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Legend(TV show/series, 1995)

1h per episode | Genres: Western, Action & Adventure

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 13 episodes

LegendRating: 2.8/5 (with 2 votes)
Legend is a science fiction Western television series that ran on UPN from April 18, 1995, until August 22, 1995, with one final re-airing of the pilot on July 3, 1996. It starred Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie. ()
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About Legend

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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LEGEND (1994) Trailer #1 - Richard Dean Anderson - John De Lancie(Trailer, 2:43)

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Legend Seasons and Episodes

04/18/1995Season 1 - 13 episodes
#1 | 04/18/1995Birth 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.
#2 | 04/25/1995Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
A well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.
#3 | 05/02/1995Legend 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!
#4 | 05/09/1995Custer'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.
#5 | 05/16/1995The 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.
#6 | 05/23/1995Knee-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.
#7 | 06/12/1995The 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.
#8 | 06/20/1995Bone 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.
#9 | 07/04/1995Revenge 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.
#10 | 07/18/1995Fall 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.
#11 | 07/24/1995Clueless 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.
#12 | 08/08/1995Skeletons 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.
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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 04/18/1995
Last episode released on: 08/08/1995

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