Legend

1 9 9 5 (USA)
1 x 120 minute episode
10 x 60 minute episodes

Ernest Pratt (former MacGyver star Richard Dean Anderson) is a hard-drinking, gambling and womanising 19th century novelist who writes dime Western novels revolving around the heroic character of clean-living Nicodemus Legend and his feats of derring-do.

Since Ernest writes the stories in a first-person narrative, he is constantly mistaken for Legend.

Unfortunately, the fictional deeds of Legend have resulted in real-life arrest warrants being issued for the character in Colorado.

While Legend is pure fiction, the warrants are not, so Ernest leaves his comfortable San Francisco home and heads to Sheridan, Colorado to set the record straight.

There he meets eccentric Hungarian inventor Janos Bartok (John de Lancie), who convinces him to keep the identity of Legend and use the character’s persona to help people in need.

Ernest agrees and Janos – assisted by his brilliant associate Huitzilopochtli Ramos (Mark Adair-Rios), who is descended from Aztec kings – provides wacky inventions which allow Legend to save the day (while griping constantly about his former colleague, Thomas Edison).

Harry Parver (Bob Balaban) is the representative of Pratt’s Eastern publishing company.

Stories follow Ernest as he tries to become the hero he has written about in a cross between Jules Verne and Wild Wild West.

Ernest Pratt/Nicodemus Legend
Richard Dean Anderson
Janos Bartok
John de Lancie
Huitzilopochtli Ramos
Mark Adair-Rios
Harry Parver
Bob Balaban
Skeeter
Jarrad Paul