Season 1

Birth of a Legend Part 1

  • In the 1870s West, a boozing dime novelist (Richard Dean Anderson) assumes the identity of his books' hero, Nicodemus Legend. In the opener, Legend helps a group of immigrant farmers protect themselves from a greedy landowner.

Birth of a Legend Part 2

  • In the 1870s West, a boozing dime novelist (Richard Dean Anderson) assumes the identity of his books' hero, Nicodemus Legend. In the opener, Legend helps a group of immigrant farmers protect themselves from a greedy landowner.

Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan

  • A notorious bank robber who's accused of murder announces he'll give himself up - but only to Legend. Meanwhile, Pratt has trouble adhering to his literary creation's lifestyle.

Legend on His President's Secret Service

  • Pratt must thwart a plot to assassinate President Ulysses S. Grant hatched by a group of Texans unhappy with the outcome of the Civil War.

Custer's Next to Last Stand

  • While a mysterious figure from his past stalks him, Pratt helps General Custer expose corruption inside the War Department.

The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickock

  • Having lost much of his eyesight and confidence, Wild Bill Hickok -- a legend in his own right -- enlists the help of Nicodemus Legend in bringing down a band of train robbers.

Knee-High Noon

  • An aggressive stage mother manipulates Pratt into promoting the career of her bratty son, who fancies the role of "Legend Junior." Meanwhile, Pratt investigates a pair of cattle rustlers.

The Gospel According to Legend

  • A preacher encourages the townspeople to reject Bartok's scientific experiments as the devil's work, but his motives are less than divine.

Bone of Contention

  • Legend winds up in the middle of a feud between competing paleontologists who think they've made the find of the century in Sheridan.

Revenge of the Herd

  • Pratt and Bartok concoct a scheme to stop a German hunting party from slaughtering a buffalo herd prized by an Arapaho Indian tribe.

Fall of a Legend

  • 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.

Clueless in San Francisco

  • Pratt goes home to San Francisco to help a woman who was raised by Indians find her biological parents, but some folks there would prefer she didn't succeed.

Skeletons in the Closet

  • A skeleton wearing an Aztec ring awakens Ramos's sense of Mexican heritage, sending him on a search for the killer that leads to a town full of racial discord.