Xena: Warrior Princess
Legacy
TV Flash files “Legacy” as hour 117 of 134 in the TV Flash guide — Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001) on Syndication, season 6, episode 5, aired 2000-11-04, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E05: listed hour 117 of 134 in the Xena: Warrior Princess guide, hour 5 of 22 in season 6. It aired 2000-11-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Who's Gurkhan?” (S06E04). Next is “The Abyss” (S06E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Xena and Gabrielle intervene to help two tribes unite against their Roman enemies in the North African desert.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Legacy sit in the Xena: Warrior Princess guide?
S06E05 is listed hour 117 of 134 — hour 5 of 22 in season 6, season 6 episode 5.
When did Xena: Warrior Princess S06E05 air?
Legacy aired 2000-11-04 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…