Along the way [Ephiny] has also become one of the best loved figures in Xena’s mythic world, a development that gratifies and amazes the New Zealand actress who plays her, Danielle Cormack.

In the following interview with Xena trainer/wrangler Horace Newton, you’ll learn everything you ever needed to know about an amazing trio of four-footed friends who add up to one TV wonder horse.

Editor Rob Field gets it all together for Xena’s kinetic action scenes.

Everything you always wanted to know about Hope’s demonic father… but were too terrified to ask.

I ask the Muse, Goddess of Poetry to aid me
In this song of Xena, the Warrior Princess, my friend.

Just when you think you’ve got this character pinned down, he dissolves in a pillar of fire and reemerges the following week with a new facet of his personality.

Certainly the most ambitious and anticipated Xena episode, “The Bitter Suite,” was broadcast the week of February 2, 1998, earning impressive ratings and wide-spread critical acclaim.

It was Rob Tapert’s idea to do a “Bizarro World” show; I just ran with the ball. Besides, I provided the mythology links.

Although many actors draw upon their own real-life experiences to create a character, it would be far too easy to say that Joxer, Xena’s over-enthusiastic semi-sidekick, is based on Ted Raimi.

Salmoneus, the con man’s con man, has become one of the most popular recurring characters on Xena and Hercules.

Xena’s reluctant allies in the battle against evil.

How Hudson Leick created the volatile Warrior Queen Callisto out of her own fear and fury.

Xena’s Renee O’Connor is interviewed by Topps’ Renee Witterstaetter on the set in New Zealand.

On this particular day, stalwart Lucy was covered with mud and rags. Out of costume, she had to sit in a cold dungeon and wade through water.

Expect some startling new directions for the Warrior Princess and her maturing sidekick as Year Three unfolds.

Ask Renee about everything from the Dawn of Man to Tim Burton’s obsession with ‘50s monster movies (there’s some Xena information here too!).

“I always wanted to become an actress,” Renee O’Connor says with the exuberance of her TV character, Gabrielle, courageous sidekick to Xena: Warrior Princess. “I mean, it was sort of like an obsession.”

Comic book-style superheroes may come and go, but realistic, fleshed-out characters are eternal. That’s the philosophy of Renaissance Pictures, creators of TV’s reigning king and queen of mythological muscle, Hercules and Xena.

Costume Designer Ngila Dickson determines what the well-dressed Warrior Princess - and her cohorts - are wearing.

And then in September 1995, there was Xena: Warrior Princess. From the start this was something very different. A female warrior.