Highlander: The Series (season 5)
| Highlander: The Series | |
|---|---|
| Season 5 | |
 DVD box set | |
| Country of origin | France/Canada co-production |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndication |
| Original release | September 23, 1996 – May 19, 1997 |
| Season chronology | |
The fifth season of the American drama/adventure television series Highlander began airing 23 September 1996 and finished on 19 May 1997. The series continues to follow the adventures of Duncan MacLeod, a 400-year-old Immortal who, just as the Immortals of the movies, can only die if he is beheaded. MacLeod is involved in the Game, an ongoing battle during which all Immortals have to behead each other until only one is left.
Production[]
Two episodes that aired during the fifth season were the fourth season episodes "Double Jeopardy" (aired April 28, 1997) and "One Minute to Midnight" (aired September 23, 1996). These episodes are included in the fourth season DVD set.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Adrian Paul ... Duncan MacLeod
- Stan Kirsch ... Richie Ryan
- Jim Byrnes ... Joe Dawson
Recurring cast[]
- Awaovieyi Agie ... Jeffrey
- Réal Andrews ... Haresh Clay
- Claudie Arif ... Duenna
- Steve Bacic ... Luke
- Dean Balkwill ... David
- Terry Barclay ... Paco
- Geoffrey Bateman ... Richard Dunbar
- Jo Bates ... Glenda
- Mario Battista ... Big Gino
- Jeremy Beck ... Young Duncan MacLeod
- Sandra Bernhard ... Carolyn Marsh
- Lloyd Berry ... Harry
- Alex Bruhanski ... Reynaldo
- Lisa Butler ... Genevieve
- Felipe Calvarro ... Rafael
- Katie Carr ... Claire Clairmont
- Fulvio Cecere ... Alan Wilkinson
- Dolores Chaplin ... Theresa
- ... Coyantu
- Allan Clow ... Neil MacGregor
- Sonia Codhant ... Marina LeMartin
- Kevin John Conway ... Alec Hill
- Bertie Cortez ... Dr. Cernavoda
- James Crescenzo ... Mr. Luca
- Roger R. Cross ... Derek Worth
- Roger Daltrey ... Hugh Fitzcairn
- Mitch Davies ... Captain Greenwell
- Bob Dawson ... O'Grady
- Anthony De Longis ... Otavio Consone
- Carmen du Sautoy ... Anna Hidalgo
- Nathaniel Deveaux ... Reverend Bell
- Stephen Dimopoulos ... Seth Hobart
- Andrew Divoff ... Gavriel Larca
- Alastair Duncan ... Terence Coventry
- Deborah Epstein ... Luisa Hidalgo
- ... Claus von Stauffenberg
- Kathy Evison ... Jennifer Hill
- Jonathan Firth ... Lord Byron
- Don Foran ... Jerry
- Elsa Franco ... Isabella
- L. Harvey Gold ... Igor Stefanovich
- Patrick Gordon ... Immortal Hermit
- Patrick T. Gorman ... Sergeant Hickson
- Elizabeth Gracen ... Amanda / 4 episodes
- Anna Hagan ... Mary Macleod
- Peter Hanlon ... Karl Brandt
- Kevin Hansen ... Clayton Hobart
- Deryl Hayes ... Andrew Beckmann
- Rachel Hayward ... Delila
- ... Old Tom
- Philip Heinrich ... Bobby
- Tim Henry ... Detective Dennis Tynan
- Gary Hetherington ... Carlo Capodimonte
- Keith Holmgren ... Gerald
- Peter Hudson ... Ahriman
- Chris Humphreys ... Graham Ashe
- Michael J. Jackson ... Sean Burns
- Edward Jewesbury ... Jason Landry
- Marine Jolivet ... Inspector Begue
- Patrick Keating ... Adolf Hitler
- Tracy Keating ... Mary Shelley
- Eric Keenleyside ... Trey Franks
- Michael Kopsa ... Tommy
- Sotigui Kouyate ... Hijad
- Chris Larkin ... Steven Keane
- Nicholas Lea ... Cory Raines
- Jim Leard ... Detective Frayne / 2 episodes
- David Longworth ... Paxton
- Cluny MacPherson ... Robert Macleod
- F. Braun McAsh ... Hans Kershner
- Tom McBeath ... Sam Grinkhov
- Eric McCormack ... Matthew McCormick
- Chris William Martin ... Carter Wellan
- Greg Michaels ... Tippet
- Frank Middlemass ... Baron Lemartin
- Michel Modo ... Maurice Lalonde
- Robin Mossley ... Jimmy the Weasel
- John Novak ... Gerard Kragen
- Aaron Pearl ... Myron Corman
- Valentine Pelka ... Kronos / 3 episodes
- Ron Perlman ... The Messenger
- Gerard Plunkett ... Roland Kantos
- Christopher J.P. Racasa ... Enrique
- Emily Raymond ... Allison Landry
- Jeffrey Ribier ... Mike Paladini
- Richard Ridings ... Silas / 2 episodes
- Sylvain Rougerie ... James Foulard
- Gerry Rousseau ... Raymond Fairchild
- Tom Russell ... Edward Cervain
- Tracy Scoggins ... Cassandra / 3 episodes
- Stephen J. M. Sisk ... Tim
- Christopher Staines ... Percy Shelley
- Marcia Strassman ... Betsy Fields
- April Telek ... Roxanne
- Richard Temple ... Foster
- Marcus Testory ... Caspian / 2 episodes
- Matthew Thompson ... James
- Elisa Tonati ... Gilda
- Ian Tracey ... Johnny "K" Kelly
- Jan Triska ... Nicolae Breslaw
- Musetta Vander ... Ingrid Henning
