HIGHLANDER
60 Minute Drama
Fantasy / Action
ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1992 — 1998
BROADCASTER
N/A (Syndicated)
SEASONS / EPISODES
6 Seasons / 119 Episodes
2 Movies
Based on the popular fantasy films starring Christopher Lambert, Highlander took the basic format of the original film and expanded upon it, with Adrian Paul playing the immortal Duncan MacLeod.
The series ran for an impressive six seasons, with the episodes being split between the US and Paris due to the financial arrangements, and is probably best known for the swordfights and the impressive flashback sequences.
The films and TV series collided in 2000 with the appalling movie Highlander: Endgame, and more recently the fifth movie in the franchise, The Source starring Adrian Paul, ended up debuting on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US.
Original Novels
Highlander: The Element of Fire
by Jason Henderson
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1995
Other Editions
Highlander: The Element of Fire

UK / Paperback / Boxtree / 1996
Back Cover Blurb — Aspect
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE
Centuries ago, the Immortal pirate Khordas vowed to destroy MacLeod. Evil and insane, Khordas delights in burning his victims inside their homes and ships, while he loots the pyres from which he alone can emerge.
Nantucket, 1897: Now on an anniversary of blood, the undying monster springs an infernal trap around the Highlander. But the pirate doesn't want merely to kill MacLeod. Unless stopped, Khordas will sear to cinders everything — and everyone — the Highlander holds dear...
by Ashley McConnell
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1996
Other Editions
Highlander: Scimitar

UK / Paperback / Boxtree / 1996
Back Cover Blurb — Aspect
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
BLOOD OF KINGS
For centuries the legendary sword has brought death and the Quickening. A blade forged to steal the blood of princes and immortals, the scimitar has haunted Duncan MacLeod as it has haunted history, from the slave markets of the Barbary pirates to Lawrence of Arabia's war against the Turks...
Now the sword has mysteriously been delivered into Joe Dawson's hands. With it comes instructions that tell Dawson — a member of the Watchers, the secret society of mortals who have observed Immortals through history — to give the scimitar to Duncan MacLeod. Is the scimitar meant as a challenge, a warning, or a salute across the centuries from one Immortal to another?
Highlander: Scotland the Brave
by Jennifer Roberson
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1997
Back Cover Blurb
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
SCOTLAND WILL BE FREED
MacLeod is drawn into a conspiracy of Immortals on a militant quest to win back the independence that Scotland lost, centuries ago, at Culloden. For her own reasons, Immortal Annie Devlin has already answered the ancient call of the clans. But if Duncan follows, he risks being drawn into a web of obsession, madness, and murder. For the Immortal who is masterminding the campaign will be satisfied with nothing less than Duncan Macleod's heart and soul...and undying loyalty.
Highlander: Measure of a Man
by Nancy Holder
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1997
Back Cover Blurb
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
THE PRINCE OF LIES
Niccolo Machiavelli was history's greatest manipulator, whose only morality was "might makes right." He played princes against kings, controlling all by lies and corrupted love. What if such a man were Immortal? In Venice, 1655, MacLeod tested his wit and his honor against Machiavelli and learned that his opponent would stop at no betrayal to achieve his ends. Now Machiavelli has plans to dominate the entire mortal world. Then why has the Prince of Lies dared the Highlander to stop him?
by Rebecca Neason
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1997
Back Cover Blurb
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
THE IMMORTAL WAY
It is said that the Dalai Lama is immortal, in his own way: repeatedly reincarnated with his memories of past lives intact. Will the current incarnation of the Dalai Lama remember the Duncan MacLeod he met in 1781? And will he greet him as a friend — or an enemy?
In 1781 Duncan MacLeod was a weary traveler trying to escape the memory of too many European battlefields. Reaching Tibet's holy city of Lhasa, he found peace in a woman's love, an ancient land's eternal wisdom, and friendship with the Dalai Lama. Until a bloodthirsty Immortal turned his unstoppable army toward Tibet...and the head of the Highlander.
by Donna Lettow
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1997
Back Cover Blurb
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
NEVER AGAIN
The Hebrew warrior Avram Mordecai has defended his people since the Roman siege of Masada, through 2000 years of Diaspora, ghettos, pogroms, and the Holocaust. And MacLeod has fought beside him, saving Jews from the Nazis World War II. Now the Highlander is protecting a beautiful Palestinian diplomat at peace talks that the Zealot has vowed to disrupt by any means — including murder...
Highlander: Shadow of Obsession
by Rebecca Neason
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1998
Back Cover Blurb
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
MAN OF PEACE
Once the Immortal Darius was a brutal warrior and the terror of Europe. Then outside the gates of Paris, a transformation took place, and Darius became a saintly man of peace. His teachings touched many lives — including the Highlander's. Now, to honor his friend's memory, MacLeod protects Victor Paulus, a mortal who carries on Darius' legacy. But Darius left another legacy — a thwarted ex-lover who spent centuries plotting against Darius, who has sworn to destroy anyone he called a friend.
