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COLLECTION · Series · 1996

Poltergeist: The Legacy

The adventures of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers.

Source: TMDB
* 6.2 (37)FantasyScience FictionCanada · United States
Creators
Richard Barton Lewis
Countries
Canada · United States
Studios
Showtime · Trilogy Entertainment Group
Runtime
60 min/ep
Age rating
TV-14
Release
21/04/1996
Score
6.2 / 10 (37)
Where to watch
With ads
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
22 episodes · 1996
Episode 1. The Legacy (1)
1996-04-21 · 44 min

We begin in 1969 with Winston and Derek Rayne driving in their car, in the rain. They end up at a cave. Winston goes in, while Derek is told to remain in the car. Inside the cave, Winston finds a sepulcher (a wooden box). He opens the…

Episode 2. The Legacy (2)
1996-04-21 · 44 min

The second part of the series premiere where members of the Legacy, an ancient secret society that investigates the paranormal are introduced. Dr. Derek Rayne struggles with his own dark past.

Episode 3. Sins of the Father
1996-04-26 · 44 min

Derek's old friend Damon is accused of abusing his son, but he insists supernatural causes are at fault. Derek believes him, but Nick's investigation reveals a checkered family history. Rachel examines the boy's wounds, and Father Philip…

Episode 4. Town Without Pity
1996-05-03 · 44 min

The episode begins in a religious driven small village. a church service has just ended, and a man makes a run for the woods. He finds a bridge in the woods and begins to cross it, as he crosses the bridge he gets stopped by some strange…

Episode 5. The Tenement
1996-05-10 · 44 min

As Alex prepares to take slum landlord Kyle Vance to court, she experiences a vision of a red-haired woman in the decaying tenement building. Then, on the witness stand, she finds herself compelled to insist the judge sentence Vance to…

Episode 6. The Twelfth Cave
1996-05-17 · 44 min

The Episode begins in the desert where a team of surveyors are digging in a cave. One of the men there finds a jar buried deep underground. He opens the jar and finds a scroll inside, he opens the scroll, and the writing on the scroll…

Episode 7. Man in the Mist
1996-05-24 · 44 min

The episode begins with a sea ship in trouble. A telescope smashes which releases a man. At the San Fransisco dock, a man appears out of the mist and heads into a bar, he stands in a puddle if water and it freezes, the bar then freezes,…

Episode 8. Ghost in the Road
1996-05-31 · 44 min

The episode begins with Nick in a bar. There is a couple sitting next to him. They begin to have an argument. Nick begins to talk to the woman, and her boyfriend gets jealous. Nick and the boyfriend get into a fight, Nick punches him to…

Episode 9. Doppelganger
1996-06-07 · 44 min

The episode begins with Derek having a dream. He is in a coffin, at first dead, with all the Leagcy members standing over him. He wakes, but no one notices. He is then in an Egyptian tomb, lying on a stone table. A woman cuts open his…

Episode 10. The Substitute
1996-06-14 · 44 min

The episode begins in a Catholic school. A geek is being bullied by the school jock, Brad, in the library. The geek manages to evade Brad and finds an ancient black magic book. Later Joe (the geek) and two of his friends enter a morgue.…

Episode 11. Do Not Go Gently
1996-06-21 · 44 min

Liz Barrow, an old friend of Nicks, is with her fiance when she has an asthma attack and falls into a coma. She finds herself in a dark mysterious place and sees a young boy killed by a large monstrous shape. At that moment she awkes and…

Episode 12. The Crystal Scarab
1996-06-28 · 44 min

Clayton wants to save his daughter, Samantha, who has a fatal illness. Clayton buys a scarab and a ring from a merchant. The scared, he is told, will heal whatever it touches. However, the ring needs the life force of a human to work.…

Episode 13. The Bell of Girardius
1996-07-12 · 44 min

Miranda Blake, the curator of one of the Legacy's museums, calls Derek when there is a break in at her workplace. When Alex checks the inventory she realises that the only thing missing is The Bell of Giradius, a mystical item reputed…