- Astrid Veillon ... Desiree
- Marie Vernalde ... Young Anna
- Arturo Venegas ... Don Diego
- Matthew Walker ... Ian MacLeod
- ... Dominic Delio
- Rhys Williams ... Talbot
- Peter Wingfield ... Methos / 7 episodes
- Robert Wisden ... William Culbraith
- Bruce A. Young ... Carl Robinson
Episodes[]
This season follows the theme of "forgiveness or regret" as episodes focus on a character coming to terms with the consequences of their actions from their past.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | 1 | "Prophecy" | Dennis Berry | David Tynan | October 5, 1996 | 96501 |
| MacLeod encounters an Immortal seer, Cassandra, whom he met as a child in Scotland. Cassandra has the power to mesmerize people with her voice and seems to have other psychic gifts. She had stepped in to hide Duncan from Immortal Roland Kantos, who was out to find the child born on the winter solstice, because of a prophecy that he would fight and vanquish a great evil. Now, centuries later, Roland Kantos has found Duncan MacLeod. Like Cassandra, who apparently taught him, he has the power to mesmerize people with his voice, and captures MacLeod, intending to kill him. Macleod eventually defeats Kantos, gaining the brilliant idea from talking to his younger self in a vision Cassandra helps him to have, of plugging up his ears with candle wax so that Kantos cannot control him via the voice. | ||||||
| 90 | 2 | "The End of Innocence" | Gerard Hameline | Morrie Ruvinsky | October 12, 1996 | 96502 |
| The last time Richie Ryan saw Duncan MacLeod, MacLeod was about to take his head. He was stopped by Dawson's bullet, but Richie's world was shattered by what his old friend had tried to do. Now Richie's back—kicking butt and taking heads. One of those heads belonged to Carter Wellan, and now Wellan's good friend and mentor Haresh Clay is out to avenge his comrade. MacLeod has his own fears and also has a long-time grudge against Clay, who humiliated and destroyed one of MacLeod's finest teachers. MacLeod must try to regain Richie's trust while they vie to be the one to face Clay in combat. | ||||||
| 91 | 3 | "Manhunt" | Peter Ellis | David Tynan | October 19, 1996 | 96503 |
| Carl Robinson, the former slave turned baseball player, has finally found the good life as a Major Leagues star—but when Carl is challenged by another Immortal and witnesses find him standing over the decapitated body, Carl is forced to go on the run from the cops. He turns to MacLeod for help when he is pursued by another Immortal, lawman Matthew McCormick, who has more than just a professional interest in taking Carl into custody. | ||||||
| 92 | 4 | "Glory Days" | Gerard Hameline | Nancy Heiken | October 26, 1996 | 96504 |
| MacLeod has to deal with Johnny K, a teenaged hood who doesn't play by the Immortal rules. And Joe has to deal with an old girlfriend. | ||||||
| 93 | 5 | "Dramatic License" | Peter Ellis | Michael O'Mahoney, Sasha Reins | November 2, 1996 | 96505 |
| Duncan finds himself cast in a romance novel along with an old opponent. Duncan wants to know how much the author, Carolyn Marsh, knows about him, but his rival wants to kill her. | ||||||
| 94 | 6 | "Money No Object" | Rafal Zielinski | James Thorpe | November 9, 1996 | 96506 |
| MacLeod and Amanda are reunited with Cory Raines, the charming, smooth-talking "Clyde" to Amanda's "Bonnie" during their five-state crime spree in the 1920s. Amanda, always ready for a little larceny, is tempted by the carefree and adventurous lifestyle Cory offers her. She takes him up on the offer when she realizes MacLeod won't beg her to stay with him. But MacLeod rides to the rescue when one of Cory's schemes goes astray. | ||||||
| 95 | 7 | "Haunted" | James Bruce | Scott Peters | November 16, 1996 | 96507 |
| Jennifer Hill believes the spirit of her dead husband Alec, an Immortal, is still with her. She comes to Alec's old friend MacLeod and begs him to appease Alec's spirit by killing the Immortal who took Alec Hill's head. Richie finds himself strangely attracted to the grieving young widow—until she realizes he's the very same Immortal being sought by Duncan. | ||||||
| 96 | 8 | "Little Tin God" | Rafal Zielinski | Richard Gilbert-Hill | November 23, 1996 | 96508 |
