The Highlander TV Series

[luckyD]

Oh my, my.....I'm up to Season 5 and what an imaginable and creative series!!!...Visiting so many places in the world and history....And I must say: the costumes and wardrobe Adrian (Duncan) wore really reflected the particular time of history he was in. I am enjoying this so much and wish it would not end.

PEACE TO ADRIAN ALWAYS

[luckyD]

I've finished watching all the seasons of Highlander and I feel like I've lost a best friend. I guess I'll just have to visit from time to time. :o

Hope Adrian discovers a new venture we all can watch. There are so many facets to that man....can't wait.

PEACE TO ADRIAN ALWAYS

[brilliant!MacLeod]

I've finished watching all the seasons of Highlander and I feel like I've lost a best friend. I guess I'll just have to visit from time to time. :o

Hope Adrian discovers a new venture we all can watch. There are so many facets to that man....can't wait.

PEACE TO ADRIAN ALWAYS

I second that!!!:D:D

[L_Shell]

Me too!!!

[Tessa]

I've finished watching all the seasons of Highlander and I feel like I've lost a best friend. I guess I'll just have to visit from time to time. :o

Hope Adrian discovers a new venture we all can watch. There are so many facets to that man....can't wait.

PEACE TO ADRIAN ALWAYS

Why would you feel like you've lost a best friend? You can rewatch them over and over again if you want to! I first discovered HIghlander and watched the complete series for the first time in 2002 and I continue to enjoy it 7 years later!

[luckyD]

I will watch it again, it's just the first time you go through all the seasons at once. It was like a movie for 3 months.

[brilliant!MacLeod]

I will watch it again, it's just the first time you go through all the seasons at once. It was like a movie for 3 months.

I just finished watching for the 4th time in 2 years.It´s never loosing it´s fascination!:D

[pukkie]

I just finished watching for the 4th time in 2 years.It´s never loosing it´s fascination!:D

Me too ,and i still loved it !!;)

[L_Shell]

I remember Highlander when it originally aired...When the final episode aired, that's when I felt lost...Earlier this year I watched it again all the way through (time well spent)...Such a great show! I miss it!

[brilliant!MacLeod]

I remember Highlander when it originally aired...When the final episode aired, that's when I felt lost...Earlier this year I watched it again all the way through (time well spent)...Such a great show! I miss it!

DITO!!!!!!

[geishagirl_1]

I remember Highlander when it originally aired...When the final episode aired, that's when I felt lost...Earlier this year I watched it again all the way through (time well spent)...Such a great show! I miss it!

So do I,
I have started watching again for the third time. It has definitely not lost it's appeal for me. ;);)

[Littledevil]

I totally love the series. After my first son was born and stuck on the couch for the first couple weeks that's what I watched. I watched every every episode start to end and all the extra stuff too. It was great. I plan on doing that again once my 2nd son is born too.

[brilliant!MacLeod]

I totally love the series. After my first son was born and stuck on the couch for the first couple weeks that's what I watched. I watched every every episode start to end and all the extra stuff too. It was great. I plan on doing that again once my 2nd son is born too.

I did the same when my daughter was born!!She used to nap on the couch beside me while I was indulging myself with Adrian/Highlander:D
Maybe this is the reason she became a fan herself?:D

BTW,it´s good to have you back,LD!!
I pray for you!

[Littledevil]

Thanks....I have been with out Adrian for months....I have just been so busy with family stuff and trying to get things done and ready before I deliver baby 2...which hopefully very soon. Already past due date and very uncomfortable. If I never see a bathroom again to pee it would be too soon.

[Coolwater]

Oh, poor LD! We know how you feel!

Big hugs around your round middle!

[brilliant!MacLeod]

So your little boy is taking his time-this might be a good sign,he is a thinker and does no rash decisions(LOL).It was the same with my daughter.Don´t worry,our thoughts are with you!

[pukkie]

I thinking on you LD ,big hug !

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[Littledevil]

thank you ladies... Have Dr. Apointment tomorrow and will let you know what progress and if I will be induced or not.

[Gin]

My good friend just gifted me with the complete series along with the Blooper tape. She treated herself to the DVD's and sent the VHS version to me. Gotta love her! My family and I are going to do a marathon some weekend soon. I haven't seen an episode in quite a while so I know it will be great!:)

[Coolwater]

Pop corn and iced tea time!

