Episode Notes: Eye of the Beholder

Some Things Stay the Same
-- Salmoneus's get-rich-quick scheme in this episode focuses on toga sales.
-- Hercules is being chased by the fifty daughters of King Thespius; the king wants Hercules to impregnate all of them. The sisters eventually settle for Salmoneus.

Actors and Actresses
-- This is the first appearance of Robert Trebor's Salmoneus, a recurring character. Previously, Trebor appeared in Hercules and the Lost Kingdom as Waylin, an escaped slave.
-- Kim Michalis, who portrays Scilla, also appeared as a young Alcmene in the TV-movies and will appear again in other roles through the series.
-- The Cyclops is portrayed by Richard Moll, best known in the States as Bull, the bald bailiff on Night Court.

Monsters
-- The Cyclops, though he turns out to be a friend rather than a monster.
-- Hera's Executioners grow from a whip snapped against the ground.

Silly Stuff
-- Androcles, of the fable of the lion and the thorn, has fallen on hard times and is now a drunk.

Mythological Connections
-- In The Odyssey, the Cyclops is a huge creature who traps Odysseus and his men in order to eat them. Odysseus frees himself and his fellows by blinding the Cyclops, then clinging to the undersides of his larger-than-normal-size sheep when they are let out to pasture.
-- Scilla's name is similar to that of Scylla, who guarded a dangerous strait along with Charybdis. Scylla, loved by Glaucus but undesiring of that love, was transformed by a jealous Circe into a hideous monster who devoured sailors.