The Best Episodes of Legend Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(26 votes)

   #1 - Legend on His President's Secret Service

   S1:E35/2/1995

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

   Director:William Gereghty

   Writer:Michael Piller

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   Director:William Gereghty

   Writer:Michael Piller
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   8.7/10(18 votes)

   #2 - Clueless in San Francisco

   S1:E117/24/1995

   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.

   Director:Bob Balaban

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Bob Balaban

   Writer:Unknown
3. 

   8.6/10(21 votes)

   #3 - Knee-High Noon

   S1:E65/23/1995

   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.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Peter Allan Fields
4. 

   8.6/10(23 votes)

   #4 - Revenge of the Herd

   S1:E97/4/1995

   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.

   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.5/10(26 votes)

   #5 - Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

   S1:E24/25/1995

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

   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Michael Piller

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   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Michael Piller
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   8.4/10(18 votes)

   #6 - Fall of a Legend

   S1:E107/18/1995

   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.

   Director:Bob Balaban

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Bob Balaban

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.4/10(17 votes)

   #7 - Skeletons in the Closet

   S1:E128/8/1995

   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.

   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.2/10(35 votes)

   #8 - Birth of a Legend

   S1:E14/18/1995

   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.

   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Michael Piller

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   Director:Charles Correll

   Writer:Michael Piller
9. 

   8.2/10(23 votes)

   #9 - The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickok

   S1:E55/16/1995

   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.

   Director:William Gereghty

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:William Gereghty

   Writer:Unknown
10. 

    8.1/10(24 votes)

    #10 - The Gospel According to Legend

    S1:E76/12/1995

    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.

    Director:James L. Conway

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:James L. Conway

    Writer:Unknown
11. 

    8.1/10(20 votes)

    #11 - Bone of Contention

    S1:E86/20/1995

    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.

    Director:Michael Vejar

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Michael Vejar

    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(23 votes)

    #12 - Custer's Next to Last Stand

    S1:E45/9/1995

    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.

    Director:Michael Vejar

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Michael Vejar

    Writer:Unknown