8.4/1048 votesLoading...#1 - Black Widow
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/9/1997
The legacy investigates a series of murders of all male victims who are found naked. While it seems to be a sex crime, the team realizes that a creature called a succubus, is assuming their former lover's identities to kill them.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1039 votesLoading...
#2 - Lights Out!
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/1997
Lat one night a large trunk is delivred to the Legacy house. It is addressed to William Sloane who was meant to be visiting his friends there. when opened the trunk is found to be full of old Scottish artifacts. Not long after the trunk has been opened strange things start happening in the house, the light bulbs keep breaking, high pitched sounds can be heard and unusual lights can be seen flying around. What the Legacy team need to work out is whether or not the trunk has anything to do with this or is it just a coincidence that the trunk arrived just before the problems started?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1037 votesLoading...
#3 - Ransom
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 5/2/1997
A ghostly figure arrives at the Legacy house and tells Derek that it has his sister, Ingrid, and will exchange her for The Blood Chalice. The cHalice is an Incan artifact that is said to bestow immortality to whomever uses it to drink the blood of a still beating heart taken from a sacrifice. Derek visits the church where Ingrid is a nun and finds out that the woman who kidnapped her wore a Legacy Prefect ring. When Sloane arrives from London the number of women prefects that the Legacy have is revealed and the main suspect is soon deduced. Can Sloane and Derek find a way to find out where Ingrid is being held before she is killed and without giving away the Chalice?
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Chris Black
- 7.9/1036 votesLoading...
#4 - Transference
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/1997
Steven Romero, an old patient of Rachels who was convicted of five murders and sent to Headlands Correctional Medical Facility, a place for the criminally insane, kills two men and escapes. He has always 'loved' Rachel and she is worried that he may be planning to come looking for her. Visiting his cell Rachel and derek discover that he has been studying pagan rituals involving death and ritual sacrifice.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1033 votesLoading...
#5 - Lives in the Balance
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/18/1997
Lukas Dumont arrives at the Legacy house, he is the son of an old lover of Dereks and claims to be his son. Derek believes him and tries to treat him as he wished his own father had treated him. Nick isn't convinced by the story that Lukas is telling and asks Rachel to help him find out more about Lukas and his mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1038 votesLoading...
#6 - The New Guard
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/1997
Driving down a foggy, dark road Nick and Alex nearly run down Derek. They leave their car to find out what is going on only to have Derek pull a gun on them, argue with himself about shooting his friends and then pulls the trigger on himself. With Derek critical in the Rose County Hospital, the head of the London house, William Sloan, turns up to take charge. They continue with the investigation that Derek was involved in, in Rose County itself, trying to find out what is causing the large number of suicides that have been occuring around the town. With Derek in critical condition Alex, Nick and Sloan need to do this quickly, before Derek gets the chance to finish off what he started.
Director: Michael Keusch
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1031 votesLoading...
#7 - Finding Richter
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 5/9/1997
The Legacy team investigate the assassination of a catholic cardinal. Nick thinks it is the work of an old special forces officer who commanded his SEAL platoon. The platoon was wiped out, almost to a man, when Richter betrayed them. Nick goes of in search of Richter by himself, to stop the killings and to get revenge for the deceased members of his squad
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1030 votesLoading...
#8 - Irish Jug
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/17/1998
Kat is on the job when the team is put in charge of cataloging and disbursing the bequeathed estate of Hanney Ellen Keane and Derek makes a grave error. Taking a few drinks from a cursed Irish Jug causes two ne'er-do-wellers escape from the Jug and possess Derek and Milo. Once the boys realize what year they're in and the fortune the one called Derek possesses they soon decide to stay awhile but before they can enjoy the riches they must get rid of the women. Being the only one that sees the two impostors for what they are Kat must think quickly and convince Alex to help her as Rachel is nowhere to be found.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1030 votesLoading...
