21 The Ides of March
May 10, 1999 · 44 min
Callisto returns from Hell with a double mission: corrupt Xena and make Julius Caesar emperor, but plans change when Caesar's allies turn on him and when Roman soldiers capture and crucify Xena and Gabrielle.
Directing: Ken Girotti · Writing: R.J. Stewart · Starring: David Franklin, Timothy Omundson, John Leigh, Jennifer Sky
4x22 Déjà Vu All Over Again Season Finale
May 17, 1999 · 44 min
A present-day woman believes she's the reincarnation of Xena, the warrior princess, while her disbelieving boyfriend thinks she's crazy, and seeks help from a past life expert, with some familiar faces along the way.
Directed by Renée O'Connor · Written by R.J. Stewart · Starring Kevin Smith, Robert Trebor, Ted Raimi, Tammy Barker