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All Episodes of 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...
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Season 1

  • Birth of a Legend
    8.2/1032 votes
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    Birth of a Legend

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/18/1995

    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.

    Director: Charles Correll

    Writer: Michael Piller

  • Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
    8.4/1025 votes
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    Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/25/1995

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

    Director: Charles Correll

    Writer: Michael Piller

  • Legend on His President's Secret Service
    8.7/1024 votes
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    Legend on His President's Secret Service

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/2/1995

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

    Director: Bill Gereghty

    Writer: Michael Piller

  • Custer's Next to Last Stand
    8.1/1020 votes
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    Custer's Next to Last Stand

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/9/1995

    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.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

  • The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok
    8.1/1020 votes
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    The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/16/1995

    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.

    Director: Bill Gereghty

    Writer: N/A

  • Knee-High Noon
    8.6/1019 votes
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    Knee-High Noon

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/23/1995

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields

  • The Gospel According to Legend
    8.1/1022 votes
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    The Gospel According to Legend

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/12/1995

    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.

    Director: James L. Conway

    Writer: N/A

  • Bone of Contention
    7.9/1018 votes
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    Bone of Contention

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/20/1995

    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.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

  • Revenge of the Herd
    8.5/1021 votes
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    Revenge of the Herd

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/4/1995

    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.

    Director: Charles Correll

    Writer: N/A

  • Fall of a Legend
    8.4/1016 votes
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    Fall of a Legend

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/18/1995

    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.

    Director: Bob Balaban

    Writer: N/A

  • Clueless in San Francisco
    8.6/1015 votes
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    Clueless in San Francisco

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/24/1995

    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.

    Director: Bob Balaban

    Writer: N/A

  • Skeletons in the Closet
    8.3/1015 votes
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    Skeletons in the Closet

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/8/1995

    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.

    Director: Charles Correll

    Writer: N/A