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Highlander: The Series: Season 1

22 episodes Premiered Oct 3, 1992 Updated Jul 20, 2026

Highlander: The Series is a television show that premiered in 1992. It revolves around Duncan MacLeod, a 400-year-old immortal who cannot die by any means except beheading. As part of the Game, an ongoing battle among immortals, Duncan must fight and behead other immortals in order to survive. The show explores Duncan's experiences and his attempts to save people from harm. The series features a cast of characters an

Season overview

Highlander: The Series is a television show that premiered in 1992. It revolves around Duncan MacLeod, a 400-year-old immortal who cannot die by any means except beheading. As part of the Game, an ongoing battle among immortals, Duncan must fight and behead other immortals in order to survive. The show explores Duncan's experiences and his attempts to save people from harm. The series features a cast of characters and crew members, but specific details about the cast and crew are not provided in the available sources. The show is categorized as a sci-fi, fantasy, drama, and action-adventure series.

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Episodes

S1·E1

The Gathering

Oct 3, 1992 · 48 min

Duncan McLeod is roused from his peaceful existence with the love of this life, Tessa Noel, when he is challenged to Immortal combat by Slan Quince, an Evil Immortal. An old friend

S1·E2

Family Tree

Oct 10, 1992 · 48 min

Richie falls for a con man's ploy when he attempts to find out more about his parents, whom he has never known. The con uses Richie for a place to crash and anything else he can ge

S1·E3

Road Not Taken

Oct 17, 1992 · 48 min

A deadly herbal drug takes the life of Richie's friend, and MacLeod suspects the source of the drug is another Immortal, Kiem Sun, who has long sought to perfect such a drug and re

S1·E4

Innocent Man

Oct 24, 1992 · 48 min

An Immortal friend of MacLeod's is beheaded in his isolated mountain retreat where he had hoped - like MacLeod - to retire from the fight for a while. A brain-damaged, homeless vet

S1·E5

Free Fall

Oct 31, 1992 · 48 min

A beautiful young woman, Felicia Martins, throws herself to her death, only to revive with the realization that she is an Immortal. She seeks out Duncan MacLeod as her mentor, and

S1·E6

Bad Day in Building A

Nov 7, 1992 · 48 min

While visiting the courthouse to clear up Tessa's traffic tickets, MacLeod, Tessa, and Richie are among a group that is taken hostage by a band of men bent on freeing their leader,

S1·E7

Mountain Men

Nov 14, 1992 · 48 min

When Tessa is taken by a band of Survivalists who live off the land in the vastness of the Pacific Northwest, MacLeod must call on all of his own skills, honed a hundred and fifty

S1·E8

Deadly Medicine

Nov 21, 1992 · 48 min

MacLeod is struck and "killed" by a speeding automobile. When he revives in the hospital, he attracts the attention of a deranged doctor, who kidnaps MacLeod for his research on a

S1·E9

The Sea Witch

Dec 5, 1992 · 48 min

Richie Ryan tries to protect an old girlfriend, Nikki, from a band of drug dealers. This puts them both in jeopardy from an Immortal, Voshin, whom MacLeod knows from an adventure d

S1·E10

Revenge is Sweet

Dec 12, 1992 · 48 min

Seeking revenge for the apparent death of her lover, Walter Reinhardt, Rebecca Lord toys with MacLeod before she attempts to kill him with Reinhardt's sword. Rebecca knows nothing

S1·E11

See No Evil

Dec 19, 1992 · 48 min

A serial killer dubbed The Scalper' is attacking blonde women, including a friend of Tessa's. MacLeod recognizes the pattern of an Immortal who, betrayed by the woman he loved, bec

S1·E12

Eyewitness

Feb 6, 1993 · 48 min

Tessa witnesses the murder of a painter, Anne Wheeler, but the absence of a body leads everyone but MacLeod to doubt her story. MacLeod supports Tessa in her quest to obtain justic

S1·E13

Band of Brothers

Feb 13, 1993 · 48 min

Warning comes from MacLeod's old friend Darius, a monk over 2000 years old, that Grayson, Darius' one-time protege, is now stalking Darius' other students -- among them, possibly,

S1·E14

For Evil's Sake

Feb 20, 1993 · 48 min

An Evil Immortal, Kuyler, has hired himself out down through time as an assassin -- the most successful killer in all of history. He strikes again in modern day Paris using his sig

S1·E15

For Tomorrow We Die

Feb 27, 1993 · 48 min

MacLeod stumbles across the trail of an Immortal, Xavier St. Cloud, who has lived in hedonistic splendor down through the ages by remorseless robbing and killing innocent men and w

S1·E16

The Beast Below

Mar 6, 1993 · 48 min

A mysterious death at the Paris Opera re-acquaints Duncan MacLeod with one of the strangest Immortals he has met in his many travels over the centuries. Ursa is a hulking giant --

S1·E17

Saving Grace

Mar 13, 1993 · 48 min

Grace Chandel has been a Good Immortal, working for the betterment of mankind as a midwife, doctor, and scientist over the centuries. Her one weakness is another Immortal, Carlo Se

S1·E18

The Lady and the Tiger

Apr 24, 1993 · 48 min

A day at the circus reunites MacLeod with a former lover, the Immortal femme-fatale, Amanda, who has always meant big trouble for him. Amanda, meanwhile, is in trouble of her own a

S1·E19

Eye of the Beholder

May 1, 1993 · 48 min

Richie meets a beautiful young woman who leads him into the world of haute couture. His youthful jealousy causes him to run afoul of a world-class fashion designer, a deadly Immort

S1·E20

Avenging Angel

May 8, 1993 · 48 min

When fatal stabbing fails to kill him, Alfred Cahill becomes convinced that he has been chosen by a higher power to wage a crusade against 'perversion', and cuts a bloody path thro

S1·E21

Nowhere to Run

May 15, 1993 · 48 min

When the stepdaughter of an Immortal is raped, the Immortal comes after the young man. MacLeod, a guest in the home of the accused boy's father, feels he must protect the family fr

S1·E22

The Hunters

May 22, 1993 · 48 min

MacLeod's old compatriot Hugh Fitzcairn comes to town bearing a mystery -- some of their other Immortal friends have disappeared suspiciously. MacLeod realizes that someone may be