Xena: Warrior Princess
Cradle of Hope
TV Flash files “Cradle of Hope” as hour 4 of 134 in the TV Flash guide — Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001) on Syndication, season 1, episode 4, aired 1995-10-02, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 134 in the Xena: Warrior Princess guide, hour 4 of 24 in season 1. It aired 1995-10-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Dreamworker” (S01E03). Next is “The Path Not Taken” (S01E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Xena and Gabrielle set out to find the parents of an abandoned baby, and discover that the infant's been marked for death due to a prophecy declaring him a future threat to a local king.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Cradle of Hope sit in the Xena: Warrior Princess guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 134 — hour 4 of 24 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did Xena: Warrior Princess S01E04 air?
Cradle of Hope aired 1995-10-02 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it a spinoff?
Yes — it spun from the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys universe, then became the bigger international fan engine.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Reformed warrior, sidekick bard, chakrams, and subtext heard around the world. Lucy Lawless and Renée O'Connor turn syndicated pulp into a feminist fan army with leather, camp, and moral rehab. Spun from the Hercules universe; villains return like soap; friendship is the real mythic bond. Global first-run swagger prestige TV still forgets how to mix.
The first useful thing *Xena: Warrior Princess* does is take pulp seriously without sanding the camp off. Reformed warrior Xena travels the ancient world righting wrongs with companion Gabrielle — combat, leather, moral rehab, and a friendship that is the real mythic bond. Lucy Lawless and Renée O'Connor turned first-run syndication (premiere September 4, 1995; six seasons through 2001) into a feminist fan army. John Schulian and Robert Tapert developed it from the *Hercules: The Legendary Journeys* universe. Ted…
Filed against
- Lucy Lawless as Xena
Lucy Lawless spun a chakram as Xena on Xena: Warrior Princess — reformed warrior, sidekick bard, subtext heard around the world, syndicated pulp turned feminist fan army. Leather, camp, moral rehab. TV Flash files her as 1990s genre…
- Renee O'Connor as Gabrielle
Renee O’Connor played Gabrielle on Xena: Warrior Princess, 1990s syndicated pulp that turned a reformed warrior, a sidekick bard, chakrams, and subtext into a feminist fan army — leather, camp, moral rehab, villains returning like soap.…
- Ted Raimi as Joxer
Ted Raimi stumbled through Xena: Warrior Princess as Joxer — reformed warrior, sidekick bard energy, chakrams and subtext heard around the world. Syndicated pulp as a feminist fan army with leather, camp, and moral rehab. TV Flash files…
- Hudson Leick as Callisto
Hudson Leick's Callisto hunted Xena: Warrior Princess as syndicated pulp's meanest return engagement — reformed warrior, sidekick bard, chakrams, subtext heard around the world. Leather, camp, moral rehab, villains who come back like…