The tale of immortals battling one another seemed exhausted by the original "Highlander" film and sequels but there were also three television series.
The first and most successful TV version was "Highlander" with Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod - effectively the films' Connor MacLeod in all but name. At least at first he was, but he grew into his own separate character and arguably his series was more effective than the movies.
Perhaps one reason is that the series took its time to develop the supporting characters. In each film Connor meets at least one woman in the present who generally goes from 'hello' to sex pretty swiftly before either dying on screen or dying before the next film. In the series, people lasted a long time and when they were killed it was that much more important and well done.
Easily the best example was Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen), an immortal thief who first popped up to cause Duncan problems during a 1993 episode and continued on irregularly to the end in 1998 and then immediately into her own series, "Highlander: The Raven".
True, "The Raven" had fewer links to the Highlands of Scotland than ever before in the story, but the idea of an immoral immortal was appealing. Unfortunately, it wasn't appealing enough to last: 22 episodes were made compared to the 119 chalked up by "Highlander: The Series".
More successfully, "Highlander: The Animated Series" (1994-5) found yet another MacLeod, this time a young boy named Quentin (voiced by Miklos Perlus) living in a post-Apocalyptic world where the immortals have sworn against fighting one another in order to battle the evil Kortan. They did so for 40 episodes, too, which is going it some.
The clearest acknowledgement of the various series' success, though, comes with the forthcoming film "Highlander: Endgame" which again ignores previous films but brings together cinema's Connor MacLeod and televisions's Duncan MacLeod.
