The BEST episodes of Highlander: The Animated Series season 1
Every episode of Highlander: The Animated Series season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Highlander: The Animated Series season 1!
Seven centuries have passed since the Earth plunged into darkness, seven centuries since the Jettator swore to regain from man his lost knowledge and freedom, all the Immortals took the oath, all except one. Who dominates the world, but soon an Immortal will come to confront him, his name is Quentin MacLeod, he is the Highlander. This animated series followed the adventures of Quentin MacLeod, the Last of the MacLeods. Set in a post apocalyptic world almost barren of technology and civilization. The Jettator's or Immmortals oath was to lay down their swords and when Kortan decided not to swear the oath so began the wait for the Highlander. It was contended by this series, which was made before Highlander Endgame that Kortan took Conner MacLeod's quickening.
#1 - The Courage of Love
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1994
Quentin helps an immortal who has lost his courage and receives the quickening of languages.
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#2 - The Suspended Village
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1994
Quentin has a fear of heights and must conqueror that fear before he recieves the quickening of the winds.
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#3 - Fallout
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1994
Ramirez shows Quentin how the Great Catastohphe came to pass. In doing so, Quentin decides the horrible knowledge of nuclear weapons is something he can not bear and runs away. They then meet Promethus, the Jettator who guards the knowledge of atomic power, who's immortality has become a prison from the radiation. But Kortan has come for the quickening also. Finally Quentin relents and receives the quickening of atomic power.
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#4 - The Setup
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1995
Quentin journeys to meet Yashoda, the Jettator who holds the knowledge of the martial arts. When his vanity overcomes him, Quentin fails to pass Yashoda's test of readyness to receive his quickening. However, he promises a second chance after Quentin has gained the knowledge of all the remaining Genetors.
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#5 - The Sound of Madness
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/15/1995
Kortan decides to challenge Quentin aboard a rusty ship in a desert. In the middle of the duel, Quentin temporarily experiences a huge disadvantage as he loses his eyesight. The fight becomes more arduous given Quentin's inability to see and Kortan's deceptive strategies. Each duelist is intent in winning this perilous battle
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#6 - The Valley of the Thorn Pods
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1994
Quentin's latest knowledge quest encounter a lesson in botany.
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#7 - The Last Weapon
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1994
The Dundees are attacked by bandits with a terrible weapon used in a time before the Great Catastrophe. Ramirez learns it is a machine gun when he performs a magic called surgery upon a wounded Dundee. Quentin has gone with the Dundees in search of the bandits and the weapon. They find the bandits held up aboard the remains of an ancient aircraft carrier.
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#8 - A Taste of Betrayal
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1994
Ramirez takes Quentin to meet Stevenson a once daring and powerful Jettator who built a dam before the Great Catastrophe that generates a special kind of energy called electricity. However, Stevenson is nowhere to be found as his mysterious ferryman continues to lead Quentin and Ramirez into a trap.
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#9 - The Last of the MacLeods
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/1994
Kortan sends forth his Hunters lead by Arak to confront the Dundees. Living among the Dundees is Quentin, who has lived his life as a Dundee. After Arak kills Quentin the Quickening restores him to life and his dying mother tells him he is a MacLeod and is the chosen Immortal to defeat Kortan. Quentin promises his mother to rescue the Dundees and follow his destiny. Ramirez then appears after waiting seven centuries to reveal the oath taken by himself and other Immortal such as Mangus to become Jettators. Now is the time for Ramirez to take Quentin into being his apprentice. But can Ramirez teach the young boy enough before he confronts Kortan for the first time?
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#10 - Melvyn the Magnificent
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1994
After encountering a burning water called oil, Ramirez and Quentin try to visit a Jettator named Errol who knows all the secrets of the Earth. They instead find a tortured and demented soul named Melvyn who thinks he is an Immortal. Making things worse Quentin's sister Clyde looks like Melvyn's daughter, whom he believed to have perished at the hands of Kortan's Hunters.
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#11 - Exodus
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1994
On an island where an Amazon like society exists is an unlikely hiding place for our little foursome. Both the women and our heroes have one thing in common, their enemies are the hunters.
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#12 - The History Lesson
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1994
Quentin continues his training while questioning the history lesson attached to the ""Spanish Surprise"". Ramirez decides to take Quentin to see Lonsallez, the Jettator who has all of mankinds history. Finally after receiving the history quickening Quentin understands as Ramirez said, ""In order to know where he is going man needs to understand where he has been.""
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#13 - The Cursed
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1994
The Dundees contract malaria while traveling through the marshlands. In order to save the Dundees, Ramirez takes Quentin to the sixth cliffs to meet Ilric, the Jettator who has the knowledge of medicine. With Ilric's quickening, Quentin extracts a cure to save the Dundees, but Hunters have found him.
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