NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The Modern Prometheus
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 5/17/1997
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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Archangel (1)
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/24/1997
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
6.5/10194 votesLoading...#3 - The Zone
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1993
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
6.6/10179 votesLoading...#4 - Bless the Child
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/14/1994
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
Writer: Elizabeth Baxter, Martin Brossollet
6.7/10166 votesLoading...#5 - Two of Hearts
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 2/14/1998
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
6.8/10260 votesLoading...#6 - Deadly Medicine
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1992
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
6.9/10302 votesLoading...#7 - Family Tree
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1992
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
6.9/10151 votesLoading...#8 - Black Tower
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1997
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
6.9/10152 votesLoading...#9 - Deadly Exposure
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 1/31/1998
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
7.0/10294 votesLoading...#10 - Road Not Taken
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1992
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
7.0/10292 votesLoading...#11 - Free Fall
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1992
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
7.0/10232 votesLoading...#12 - See No Evil
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1992
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
7.0/10194 votesLoading...#13 - Revenge of the Sword
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1993
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
7.0/10184 votesLoading...#14 - The Fighter
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/1994
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
7.0/10173 votesLoading...#15 - The Blitz
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/1996
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
7.0/10164 votesLoading...#16 - Armageddon (3)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1997
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
7.1/10278 votesLoading...#17 - Bad Day in Building A
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1992
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
7.1/10250 votesLoading...#18 - The Sea Witch
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1992
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
7.1/10219 votesLoading...#19 - Eyewitness
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/6/1993
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
7.1/10220 votesLoading...#20 - The Beast Below
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/6/1993
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
7.1/10167 votesLoading...#21 - Vendetta
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/4/1995
To save his own hide, petty hoodlum Benny Carbassa, the Nathan Detroit of Immortality, turns MacLeod over to an aging gangster determined to see MacLeod dead before he dies. In the midst of this, Anne returns, having convinced herself that MacLeod will open up in his own time and determined not to push him too hard. In flashback, we see MacLeod's first meeting with Benny, in 1938 at the Coconut Lounge, a club operated by two young brothers who are rivals for the same torch singer.
Director: George Mendeluk
Writer: Alan Swayze
7.1/10168 votesLoading...#22 - Avatar (2)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1997
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
7.1/10151 votesLoading...#23 - Justice
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1997
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
Writer: Michael O'Mahony, Sacha Reins
7.2/10296 votesLoading...#24 - Innocent Man
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1992
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
7.2/10211 votesLoading...#25 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/1993
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 Immortal.
Director: Dennis Berry
Writer: Christian Bouveron, Lawrence Shore
The Worst Episodes of Highlander: The Series
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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...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Modern Prometheus" is the worst rated episode of "Highlander: The Series". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Adrian Paul and written by James Thorpe, it aired on 5/17/1997. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Archangel (1)".