| Derek's faith in God helped save him from a violent life on the urban streets. When the young gospel singer is killed in a drive-by shooting, he awakens in the arms of God and is given the gift of eternal life. But what's he to do when his God recruits him as a warrior in the Holy War against Satan...and Satan turns out to be Duncan MacLeod? Duncan must face the delusional Immortal Larca. Recruiting gullible new Immortals to do his bidding, Larca challenges MacLeod on holy ground, the one taboo battleground for Immortals. | ||||||
| 97 | 9 | "The Messenger" | James Bruce | David Tynan | November 30, 1996 | 96509 |
| An Immortal is going around pretending to be Methos, encouraging other Immortals to give up the Game. Luring Richie into this dangerous frame of mind, MacLeod's fight with William Culbraith—another Immortal who led the Confederate prison camp Andersonville and whose own personal tragedy led him to give the orders that killed a mortal comrade of the Highlander's -- is interrupted. Dawson warns about this phoney, who convinces Immortals to lay down their swords. But it always ends in tragedy; the converts are then killed by the next Immortal to come along, with the fake Methos continuing on his hopeless mission of preaching pacifism. An incredulous Methos confronts the impostor, and upon realizing he is genuine concludes he is daft. Culbraith, however, has other plans and takes the Messenger's head thinking he is Methos, hoping the Quickening will give him the strength to defeat MacLeod. In the end, however, it is Richie who takes Culbraith's head. | ||||||
| 98 | 10 | "The Valkyrie" | Richard Martin | James Thorpe | February 1, 1997 | 96510 |
| Ingrid Henning failed in an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler during WWII. Since then, she has made it her mission to take out rising monsters before they can achieve political power, having concluded that Hitler's position protected him. Now, Henning is after a racist politician whose star is rising. MacLeod must confront his one-time comrade before her crusade takes the lives of innocent people. | ||||||
| 99 | 11 | "Comes a Horseman" | Gerard Hameline | David Tynan | February 8, 1997 | 96511 |
| MacLeod renews an old battle with an Immortal he encountered in 1867 as the outlaw Melvin Koren. MacLeod learns that Koren is really Kronos, who turns out to be thousands of years old and more than MacLeod can handle. To make matters more complicated, Cassandra is after Kronos to settle a score of her own. During the Bronze Age, Kronos led a small band of Immortals called the Four Horsemen on a raid that destroyed the seer's village and enslaved her. When Methos is revealed to have been one of the Horsemen, MacLeod tells him their friendship is over. The oldest living Immortal is forced to join up with Kronos, who has reunited the Horsemen. He manages, however, to break up what was supposed to be the decisive battle between MacLeod and Kronos, saying it could have gone either way. | ||||||
| 100 | 12 | "Revelation 6:8" | Adrian Paul | Tony DiFranco | February 15, 1997 | 96512 |
| The Four Horsemen are reunited. Cassandra is their prisoner. And worst of all, Methos has apparently rejoined his old comrades, guiding Kronos to their Brothers, Caspian and Silas. As MacLeod makes plans to rescue Cassandra and face Kronos for the last time, Methos tries to stay alive, maybe dissuade Silas, and somehow perhaps keep Cassandra—who was his personal "pet" during her first captivity in the Bronze Age—alive, too. Kronos' plan is revealed: he intends to use an engineered virus to wipe out most of humanity and conquer the survivors as part of an eternal empire. Methos eventually betrays his former comrades, with he and MacLeod simultaneously battling Kronos and Silas to the death in their own respective fights. The result is a double quickening as MacLeod and Methos win the day. Cassandra wants to avenge herself upon Methos, her former tormentor, but Duncan demands she let him live. Whether or not the centuries have truly changed Methos after all, he was the man who saved Duncan MacLeod from the Dark Quickening, and he had in the end helped to save humanity. Afterward, Methos implies that he had set up the entire confrontation with Kronos hoping MacLeod could do what he himself never could—take his Immortal brother's head. | ||||||
| 101 | 13 | "The Ransom of Richard Redstone" | Gerard Hameline | David Tynan | February 22, 1997 | 96513 |
| The Chateau LeMartin has been in Marina's family for generations, but now the slimy Carlo Capodimonte threatens to foreclose on an old loan and take the chateau for himself. Desperate to save the family heritage, Marina kidnaps an American millionaire in order to pay off the loan. Unfortunately for Marina, the rich and charming "Richard Redstone" she has tied up in the cellar is none other than Richie Ryan. | ||||||
