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The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 2 - Black Widow
    8.4/10(58 votes)

    #1 - Black Widow

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown

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  2. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 3 - Lights Out!
    8.3/10(48 votes)

    #2 - Lights Out!

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 10 - Ransom
    8.3/10(43 votes)

    #3 - Ransom

    S2:E10

    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

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  4. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 3 Episode 11 - Irish Jug
    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #4 - Irish Jug

    S3:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 6 - Transference
    7.9/10(44 votes)

    #5 - Transference

    S2:E6

    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:Unknown

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  6. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 8 - Lives in the Balance
    7.9/10(41 votes)

    #6 - Lives in the Balance

    S2:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 11 - Finding Richter
    7.9/10(37 votes)

    #7 - Finding Richter

    S2:E11

    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:Unknown

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  8. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 3 Episode 5 - Father to Son
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #8 - Father to Son

    S3:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 1 - The New Guard
    7.8/10(46 votes)

    #9 - The New Guard

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown

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  10. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 13 - The Devil's Lighthouse
    7.8/10(43 votes)

    #10 - The Devil's Lighthouse

    S2:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Masello

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  11. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 17 - Mind's Eye
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #11 - Mind's Eye

    S2:E17

    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:Unknown

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  12. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 19 - Someone to Watch Over Me
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #12 - Someone to Watch Over Me

    S2:E19

    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

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  13. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 3 Episode 8 - Debt of Honor
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #13 - Debt of Honor

    S3:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 1 Episode 20 - The Signalman
    7.7/10(51 votes)

    #14 - The Signalman

    S1:E20

    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

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  15. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 5 - The Gift
    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #15 - The Gift

    S2:E5

    It's christmastime at the Legacy house. Derek has invited Rachel and Kat to stay there for the holiday period. After Kat opens a christmas eve present with her name on it she sees the 'ghost' of her father in the room wit her. The present turns out to be a russian doll and inside the smallest one is a very surprising, and potentially dangerous surprise.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 7 - Dark Angel
    7.7/10(38 votes)

    #16 - Dark Angel

    S2:E7

    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

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  17. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 18 - Fear
    7.7/10(38 votes)

    #17 - Fear

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Mark Stern

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  18. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 20 - Let Sleeping Demons Lie
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #18 - Let Sleeping Demons Lie

    S2:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 3 Episode 6 - Fallen Angel
    7.7/10(31 votes)

    #19 - Fallen Angel

    S3:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 3 Episode 7 - Dream Lover
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #20 - Dream Lover

    S3:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 3 Episode 10 - Hell Hath No Fury
    7.7/10(32 votes)

    #21 - Hell Hath No Fury

    S3:E10

    After a freed cop killer is killed Derek and the team investigate when it becomes obvious it was a ritualistic murder. More importantly, the murder was done using an artifact stolen from a Legacy collection on display by a former member. Though, Det. Carmack is set against allowing the team to help he has no choice as the Legacy is set on solving the case and retrieving their stolen property. Soon the investigation leads Derek to a truth he had secretly hoped wasn't the truth...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 4 Episode 7 - Double Cross (2)
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #22 - Double Cross (2)

    S4:E7

    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

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  23. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 4 Episode 8 - Brother's Keeper
    7.7/10(39 votes)

    #23 - Brother's Keeper

    S4:E8

    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:Unknown

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  24. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 4 Episode 9 - Initiation
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #24 - Initiation

    S4:E9

    Kat is doing magic with her friend Miranda, who has shown her a few small tricks and has taken her to her secret place. Miranda tells Kat that if she touches the amulet she has given her to the heart of three other poeple then the five points of power will increase her magical prowess. Rachel, Nick and Alex are her three targets but they know something is going on. Can they find out what Miranda is up to before it is to late to save Kat?

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Poltergeist: The Legacy Season 2 Episode 4 - The Spirit Thief
    7.6/10(42 votes)

    #25 - The Spirit Thief

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Black Widow" is the best rated episode of "Poltergeist: The Legacy". It scored 8.4/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by Allan Eastman and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/9/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lights Out!".