I've known about this show for a few years ... never knew about it in UPN's first season, where they ran it from April to August of 1995. In doing some research, it turns out that UPN's management changed after their first year, and the new management had their own ideas for programming. So despite Legend's quality cast and scripts, they didn't pick it back up.
The show has a dynamite premise ... an author of dime Western novels, who is also a womanizer and often drunk ... becomes involved in a series of real adventures. At first he's unwilling, but is prodded into it by the idea of more ideas for novels.
The show has been called a "science fiction Western", but I think that's a slight misnomer. It's more a steampunk Western, as most of the technology introduced into the show is ahead of its time rather than simply theorized. Even an electric zapper weapon is much like a Taser.
The show has a dynamite premise ... an author of dime Western novels, who is also a womanizer and often drunk ... becomes involved in a series of real adventures. At first he's unwilling, but is prodded into it by the idea of more ideas for novels.
The show has been called a "science fiction Western", but I think that's a slight misnomer. It's more a steampunk Western, as most of the technology introduced into the show is ahead of its time rather than simply theorized. Even an electric zapper weapon is much like a Taser.