THE WEDDING OF ALCMENE

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GUEST STARS, CAST & CREDITS
PROMO TRANSCRIPTION
TV GUIDE PROMO
AIRING AND RATING INFORMATION
SYNOPSIS by Liz Sheppard
MUSIC USED
TALES OF THE HERCAVERSE
TRANSCRIPT
DISCLAIMER

PROMO TRANSCRIPTION
ON AN ALL NEW HERCULES
Alcmene: I'm getting married!
Hercules: What?!
THE WEDDING OF ALCMENE
Hercules: She's my mother.
Patrionus: So she's the one who had the fling with Zeus.
SPARKS THE WRATH OF THE GODS
Blue Priest: How dare you underestimate Hera's power?
AND ONLY ONE THING
Sera: The death of Hercules.
WILL APPEAL HERA'S RAGE
Blue Priest: I'd like to savor this.
THE WORLDS GREATEST WARRIORS REUNITE
Alcmene: Jason!!!
ON AN ALL NEW HERCULES

TV GUIDE PROMO
The wedding of Hercules' mother to the legendary Greek hero Jason is threatened by another of Hera's plots to kill Hercules.

King Jason plans to wed Herc's mother Alcmene, but a law barring the king from marrying a commoner is just one of the hitches they face before they can be hitched.

The wedding of Hecules' mother to Jason has both men fighting for their lives.

Hera sends the sea serpent Perfidia to disrupt Alcmene's wedding to Jason.

AIRING AND RATING INFORMATION
1st release: 04/29/96
An AA average of 5.1
Competition from Syndicated Action Dramas:
(1) STAR TREK DS9 8th with 5.3
(2) HERCULES 13th with 5,1
(3) XENA 16th with 4.7

2nd release: 07/22/96
An AA average of 4.5
Competition from Syndicated Action Dramas:
(1) HERCULES 9th with 4.5
(2) XENA 14th with 4.0
(3) STAR TREK DS9 17th with 3.9

3rd release: 05/19/97
An AA average of 5.0
Competition from Syndicated Action Dramas:
(1) XENA 12th with 5.6
(2) HERCULES 13th with 5.0
(3) STAR TREK DS9 15th with 4.9

SYNOPSIS:

Synopsis by Liz Sheppard.

Alcmene visits her son Hercules and Iolaus fighting bad people in a tavern. During the fight scene, she tells him that she's getting married to Jason of the Argonauts.

Jason has a meeting with Patronius, who tells him that if he marries Alcmene, he will no longer be king of Corinth because she isn't royal. He gets to name his successor. He meets up with Herc, Alcmene, and Iolaus in the street. Herc doesn't want to accept Jason's marriage to his mother. Patronius gets a visit from the Blue Priest (that's his name, honest. I'm going to call him BP). BP talks about how Herc killed him before and that Hera likes the marriage because it could lead to Herc's death.

Alcmene is shopping for fabric for her wedding dress when a woman named Sera tells her about a place for the wedding to take place. Herc and Iolaus run into Phoebe, Archivas, and Domesticles who tell them that Jason is giving up his throne for Alcmene, which impresses Herc. Jason wants Hercules to be the new king of Corinth, but he declines. Jason sends Iolaus to go find the next runner up. On the road, he runs into Falafel selling tacos to Dirce. Sparks fly between Iolaus and Dirce and they run to find the successor together. Falafel goes to the wedding to cater it.

BP and Patronius organize an army of a bunch of dead bad people that only want to kill Hercules to be waiters for the wedding. Sera takes Alcmene, Jason, and Herc to a beautiful pool area near the ocean. Sera freaks out when she finds out that Herc is Herc; and Alcmene starts planning Herc and Sera's wedding. They run into trouble, but they win the fight because they are the heros. Alcmene even kicks booty in this fight. Herc is greeted by the daughters of Thespius when he gets back to town.

PB is standing by the pool overlooking the ocean and, I assume, praying to Hera and talking to a really big serpant in the ocean. Patronius is worried that things aren't going as planned, but Sera shows up saying everything is going right because Hera is helping them. Just then the big serpant comes out of the water.

Deric the centaur shows up and believes he's seen Sera before, but can't place it. Jason and Alcmene get a really weird wedding present from Salmoneus. Sal can't come because he's doing business in Athens.

The wedding begins. Jason reveals the new king, Iphicles, brother of Hercules. Iph and Rena show up and he accepts the crown. Deric finally remembers who Sera is and tells Herc that she's a spy of Hera's. The serpant comes out of the ocean and the waiters attack everybody. Jason gets swallowed by the serpant and Hercules jumps in too. They eventually reach the spinal column and using Sal's wedding gift, killed it from the inside. BP, thinking that Hera will protect him, decides to jump off the cliff, making a blue mess all over the rocks; Patronius gets killed too.

Jason and Alcmene finally get married and Salmoneus finally shows up.

MUSIC USED

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Original Television Soundtrack. Joseph LoDuca. Uni/Varese Sarabande; ASIN: B0000014XJ.

(7) Wedding Gift
(8) Waiters and Serpents

TALES OF THE HERCAVERSE

01-06-99. This episode is an homage of HERCULES AND THE LOST KINGDOM, with its recycling of the monster, the Blue Priest, and how Hercules defeats it.

01-06-99. From Liz Sheppard. The costumes were done very poorly, particluarly Deric's costume. Before, in the other centaur episodes, the costumes were done very well, but in this one, it was awful. You could see wrinkles in the costume; and in the fight scene, I could see...he was wearing shorts...hey, I may have looked up a centaurs skirt, but I'm not a pervert. Also, when Alcmene received the present from Salmoneus, she made a comment that she always thought his name was pronounced "Salmanela"-hint hint, Men in Pink.

TRANSCRIPT

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DISCLAIMER

In memory of Jerry Siegel.

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