Richard Dean Anderson
Ernest Pratt / Nicodemus Legend
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1995
Legend
Season 1
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Episodes
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Episode 192 min1995-04-18
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.
Episode 245 min1995-04-25
Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
A well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.
Episode 345 min1995-05-02
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!
Episode 445 min1995-05-09
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.
Episode 545 min1995-05-16
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.
Episode 645 min1995-05-23
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.
Episode 745 min1995-06-12
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.
Episode 845 min1995-06-20
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.
Episode 945 min1995-07-04
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.
Episode 1045 min1995-07-18
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.
Episode 1145 min1995-07-24
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.
Episode 1245 min1995-08-08
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.
Episode 13
Episode 13
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