This is a list of television episodes from the American fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 series Highlander: The Raven

Highlander: The Raven

Highlander: The Raven was a short-lived spin-off from the television series Highlander, continuing the saga of a female Immortal. The series followed the character of Amanda , an Immortal who had a recurring role in Highlander: The Series...

, a spin-off

Spin-off (media)

In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

 of Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...

and part of the Highlander franchise. The only season of the show aired between September 21, 1998 and May 22, 1999 and consisted of 22 episodes. It has been released on DVD in Region 1 on June 14, 2005. The series features flashback

Flashback (narrative)

Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory...

s, swordfights and quickenings

Quickening (Highlander)

The Quickening is a phenomenon in the Highlander films and television series. When an Immortal is beheaded, there is a powerful energy release from their body which is called a Quickening. Lead Highlander: The Series actor Adrian Paul explains, "The Quickening is the receiving of all the power and...

 which are typical of the Highlander franchise, as well as guest appearances of Highlander: The Series recurring actors Jim Byrnes

Jim Byrnes (actor)

James Thomas Kevin "Jim" Byrnes is a blues musician, guitarist, and actor.-Life and career:Byrnes was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a homemaker mother and a municipal accountant father. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since the mid-1970s...

 (as Watcher

Watcher (Highlander)

Watchers are a secret organization that watches the Immortals in the Highlander: The Series and all subsequent related series and movies.They were introduced in the season 1 finale as a cliffhanger for the following season...

 Joe Dawson), Philip Akin

Philip Akin

Philip Akin is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’...

 and Valentine Pelka

Valentine Pelka

Valentine Pelka is an English actor who has starred in film and on television.-Biography:Pelka was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire to an actress mother and a civil engineer father. His mother is Irish, and his father is Polish. His sister is Kazia Pelka an actress who starred in Brookside, amongst...

. Dates shown are original air dates on syndication.

Highlander: The Raven follows the adventures of Amanda

Amanda (Highlander)

Amanda is a fictional character in the television series Highlander: The Series and Highlander: The Raven, portrayed by actress Elizabeth Gracen. She is one of the Immortals, immune to old age and death except by beheading...

 (Elizabeth Gracen

Elizabeth Gracen

Elizabeth Ward Gracen is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982. She was born Elizabeth Grace Ward but should not be confused with another Elizabeth Ward who worked as a television actress during the first half of the 1980s....

), a 1200-year-old immortal

Immortal (Highlander)

Immortals are a group of fictional characters seen in the movies and series of the Highlander franchise. Since they are immune to disease and stop aging after becoming Immortal, they can live forever and they only die when they are beheaded....

 woman who can only die if she is beheaded. The first episode, "Reborn", introduces Amanda's lover and pre-Immortal Nick Wolfe

Nick Wolfe

Nick Wolfe is a fictional character from the universe of the Highlander: The Raven, portrayed by actor Paul Johansson. He is an Immortal.Nick has an older brother, who was 4 when Nick was adopted...

 (Paul Johansson

Paul Johansson

Paul Joseph Otto Johansson is an American-born Canadian actor, writer and director, best known for playing Dan Scott on the WB/CW television series, One Tree Hill, and for his role as Nick Wolfe on the short lived Highlander: The Series spin-off Highlander: The Raven...

). The subsequent episodes focus on Amanda and Wolfe's dealings with other Immortals and mortals, especially Amanda's friends Lucy Becker (Patricia Gage) and Father Liam Riley (Robert Cavanah

Robert Cavanah

Robert Cavanah is a Scottish actor/writer/director/producer.Cavanah was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. He is a father of two...

), Wolfe's former boss Carl Magnus (Michael Copeman) and Wolfe's employer Bert Myers (Hannes Jaenicke). The last episode, "Dead on Arrival" depicts Wolfe's accession to immortality.

Production

The show was co-produced by several production companies

Production company

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 including Gaumont Television

Gaumont Film Company

Gaumont Film Company is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont . Gaumont is the oldest continously operating film company in the world....

, M6, Firecorp IV Productions Inc., Rysher

Rysher Entertainment

Rysher Entertainment is the owner of TV and film programming content, primarily distributed around the world by CBS Television Distribution and CBS/ Paramount Pictures...

, Davis-Panzer Productions, Fireworks Distributing Corporation

Fireworks Entertainment

Fireworks Entertainment was founded by Jay Firestone in 1996 to produce, distribute and finance television shows and feature films. Fireworks was acquired by Canwest Global in May 1998, and was later sold to ContentFilm, a British company, in April 2005...

, ProSieben Media and Chum Television

CTVglobemedia

CTVglobemedia , was one of Canada's largest private media companies. Its operations include newspaper publishing , television broadcasting and production , radio broadcasting , and their respective Internet properties.Originally established by BCE and the Thomson family in 2001 combining CTV Inc.,...

. The series were filmed in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. The executive producer

Executive producer

An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

s were Bill Panzer, Peter S. Davis, Christian Charret and Marla Ginsburg. Jay Firestone

Jay Firestone

Jay Firestone is a Gemini award-winning film and television producer.- Early career :Growing up in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Firestone was the third child of six born to Jewish parents Esther and Paul. He attended Hamilton's McMaster University, graduating in 1979 with a degree in commerce...

 and Adam Haight were co-executive producers and David Abramowitz was Creative Consultant. Donald Paonessa was associate producer. Karen Harris

Karen Harris (writer)

Karen Harris is an American television writer for the ABC Daytime serial General Hospital.-Career:During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, she chose not to accept Financial Core Status....

 was supervising producer and James Thorpe was executive story editor

Story editor

Story editor is a job title in motion picture and television production, also sometimes called "supervising producer". A story editor is a member of the screenwriting staff who edits stories for screenplays....

; both also contributed scripts. The regular director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

s were Dennis Berry

Dennis Berry (director)

Dennis Berry is an American film director, actor and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:* La Collectionneuse * Promise at Dawn * Borsalino * The Big Delirium * Highlander: The Raven...

 and George Mendeluk

George Mendeluk

George Mendeluk is German-born Canadian film, television director and writer.Throughout his career he has amassed a number of credits in film and television...

. The producer was Steve Wakefield in Toronto; Denis Leroy who was executive in charge of production in Toronto, took over as producer in Paris. Regina Robb was production manager in Toronto, succeeded by Alexandre Deon in Paris. The sword choreographer on the Toronto segment was James Binkley, replaced in Paris by Philippe Guegan. The theme music was composed and performed by Jeff and Rob Pfeifer; incidental music was composed by Simon Cloquet.

Episodes

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External links

• Highlander: The Raven episode guide at TV.com
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• Highlander: The Raven episode list at Epguides
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