
Birth of a Legend
Episode 1 • Apr 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.
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 up to fight for justice using Legend's celebrity and Bartok's outlandish inventions to make a real legend.
13 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
1995
Rating
6.0/10
4 votes • HD
Episodes
Episode 1 • Apr 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.
Episode 2 • Apr 25, 1995
A well known bank robber seeks Pratt's help in clearing his name of false murder charges.
Episode 3 • May 02, 1995
Legend helps a woman stop her father from killing his old rival and one-time friend...President Ulysses S. Grant!
Episode 4 • May 09, 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.
Episode 5 • 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.
Episode 6 • 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.
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