Episode 14. Fox Spirit
1996-07-19 · 44 min

While checking down in the sewers a couple of city maintenance men find an ancient urn holding ashes. One of them tips the ashes out and continues on with his work. After the two men separate to work in different areasone of them is…

Episode 15. The Thirteenth Generation
1996-07-26 · 44 min

During the 17th Century a suspected witch is 'tested' by being dunked in water, as she goes to her death she curses the next thirteen generations of the Witchfinders family. While guest lecturing at a Boston University Derek gets…

Episode 16. The Dark Priest
1996-08-02 · 44 min

An amulet is stolen from the Legacy house. It once belonged to a cult leader and suspected sorcerer who was killed by Nick's father, also a member of the Legacy. The two brothers who stole it are the sons of Levon Zoltar, the cult…

Episode 17. Revelations
1996-08-16 · 44 min

A small girl has a horrifying experience at a private school and accuses one of the teachers of being a monster. As Rachel used to go to the school the headmistress calls her up to ask her for help. She hopes that Rachel will be able…

Episode 18. Bones of St. Anthony
1996-08-23 · 44 min

Dr. Cornell, a reknowned geneticist working at San Francisco University, is scared to death and then literally ripped apartby an unknown energy. The Legacy gets involved when a friend of Nick's who performed the autopsy calls him in.…

Episode 19. The Inheritance
1996-08-30 · 44 min

Rahel recieves a letter from her aunt's lawyer informing her of her death and that as she is the last living relative she will inherit everything. She goes to her aunt's funeral, with Kat, and finds that something is happening inside…

Episode 20. The Signalman
1996-09-06 · 44 min

A psychic/supernatural occurence debunker and physicist, Dr. David Praeger, is working for the army at an old railway station & tunnel in Powderwash, Colorado. The army is planning on opening a nerve weapon disposal site nearby and he is…

Episode 21. The Reckoning
1996-09-13 · 44 min

A 300 year old seer who helped out Derek's father on a number of occasions appears at the Legacy house to mysteriously warn him of a dead man who will return to life.

Episode 22. A Traitor Among Us
1996-09-20 · 44 min

Three senior members of the legacy arrive at the house and say that they have received a letter accusing Derek of running the house in an improper manner. Derek is put on trial at the house for several days where Nick and Rachel have to…

Season 2
Season 2
22 episodes · 1997
Episode 1. The New Guard
1997-03-09 · 44 min

Driving down a foggy, dark road Nick and Alex nearly run down Derek. They leave their car to find out what is going on only to have Derek pull a gun on them, argue with himself about shooting his friends and then pulls the trigger on…

Episode 2. Black Widow
1997-03-09 · 44 min

The legacy investigates a series of murders of all male victims who are found naked. While it seems to be a sex crime, the team realizes that a creature called a succubus, is assuming their former lover's identities to kill them.

Episode 3. Lights Out!
1997-03-14 · 44 min

Lat one night a large trunk is delivred to the Legacy house. It is addressed to William Sloane who was meant to be visiting his friends there. when opened the trunk is found to be full of old Scottish artifacts. Not long after the…

Episode 4. The Spirit Thief
1997-03-21 · 44 min

Alex'a sister Tanya turns up in San Francisco to visit her. She is with her friend Daniel, an African healer/shaman. He wants Alex to join them, to help him cure people normal medicine cannot. Her friends in the Legacy don't trust him…

Episode 5. The Gift
1997-03-28 · 44 min

It's christmastime at the Legacy house. Derek has invited Rachel and Kat to stay there for the holiday period. After Kat opens a christmas eve present with her name on it she sees the 'ghost' of her father in the room wit her. The…

Episode 6. Transference
1997-04-04 · 44 min

Steven Romero, an old patient of Rachels who was convicted of five murders and sent to Headlands Correctional Medical Facility, a place for the criminally insane, kills two men and escapes. He has always 'loved' Rachel and she is…

Episode 7. Dark Angel
1997-04-11 · 44 min

It's a dark and rainy night and Nick is heading back to the Legacy house when a woman runs out in front of his car. Injured and terrified, screaming about a man who is following her she is in obvious distress. Nick decides to take her…