[brilliant!MacLeod]

and plug off the phone and the door bell!!LOL

[EvanStar4506]

My good friend just gifted me with the complete series along with the Blooper tape. She treated herself to the DVD's and sent the VHS version to me. Gotta love her! My family and I are going to do a marathon some weekend soon. I haven't seen an episode in quite a while so I know it will be great!:)

I love a good HL mararthon! While I'm looking for work, it won't hurt to put some DVDs in a watch a few seasons until I get lucky!
I may start this weekend.

[Gin]

Pop corn and iced tea time!
Gotta have cherry twizzlers too.

[pukkie]

My good friend just gifted me with the complete series along with the Blooper tape. She treated herself to the DVD's and sent the VHS version to me. Gotta love her! My family and I are going to do a marathon some weekend soon. I haven't seen an episode in quite a while so I know it will be great!:)

It is always great watch Highlander again !!
Much fun Gin

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[pat_t]

I'm rewatching the eps as I work out on my treadmill or stationary bike. No matter how many times I watch the episodes I can still find something new in them.

[Carmel]

I'm rewatching the eps as I work out on my treadmill or stationary bike. No matter how many times I watch the episodes I can still find something new in them.
That is so true Pat. Even the episodes that weren't well liked always have something in them that puts them above the rest...yes, even The Zone and The Blitz! It might be just a small scene but there is always something. I don't recall ever seeing a Ten Worst Episodes List - it might be fun to create one.,...and then look for the scenes in them that really worked or that were important in driving the story line and relationships forward? I will look into the Poll features here at the Forum and if not possible we could set it up elsewhere.
Carmel

[Barney]

Adrian shared some of the humor that took place on the set of "Highlander" in the Peace magazine. Here's one piece he wrote.

Behind the Scenes of "Highlander" by Adrian Paul

You know, I always think you should have fun whilst you're working. If you don't enjoy the job that you do, then there's really no point in doing it. So I want to tell you about a couple of the more enjoyable moments I had on the "Highlander" set.

I was working with one of our more frequent directors, the never-a-dull-moment and effervescent, Dennis Berry. To call Dennis eccentric would be an understatement, but he's fun to work with at the same time. Sometimes he's very funny and the next moment a raving lunatic, screaming at the production about not having decent camera equipment or at the crew because they're not working fast enough. When it sometimes lasts a little longer than usual, I have to tell Dennis to cool it since he's made his point 5 minutes before and he would stop immediately. Then he'd walk over to me and say, "I have to do that. Otherwise the crew works too slowly. It's good for them from time to time." Then he breaks into his characteristic giggle.

After working with him for nearly two years, we worked on the episode "Pharaoh's Daughter", the story of an Egyptian immortal, Nefertiri, played by Nia Peeples, trapped in a sarcophagus for 2000 years. On this particular day we had our work cut out for us. We were on our fourth day of shooting on the streets of Paris. As well as dealing with the normal work load, Dennis and I were going to think up some interesting shots of Nia and me walking through Paris showing her twentieth century life. His sense of humor started early when one of the shots he thought up was for Nia and me to be looking for clothes for her to wear and then to cut to a scene inside a clothes store. The place he picked was a store on a corner that had refused to let us shoot there only the day before, preventing Dennis from getting the look he wanted for that scene. He was now determined to shoot the store from the outside since they wouldn't let him shoot on the inside. So he placed his camera so he could shoot through the glass at Nia and me on the opposite street. Nia and I thought we needed some dialogue here since she wasn't supposed to like the clothes in the store. To Dennis' delight, when the cameras were rolling, she came up to the window looked at the clothes, shook her head in disgust and said, "No! Looks like slave cloth." Unfortunately, and I have no reason why, it never made the final cut. Something that did, however, was a scene we shot later that day.

Because of the problems we had with the Paris beauracracy and the "I don't care" type of attitude of the French motorists that tended to confine us to a limited number of things we could do, we struggled through several other shots. We finally came to a scene that had been previewed and the location chosen for part of that day's work. By this time Dennis was in full swing. We were in an area that resembled a small cloister with pillars on one side of a small street and with steps on the other leading to a passage with stores on it. Dennis didn't want to shoot the pillars of the cloister because he has already used them in another scene that day. So he pointed the camera the other way toward the steps. Nia and I walked from the top of the steps into the street below. Here we would run into a police officer, played by an extra, who would put his hand out to prevent us from crossing. Nia would slap his hand away in the horror that a mere slave would dare to raise his hand in her direction.