#9 - Dark Angel
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/11/1997
It's a dark and rainy night and Nick is heading back to the Legacy house when a woman runs out in front of his car. Injured and terrified, screaming about a man who is following her she is in obvious distress. Nick decides to take her back to the house with him. Derek offers her sanctuary in the house for the night and Nick as an escort in the morning. Once she has settled down in her room the four Legacy members debate over whether or not she is telling the truth, imagining things or if it is all an act to get inside the Legacy house and past the security defences.
Director: Michael Keusch
Writer: Robert Masello
- 7.7/1031 votesLoading...
#10 - Someone to Watch Over Me
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 7/25/1997
An old friend of Derek and Sloan's dies in Canada. After the funeral they think that more is involved than the authorities think. A fellow professor is snooping around, they find notes written in a language the three of them created many years ago, Derek keeps getting weird flashes and Serena, the friends wife, keeps seeing a strange creature in the triangular pond in the garden. All these things lead to Derek and Sloan staying in Canada longer than they had intended so they can investigate.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Robert Masello
- 7.7/1028 votesLoading...
#11 - Father to Son
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/1998
Nick witnessed his father's death, but then learns that his father did not die by accident. His father's ghost asks him to help find his murderer and avenge his death. But Nick has trouble solving the case when it comes to light that his father was abusive to him when he was a child.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1025 votesLoading...
#12 - Fallen Angel
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/1998
The Legacy must intervene when a dead woman's spirit returns to earth from Heaven to rescue her lover's soul from Hell, not realizing the danger that he will return with new powers to commit evil.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1033 votesLoading...
#13 - Brother's Keeper
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 6/4/1999
Nick's brother, Jeremy, who died and was cremated, appears on the road in front of Nicks car. He claims to have 'escaped' and has The Soul Chaser after him trying to take him back. After a brief altercation with The Soul Chaser Nick takes the wounded Jimmy back to the Legacy HQ with him, believing the Soul Chaser to have been killed by his own weapon. The Soul Chaser returns to our world though and tracks down the brothers. He launches an attack on the Legacy house to finally retrieve his quarry.
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1043 votesLoading...
#14 - The Signalman
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/6/1996
A psychic/supernatural occurence debunker and physicist, Dr. David Praeger, is working for the army at an old railway station & tunnel in Powderwash, Colorado. The army is planning on opening a nerve weapon disposal site nearby and he is there to find out what causes the magnetic fluctations in the area. While investigating he starts seeing the 'ghost' of a signalman telling him to 'pull the switch'. Alex finds out where he is after dreaming that he is in danger and, as much as they dislike the man's work the Legacy go to try and save him.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: George Geiger
- 7.6/1034 votesLoading...
#15 - The Spirit Thief
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/21/1997
Alex'a sister Tanya turns up in San Francisco to visit her. She is with her friend Daniel, an African healer/shaman. He wants Alex to join them, to help him cure people normal medicine cannot. Her friends in the Legacy don't trust him and think there is more to him and how his powers work than he is letting on.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1036 votesLoading...
#16 - The Devil's Lighthouse
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 5/30/1997
Point Clifton, a small town just down the coast from San Francisco, is visited by the Legacy team after Derek sees an article in the paper. At a place known locally as 'The Devil's Lighthouse' a young boy vanished and his girlfriend is blinded. The girl insists that, before she was blinded, she saw her boyfriend, Bobby, vansih into the main light of the lighthouse, pulled there by a man!
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Masello
- 7.6/1031 votesLoading...
#17 - Mind's Eye
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 7/4/1997
A woman is being plagued by a poltergeist in her house. She calls in a spiritualist, Jeffrey Star, to help her out, unknown to her he is a fake and a conman. Her son deosn't trust him at all and calls the Legacy and Derek for help. Star is exposed as the fake he is and is thrown in a cell, where he is beaten up by a fellow inmate. After nearly dying in the cell he starts experience images in his head, he starts to believe that he know has real psychic powers. Meanwhile back at the Hoth household Derek and Alex are trying to help out and find out whether or not there really is a spirit in the house and what they can do to remove it if there is.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1032 votesLoading...