Starting with Victor Paulus and Duncan MacLeod...
Highlander: The Captive Soul
by Josepha Sherman
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1998
Highlander: White Silence
by Ginjer Buchanan
- United States
- Paperback
- Aspect
- 1999
Back Cover Blurb
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE...
He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can only die if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Quickening. But his battles are eternal...for in the end, there can be only one. He is Duncan MacLeod. The Highlander.
CRUCIBLE OF ICE
Three Immortals — MacLeod, his old friend Hugh Fitzcairn, and Fitz's student, young Danny O'Donal — trek to the Yukon, seeking glory, gold and the Northern Lights. But in the raging blizzards of the far north, the quest becomes a nightmare. For even Immortals can starve, freeze, and go mad, trapped in a frozen hell where implacable nature can kill the Highlander or his companions — again, and again, and again...
Anthologies
Highlander: An Evening at Joe's
Edited by Gillian Horvath
- United States
- Paperback
- Berkley
- 2000
Original Audiobooks
A series of completely original audiobooks, set between the movies Highlander: Endgame and Highlander: The Source.
Writer: Trevor Baxendale
Narrators: Adrian Paul and Trevor Cooper
- UK
- 1 × CD
- Big Finish Productions
- April 2009
Back Cover Blurb
"I first met Pieter Gatlan in 1868. It was a beautiful, warm sunny afternoon when he first tried to kill me."
Of all the sword fights Duncan MacLeod has fought over the centuries, the toughest have been against an Immortal named Pieter Gatlan. Every ten years, Gatlan searches Duncan out — and every ten years, Duncan is defeated, but not beheaded. What is Gatlan's grand plan? And this time, will the Highlander triumph?
Highlander: Love and Hate
Writer: Colin Harvey
Narrators: Adrian Paul and Beth Chalmers
- UK
- 1 × CD
- Big Finish Productions
- May 2009
Back Cover Blurb
"Immortals didn't die. Not like this. You cut an Immortal, they got up. You shot them, they got up. You burnt them, they got up. They always got up."
A roof-top duel between sword-wielding combatants becomes the talk of Seacouver — but Duncan is perplexed when both bodies are found with their heads intact. No Quickening has taken place, and instead, the pair seemed to have burned to death. And who is Maria Rostov, the beautiful young Russian claiming that her life is in danger?
Highlander: The Secret of the Sword
Writer: Jonathan Clements
Narrators: Adrian Paul and Toby Longworth
- UK
- 1 × CD
- Big Finish Productions
- June 2009
Back Cover Blurb
"This sword is at least four hundred years old."
Duncan MacLeod knows a lot about swords. Everyone knows that. So, when he's called in to help Seacouver police value an antique blade found hidden away in a museum basement, he thinks nothing of it. But then, when he sees the sword — as amazing, beautiful and ancient as it is — Duncan realises there might be more to his involvement than he originally thought.
Highlander: Kurgan Rising
Writers: Cavan Scott & Mark Wright
Narrators: Adrian Paul and Toby Longworth
- UK
- 1 × CD
- Big Finish Productions
- July 2009
Back Cover Blurb
"Everyone has a bogeyman. A name whispered with fear and dread."
With an increasing number of Immortals disappearing, Duncan and Watcher Joe Dawson decide to investigate. The trail leads to an imposing Parisian office building owned by business magnate Augustus Mason, but nothing can prepare the Highlander for what he will find within. An old friend, a new foe — and an ancient terror reborn!
Highlander: The Four Horsemen
Writers: Scott Andrews and James Moran
Narrators: Valentine Pelka, Richard Ridings, Marcus Testory and Peter Wingfield with Toby Longworth, Tracy-Ann Oberman and John Banks
- UK
- 4 × CD / Download
- Big Finish Productions
- April 2011
Back Cover Blurb
For centuries, they battled the forces of light, murdering, pillaging and terrorising their way across the globe. Then, through the betrayal of one of their number, the Four Horsemen rode no longer. But before their ultimate end, each was the target of a very personal vendetta striking to the core of the Horsemen's seemingly unbreakable bond. Now the secret history of Kronos, Silas, Caspian and Methos can finally be revealed...
Box Set Contents
CD 1: Brothers
CD 2: All the King's Horses
CD 3: The Pain Eater
CD 4: The Promise
Notes
- A set of four audiobooks reuniting the "Four Horsemen", Kronos, Methos, Silas and Caspian, a group of four ancient Immortals whose exploits during the Bronze Age were legendary... and not for anything good. All four characters would be voiced in the audiobooks by the original television actor.
Methos (Peter Winfield) was introduced into the television series during Season 3 (appropriately enough in Methos), going on to become a recurring character, while a modern-day reunion of the Four Horsemen would occur in Season 5's Comes a Horseman and Revelation 6:8. The latter would see both Kronos (Valentine Pelka) and Silas (Richard Ridings) being killed.