Episode
Young Hercules: Home for the Holidays
Overview
Hercules takes his friends Iolaus, Jason, and Lilith home to his mother's to celebrate the festival of Persephone. To his surprise he finds his mother not alone as he expected but instead with a handsome suitor named Capaneus.
Details
- Series
- Young Hercules
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 31
- Air date
- 1998-11-20
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Home for the Holidays is Episode 31 in Season 1 of Young Hercules. It aired on 1998-11-20. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 30: Golden Bow
Kora wins a bow that originally belonged to Artemis in an archery contest and plans to give it back to her. Hercules learns that Kora has been a servant of Artemis' after having been saved by the goddess years ago, just when a thug in league with Strife steals the bow. Hercules attempts to help Kora retrieve it and free her from Artemis's debt.
Episode 32: Cram-ped
When Herc and the gang learn that Iolaus will be sent back to prison unless he passes an upcoming test, they attempt to help him by pulling an all-night cramming session in order to help him pass.
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Episode 29: Sisters
Kora's long-lost sister, Cleo, shows up, causing the green-eyed monster to show up in Kora when her sister steals the spotlight. When Kora attempts to loosen up and be more like Cleo, she gets more than she bargained for when she's mistaken for her sister and is kidnapped by two thugs.
Episode 33: Con Ares
Hercules and Iolaus set out with Jason to negotiate peace treaties between two kingdoms on the verge of war. On their way, though, they're sidetracked by Discord and Strife, who've been sent by Ares in order to distract the gang from the peace treaties. Herc and the gang come across a farmhand who bears a striking resemblance to Ares. Timor, the farmhand, reluctantly agrees to help Hercules keep Strife and Discord away from Jason by posing as Ares and keeping them on their toes.
Episode 28: In Your Dreams
When Ares strikes a deal with Morpheus, the god of dreams, he kidnaps the cadets and sends them into the dream world. Hercules must follow them to the dream realm, where he meets his worst fear, an alternate version of himself who punishes and kills without regret.
Episode 34: Get Jason
A shrewd politician hires an assassin to kill Jason before his coronation in order to clear the path for himself to step in as king of Corinth. However, once Hercules learns of this plan, he attempts to tell everyone, but no one believes him. The problem is that it's Prank Day, and everyone thinks he's setting them up for a joke.
Episode 27: Mommy Dearests
In attempting to destroy Hercules by killing everyone he cares about, Lucius sets Alcmene's village on fire and then goes after Jason, and it's up to Hercules to stop his half-brother.
Episode 35: My Fair Lilith
When a king offers his daughter's hand in marriage as a gift to Jason for his coronation, he pleads with Lilith to masquerade as his bride rather than marry someone he doesn't know or love. The problem is that the princess's jealous boyfriend shows up and is out to get Jason, and it's up to Hercules to straighten out the whole mess while keeping the king from finding out and keeping Jason alive.
Episode 26: Cold Feet
Jason has cold feet about his ability to lead Corinth and runs away, finding himself among a group of villagers terrorized by a warlord, where he must play the hero and stop the bad guy.
Episode 36: Hind Sight
When Artemis's favorite creature, a Golden Hind, is spotted, Hercules and Kora team up to try to keep the beautiful and rare creature out of the fatal hands of the hunters who are tracking her, as well as keep her away from two other hunters, Jason and Iolaus.
Episode 25: Herc's Nemesis
Hercules meets Nemesis, the assassin of the gods, and talks her out of blindly killing a mortal just because Hera tells her to. The two then fall victim to Hera, who sends a replacement killer after both of them.
Episode 37: The Head That Wears the Crown
On the eve of Jason's coronation, a monster ravages the countryside in order to extract revenge on Jason's father for an attack made on her ten years before. Deciding on how to deal with the situation puts Jason and Hercules at odds with one another.