Xena starts as a villain three episodes from the end of Hercules season one, and for the four years after that the two shows hand stories to each other.
Two shows and one story. Xena begins inside Hercules as a warlord, gets her own series after three episodes, and from that point the two ran in production at the same time for four years, with characters and whole plots moving between them. The rule is simple once you see it: Hercules season two pairs with Xena season one, season three with season two, and so on, one season number apart the whole way.
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Thirteen episodes. Xena turns up in episode 9, The Warrior Princess, as a warlord trying to split Hercules and Iolaus, and she was written to die in it. She does not, and episodes 12 and 13, The Gauntlet and Unchained Heart, are the ones that turn her.
Twenty-four episodes, opening days after Unchained Heart with Xena burying her armour. Hercules and Iolaus guest in episode 8, Prometheus, so this is not a clean break from the parent show.
These two premiered the same week in September 1995 and both run twenty-four episodes, so one for one alternation works exactly. From here the shows are always in production together.
Twenty-two episodes each and the same schedule again. Callisto crosses to Hercules in episode 12, Surprise, and Xena and Gabrielle turn up in episode 15, Judgment Day, to clear Hercules of a murder.
The year the two shows genuinely share a plot. Xena episode 4, The Deliverer, starts the Dahak story, and Hercules picks it up in the middle of its own season.
Then what? The one place air order matters to the episode: watch Xena 3x11 Maternal Instincts, then Hercules 4x13 Armageddon Now part one, then Xena 3x12 The Bitter Suite, then Hercules 4x14 Armageddon Now part two. Armageddon Now opens on the closing shot of Maternal Instincts, so reversing them makes no sense. After that, keep alternating: Hercules season 5 with Xena season 4, where the Dahak story finishes on Hercules in episodes 1, 2, 8, 10 and 11 rather than on Xena. Hercules season 6 is eight episodes and stops in November 1999, part way through Xena season 5, so Xena finishes alone with a season and a half. Hercules himself appears once more, in Xena 5x12 God Fearing Child, months after his own show had ended. Young Hercules is optional and sits before everything as a prequel; the animated film is optional and referred to by nothing.
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