Legend - The Complete Series

Under rated cool movie

I liked this series a lot. Many reviews have talked about the quality of the picture.I transferred my video to a handheld device and the picture quality was fine.The series also does not have subtitles. I am a big fan of subtitles, but the dialogue was certainly understandable.Another series, Bosco County, is very similar in tone to this one where emerging science intersects with western lore.The premise in this series is that a Hungarian genius, Dr. Bartok, sees a way to use the fictional character Legend to solve real world problems.The author, Mr. Pratt, is bamboozled into becoming a real-life version of his daring character, Legend, and together Legend and Bartok solve real-world challenges in a very charming, western town.Dr. Bartok is clearly based on the historical figure Tesla up to and including a rivalry with Thomas Edison.John de Lancie, from Star Trek the Next Generation as Q, does a great job of playing a bookish character with great ideas.Richard Dean Anderson, Stargate and McGyver, plays Mr. Pratt/Legend with great panache.There are some others in the ensemble cast, but the show truly revolves around these two.There are no objectionable themes or scenes. There is some violence, but it is very tame by today's standards.All in all, this is a lovely family video, and I recommend that you add it to your family bookshelf.

Some reviews said it was pixelated and low resolution.- It's NOT. It's an older show, filmed in standard format for the time, and you can't enlarge what simply wasn't there to begin with. It does look fine on my 1080P projector and a 100 inch screen, even though it is in square format and not wide screen (which was the original filming format)- I loved the references to 'Star Trek' and 'MacGiver', (both Anderson and Q were between shows at the time)and the actual use of Tesla's inventions, from the time period, as a backstory.

Liked

stories not very credible

For me, this show seemed unable to decide what kind of program it wanted to be. There is light humor, but not enough to call it a comedy. Some action, but not enough to call it an action show. It presents science and historical characters, but I had to wonder how educational it was, since both seemed used out of historical context.

There are lots of reviews here about the quality of the series, so I won't add much more, only that when LEGEND first aired I LOVED the pilot, and rarely thought the subsequent series quite matched it, but I enjoyed it all the same and I'm glad now to have the DVD set.There are also comments about the "quality of the transfer," which aren't quite accurate. The transfer per se is fine, from studio sources. The problem with the set is, as a money-saving move, CBS DVD decided to jam all the episodes onto two disks. This means the video files cannot be as big as they'd be if there were only two or four episodes per disk. Note too that Video-DVDs play at different speeds, depending on how much content they hold, with the variants being 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours. Subsequently, the episodes have been compressed one level lower than the happy minimum (4 episodes per disk) that most of us are used to.Subsequently, the image will pixilate if you try to view it within a large frame, because there aren't enough DPI (dots per inch) for a high definition resolution. So the smaller the frame, the sharper the image.For good or ill, then, this LEGEND DVD set (or a rip of its contents) is best watched on a computer, a tablet, a smartphone or any other screen that lets you resize the image, or that is small enough to give you a tight, clean picture.The sound has obviously also been compressed, but, without getting technical, I daresay you'll notice that less, if at all.

Sifi western. If you like Richard Dean Anderson, you'll like this series.

I Looked at a Lot of Reviews before I bought this product and 90% of them said this DVD was impossible to watch due to poor picture quality, Well I have a 50" Plasma TV and Apart from a small amount of filtering they put on the Discs I found it quite easy to watch, It was well worth the money and I would like to thank Amazon for the prompt service they gave to me, Also my package arrived well before the delivery date.

I cannot believe I've never heard about this show. I'm grateful for the Amazon recommendation. If you like Macgyver (classic) I think you'll love this.

Way over the top but made me laugh

Ein richtiges Schnäppchen. Unterhaltsam und kurzweilig!

I love this series. The mixture of genres, the adventure, the comedy, the clever twists and retellings of historical events and characters, the social commentaries on themes such as racism, religion or celebrity.. all the way down to the caliber of each and every one of the very varied palette of actors who have had guest spots on the show, I honestly can find nothing to fault.This show has also made me develop quite the actor crush on John DeLancie (the moustache does make RDA temporarily replaceable in the "crush" department, after all.. ;)), whom I had only previously known for his role on Stargate, his character on that show ranking pretty high on the characters-you'd-most-like-to-punch-in-the-face list ;).. but his Prof. Bartok is irresistably endearing, and I feel the heart of the show. I simply adore him.RDA of course is true to himself and solid in his performance, and although I find the humour his character carries to be more predictable than the unexpected laughs I've gotten out of Bartok's little quirks, still very amusing. Some one-liners especially got a good laugh out of me.. ;)I am prone to insomnia, which is only worsened by my sometimes working at the computer right until bedtime. I now try to make sure to pop this little show into the machine and make watching an episode the last thing I do before turning in for the night, and find that it helps clear my mind, making it much easier to go to sleep. So more than merely entertaining, I think I can claim that Legend is actually therapeutic to me.. ;)Bravo all the way for a little gem of a show. It's only a shame it didn't go on longer than it did.. but then RDA had to be available for Stargate, didn't he.. ;)