Season 1
13 episodes · Apr 18, 1995
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S1E1Birth of a Legend
Apr 18, 199592mPratt 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.
- S1E2
Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
Apr 25, 199545mA well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.
S1E3Legend on His President's Secret Service
May 2, 199545mLegend helps a woman stop her father from killing his old rival and one-time friend...President Ulysses S. Grant!
S1E4Custer's Next to Last Stand
May 9, 199545mWhen 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.
- S1E5
The Life, Death and Life of Wild Bill Hickok
May 16, 199545mAs 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.
- S1E6
Knee-High Noon
May 23, 199545mOn 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.
- S1E7
The Gospel According to Legend
Jun 12, 199545mMordechai, 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.
S1E8Bone of Contention
Jun 20, 199545mLegend 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.
- S1E9
Revenge of the Herd
Jul 4, 199545mTo 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.
- S1E10
Fall of a Legend
Jul 18, 199545mWhen 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.
- S1E11
Clueless in San Francisco
Jul 24, 199545mPratt 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.
- S1E12
Skeletons in the Closet
Aug 8, 199545mWhile 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.
- S1E13
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