Legend: The complete series (1995)

Reviewed by: Jason S. Lockard

There are some shows that are cancelled before they have a chance to really gain it's audience. One such show was a science fiction western entitled "Legend". Thanks to the good folks at Mill Creek Entertainment Legend has made it to DVD for the first time ever.

Legend follows Ernest Pratt (played by Richard Dean Anderson), a gambling, womanizing, cowardly, hard-drinking writer of a series of dime novels, that featured the dashing hero, Nicodemus Legend.

Pratt learns that someone has been using the name of Nicodemus Legend. He find out it's eccentric European scientist Janos Bartok played by John de Lancie who is best know from playing Q in Star Trek The Next Generation. Pratt decides to join Bartok to become the true legend he wrote about in his books.

Let's take a look at the episodes included in this short lived series.

Our Rating System:
****=Don’t Miss it!
***=Worth a look.
**=An Ok way to spend an hour.
*=You haven’t missed anything.
                                                             Disc One

Birth of a Legend (4/18/1995) In 1876 Ernest Pratt, an imperfect man with vices, is a struggling writer of a series of books based on his popular and fictional character Nicodemus Legend. ***


Mr. Pratt Goes to Sheridan (4/25/1995) A bank robber will surrender only to Pratt's fictional character, Nicodemus Legend. ***

Legend on His President's Secret Service (5/2/1995) As his fictitious character Nicodemus Legend, Pratt must kidnap President Grant to prevent an assassination. ***
 
Custer's Next-To-Last Stand (5/9/1995) As Nicodemus Legend, Pratt thwarts the assassination of his longtime friend, Maj. Gen. George Armstrong Custer. ***

The Life, Death, and Life of Wild Bill Hickock (5/16/1995) Wild Bill Hickock seeks the help of Pratt's alter ego, Legend, but is turned down. But the bad still think they are working together, and both are now in peril.***

Knee-High Noon (5/23/1995) After posing as Legend to persuade a young truant to return to school, Pratt learns the boy's mother wants to exploit him. ***


                                                             Disc Two

The Gospel According to Legend (6/12/1995) Pratt recognizes a snake oil salesman from back west, who has come to town spreading the word of the gospel, claiming to have changed. ***

Bone of Contention  (6/20/1995) Pratt and Bartok investigate the murder of a man who brought Bartok a dinosaur bone. ***

Revenge of the Herd (7/4/1995) Pratt as Legend guides a buffalo hunt by a group of German publishers. ***

Fall of a Legend (7/18/1995) Pratt is caught in the hayloft with a farmer's daughter. When the farmer is found murdered, Pratt is accused of the crime. ***

Clueless in San Francisco (7/25/1995) Pratt helps a white woman, raised by Arapaho Indians, to find her birth parents. ***
 
Skeletons in the Closet (8/8/1995) The skeleton of a dead Aztec Indian leads Ramos on a journey to find out what happened to the stranger, and on a personal journey of his own. ***

This show is a perfect mix of action, adventure, science fiction, comedy in the old west. I never got a chance to watch this show on it's first run and I have to say I didn't know what I was missing. This is a really fun show and I am not a huge fan of westerns.

This 2 disc DVD set includes all 12 episodes including the pilot movie. Now you would think that the quality of the episodes would suffer, but surprisingly the audio and video is pretty clear. The discs are housed in a flipper DVD keep case, not in the paper sleeves like in previous releases.

So if you are a fan of the tv show Legend or of sci-fi westerns, do yourself a favor and pick up this awesome collection. Head over to www.MillCreekEnt.com or your local video provider and pick this one up today!



Moral Rating: Adult situations, mild violence
Audience: teens and adults
Genre: sci-fi, action, adventure, comedy drama
Length: 10 hours
DVD Release: 2015
DVD Rating: A+
*Please note films rating above are my own personal opinion!

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