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EP1  Birth of a Legend
Apr. 18,1995
Birth of a Legend

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.

EP2  Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
Apr. 25,1995
Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

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

EP3  Legend on His President's Secret Service
May. 02,1995
Legend on His President's Secret Service

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

EP4  Custer's Next to Last Stand
May. 09,1995
Custer's Next to Last Stand

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.

EP5  The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok
May. 16,1995
The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

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.

EP6  Knee-High Noon
May. 23,1995
Knee-High Noon

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.

EP7  The Gospel According to Legend
Jun. 12,1995
The Gospel According to Legend

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.

EP8  Bone of Contention
Jun. 20,1995
Bone of Contention

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.

EP9  Revenge of the Herd
Jul. 04,1995
Revenge of the Herd

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.

EP10  Fall of a Legend
Jul. 18,1995
Fall of a Legend

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.

EP11  Clueless in San Francisco
Jul. 24,1995
Clueless in San Francisco

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.

EP12  Skeletons in the Closet
Aug. 08,1995
Skeletons in the Closet

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.

EP13  Episode 13
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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.

Legend Audience Reviews

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
catsndogs I only saw one episode of this series when it first aired, due to the fact that I didn't have cable at the time, and I couldn't get the station very well. I bought this on DVD and watched it a couple of weeks ago. The feel of the first episode was quite up to the pilot, but then the series soon found its own way. Pity it was canceled so soon. Legend probably suffered from being behind its time, as westerns just weren't popular (note the cancellation of my favorite, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. the previous year). But it was also ahead of its time, with one episode featuring, get this, a version of a small flying spy drone! There were fun supporting characters, and guest stars, such as Robert Englund, William Russ, and John Pyper-Ferguson, fresh from the canceled Brisco County Jr. still looking & sounding much like Pete Hutter. I suggest everyone to get this one on DVD!!
ripjarvis If "The Wild, Wild West" and "Maverick" had a child, it would have been "Legend." How could anyone ask for a better issue? I watch my home burned DVD's often. The 11 episodes, plus the double length pilot film are smart, funny and exciting. While I don't think there will be a new series (Anderson, it seems, has left SG-1 because of the time it takes him away from his family), it would be a great thing should the occasionally TV film could be brought out. It would be wonderful to see what Bartok could use to bring Pratt out of retirement. Perhaps if a young impersonator calling himself Legend was involved in something illegal, that might be enough. Whatever it would take, I would be right there to watch. Here's hoping.
bdwoolf Legend ranks up there as one of the best vehicles that Richard Dean Anderson has ever done. His character(s) of Ernest Pratt/Nicodemus Legend were unique to anything he had ever done before. RDA admits that this was the project that he loved the best patterning Ernest Pratt after his grandfather. It would be wonderful if Paramount, who still owns the rights to the show, would allow Mr. Anderson and Mr. de Lancie to reprise their roles in a made for TV movie. Both have said that they would be delighted to do so. For anyone who hasn't seen this delightful show, check with TVLand who has shown it at least once in the past.
Lucian-3 Funny, well written, decent characters. Bartok was a great character, especially in his scenes with the German hunters. Ramos, with his indeterminately long Harvard stay, really went beyond the stereotypical "Mexican sidekick".Pity it never found an audience and joins the ranks of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. and Wild Wild West, sci-fi westerns that have gone too soon.