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Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Highlander: The Series Season 5 Episode 19 - The Modern Prometheus
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - The Modern Prometheus

    S5:E19

    Lord Byron, the brilliant Romantic poet, is alive and well and living the decadent life of a rock star. He lives life way over the edge and has taken some promising young musicians over the edge with him. When following in Byron's footsteps tragically ends the life of Dawson's protege, MacLeod is faced with a decision -- is the beauty and genius that is Byron worth the cost?

    Director:Adrian Paul
    Writer:James Thorpe

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  2. Highlander: The Series Season 5 Episode 20 - Archangel (1)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - Archangel (1)

    S5:E20

    The dead are walking the streets of Paris. The forces of evil are coming. Is MacLeod being readied for some higher calling -- or is he simply losing his mind?

    Director:Dennis Berry
    Writer:David Tynan

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  3. Highlander: The Series Season 2 Episode 6 - The Zone
    6.6/10(211 votes)

    #3 - The Zone

    S2:E6

    The Zone is a burned-out urban wasteland, abandoned by the police, who figure it's easier to just 'let the animals kill each other.' Now the Zone is being taken over by Canaan, a charismatic leader who urges his followers to take the material possessions that have been denied to them. Joe Dawson comes to MacLeod for help -- one of his men, who was observing Canaan, has been killed. Charlie accompanies MacLeod down to his old neighborhood in the Zone and introduces him to Asia, a nurse at the local clinic, one of few people who haven't given up on the neighborhood. After MacLeod learns that Canaan is not an Immortal, Dawson is ready to drop it. But MacLeod has seen the misery in the Zone, and is determined to break Canaan's hold. He convinces Asia that it's time to stand up for their rights, and he and Charlie arrange a meeting of neighborhood residents who want to take back their streets. But Asia is involved with Canaan, and she's used as bait to lure Mac to his apparent death. Canaan

    Director:Clay Borris
    Writer:Peter Mohan

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  4. Highlander: The Series Season 2 Episode 13 - Bless the Child
    6.6/10(194 votes)

    #4 - Bless the Child

    S2:E13

    Charlie and MacLeod come to the aid of Sara Lightfoot, an Indian woman on the run with a baby. She tells them Avery Hoskins is trying to steal her baby. Hoskins and his brothers come after them, and they are forced to flee overland. After a rugged flight through a mountain canyon, MacLeod learns that the baby is in fact Hoskins' son, taken by Sara in retribution for her own child, killed by runoff from Hoskins' mines.

    Director:Clay Borris
    Writers:Elizabeth Baxter, Martin Brossollet

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  5. Highlander: The Series Season 6 Episode 10 - Two of Hearts
    6.7/10(184 votes)

    #5 - Two of Hearts

    S6:E10

    Centuries ago, Bartholomew sent thousands to their deaths during the Crusades, amassing a fortune in God's name. Now Katherine is determined to take his head - if only she can keep her mortal husband, Nick, from interfering with the Game.

    Director:Richard Martin
    Writer:James Thorpe

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  6. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 8 - Deadly Medicine
    6.9/10(286 votes)

    #6 - Deadly Medicine

    S1:E8

    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 miracle cure for trauma. When MacLeod escapes from the doctor, the doctor murders a potential witness and frames MacLeod for it.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Robert McCullough

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  7. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 2 - Family Tree
    7.0/10(336 votes)

    #7 - Family Tree

    S1:E2

    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 get out of him by pretending to be his father. MacLeod also relives his past in the memories of first becoming immortal and being cast out of his clan by his father.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Kevin Droney

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  8. Highlander: The Series Season 6 Episode 6 - Black Tower
    7.0/10(171 votes)

    #8 - Black Tower

    S6:E6

    Four hundred years ago, Devon Marek was a spoiled aristocrat with a passion for the hunt. His first teacher, Duncan MacLeod, forced him to give up his lands and title when he became Immortal -- and Marek's never forgiven him for it. Now Marek has built a new empire, and he's ready to hunt his most dangerous prey yet: MacLeod. Obsessed with revenge, Marek imprisons the Highlander in a deserted highrise office building... with a gang of deadly mercenaries on his tail.

    Director:Richard Martin
    Writer:Morrie Ruvinsky

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  9. Highlander: The Series Season 6 Episode 9 - Deadly Exposure
    7.0/10(169 votes)

    #9 - Deadly Exposure

    S6:E9

    All bounty hunter Reagan Cole wanted was a holiday in Paris with Duncan MacLeod; what she gets is international intrigue, a hunky underwear model, and a terrorist with a million-dollar price on his head.

