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The Worst Episodes of Legend

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The irresistible and charming Ernest Pratt is a dime-store novelist who is living out the adventures of his fictional character Nicodemus Legend in the Old West. Alongside Janos Bartok, a brilliant scientist, the duo teams

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Legend Season 1 Episode 4 - Custer's Next to Last Stand
    8.0/10(23 votes)

    S1:E4

    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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  2. Legend Season 1 Episode 7 - The Gospel According to Legend
    8.1/10(24 votes)

    S1:E7

    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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  3. Legend Season 1 Episode 8 - Bone of Contention
    8.1/10(20 votes)

    S1:E8

    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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  4. Legend Season 1 Episode 1 - Birth of a Legend
    8.2/10(35 votes)

    S1:E1

    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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  5. Legend Season 1 Episode 5 - The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickok
    8.2/10(23 votes)

    S1:E5

    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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  6. Legend Season 1 Episode 10 - Fall of a Legend
    8.4/10(18 votes)

    S1:E10

    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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  7. Legend Season 1 Episode 12 - Skeletons in the Closet
    8.4/10(17 votes)

    S1:E12

    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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  8. Legend Season 1 Episode 2 - Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan
    8.5/10(26 votes)

    S1:E2

    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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  9. Legend Season 1 Episode 6 - Knee-High Noon
    8.6/10(21 votes)

    S1:E6

    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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  10. Legend Season 1 Episode 9 - Revenge of the Herd
    8.6/10(23 votes)

    S1:E9

    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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  11. Legend Season 1 Episode 11 - Clueless in San Francisco
    8.7/10(18 votes)

    S1:E11

    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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  12. Legend Season 1 Episode 3 - Legend on His President's Secret Service
    8.8/10(26 votes)

    S1:E3

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Custer's Next to Last Stand" is the worst rated episode of "Legend". It scored 8/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by Michael Vejar and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/9/1995. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Gospel According to Legend".