| 102 | 14 | "Duende" | Richard Martin | Jan Hartman | March 1, 1997 | 96514 |
| Spanish swordplay, like Spanish dancing, is equal parts passion, skill, and strict discipline. The Immortal Otavio Consone is a master of both. An arrogant Spaniard who 150 years ago tried to teach MacLeod the sword art called "The Mysterious Circle," Consone vied with MacLeod for the hand of a beautiful senorita, with tragic results. Now MacLeod must protect a Flamenco artist and her daughter from Consone's revenge. | ||||||
| 103 | 15 | "The Stone of Scone" | Richard Martin | Michael O'Mahony and Sasha Reins | April 21, 1997 | 96515 |
| According to official statements by the British government, the theft of the Stone of Scone, the legendary royal throne of Scotland, from Westminster Abbey in 1950 was simply a rowdy schoolboy prank. But was it? Or was it actually the bungled work of three rather hapless Immortals, attempting to fulfill a promise made centuries before? | ||||||
| 104 | 16 | "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" | Paolo Barzman | Dom Tordjmann | May 5, 1997 | 96516 |
| After the Scottish massacre at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Duncan MacLeod was a man possessed, obsessed, with killing the English bastards who had destroyed his people. Now Immortal Steven Keane has come to make MacLeod pay for his murderous crimes. Amanda urges MacLeod to take Keane's head and be done with it, but in his heart MacLeod knows that Keane is right—he is a murderer—and that Keane is judging him just like MacLeod has judged so many others. | ||||||
| 105 | 17 | "The Modern Prometheus" | Adrian Paul | James Thorpe | May 12, 1997 | 96517 |
| Lord Byron, once one of the greatest and most scandalous writers of the 19th Century, is now a rock star. Methos remembers when his escapades led to a senseless fight that ended in a quickening witnessed by Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein." Byron's debauchery and substance abuse have only increased with time. He lures an up-and-coming musician under Joe Dawson's tutelage into his dangerous lifestyle, and MacLeod becomes involved. Tragedy finally strikes, with Dawson's musical protégé dying from a drug overdose. Methos finally realizes that his former pupil is beyond hope, and MacLeod fights Byron to the death. | ||||||
| 106 | 18 | "Archangel" | Dennis Berry | David Tynan | May 19, 1997 | 96518 |
| Two archaeologists, Foster and Landry, are exploring a tunnel and they come face to face with a statue. Landry the more experienced and superstitious recognizes the statue as the ancient Zoroastrian demon Ahriman who plagues the world every thousand years by coming into human form. Foster is killed and Landry escapes. Landry warns Duncan that he is the champion who is to defeat Ahriman but both he and Richie think the man is crazy. But later Duncan sees James Horton, Kronos and other people he had killed before. Methos and Joe think he is losing it but Richie is willing to stay by his side whatever it takes. When Richie sees Horton taking Joe in a car to a racetrack with a gun to his head Richie calls Duncan and tells him he is going after them. Duncan who is with Joe at the time sees that it's a trap. He gets to the racetrack and is confronted by Richie, Horton, and Kronos. Ahriman has taken their form. He fights them but they disappear every time he attacks them. Then the real Richie appears and Duncan, thinking it is Ahriman, delivers the fatal blow. Joe and Methos arrive just as Ahriman in Richie's form laughs and leaves. Duncan runs away and Joe is left crying on Methos' shoulder. Richie is gone forever. | ||||||
Home release[]
| Highlander: The Series Season Five | ||
| Set details[1] | Special features[1] | |
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| Release dates | ||
| Region 1 | Region 2 | |
| August 10, 2004[2] | ||
References[]
- ^ a b "Highlander: The Series - Season 5". TVShowsonDVD.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
- ^ "Highlander: Season Five DVD @ DVD Empire". Dvdempire.com. 2004-10-08. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
External links[]
- Highlander: The Series episode list at Epguides
- Highlander: The Series episode list at the Internet Movie Database
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