Promo:

Credits:

Writers... Jerry Patrick Brown, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci
Editor... David Blewitt, A. C. E.
Director... Charles Siebert
Original Air Date... May 11, 1998

Cast:

Hercules... Kevin Sorbo
Iolaus... Michael Hurst
Zeus... Roy Dotrice
Hera... Meg Foster
Apollo... Scott Michaelson
Ares... Kevin Smith
Alcmene... Liddy Holloway
Jason... Jeffrey Thomas
Erythia... Glenis Levestam
Pandion... Bruce Phillips
Teacher... Jim McLarty
Young Man... Ted Clarke
Young Woman... Stephanie Liebert
Student... Callum Bowe
Villager... Brett Higginson
Mother... Angela Franklin
Child... Vicky Bodewye

Description:

• Herc tries his new godly powers on for size in this episode. In the last episode, Our Hero accepted his father Zeus's offer to give up his mortality and become a full-fledged deity. Zeus had appealed to Herc's sense of duty to humanity ("You could do so much more for them on Olympus"), but Zeus's own motives are anything but noble: he badly needs an ally because his wife, Hera, is challenging his authority-- and seems to have the upper hand. In the meantime, Iolaus has his own dysfunctional-family problems: his reunion with his mother is decidedly cool.
• Hera blackmails Zeus into becoming mortal; Hercules battles the gods to return Alcmene's soul to the Elysian Fields and restore his father's powers.
• Hercules must save Zeus after Hera strips him of his powers; Iolaus is reunited with his mother.
• Hercules, now a full god, must decide whether to help his father Zeus defend his position as ruler of Olympus.
• New god Hercules gets a tour of Olympus and faces Hera.

Disclaimer:

Zeus' Godhood was not harmed during the production of this motion picture, although his short stint as a mortal was somewhat intoxicating.