Well, after the second take, we turned around to hear this middled-aged woman who was standing behind us screaming in French about how we weren't allowed to use the steps and the passageway as we didn't have a permit. Dennis tried to tell her we did, even though for that particular area we didn't, so she insisted on seeing it. After a little shoulder shrugging that the French do so well, she left and we proceeded to rehearse the take again as the previous one has some technical difficulties. All of a sudden there she was again telling the policeman (the extra) how he should stop us from shooting or come up with the permit. Somehow we managed to get her out of the way to do one more take which is the take used in the final edit of the show. However, just as Dennis called cut, our banshee from the passage was back and out for blood. The crew, myself and Nia watched on as the scene, as good as any Shakespearean tragedy, unfolded before our very eyes. Dennis was trying to calm the woman down and be very charming to her, but I think he had found the female replica of himself. She was ranting and raving about how she was going to call the police. And the last thing you do with Dennis is rant at him. All of a sudden, as Dennis has a tendency to do, he exploded, jumping to the top of the stairs and screaming that he wanted the camera right at the top of the steps and he wanted it now. Well, we fell about laughing since we knew that he had no intention of shooting there, but just wanted to show the woman that he was as crazy as she was. It worked and she scuttled away not knowing really what hit her. Yet her memory and persona has been forever immortalized because, if you look closely at the end of the scene, striding purposely down the steps is...yes, you quessed it...our whirling dervish permit seeker.:D

This is a practical joke that Stan Kirsch played at the end of filming in Vancouver in Season 1. Since I had been playing tricks on Stan since the series began, one of which was making him wear a piece of his birthday cake, I was waiting to see what he would come up with. Filming was proceeding as per normal. It was the second to last filming day and I happened to be shooting a sword fight by the water at about 9:00 at night. Now as normally happens on a film set, you see many new faces turning up from time to time who turn out to be the friends of crew members, extras, family, etc. This particular night we were close to finishing the evening's work when I noticed one of the girls, who had been an extra several times before, was accompanied by a leggy blonde girl in a tight mini-skirt. Seeing as we didn't have any extras previewed for the evening, I thought maybe they'd come by to hang around for the last shot and were meeting Stan later. (The one girl I recognized had hung out with him before.) However, there was something not right about her friend and even from 50 yards away something struck me as odd.

In between takes I walked over to my chair to sit and three chairs up was the leggy blonde. Her friend introduced her as Patricia and I said a polite "Hello", but didn't really take too much notice. After five or ten minutes of talking it was time to go back to work. When I got back to the set, I said to the other actor, James Horan, how odd that girl had been to which he responded, "You know who that is, don't you?" I said "No, not really". "I'll give you three guesses," he replied. Well, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Stanleeeeey!

However, being such a good sport, I didn't want to give the game away and preferred to let Stan walk around in drag for as long as it took him to make whatever move he was going to make. Ten minutes went by. Nothing. Twenty minutes. Nothing. At about the half hour mark I could see the whirling of human activity around me and the vixen in tights was making her way over. Her friend came with her and asked me to talk to her friend. Biting my tongue, I said "Sure". As Stan approached, I cut him short of actually finishing whatever he had in mind with a simple "Hello Stan". I don't think I've seen a face drop quite as quickly. "Who told you it was me?" he cried. "I can't tell you that", I replied, "but I must say you look great as a blonde". He ripped the wig off his head and said "How long did you know it was me?" "Not long", I replied.

Oh, Stan was devastated and as I looked around, the whole crew as well as the cameraman with the camera rolling were laughing at Stan standing there in fishnet stockings. What had happened was that, together with the help of the wardrobe, makeup and hair departments, Stan had spent the good part of the evening trying to figure out what he was going to do. He came up with the idea that he would pretend to be an ardent fan and throw himself on me and see how I handled it whilst the cameras rolled.

The entire afternoon and evening's events were filmed and I must admit that it was amusing to listen to all the comments made by Stan and everyone else about how they were going to get "The Highlander". And I would have continued to keep the episode in the annals of my film library, but Stan asked to borrow the tape, promising to give it back as soon as he'd finished with it. When I finally cornered him about it, he admitted what I thought had happened. He had destroyed it and wasn't returning my calls because he couldn't bring himself to tell me.

Or maybe is was because he really preferred himself as a brunette.....

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If I'm not mistaken, I don't believe anyone was ever able to "get" the Highlander. Am I right???

[Coolwater]

:D Surely someone must have?

[brilliant!MacLeod]

would he ever admit?:D

Thanks again,Barney.