Episode 8. Lives in the Balance
1997-04-18 · 44 min

Lukas Dumont arrives at the Legacy house, he is the son of an old lover of Dereks and claims to be his son. Derek believes him and tries to treat him as he wished his own father had treated him. Nick isn't convinced by the story that…

Episode 9. Rough Beast
1997-04-25 · 44 min

A young patient of Rachels comes to her, terrified by nightmares she has been having of a wolf like creature attacking her family and her home. Rachel tells Derek about this and he is convinced that the creature she is dreaming of is a…

Episode 10. Ransom
1997-05-02 · 44 min

A ghostly figure arrives at the Legacy house and tells Derek that it has his sister, Ingrid, and will exchange her for The Blood Chalice. The cHalice is an Incan artifact that is said to bestow immortality to whomever uses it to drink the…

Episode 11. Finding Richter
1997-05-09 · 44 min

The Legacy team investigate the assassination of a catholic cardinal. Nick thinks it is the work of an old special forces officer who commanded his SEAL platoon. The platoon was wiped out, almost to a man, when Richter betrayed them.…

Episode 12. Repentance
1997-05-23 · 44 min

Father Callaghan is implicated in the murder of one of his parishioners, he was found by the police with her body in his arms. The body was placed there by the spirit of Eric Ravenwood, a man he refused to absolve of his crimes before he…

Episode 13. The Devil's Lighthouse
1997-05-30 · 44 min

Point Clifton, a small town just down the coast from San Francisco, is visited by the Legacy team after Derek sees an article in the paper. At a place known locally as 'The Devil's Lighthouse' a young boy vanished and his girlfriend is…

Episode 14. Lullaby
1997-06-13 · 44 min

Kat and some of her friends experiment with an Isis board and manage to summon a presence of some kind or other. Kat collapses but is fine the next morning. She doesn't talk much about what happened and keeps quite about what they were…

Episode 15. Silent Partner
1997-06-20 · 44 min

Margaret and Laura Davis, two old friends of Derek and Nick's, return to San Franscisco. They perfrom seances and Margaret wants Nick and Derek to come along to one of them. It seems as if Laura is being 'taken over' by a spirit,…

Episode 16. Shadow Fall
1997-06-27 · 44 min

A young american indian boy is taken into the principals office after being jumped by two bullies. He loses his phoenix talisman during the attack and his anger appears to manifest itself as a shadow warrior. The warrior attacks first the…

Episode 17. Mind's Eye
1997-07-04 · 44 min

A woman is being plagued by a poltergeist in her house. She calls in a spiritualist, Jeffrey Star, to help her out, unknown to her he is a fake and a conman. Her son deosn't trust him at all and calls the Legacy and Derek for help.…

Episode 18. Fear
1997-07-18 · 44 min

Emily, a friend of Rachels', took over administrating Westview Sanitoruium 3 months ago. Since then there has been a number of strange deaths, patients dying of supposed heart failure. To help her friend Rachel agrees to get herself…

Episode 19. Someone to Watch Over Me
1997-07-25 · 44 min

An old friend of Derek and Sloan's dies in Canada. After the funeral they think that more is involved than the authorities think. A fellow professor is snooping around, they find notes written in a language the three of them created…

Episode 20. Let Sleeping Demons Lie
1997-08-03 · 44 min

Sloan is on a jet on his way to San Francisco when they hit bad weather. Derek is on the phone talking to him when he suddenly loses contact and the plane vanishes from the radar. Derek and the team mobilise to find Sloan and the crew,…

Episode 21. Trapped
1997-08-10 · 44 min

Derek is possessed by his father's spirit, which intends to assemble the elements to create a gateway that will allow the demons of hell to enter our world.

Episode 22. The Choice
1997-08-17 · 44 min

Rachel decides that she is going to take Kat and leave the Legacy. She has become increasingly worried about the danger she is putting Kat in by being a member of the team and the repercussions that that causes. The rest of the team…

Season 3
Season 3
22 episodes · 1998
Episode 1. Darkness Falls (1)
1998-01-23 · 44 min

In New Orleans, Alex encounters an old college friend who is now a vampire. But when she is bitten she begins to transform into a vampire but the process will only be completed when she has taken her first human life.

