Legend(1995)

6.0
1 Seasons
WesternAction & Adventure

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

Overview

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.

Created By: Michael Piller

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Episodes

Birth of a Legend
Ep 1

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.

18/04/199592 min
Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
Ep 2

Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

A well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.

25/04/199545 min
Legend on His President's Secret Service
Ep 3

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!

02/05/199545 min
Custer's Next to Last Stand
Ep 4

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.

09/05/199545 min
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Ep 5

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.

16/05/199545 min
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Ep 6

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.

23/05/199545 min
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Ep 7

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.

12/06/199545 min
Bone of Contention
Ep 8

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.

20/06/199545 min
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Ep 9

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.

04/07/199545 min
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Ep 10

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.

18/07/199545 min
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Ep 11

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.

24/07/199545 min
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Ep 12

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.

08/08/199545 min
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Ep 13

Episode 13

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Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkUPN
TypeScripted

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