Disclaimer:

* No Xena fans were harmed in the making of this motion picture.

Things to know about the episode:

- CLONES was originally more ambitious than it turned out to be, but was cut back for budget reasons. One item that got cut was Xena had to fight a motorcycle gang, the leader being played by the actor who played Draco on a number of occasions. Xena and Gabrielle were also supposed to foil a bank robbery.

- From an interview on her website, Claire "Alti" Stansfield on 01-07-09 stated: Interviewer: Has there ever been a time when a fellow cast member made you laugh on purpose during the shooting of a scene on Xena? Details please! Stansfield: During the shooting of "Send In the Clones" Lucy and Renee are brought back to life in the modern day.. in the lab I have them on tables lying horizontally push a button and the tables slowly rise up and they are vertical.. (they are naked with 2 plastic like arms covering their unmentionables) during one take we are all waiting for them to rise up and one of the arms flies open on Lucy's contraption. She was wearing a flesh colored tube top on top but it was very funny to see this great reveal go a different direction.

- Claire Stansfield was at the International Comics Fair in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, on October 22, 2000, and she said that she had just finished filming SEND IN THE CLONES and that it took place in contemporary times. She also said that her character's name was Alexis Los Alamos and got to drive around in a Pontiac Firebird. She also stated that she would be returning to NZ in January to film more XENA episodes. [It is also rumored that Alexis is merely the contemporary manifestation of Alti; also one of the episodes that Ms. Stansfield was originally talking about was STICKS AND STONES, but that was dropped, and now she is slated to film WHEN FATES COLLIDE and possibly the series finale.]

- Robert "Salmoneus" Trebor was at the Long Island Creation Con 12/10/00 and he stated that he doubts he will be in any of the 6th season XENA episodes. However he did mention than he talked with Paul Robert Coyle about a possible appearance in SEND IN THE CLONES. Since that episode has already been filmed, we can probably safely assume that Salmoneus will not make it into any more XENA episodes.

Things to look out for:

- Did something go majorly wrong with the sound in the opening scene? Alexis's "It's all there" line is dubbed, and the fence's thank you is almost inaudible (but that could have been on purpose).

- One small nitpick with Alexis's line about getting digital transfers so that there would be no loss of signal to the clones' brains: these are transfers of a TV image. You can't get much worse loss of signal.

- Another fun in-joke: "Wind Beneath My Wings" really is the music that Creation plays during their montage to Xena and Gabrielle at conventions

- This episode gave us some more Xena history: Xena and Gabrielle lived 2-3,000 years ago; no big surprise there. After Xena dies, Alti hides the scrolls in what is now called "the tomb of the scrolls." But if they've been taken from Xena and Gabrielle, whose tomb are the scrolls in? Could the Tomb of the Scrolls be Ares's tomb, where Mel and Janice found a bunch of scrolls?

- Also in the truly geeky vein: Series (aka Season) 2, episode 11 is Here She Comes, Miss Amphipolis (which has no campfire scene at all), and series 4, episode 7 is Locked Up and Tied Down (also campfire scene-less).

- When Xena does that thing of pointing at Gabrielle's chest and hitting her in the nose. The first angle shows Xena pointing with her left hand, the second angle shows her right hand come up and hit Gabrielle's nose.