The Best Episodes of Legend Season 1

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   #1 - Birth of a Legend

   S1:E14/18/1995

   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

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   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Michael Piller
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   #2 - Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

   S1:E24/25/1995

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

   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Michael Piller

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   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Michael Piller
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   #3 - Legend on His President's Secret Service

   S1:E35/2/1995

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

   Director:William Gereghty

   Writer:Michael Piller

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   Director:William Gereghty

   Writer:Michael Piller
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   #4 - Custer's Next to Last Stand

   S1:E45/9/1995

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Michael Vejar

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   #5 - The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

   S1:E55/16/1995

   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:William Gereghty

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:William Gereghty

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   #6 - Knee-High Noon

   S1:E65/23/1995

   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:Unknown

   Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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   Writer:Peter Allan Fields
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   #7 - The Gospel According to Legend

   S1:E76/12/1995

   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:Unknown

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   Director:James L. Conway

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   #8 - Bone of Contention

   S1:E86/20/1995

   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:Unknown

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   #9 - Revenge of the Herd

   S1:E97/4/1995

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Charles Correll

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    #10 - Fall of a Legend

    S1:E107/18/1995

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Bob Balaban

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    #11 - Clueless in San Francisco

    S1:E117/24/1995

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Bob Balaban

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    #12 - Skeletons in the Closet

    S1:E128/8/1995

    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:Unknown

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    Director:Charles Correll

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