TV series

Legend

Name: Legend
Released: 1995
Cast: Richard Dean Anderson, John de Lancie, Mark Adair-Rios, Jarrad Paul

1995· 1 season· 60 min episodes★ 6.4Ended

On UPN — From Gekko Film · Mike and Bill Productions

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

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Synopsis

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.

Episodes

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E1 Birth of a LegendNext upApr 18, 1995 · 92 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Pete Schrum, John Furlong, Tim Thomerson, Bob Balaban, Stephanie Beacham, Katherine Moffat
E2 Mr. Pratt Goes to SheridanApr 25, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
A well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.
Guest stars: Pete Schrum, John Furlong, Tim Thomerson, Stephanie Beacham
E3 Legend on His President's Secret ServiceMay 2, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
Legend helps a woman stop her father from killing his old rival and one-time friend...President Ulysses S. Grant!
Guest stars: Robert Donner
E4 Custer's Next to Last StandMay 9, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
When Ernest Pratt's longtime friend, Libbie Custerâ€”the wife of Major General George Armstrong Custerâ€”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.
E5 The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill HickokMay 16, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Robert Donner, John Pyper-Ferguson (Jack McCall)
E6 Knee-High NoonMay 23, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Robert Donner
E7 The Gospel According to LegendJun 12, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
E8 Bone of ContentionJun 20, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
Legend winds up in the middle of a feud between competing paleontologists who think they've made the find of the century in Sheridanâ€”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.
E9 Revenge of the HerdJul 4, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
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 huntersâ€”but only attract more to the area.
E10 Fall of a LegendJul 18, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Robert Donner
E11 Clueless in San FranciscoJul 24, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Robert Donner
E12 Skeletons in the ClosetAug 8, 1995 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
E13 Episode 13Date to be announced