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4 unusual facts about Highlander: The Series


Alexandra Vandernoot

While having starred in a number of French films, her best-known role internationally is as Tessa Noël, Duncan MacLeod's girlfriend, in the fantasy television series Highlander: The Series.

Andy Briggs

Briggs career began as an uncredited writer working on story development for Highlander: The Series in 1991.

Château de Pierrefonds

The castle has often been used as a location for filming including les Visiteurs, Highlander: The Series, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc and the 1998 version of The Man in the Iron Mask.

Pont de la Tournelle

Numerous scenes of Highlander: The Series were filmed along the Quai de la Tournelle near and underneath Pont de la Tournelle between 1992 and 1998.


Adrian Paul

He was cast in the role that would bring him to the most prominence to date, that of Duncan MacLeod in the syndicated television series Highlander: The Series, in 1992.

Agent L

Agent L (Elle or just L) is a fictional MIB agent who appeared in the film Men in Black (1997) and Men in Black: The Series.

B.J. Woodbury

B.J. can also be seen in Tek Wars, Due South, Maniac Mansion, Top Cops, SCTV, F/X: The Series, War of the Worlds, Twitch City, Friday the 13th and on various commercials through North America.

Bruce Seth Green

His credits include Knight Rider, "V", Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Not related to Buffy actor Seth Green; on occasion, some sources confuse them.), Angel, Dawson’s Creek, Gilmore Girls, Law & Order, Diagnosis Murder, Baywatch, Highlander and other series.

Bunkertor 7

Track 10, "Thorns", has no vocals, but contains a modified sample from the 1986 film Highlander of The Kurgan (Clancy Brown) telling the character Ramirez (Sean Connery), "Tonight you sleep in hell".

Byron Chief-Moon

Chief-Moon has made appearances in several well-known American and Canadian TV shows (such as MacGyver, North of 60, Stargate SG-1, Da Vinci's Inquest, Highlander: The Series, and appeared on Walker, Texas Ranger, as well as several feature films.

Cathouse: The Series

Regulars on the series include Moonlite owner Dennis Hof, his then girlfriend Sunset Thomas (a porn star who was also a Moonlite employee), Air Force Amy, Isabella Soprano, Brooke Taylor (who became Hof's girlfriend after Thomas departed) and Danielle.

Cossacks: European Wars

The English unique units are the Highlander and the Bagpiper.

Crabb Revival

The band then participated on Daywind's Live at Oak Tree series, releasing their second CD/DVD on March 31, 2009.

Dale G. Madison

He received his first performer screen film credit in the original 1988 John Waters movie Hairspray and has appeared on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Streets as well as Showtime's Barbershop: The Series.

Dodi Fayed

He also served as the Executive Creative Consultant for the F/X television series.

Dov Tiefenbach

He began his acting career at the age of 12, first starting off in commercials before playing the role of 'Josh Avery' in the television series RoboCop (1994), and landed his first starring role as 'Murray Murray' in the short film Love Child (1995) alongside actress Neve Campbell.

Dracula: The Series

Other notables included Stratford and Shaw festival veteran Jonathan Welsh, well known television and film actors Kim Coates (from Prison Break) and Barry Morse (from The Fugitive and Space: 1999), Chas Lawther, Kirsten Kieferle (from Degrassi: The Next Generation), and Marina Anderson-Carradine, best known for managing (and then marrying) actor David Carradine.

Duncan MacLeod Timeline:1792-1891

On June 18, on the battlefield of Waterloo (present-day Belgium), Duncan carries a sick soldier on his back and meets Immortal Darius on his way.

Earl Pastko

Pastko's television appearances include Street Justice, Highlander, Street Legal, Kung Fu, Lonesome Dove, Poltergeist, Lexx, Stargate, La Femme Nikita, Once A Thief, The Eleventh Hour, This Is Wonderland, Zixx, Living in Your Car, and The Murdoch Mysteries.

Eduardo Spohr

The list of works of fiction which influenced Eduardo goes from Highlander to The Matrix, through childhood cartoons like Saint Seiya.

Fantasy Gardens

The site was also used as the primary set of the "Revisions" episode of the TV series Stargate SG-1, the "Irresponsible" episode of Stargate Atlantis, the B&W "Monster Movie" episode of Supernatural and on the episodes "Shadows" and "Blackmail" from Highlander: The Series.

George Ciccarone

Ciccarone is also the creator and producer of HBO's Cathouse: The Series, one of that network's most successful series.

