Hercules is a animated show based upon the 1997 film of the same name and also the Greek myth. The show premiered in syndication on August 31, 1998, and about Disney's One Saturday Morning on September 12, 1998. As 1-3 was run by the Saturday morning run 52 episodes conducted. The show follows teenage Hercules training as a hero in addition to trying to conform to lifetime. With his free-spirited friend Icarus, his friend Cassandra along with his teacher Philoctetes, he struggles his uncle Hades. Like all teens however, when he is ridiculed by the snobbish prince Adonis, Hercules has to worry about peer pressure. The show simplifies several occasions in the film that is original and isn't considered canon.