Legend - Season 1

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Birth of a Legend

1 - Birth of a Legend

Air Date: April 18, 1995

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.

Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

2 - Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

Air Date: April 25, 1995

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

Legend on His President's Secret Service

3 - Legend on His President's Secret Service

Air Date: May 2, 1995

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

Custer's Next to Last Stand

4 - Custer's Next to Last Stand

Air Date: May 9, 1995

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.

The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

5 - The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

Air Date: May 16, 1995

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.

Knee-High Noon

6 - Knee-High Noon

Air Date: May 23, 1995

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.

The Gospel According to Legend

7 - The Gospel According to Legend

Air Date: June 12, 1995

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.

Bone of Contention

8 - Bone of Contention

Air Date: June 20, 1995

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.

Revenge of the Herd

9 - Revenge of the Herd

Air Date: July 4, 1995

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.

Fall of a Legend

10 - Fall of a Legend

Air Date: July 18, 1995

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.

Clueless in San Francisco

11 - Clueless in San Francisco

Air Date: July 24, 1995

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.

Skeletons in the Closet

12 - Skeletons in the Closet

Air Date: August 8, 1995

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

13 - Episode 13