Legend
Legend
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Legend

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

6.0 / 10
1995
1 season
13 episodes
WesternAction & Adventure

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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Trailer

LEGEND (1994) Trailer #1 - Richard Dean Anderson - John De Lancie

Cast

Seasons

  • Birth of a Legend

    1.Birth of a Legend

    18-04-199592m

    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.

  • Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

    2.Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

    25-04-199545m

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

  • Legend on His President's Secret Service

    3.Legend on His President's Secret Service

    02-05-199545m

    Legend helps a woman stop her father from killing his old rival and one-time friend...President Ulysses S. Grant!

  • Custer's Next to Last Stand

    4.Custer's Next to Last Stand

    09-05-199545m

    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 comman...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

    16-05-199545m

    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 the...

  • Ep 6

    6.Knee-High Noon

    23-05-199545m

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Gospel According to Legend

    12-06-199545m

    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 ch...

  • Bone of Contention

    8.Bone of Contention

    20-06-199545m

    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...

  • Ep 9

    9.Revenge of the Herd

    04-07-199545m

    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. R...

  • Ep 10

    10.Fall of a Legend

    18-07-199545m

    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.

  • Ep 11

    11.Clueless in San Francisco

    24-07-199545m

    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...

  • Ep 12

    12.Skeletons in the Closet

    08-08-199545m

    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 myster...

  • Ep 13

    13.Episode 13

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