Hercules: The Legendary Journeys


Greece is Burning

Althea (Willa O'Neill), Hercules' (Kevin Sorbo) former dance partner, has moved to the big city to try and succeed as a fashion designer. She works for her former dance rival, Oena (Jay Saussey), at a fashion show where she inadvertently causes a runway accident, right in front of Count Von Verminhaven (Stuart Devenie), the highly influential fashion critic. Though Verminhaven ends up asking Oena out, she still fires Althea.

One year later, Althea plans to enter her own designs in the same fashion show, but Verminhaven has barred her from the event as a favor to Oena. Althea is crushed, until Hercules arrives and announces that he is going to help Althea hold her own fashion show. Hercules, Althea and her smitten friend, Titus (Brett Stewart), get to work. Hercules decides to round up the Widow Twanky (Michael Hurst) to add some pizazz to their plans. He finds her working as a private dancer in a men's club -- a dinar a dance. She has fallen on hard times and refuses to help Hercules.

When Hercules returns to continue planning the show, he is arrested by the fashion police and taken to Verminhaven for wearing leather during the summer. The critic tries to explain that his fashion rules help insure conformity and, therefore, peace and order. Hercules responds by saying that everyone has a right to be themselves. Meanwhile, Oena pretends to be Althea's friend in order to distract her from working on her fashion show and designs. Althea changes the way she dresses and snubs Titus. When Oena steals her designs and has her work burned, Althea realizes that she never was her friend. With the help of Hercules, Titus and the newly-confident Widow Twanky, the show will go on. Hercules defeats the fashion police, Althea's designs are a hit, and Twanky has revenge on Verminhaven, the man who wrongfully destroyed her reputation.

Starring: Kevin Sorbo (Hercules)

Guest Starring: Willa O'Neill (Althea), Stuart Devenie (Count Von Verminhaven), Jay Saussey (Oena), Edith Sidebottom (The Widow Twanky), Brett Stewart (Titus), Geoff Dolan (Head of Fashion Police), Simon Gomez (Emcee), Terry Batchelor (Burly Man), Andrea Kelland (Factory Worker), Phoebe Falconer (Waifish Aphrodite), Peter Mason (Drunk Slob), Billy Wagstaff (Beggar)


Written by Andrew Landis & Julia Swift
Directed by Michael Hurst

Trivia: Michael Hurst is credited as Billy Wagstaff for his role as the beggar outside Twanky's dance studio. In addition, Hurst once again goes by the name Edith Sidebottom when portraying the pantomime dame Widow Twanky.



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