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13 episodes

Legend - Season 1

First aired Apr 18, 1995Season 1

Browse all 13 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Birth of a Legend

NR
Apr 18, 199592 min

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.

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Episode 2

Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

NR
Apr 25, 199545 min

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

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Episode 3

Legend on His President's Secret Service

NR
May 2, 199545 min

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

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Episode 4

Custer's Next to Last Stand

NR
May 9, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 5

The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

NR
May 16, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 6

Knee-High Noon

NR
May 23, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 7

The Gospel According to Legend

NR
Jun 12, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 8

Bone of Contention

NR
Jun 20, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 9

Revenge of the Herd

NR
Jul 4, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 10

Fall of a Legend

NR
Jul 18, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 11

Clueless in San Francisco

NR
Jul 24, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 12

Skeletons in the Closet

NR
Aug 8, 199545 min

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.

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Episode 13

Episode 13

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