#18 - Fear
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 7/18/1997
Emily, a friend of Rachels', took over administrating Westview Sanitoruium 3 months ago. Since then there has been a number of strange deaths, patients dying of supposed heart failure. To help her friend Rachel agrees to get herself admitted as a patient and investigate from the inside.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Stern
- 7.6/1030 votesLoading...
#19 - Let Sleeping Demons Lie
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 8/3/1997
Sloan is on a jet on his way to San Francisco when they hit bad weather. Derek is on the phone talking to him when he suddenly loses contact and the plane vanishes from the radar. Derek and the team mobilise to find Sloan and the crew, if they survived, somewhere in the middle of a mountain range. Unknown to them one of the items Sloan had with him has released someone orsomething that is now holdong him prisoner.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votesLoading...
#20 - Dream Lover
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/1998
Derek receives an ancient artifact shattered in pieces. Kristin and Alex take the task to re-assembling the package as Derek receives notice the sender, Samuel Kellig, was killed in an accident. The women discover Samuel's death may not have been an accident as they begin to put the urn back together as well as piece clues to Samuel's last dig. At the same time, Derek grows closer to Samuel's beautifully captivating fiance...a woman whose present character doesn't fit her profile.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votesLoading...
#21 - Debt of Honor
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/1998
Nick attends a boyhood friend's military funeral and gets re-acquainted with another. After catching up and returning home Nick is called up a few days later when Joe, the deceased, begins paying John troubling visits. Nick, along with Kristin's help, must find out why his friend is out for revenge against John then its up to Nick to stop Joe before his soul is doomed forever.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1027 votesLoading...
#22 - Double Cross (2)
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 4/30/1999
Franklin Cross begins his takeover of the San Francisco house of the Legacy. The team are not sure what is going on, where Derek is or whether or not to trust Cross. The investigations into Reed Horton continue while the team try to find out what has happened to Derek themselves.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
- 7.6/1027 votesLoading...
#23 - Wishful Thinking
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 6/18/1999
A mysterious bottle is found by Milos Javitz in an old curio shop. he thinks that it could be an item that he has been searching for for years, a bottle containing Ginelle, a female genie. Before he can complete his three wishes after releasing her he is tricked into closing his eyes. She knocks him out and escapes to gain revenge on her past 'owners' who refused to release her from her cptivity. To help him find her, and to save himself from her anger, Milos calls on his old college roomate... Derek Rayne.
Director: Martin Cummins
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1024 votesLoading...
#24 - Unholy Congress (1)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 7/30/1999
Excavations in boston discover what loks like a tomb buried deep underground. The digging has made an opening and when the builders examine it they release Dr. Mordecai Church from his long imprisonment. He kills them and sets about starting his own 'religion', recruiting young runaways as his congregation. Having no family makes leaves Church free to kill his new disciples whenever he wishes, after all who is there to complain when no one knows where they are anyway? Reed Horton soon comes across Church and recruits him for his own vendetta against The Legacy.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1066 votesLoading...
#25 - Doppelganger
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/7/1996
The episode begins with Derek having a dream. He is in a coffin, at first dead, with all the Leagcy members standing over him. He wakes, but no one notices. He is then in an Egyptian tomb, lying on a stone table. A woman cuts open his chest, he wakes up. In his bedroom, he sees a young girl, Kali. She asks his, ""Are you the one"". She attacks him, and tells him to forget what he saw, that this is only a dream. Kali moves over to a picture on Dereks table, a picture of Rachel and Kat, Kali looks at Kat and smiles. (A sinister smile). The next morning at Clairemont School, Kat is beginning school. She gets teased by older girls and runs away. In the bushes, Kali appears and tells Kat that she is her new best friend. Kali attacks the other girls with an invisible force. Rachel is called to the school to collect Kat. She's been suspended because of what happened to the other girls. Kali appears in the school corridors, but Rachel can't see her, only Kat.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: William Bleich
The Best Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy
Every episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy!
The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.
Genre:Drama
Network:Showtime
Best Episodes Summary
"Black Widow" is the best rated episode of "Poltergeist: The Legacy". It scored 8.4/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Allan Eastman and written by N/A, it aired on 3/9/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lights Out!".