When Does "Highlander: The Series" Season One (1992) Take Place?
"Highlander: The Series" season one is a fantasy television series VERB by CREATOR that released on October 3rd, 1992. So when is "Highlander" season 1 set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because about a quarter of the way through season 1 episode 1 "The Gathering", Duncan MacLeod says, "I won't be 400 for uh.... another 4 months." and Duncan’s birth year is stated as 1592 AD in the film "Highlander: The Source" (2007).
1991 AD
We know this because about a quarter of the way through season 1 episode 1 "The Gathering", Duncan MacLeod says, "I won't be 400 for uh.... another 4 months." and Duncan’s birth year is stated as 1592 AD in the film "Highlander: The Source" (2007).
400 - 4 months = 8.399
and
1592 + 8.399 = 8.1991.
The hallmark of the Highlander series is major flashbacks to historical periods:
Years visited by the viewers include...
-Season 1 episode 1 "The Gathering" - 1872? AD. We know this because in season 3 episode 2 "Line of Fire", .
-Season 1 episode 2 "Family Tree" - 1622? AD. We know this because just after Duncan is awakened as an immortal ?.
-Season 1 episode 3 "The Road Not Taken" - 1780? AD .
-Season 1 episode 4 "Innocent Man" - 1862 AD .
-Season 1 episode 5 "Free Fall" - 1800s AD .
-Season 1 episode 7 "Mountain Men" - 1868 AD .
-Season 1 episode 9 "The Sea Witch" - 1938 AD .
-Season 1 episode 10 "Revenge is Sweet" - 1988 AD & 1728 AD .
-Season 1 episode 11 "See No Evil" - 1925 AD .
-Season 1 episode 13 "Band of Brothers" - 1815 AD .
-Season 1 episode 14 "For Evil's Sake" - 1783 AD & 1980 AD.
-Season 1 episode 15 "For Tomorrow We Die" - 1917 AD .
-Season 1 episode 16 "The Beast Below" - 1634 AD .
-Season 1 episode 17 "Saving Grace" - 1660 AD & 1800s AD .
-Season 1 episode 18 "The Lady and the Tiger" - 1804 AD .
-Season 1 episode 19 "Eye of the Beholder" - 1700s AD & 1803 AD .
-Season 1 episode 20 "Nowhere to Run" - a return to 1815 AD .
-Season 1 episode 22 "The Hunters" - 1637 AD .
It is a chronologically midway TV show in the Highlander universe (the first to feature Duncan MacLeod) and can be watched after the first film, "Highlander" (1986), or after the third film, "Highlander III: The Sorcerer" (1994), or entirely separately.