Episode 2. Light of Day (2)
1998-01-30 · 44 min

Having been bitten by a vampire, Alex's transition to one will be complete as soon as she succeeds in killing the object of her blood lust -- Nick.

Episode 3. The Enlightened One
1998-02-06 · 44 min

Kristin arrives in San Francisco from Boston to join the group's investigation of a series of church fires. What she doesn't tell them is that she thinks her younger brother may have joined the cult that the setting the fires.

Episode 4. Stolen Hearts
1998-02-13 · 44 min

Rachel falls in love with a man who turns out to have achieved his success by making a pact with the Devil. At the same time, Kat comes under attack by dark forces.

Episode 5. Father to Son
1998-02-20 · 44 min

Nick witnessed his father's death, but then learns that his father did not die by accident. His father's ghost asks him to help find his murderer and avenge his death. But Nick has trouble solving the case when it comes to light that his…

Episode 6. Fallen Angel
1998-02-27 · 44 min

The Legacy must intervene when a dead woman's spirit returns to earth from Heaven to rescue her lover's soul from Hell, not realizing the danger that he will return with new powers to commit evil.

Episode 7. Dream Lover
1998-03-06 · 44 min

Derek receives an ancient artifact shattered in pieces. Kristin and Alex take the task to re-assembling the package as Derek receives notice the sender, Samuel Kellig, was killed in an accident. The women discover Samuel's death may not…

Episode 8. Debt of Honor
1998-03-13 · 44 min

Nick attends a boyhood friend's military funeral and gets re-acquainted with another. After catching up and returning home Nick is called up a few days later when Joe, the deceased, begins paying John troubling visits. Nick, along with…

Episode 9. The Light
1998-03-20 · 44 min

Members of the Barnard family have been dying, all under mysterious circumstances. When Rachel gets the Legacy involved to protect her old family friends, they soon realise that everything comes back to Todd's romance with Angela Sanchez,…

Episode 10. Hell Hath No Fury
1998-04-10 · 44 min

After a freed cop killer is killed Derek and the team investigate when it becomes obvious it was a ritualistic murder. More importantly, the murder was done using an artifact stolen from a Legacy collection on display by a former member.…

Episode 11. Irish Jug
1998-04-17 · 44 min

Kat is on the job when the team is put in charge of cataloging and disbursing the bequeathed estate of Hanney Ellen Keane and Derek makes a grave error. Taking a few drinks from a cursed Irish Jug causes two ne'er-do-wellers escape from…

Episode 12. Metamorphosis
1998-04-24 · 44 min

A psychiatric patient of Rachel's attacks her during a session as time progresses Rachel becomes aggressive and exceedingly paranoid. The rest of the team try to help by investigating but she keeps pushing them away. Soon they have no…

Episode 13. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
1998-05-29 · 44 min

Alex begins having dreams that cause her to sleepwalk. Grandma Rose worries for Alex's health and asks her to come home. Alex agrees and Nick accompanies her to see Rose. The dreams continue and grow more intense as the days go by. Rose…

Episode 14. The Prodigy
1998-06-26 · 44 min

Kristin is reunited with her first love, world famous concert pianist, Eugene Kadar. The reunion is bittersweet as people that could influence Eugene's career begin mysteriously dying of heart attacks and his agent becomes even more…

Episode 15. The Human Vessel
1998-07-03 · 44 min

A bolt of lighting strikes an autistic young man and returns him to normal. Nick and Derek investigate when the young man quickly grows into a genius and people around him start losing their health and intelligence...including Alex.

