What is Young Hercules?
{{Infobox television | image = Young Hercules (Universal Television series) logo.svg | caption = | runtime = 21:20 min. | creator = | developer = Robert Tapert | executive_producer = Sam Raimi<br>Robert Tapert<br>Eric Gruendemann<br>Liz Friedman | starring = Ryan Gosling<br>Dean O'Gorman<br>Chris Conrad | country = [[United States]] | network = Fox Kids Network | first_aired = {{start date|1998|09|12}} | last_aired = {{end date|1999|05|14}} | num_episodes = 50 | list_episodes = | related =''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''<br>''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' }} '''''Young Hercules''''' is a [[spin-off]] from ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''. It was aired on [[FOX]] Kids Network from September 12, 1998 to May 12, 1999. It lasted only one season with 50 episodes, and starred Ryan Gosling, replacing Ian Bohen from the [[Television pilot|pilot]] [[movie]] as the title character. Ian Bohen was offered the part, but opted not to spend an entire year in [[New Zealand]] where the series would shoot [[principal photography]]. ==Plot Summary== [[Image:Sam Raimi by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|215px|left|The series producers, Sam Raimi]] The show features the efforts of [[Ares]], the god of war, played by [[Kevin Smith]], who attempts often to destroy his younger half-brother to win over [[Zeus]]' good graces. Among his group is his nephew Strife (Joel Tobeck), who is the rather weaker member of the team. Strife's partner is Discord, goddess of retribution (Meighan Desmond), who acts more level-headed and power hungry than her counterpart on more than one occasion. The storyline follows [[Hercules]] ([[Ryan Gosling]]) as he attends Cheiron's Academy to train in the arts of the [[warrior]] under the wise headmaster [[Chiron (mythology)|Chiron]] the [[Centaur]] (Nathaniel Lees). He makes friends with the future king of [[Corinth]], the prince [[Jason]] (Chris Conrad) and a thieving former member of a bandit group Iolaus (Dean O'Gorman) who was sentenced to the training academy as an alternative to prison for hi