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PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2022 9:38 pm    Post subject: Legend (1995) Reply with quote

Wikipedia.

Legend was a science fiction western television series that first aired on UPN from April 18, 1995 until August 22, 1995 for a total of 12 episodes.

Created by Michael Piller (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager), and Bill Dial (Sliders.)

Premise: Ernest Pratt (Richard Dean Anderson), a gambling, womanizing, cowardly, hard-drinking writer has created a dashing literary hero, Nicodemus Legend, the main character in a series of wildly imaginative dime novels set in the untamed West.

Because Pratt writes his novels in the first person and has posed as Legend for the cover art, many readers believe Pratt is Nicodemus Legend.

Pratt learns that Nicodemus Legend has been impersonated and that a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Pratt travels to Colorado to the scene of the incident to clear his name.

Once there, Pratt meets his impersonator who is a great admirer of his tales, an eccentric scientist named Janos Bartok (John de Lancie)---a Nikola Tesla analogue who had been Thomas Edison's research partner.

Huitzilopochtli Ramos is Bartok's brilliant assistant.

Bartok "borrowed" the Legend persona in order to help the townspeople of Sheridan, Colorado who are being driven off their land by a powerful and ruthless rancher.

Bartok and the farmers enlist the reluctant Pratt to their cause. Bartok shows Pratt how his science expertise and outlandish inventions (frequently based upon ideas from Pratt's books) can bolster the impression that Pratt really is the heroic Nicolas Legend.

Bartok tells Pratt that "your celebrity has the power to give our enemies pause. My science can increase that reputation. And together, we will create the real Legend."

Suffering from writer's block, under pressure from his publisher for more novels (even though his latest has not sold well), and inspired, in spite of himself, at the thought of doing real good and making a difference, Pratt reluctantly agrees to assume the persona of his literary creation.

He now is going live the adventurous and heroic life of the fictional character he created.
Together, the three of them, Pratt, Bartok, and Ramos, will adventure throughout the old West solving mysteries, capturing wrong-doers, and making exciting scientific discoveries.
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Sidebar: This is a fun and entertaining steampunk western TV series that certainly deserved to run much longer than one, brief, season.

Sidebar: The science is right out of a Jules Verne novel and mixed with the traditional western genre. However, there are as many laughs on this show as there is action adventure, and cool gizmos.

Sidebar: The series was shot in Mescal and Tucson, Arizona which gives it an authentic atmosphere instead of the all too familiar Hollywood, California hills we see in the majority of TV western shows.

Sidebar: The episodes are currently available on Youtube.
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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2022 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow Pow! (Pardon the alliterative poetics...)

You've turned me on to another great series from the days from when I was too busy to experience!

McGuyver (pre Stargate) , John DeClanci (post Q} and Freddie KruGer ( pre, post and forever!) and Steampunk at it's best!

You can start on YouTube to experience it here …

Legend (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2soGDrRPbE

You won't be sorry!


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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2022 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So glad you're enjoying watching Legend as I am.

You won't be bored, Gord (you're not the only one who can do alliterative poetics, amigo.)
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