Episode 16. The Covenant
1998-07-10 · 44 min

While Derek,Alex and Rachel investigate the death of a young nun,Nick tries to deal with his brothers death

Episode 17. The Internment
1998-07-17 · 44 min

Kristin in her continuing quest to find her father enlists Rachel's help. Together the two visit a Sanatorium that leads them to Sommerville. Unknown to them is the fact Sommerville was once a Japanase American concentration camp and that…

Episode 18. Seduction
1998-07-24 · 44 min

With the boys out of town Alex, Rachel and Kristin are left to work on a special project. The women must uncover the secrets to a cube dating back to the Han Dynasty. Arriving to help them in this project is Nicholas Oldman but as he gets…

Episode 19. Out of Sight
1998-07-31 · 44 min

Jeffrey Starr returns to San Francisco and his old tricks but when a psychic intervention goes awry the Legacy is called in to help. Reluctant to help Derek gives in when it becomes clear that Jeffery's life is in more danger than they…

Episode 20. The Last Good Knight
1998-08-07 · 44 min

Once again on her quest for answers relating to her father's disappearance Kristin is on a mission. After receiving a map of the Holy Land written in archaic French and a cryptic message to meet in Istanbul Kristin is off on her own. The…

Episode 21. Armies of Night
1998-08-14 · 44 min

The Legacy is under siege and their assailants are unknown. Alex has gone for help, Nick has been taken down and away by their attackers leaving only Derek to decipher who's behind their attack. As he remembers past foes who may have come…

Episode 22. Darkside
1998-08-21 · 44 min

A mysterious White haired lady narrates this clip show meant to be a season ending cliff hanger. Foes from episodes past show up once again as examples of how the team's good work hasn't managed to overcome the evil that follows. Their…

Season 4
Season 4
22 episodes · 1999
Episode 1. Song of the Raven (1)
1999-03-19 · 43 min

Rachel performs a psychiatric evaluation on Raymond Corvus as Derek is convinced he is responsible for a series of murders identical to those he was tried and found guilty of committing. As Rachel struggles with the results of her…

Episode 2. Bird of Prey (2)
1999-03-26 · 43 min

Corvus was put to death but the murders continue...Alex forms an alliance with one of the victim's fiance and vows they will find her killer. Derek and Nick trail a reporter on a scoop to find the killer and a close encounter with an…

Episode 3. Vendetta
1999-04-02 · 43 min

A young man is mysteriously killed while at a well known local spot, a place where a woman was lynched in the 50's. His skull is crushed, but not his head, and his body is covered with what looks like electrical burns. The coroner is…

Episode 4. The Painting
1999-04-09 · 43 min

A patient of Rachel's mysteriously vanishes after their last session and bequeaths her a beautiful but odd painting. After learning more about the young woman's disappearance and the history behind the painting itself the team becomes…

Episode 5. The Possession
1999-04-16 · 43 min

Alex's grandmother travels to San Francisco to warn her of an evil spirit/Bocor thatis after her. She gives Alex a magic charm to protect her but falls pray to the Bocor's voodoo powers herself. With her grandmother now in a coma Alex…

Episode 6. The Traitor (1)
1999-04-23 · 43 min

Alex returns after an unexpected sabbatical as the team turns on Derek when an old case is re-opened. The twenty year old evidence begins pointing towards Derek as a cold blooded killer and old witnesses can no longer rely on their own…

Episode 7. Double Cross (2)
1999-04-30 · 43 min

Franklin Cross begins his takeover of the San Francisco house of the Legacy. The team are not sure what is going on, where Derek is or whether or not to trust Cross. The investigations into Reed Horton continue while the team try to…

Episode 8. Brother's Keeper
1999-06-04 · 43 min

Nick's brother, Jeremy, who died and was cremated, appears on the road in front of Nicks car. He claims to have 'escaped' and has The Soul Chaser after him trying to take him back. After a brief altercation with The Soul Chaser Nick…

Episode 9. Initiation
1999-06-11 · 43 min

Kat is doing magic with her friend Miranda, who has shown her a few small tricks and has taken her to her secret place. Miranda tells Kat that if she touches the amulet she has given her to the heart of three other poeple then the five…

Episode 10. Wishful Thinking
1999-06-18 · 43 min

A mysterious bottle is found by Milos Javitz in an old curio shop. he thinks that it could be an item that he has been searching for for years, a bottle containing Ginelle, a female genie. Before he can complete his three wishes after…