    Director:Dennis Berry
    Writer:James Thorpe

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  10. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 3 - Road Not Taken
    7.1/10(326 votes)

    #10 - Road Not Taken

    S1:E3

    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 remove its lethal side effects for the betterment of mankind. But a disciple of Kiem Sun's is using the drug for his own gain, and MacLeod and his old friend must track him down. When it becomes clear that Kiem Sun plans to continue his experiments, MacLeod destroys the remaining sample of the drug.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Terry D. Nelson

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  11. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 5 - Free Fall
    7.1/10(328 votes)

    #11 - Free Fall

    S1:E5

    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 becomes amorously involved with Richie Ryan. But there is much more to this "ing�nue" than meets the eye. She is in fact a long-time Immortal, engaged in a wily scheme to trap MacLeod and acquire his Quickening. MacLeod must see through her subterfuge in time to protect not only himself, but also Richie.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Philip John Taylor

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  12. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 11 - See No Evil
    7.1/10(256 votes)

    #12 - See No Evil

    S1:E11

    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, became a killer. To end the carnage, MacLeod was forced to confront and kill him, back in 1925. Now the killings have started again, the modern day killer mimicking the 70-year-old M.O., killing in the same locations as the previous murders. It falls to MacLeod and Tessa to stop this madman.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:Brian Clemens

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  13. Highlander: The Series Season 4 Episode 12 - The Blitz
    7.1/10(186 votes)

    #13 - The Blitz

    S4:E12

    ER trauma surgeon Anne Lindsey responds to the call for help after an explosion devastates a subway station, but when a subsequent explosion rocks the station, Anne is trapped. MacLeod remembers WWII London where he and the woman he loved, reporter Diane Terrin, were trapped in a bombed air-raid shelter during the Blitz, running out of time and air. MacLeod is desperate to rescue Anne before he loses her like he lost Diane.

    Director:Paolo Barzman
    Writer:Morrie Ruvinsky

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  14. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 9 - The Sea Witch
    7.2/10(272 votes)

    #14 - The Sea Witch

    S1:E9

    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 during the Second World War when he was trying to smuggle Jewish refugees out of occupied Eastern Europe. Nikki complicates the story by withholding drug money she has stolen from the gang, thinking she can use it to make a better life for her small daughter. Tessa, meanwhile, becomes enamored of the child, raising issues for her and MacLeod.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright
    Writer:David Tynan

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  15. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 12 - Eyewitness
    7.2/10(240 votes)

    #15 - Eyewitness

    S1:E12

    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 justice for Anne. It develops that Anne was killed by her Immortal ex-lover, to keep her from revealing his secret. After Tessa is taken to a police safe house, MacLeod realizes that the killer is in fact the Chief of Detectives, and he must rescue Tessa and bring justice to Anne's killer.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:David Tynan

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  16. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 16 - The Beast Below
    7.2/10(242 votes)

    #16 - The Beast Below

    S1:E16

    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 -- more beast than man -- who Duncan rescued from persecution centuries ago, delivering him to sanctuary in an abbey. The abbey has long since been destroyed and Ursa now lives under Paris. He has become enamored of a past-her-prime opera singer who tries to use Ursa's innocent soul to murder her rival.

    Director:Daniel Vigne
    Writer:Marie-Chantal Droney

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  17. Highlander: The Series Season 2 Episode 8 - Revenge of the Sword
    7.2/10(214 votes)

    #17 - Revenge of the Sword

    S2:E8

    Jimmy Sang, a former student of Charlie's, is an up-and-coming martial arts movie star. His latest movie is filming some scenes in the dojo. When a stuntman is ""accidentally"" killed, MacLeod is the first to realize that Jimmy's life is in danger. It turns out that the movie is based on Jimmy's youthful experiences as an enforcer for a powerful gang, and now his former boss wants to see him dead.

    Director:Clay Borris
    Writer:Aubrey Solomon

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  18. Highlander: The Series Season 2 Episode 11 - The Fighter
    7.2/10(204 votes)

    #18 - The Fighter

    S2:E11

    MacLeod's old friend Tommy Sullivan is a scrappy little Irishman, a one-time boxer turned trainer, who can charm anyone into anything. He charms MacLeod into backing his current boxer and charms Charlie into playing Cyrano to help him woo a shy waitress. But when a rival manager who was trying to steal Sully's fighter turns up dead, MacLeod's opinion of his old friend begins to be altered forever.

