Michael Piller
Director
Legend (1995)
Season 1
The irresistible and charming Ernest Pratt is a dime-store novelist who is living out the adventures of his fictional character Nicodemus Legend in the Old West. Alongside Janos Bartok, a brilliant scientist, the duo teams up to fight for justice using Legend's celebrity and Bartok's outlandish inventions to make a real legend.
Released April 18, 1995
Episode 48 min
None+
Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
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Production Companies: Gekko Film, Mike and Bill Productions
Network: UPN
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Birth of a Legend
Pratt is enlisted by a helpless group of town folk to once again help them, against a powerful landowner and the town’s sheriff in her pocket.
April 18, 1995, midnight
S1E2 - Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
A well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.
April 25, 1995, midnight
S1E3 - Legend on His President's Secret Service
Legend helps a woman stop her father from killing his old rival and one-time friend...President Ulysses S. Grant!
May 2, 1995, midnight
S1E4 - Custer's Next to Last Stand
When Ernest Pratt's longtime friend, Libbie Custer—the wife of Major General George Armstrong Custer—seeks the one-time journalist's influence in restoring her husband's command. Pratt instead discovers it's more crucial to use Nicodemus Legend's persona to thwart Custer's assassination.
May 9, 1995, midnight
S1E5 - The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok
As a favor to the aging Wild Bill Hickok, who has lost his nerve, most of his sight and his reputation, Pratt and Bartok manage to capture a band of dangerous train robbers and then give all the credit to the onetime hero.
May 16, 1995, midnight
S1E6 - Knee-High Noon
On behalf of a seemingly desperate mother, Pratt assumes the role of Nicodemus Legend to persuade her truant son to return to school. The novelist soon learns the woman is really a determined ""stage mother"" who wants to exploi her obnoxious son's association with the hero.
May 23, 1995, midnight
S1E7 - The Gospel According to Legend
Mordechai, a charlatan evangelist, arrives in Sheridan and bilks credulous farmers of their money and land by predicting the end of the world. So Pratt, impersonating his rakish character Nicodemus Legend, infiltrates the preacher's camp and with Bartok's help, stages an end of the world, bringing the preacher to true religion.
June 12, 1995, midnight
S1E8 - Bone of Contention
Legend winds up in the middle of a feud between competing paleontologists who think they've made the find of the century in Sheridan—the only problem is the dinosaur bones may be buried directly under Pratt's favorite watering hole, the Silver King. So Legend faces not only the frenzy of the fossil diggers, but the conflict between Creationists and Darwinians.
June 20, 1995, midnight
S1E9 - Revenge of the Herd
To promote his newest book, Pratt is asked to serve as a buffalo hunting guide for a group of German publishers who believe he actually is the heroic character, Nicodemus Legend. Repelled by the notion of hunting, he and Bartok, along with some Arapaho Indians, devise a mythical, mechanical buffalo ""monster"" to ward off the hunters—but only attract more to the area.
July 4, 1995, midnight
S1E10 - Fall of a Legend
When Pratt is wrongly accused of murder and lands on the Sheriff's Most Wanted List, he learns that with his famous face, there's nowhere to hide.
July 18, 1995, midnight
S1E11 - Clueless in San Francisco
Pratt is prevailed upon to travel to San Francisco (in the Nicodemus Legend persona) to help a young Caucasian woman, who has spent her entire life among the Arapaho Indians, find her birth parents. In tracking them, he inadvertently stirs up a controversy and must protect the woman and her child from ravenous media and rabid racists.
July 24, 1995, midnight
S1E12 - Skeletons in the Closet
While making a promotional ""film"" of Nicodemus Legend for the newly invented Zoetrope, Pratt and Bartok find a clue that leads them into the convoluted folds of the oldest mystery in Arapaho County.
Aug. 8, 1995, midnight
S1E13 - Episode 13
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Network: UPN
Episode Runtime: 48 min.
Season Runtime: 624 min.
Released: April 18, 1995
Last Air Date: Aug. 8, 1995, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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