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Poltergeist: The Legacy: Season 1

22 episodes Premiered Apr 21, 1996
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Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

The Legacy (1)

Apr 21, 1996

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,

S1·E2 Core

The Legacy (2)

Apr 21, 1996

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 ow

S1·E3 Mytharc

Sins of the Father

Apr 26, 1996

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 his

S1·E4 Core

Town Without Pity

May 3, 1996

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,

S1·E5 Core

The Tenement

May 10, 1996

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

S1·E6 Core

The Twelfth Cave

May 17, 1996

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 insi

S1·E7 Core

Man in the Mist

May 24, 1996

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

S1·E8 Core

Ghost in the Road

May 31, 1996

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

S1·E9 Core

Doppelganger

Jun 7, 1996

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 Egypti

S1·E10 Core

The Substitute

Jun 14, 1996

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. Lat

S1·E11 Mytharc

Do Not Go Gently

Jun 21, 1996

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

S1·E12 Core

The Crystal Scarab

Jun 28, 1996

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. Howe

S1·E13 Core

The Bell of Girardius

Jul 12, 1996

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

S1·E14 Core

Fox Spirit

Jul 19, 1996

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 tw

S1·E15 Core

The Thirteenth Generation

Jul 26, 1996

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. Whi

S1·E16 Core

The Dark Priest

Aug 2, 1996

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 brother

S1·E17 Core

Revelations

Aug 16, 1996

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

S1·E18 Core

Bones of St. Anthony

Aug 23, 1996

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

S1·E19 Core

The Inheritance

Aug 30, 1996

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

S1·E20 Core

The Signalman

Sep 6, 1996

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

S1·E21 Mytharc

The Reckoning

Sep 13, 1996

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.

S1·E22 Mytharc

A Traitor Among Us

Sep 20, 1996

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

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