How Well Do You Remember Xena Warrior Princess?

The show premiered on Sept. 4 1995. It was a couple of years ahead of the other big "girl power" shows of the decade.

Lucy Lawless is an Australian-born actress who wasn't hugely recognized before she got the role of Xena. Since then, she has became a cult favorite.

Thrace is in ancient Bulgaria. It's just over the mountains from Greece, which in the period the show is set, was a warring collection of city-states.

Xena appeared in three episodes and was supposed to die. However, she was such a big hit that she got her own show instead.

The show is set in Ancient Greece during Roman times. However, it does venture far overseas.

Cleopatra appears as a recurring character on the show. She is eventually killed by Brutus.

Xena encounters the River Styx, the famous barrier to the afterlife. The boatman Charon ferries the dead from one side to the other.

Elysian Fields are where humans go when they die, if they are really heroic. It's considered a lot better than ending up in Hades.

Gods are usually depicted as humans who manifest that god's extreme characteristics. For example the goddess of love, Aphrodite, is a rather whiny, uptalking Valley Girl.

Xena's fantasy setting enabled the show to move between all sorts of genres. This included musical episodes. However, film noir was never used.

The show moves between countries very fluidly. This means it's very easy for it to go between different religious pantheons.

LoDuca won the Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for the score to Xena. This includes two musical episodes.

Redemption is Xena's motivation. She seeks to balance the scales after having done terrible things in her past, that are initially a mystery in the show.

Callisto is out for revenge for Xena burning her village, Cirra, to the ground. She has now gone insane and seeks revenge on far more than just Xena.

Thre Greek god of war is depicted as suave and witty, but he is utterly amoral. He loves Xena, but they have a complicated relationship due to his ethical lapses.

This was in season two. Caesar is captured by Xena but is not afraid of her. Later on, he ascends to power.

Alti is an Amazon shamaness. She was driven out of her tribe, which hails from Siberia, by her penchant for black magic including using a magical stare to force a person's worst memories to take them over again.

After the death of Solan's father, Borias, Xena gave her son to the centaurs. Solan did not initially know that Xena was his mother.

Hope is the daughter of Gabrielle and the dark god Dahak. She becomes evil and kills Solan, Xena's son.

Ares puts them to sleep, meaning they miss out on the young life of Eve, Xena's daughter. Octavius, a Roman nobleman, adopts Eve and raises her as Livia.

It's a city in northern Greece. Like most of the show's locations, it is fictional but has a basis in real Greek cities, usually amalgamated.

This is a rural fishing village. It's in a number of episodes and is set in the real northern Greek region of Chalkidiki.

"Send in the Clones" is an episode from season 6 that goes down a very different path then earlier seasons. The other three episodes all feature ancient Greece and its capital city of Athens.

This book covers the canon for the first two seasons. The book covering all six seasons is "Xena Warrior Princess: Complete Illustrated Companion".

This game began in 1998 and sadly closed in 2015 as a MMORPG. It still has a fanbase out there, though!

Renaissance Pictures was the producers' company that handled the actual creation of the show. The network was then Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy).

Xena is considered an LGBTQ icon. However, it's never actually clear whether she is herself gay, or whether she isn't.

Robert Tapert is the founder of both Renaissance Pictures and Ghost House Pictures. He is also the husband of Lucy Lawless!

Raimi was noted for the Evil Dead films. They were a super campy and funny set of horror movies starring Bruce "If Chins Could Kill" Campbell.

Vanessa Angel was noted from the TV adaptation of "Weird Science". Since missing out on Xena, she hasn't done a great deal of high-profile work.

Lawless fell off a horse. A body-switchplot device meant that Xena's spirit passed into other characters so that the producers didn't have to stop filming while Lawless recovered.

The episode was so clumsy in its depiction of Indian religion that it resulted in protests. It resulted in a re-editing of the episode and an introduction in which Lawless emphasized the respect intended toward the Hindu faith.

This was a joke in the credits on the episode "Mortal Beloved." The full line was, "No Winged Harpies were harmed or sent to a fiery grave during the production of this motion picture."

Poseidon was never meant to appear outside the credits, as making him actually work was beyond the capacity of 1990s CGI. As a result, he was just made for the credits.

Just five episodes had female directors, with Renee O'Connor directing two episodes. This was obviously hypocritical for a show about female empowerment, and producers blamed a weak pipeline of talent. This excuse would happily no longer fly due to a larger talent pool.