Legend

1995 · Ended · 1 season · 13 episodes · Western, Action & Adventure · United States

Creator Michael Piller, Bill Dial · Channel UPN · Starring Richard Dean Anderson, John de Lancie, Mark Adair-Rios

He’s using gadgets & gizmos to tame the Wild West... once crazy adventure at a time.

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.
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Episodes

13 episodes · April 1995 – August 1995
  1. Episode 1: 1. Birth of a LegendApril 18, 1995 · 92 min
    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.
  2. Episode 2: 2. Mr. Pratt Goes to SheridanApril 25, 1995 · 45 min
    A well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.
  3. Episode 3: 3. Legend on His President's Secret ServiceMay 2, 1995 · 45 min
    Legend helps a woman stop her father from killing his old rival and one-time friend...President Ulysses S. Grant!
  4. Episode 4: 4. Custer's Next to Last StandMay 9, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  5. Episode 5: 5. The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill HickokMay 16, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  6. Episode 6: 6. Knee-High NoonMay 23, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
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  1. Episode 7: 7. The Gospel According to LegendJune 12, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  2. Episode 8: 8. Bone of ContentionJune 20, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  3. Episode 9: 9. Revenge of the HerdJuly 4, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  4. Episode 10: 10. Fall of a LegendJuly 18, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  5. Episode 11: 11. Clueless in San FranciscoJuly 24, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  6. Episode 12: 12. Skeletons in the ClosetAugust 8, 1995 · 45 min
    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.
  7. Episode 13: Episode 13

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EPISODE LENGTH
60 minutes
FIRST AIRED
April 18, 1995
LAST AIRED
August 8, 1995
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Gekko Film, Mike and Bill Productions

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