Episode 11. Still Waters
1999-06-25 · 43 min

Alex wrestles with the guilt and grief of losing her Grandmother as Rose's spirit urges her to save another from the same fate. The spirit of a young boy drowned years prior has returned to seek revenge on another and Alex must help…

Episode 12. Unholy Congress (1)
1999-07-30 · 43 min

Excavations in boston discover what loks like a tomb buried deep underground. The digging has made an opening and when the builders examine it they release Dr. Mordecai Church from his long imprisonment. He kills them and sets about…

Episode 13. The Sacrifice (2)
1999-08-06 · 43 min

Horton's plans to split The Legacy apart and destroy Derek begins to work as Kristin walks out and with Mordecai Church at his side he has a powerful ally to help him finish of the rest of the team. With the Boston chapter of The…

Episode 14. She's Got the Devil in Her Heart
1999-08-20 · 43 min

A couple of fisherman catch something big and heavy on their anchor. Unknowingly they have released Karen Morgan, a succubus who is in love with Nick. She uses another name and disguises herself to 'fall in love' with Nicks friend and…

Episode 15. Body and Soul
1999-08-27 · 43 min

Derek's lover (Megan) is murdered in a car bombing and he and Alex pursue the killer, only to be drawn into a horrifying web of Horton's making that pits Derek and Alex against each other ? Can Derek bring himself to kill Alex or can he…

Episode 16. Forget Me Not
1999-09-10 · 43 min

Rachel recieves a blast from the bast. While watching an old home-video Kat notices a little girl in the video that had never been there before. It turns out the little girl is named Paige, Rachels child she gave up when she was 19. Paige…

Episode 17. The Portents
1999-09-17 · 43 min

We begin with a priest, who has sent a young lad on a mission to find out information about the Legacy House. The young lad returns with news that a gate way to hell is buried under the Legacy House. The Priest then kills the lad, as he…

Episode 18. Gaslight
1999-09-24 · 43 min

A patient of Rachels with a tragic past and with a life threatening asthmatic condition inherits her family mansion and becomes the target for seemingly vengeful ghosts, demons and spirits.

Episode 19. Sabbath's End
1999-10-01 · 43 min

Kat faces mortal danger when she resumes her friendship with an ailing Miranda. To save Kat, Rachel must find powers from the past, a past she would prefer to forget. For this episode, we learn that Miranda wants to transform herself…

Episode 20. The Mephisto Strain
1999-10-08 · 43 min

Alex struggles to cure Nick, and has to keep him alive, after he is infected by a Denomic parasite which makes him see evil all around him. The episode begins with Alex working in the control room when Nick bursts in through the front…

Episode 21. Infernal Affairs
1999-11-05 · 43 min

An ancient deck of tarot cards enlivens a tedious evening for Derek, Nick and Alex. However, each card underscores the high personal cost of their allegience to the Legacy. This episode, like the one previous, is in a clip based format.…

Episode 22. The Beast Within
1999-11-12 · 43 min

Plagued by nightmares and visitations from his father's evil spirit, Derek fears that the portal to hell has been breached. The episode begins with Derek having nightmares of his father and evil spirits, (flashback from the Pilot…

Cast by season
Derek de Lint
Derek de Lint
Derek Rayne, Ph.D.
Martin Cummins
Martin Cummins
Nick Boyle
Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver
Rachel Corrigan, MD
Robbi Chong
Robbi Chong
Alexandra Moreau
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GenerationofSwine
★ 10.0 / 10
I'd say it was unique, but Friday the 13th had an equally good series like this based around an antique shop. And, of course, it is like the X-Files and Warehouse 13 and Mellinum...but there are reasons that shows like this are made and develop a cult following. They are almost always really good. I think the draw back to the show is that it has the title "Poltergeist" and like "Friday the 13th" that kind of set people up for a let down when they realized that it had little to do with the movie franchise. But, if you accept that it's not based around the film franchise, you can sit down and experience a very entertaining horror show that should have been far more popular.
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