    Director:Peter Ellis
    Writer:Morrie Ruvinsky

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  19. Highlander: The Series Season 6 Episode 1 - Avatar (2)
    7.2/10(185 votes)

    #19 - Avatar (2)

    S6:E1

    Once every thousand years, the Zoroastrian demon Ahriman returns to wreak havoc on the earth. He has already brought destruction to Duncan MacLeod's world, having caused Richie's death at Duncan's hand. But now MacLeod returns to Paris to take up his mantle as Champion and vows to destroy Ahriman. Sophie Baines knows how to defeat the demon, but is she MacLeod's ally, or another pawn in Ahriman's game?

    Director:Dennis Berry
    Writer:David Tynan

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  20. Highlander: The Series Season 6 Episode 2 - Armageddon (3)
    7.2/10(181 votes)

    #20 - Armageddon (3)

    S6:E2

    With the help of Father Beaufort and Joe Dawson, MacLeod finally begins to find a crack in Ahriman's armor. But he soon learns, along with Dawson, that anyone who helps the Champion becomes fair game for the demon. Joe is torn by guilt as Watchers -- friends -- are murdered by Ahriman, while Father Beaufort has his own inner demons to contend with. Not even Holy Ground is sanctuary, as MacLeod wrestles with Ahriman in the final battle... Armageddon.

    Director:Richard Martin
    Writer:Tony Di Franco

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  21. Highlander: The Series Season 6 Episode 8 - Justice
    7.2/10(169 votes)

    #21 - Justice

    S6:E8

    When Immortal Katya's adopted daughter is murdered, the courts let the killer-- her husband-- walk free. Now Katya's an avenging angel, determined to see justice done at any cost... but can MacLeod convince her that justice and revenge aren't the same thing?

    Director:Richard Martin
    Writers:Sacha Reins, Michael O'Mahony

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  22. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 4 - Innocent Man
    7.3/10(326 votes)

    #22 - Innocent Man

    S1:E4

    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 veteran is charged with the grisly crime, and an attempt is made to link him to the killing of Slan Quince (the villain of episode one, 'The Gathering'), an Evil Immortal whom MacLeod himself had slain in combat. MacLeod must try and clear the innocent man and unravel the mystery of who killed his friend. Here again we get a glimpse of MacLeod's past, in flashbacks set during the American Civil War.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  23. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 6 - Bad Day in Building A
    7.3/10(306 votes)

    #23 - Bad Day in Building A

    S1:E6

    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, Slade, from imprisonment. When Slade's demands are not met, he chooses a hostage to sacrifice. MacLeod makes sure that hostage is himself, and returns from the dead to hunt down the gunmen one by one, as the police watch helplessly from outside.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Kevin Droney

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  24. Highlander: The Series Season 1 Episode 20 - Avenging Angel
    7.3/10(236 votes)

    #24 - Avenging Angel

    S1:E20

    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 through Paris, murdering prostitutes and pimps, and endangering an old friend of Tessa's who has become a call girl. MacLeod tries to explain Immortality to Cahill, but he can't get through to him, and finally is forced to take his head.

    Director:Paolo Barzman
    Writer:Fabrice Ziolkowski

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  25. Highlander: The Series Season 2 Episode 7 - The Return of Amanda
    7.3/10(219 votes)

    #25 - The Return of Amanda

    S2:E7

    Amanda, the beautiful Immortal cat-burglar returns to town, telling MacLeod she's retired from her life of crime. He doesn't believe her -- especially when two guys start shooting at them. Mac thinks the guys might be Watchers, but in fact they are FBI Agents. Amanda is in possession of some plates for counterfeit money, stolen in Germany before the War. She's looking for an engraver to change the dates, figuring since she's sworn to give up stealing money, she'll have to print some up. Palance, one of the FBI Agents, sets MacLeod and Amanda up to take the fall for his partner's murder, and demands that they turn the plates over. Mac and Amanda are forced to ""die"" on videotape to catch Palance.

    Director:Dennis Berry
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Modern Prometheus" is the worst rated episode of "Highlander: The Series". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Adrian Paul and written by James Thorpe, it aired on 5/17/1997. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Archangel (1)".