Gray Barker

The book inspired a fictional comic book written by Lowell Cunningham, which in turn inspired a popular film and animated television series.

I'm a Little Teapot

Season 1 Episode 4 of Friday the 13th: The Series (episode entitled "A Cup of Time") features the song as sung by a sinister elderly lady cum rock star called "Lady Die" (a partial reference to Princess Diana) played by Hilary Shepard Turner

Independent Highlander Group

Independent Highlander Group (Agrupación Serrana Independiente -ASI- in Spanish) is a people group who created a candidature for the local elections carried out in Spain on 22 May 2011, for the village of Santibáñez de la Sierra, in the province of Salamanca.

KASY-TV

Initially, KASY ran cartoons (such as Highlander: The Animated Series, The Flintstones, Mutant League and Mighty Max), old movies, talk shows, classic sitcoms (such as Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show), recent off-network sitcoms (such as Harry and the Hendersons).

Kevin Dobson

Dobson also appeared on the syndicated F/X: The Series for one season, playing Detective Leo McCarthy in 1996-97, and on the hit daytime drama series, One Life to Live and The Bold and the Beautiful.

King's College London–UCL rivalry

More daringly, in 1956, King's Engineers grabbed Phineas from a cabinet in the University College Union after melting off its locks, the very day before the visit of the Queen Mother to inspect the Scottish Highlander.

Live at Oak Tree: The Series

The series presents many artists behind-the-scenes during all the preparation and recording of a live presentation.

Miles Richardson

He appeared in three episodes of Midsomer Murders, he has had parts in 'Allo 'Allo, "Doctors"(three times) Maurice, The Remains of the Day, Highlander: The Raven, Hope it Rains and Dirk Gently.

Peter McManus Cafe

McManus' has been featured in a number of films and television programs, including Highlander, Radio Days, Keeping the Faith, Seinfeld, Law & Order and Saturday Night Live.

Police Academy: The Series

Michael Winslow was the only actor from the Police Academy films to have a recurring role on the show, although several of the film's cast made occasional guest appearances.

Pumpkintown, South Carolina

The first white settler, in 1745, was 30-years old Cornelius Keith, a Scottish Highlander who was born at Loch Lomond and as a child had immigrated to Brunswick County, Virginia, to later move with his wife Juda and a son into this frontier area of the Carolinas.

Redburn

Unable to find employment at home and deciding to go to sea, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City and bound for Liverpool, England.

Robert A. Silverman

He has also acted in the Friday the 13th: The Series episodes "Hate On Your Dial" and "Faith Healer" (directed by Cronenberg), and acted with him in Jason X.

RoboCop: Alpha Commando

Blu Mankuma as Sgt. Reed - Blu Mankuma, the voice actor for Sgt. Reed, was also in RoboCop: The Series where he played Sgt. Parks, the show's version of Reed.

Sex Ed: The Series

The show stars Matt Barr, Angela Sarafyan, George Finn, Laura Clery, Andrea Lui, Annie Abrams, Andra Fuller, Casey Graf, Bo Barrett, Tamela D'Amico, Jennifer Johnson, Louis Morabito and Stevie Ryan.

Silvercup Studios

During its early years the facility was used mostly for the filming of music videos and commercials, although occasionally scenes for motion pictures were shot there, including Highlander and Garbo Talks.

SOLO – The Series

The web series tells the saga of a very unlikely reality star, Scott Drizhal (Jonathan Nail), who is sent to Mars as part of a reality series created by mega-producer, Jack Spratt (Jay Caputo).

Sordid Lives: The Series

Sordid Lives: The Series is an American television series created, written, and directed by Del Shores and acts as a prequel to 2000 film Sordid Lives, also by Shores, self-described as a "Black comedy about white trash".

Stan Kirsch

Kirsch has appeared in the short-lived TV series Riders in the Sky, on the soap opera General Hospital in 1992, but his most notable role came later that year on Highlander: The Series as Richie Ryan from 1992 to 1997.

The Transporter

A television series premiered in 2012 on October 11 in Germany on RTL and on December 6 in France on M6.

You Got to Move

The film’s centerpiece is the Highlander Folk School (now known as Highlander Research and Education Center), a 75-year-old center for education and social action that was somehow involved in each of the lives chronicled in the documentary.

ZTV

In late 2007, ZTV started to broadcast various anime-series such as Berserk, Black Lagoon, Ergo Proxy, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gungrave, Naruto, Ninja Scroll, Paranoia Agent and Samurai Champloo.


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