Legend
3.5/5
Année : 1995
Nombre de saisons : 1
Durée moyenne d'un épisode : 60 minutes
Genre(s) : Action, Aventure
Au cours des années 1870 dans l'ouest américain, un romancier alcoolique, Ernest Pratt, entre dans la peau de son personnage fictionnel Nicodemus Legend. Bricoleur de génie, le héros vole au secours des fermiers et des âmes en détresse, au péril de sa vie. Il se sort des situations les plus rocambolesques grâce à de pittoresques inventions.
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Épisodes
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Épisode 1 - Birth of a Legend (1)
18 avril 1995
Gambling, womanizing, hard-drinking writer Ernest Pratt has created a dashing literary hero, Nicodemus Legend, as the main character in his series of dime novels set in the untamed West. Pratt's wildly imaginative stories are written in the first person, giving readers the impression that the exploits are real and that Ernest Pratt is actually Nicodemus Legend, an adventurous man dedicated to justice and science. When Pratt learns that a warrant has mistakenly been issued for the arrest of Legend in Sheridan, Colorado, he travels there to clear the name of his mythical hero. Soon after his arrival, he meets a great admirer of his clever Western tales—eccentric European scientist/inventor, Janos Bartok—who has taken the liberty of borrowing the Legend persona in order to help the local townspeople. Bartok convinces Pratt to assume the identity of his own literary creation, and to use Legend's celebrity as power over enemies who are attempting a land takeover. When Bartok and his apprent
Épisode 2 - Birth of a Legend (2)
18 avril 1995
Ernest Pratt, a dime novel author, learns that a warrant has been issued for his arrest. He travels to the scene to find that he has been mistaken for his fictional character Nicodemus Legend and must clear his name.
Épisode 3 - Mr. Pratt Goes To Sheridan
25 avril 1995
Ernest (a.k.a. Nicodemus Legend) moves to Sheridan at the "request" of his publisher, but upon arriving he is told that, the outlaw, "Gentleman Jim" Siringo will surrender himself ONLY to Legend.
Épisode 4 - Legend on His President's Secret Service
2 mai 1995
Legend helps a woman stop her father from killing his old rival and one-time friend...President Ulysses S. Grant!
Épisode 5 - Custer's Next to Last Stand
9 mai 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.
Épisode 6 - The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickok
16 mai 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.
Épisode 7 - Knee-High Noon
23 mai 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 exploit her obnoxious son's association with the hero.
Épisode 8 - The Gospel According to Legend
12 juin 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.
Épisode 9 - Bone of Contention
20 juin 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.
Épisode 10 - Revenge of the Herd
4 juillet 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.
Épisode 11 - Fall of a Legend
18 juillet 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.
Épisode 12 - Clueless in San Francisco
24 juillet 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.
Épisode 13 - Skeletons in the Closet
8 août 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.
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