Poltergeist: The Legacy

Poltergeist: The Legacy

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Paramount+ with Showtime Ended Fantasy • Thriller • Mystery

4 Seasons · 88 Episodes · Premiered April 21, 1996 · Ended November 12, 1999

"The Legacy" is a secret society that began many centuries ago to accumulate knowledge and artifacts to help fight against the evil in the world. This particular Legacy team is set in San Francisco in a castle-like house on Angel Island. Dr. Derek Rayne heads up the team comprised of psychiatrist, Rachel Corrigan; priest, Philip C.; ex-Navy SEAL, Nick Boyle; and researcher/psychic, Alex Moreau.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

22 episodes
E01
Pilot
Sun, Apr 21 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Derek has a vision of a little girl and the last of five sepulchers he has been searching for since his father's death in Peru when Derek was fifteen years old. During the pilot, we are introduced the current, past and future members of the San Francisco Legacy House.
E02
Pilot
Sun, Apr 21 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Derek has a vision of a little girl and the last of five sepulchers he has been searching for since his father's death in Peru when Derek was fifteen years old. During the pilot, we are introduced the current, past and future members of the San Francisco Legacy House.
E03
Sins of the Father
Fri, Apr 26 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
A man, who happens to be an old friend of Derek's, is accused of violently abusing his son.
E04
Town Without Pity
Fri, May 3 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Rachel and Nick investigate a disturbance up in some hills. What they find is a religious leader who welcomes—and keeps—all visitors to his long-lost commune.
E05
The Tenement
Fri, May 10 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
A ticked-off Alex helps put a slumlord in jail. After getting him sentenced to be locked up in his own dilapidated building, she gets sent by Derek to investigate when something paranormal happens.
E06
Twelfth Cave
Fri, May 17 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
An old friend and Legacy member, Randolph Hitchcock, visits the San Francisco Legacy House to bring Derek a very special gift... an ancient Dead Sea scroll from a twelfth cave.
E07
Man in the Mist
Fri, May 24 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Rachel investigates the past of a "John Doe" with amnesia who was brought into the hospital under very strange circumstances.
E08
Ghost in the Road
Fri, May 31 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Nick almost runs into a young woman on a back road while driving his Mustang. He offers to give her a lift to wherever she wants to go.
E09
Doppleganger
Fri, Jun 7 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Kat acquires a unique "imaginary" friend—the spirit of an Egyptian princess.
E10
The Substitute
Fri, Jun 14 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
A group of not-so-popular teenage boys summon up The Warden to help them solve all their social problems. Instead, they raise up a real devil of a substitute teacher who was previously summoned up decades before.
E11
Do Not Go Gently
Fri, Jun 21 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
The Legacy steps in after an old flame of Nick's enters a hospital. Its patients are being possessed in their dreams and dying.
E12
Crystal Scarab
Fri, Jun 28 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
A desperate man (yet another old friend of Derek's) seeks and gains possession of some ancient Egyptian scarab jewelry which saves his terminally ill daughter but at a very high price.
E13
The Bell of Girardius
Fri, Jul 12 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
A museum curator, working for the Luna Foundation calls the SF Legacy House to notify them of a break-in. After an initial inspection nothing is found missing. The Legacy finds out otherwise.
E14
Fox Spirit
Fri, Jul 19 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
While checking out some sewers in Chinatown, a couple of workers unearth and open a box that was hidden in the wall. What they let loose is a really angry spirit who reeks havoc on them and several other men around the area over the course of a few days.
E15
Thirteenth Generation
Fri, Jul 26 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Derek meets a young, female college student while giving a lecture for a colleague's class. She tells him of some mysterious photographs she's taken and frightening visions that are connected to a series of recent strange deaths ongoing in the area.
E16
Dark Priest
Fri, Aug 2 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
While hosting a Luna Foundation invitation-only affair to introduce a rare addition to its collection, two brothers crash the party. They steal a medallion that belonged to their dead father, a magician. One of the brothers, guided by his father's evil spirit, goes the magician route to make it big by doing what the audience just thinks are some really macabre tricks.
E17
Revelations
Fri, Aug 16 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
A girl is attacked by what are later revealed to be witches at her all-girls boarding school.
E18
Bones of St. Anthony
Fri, Aug 23 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Bells ringing all over town, centered around a dead geneticist's lab, tip off the Legacy to start an investigation.
E19
Inheritance
Fri, Aug 30 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Rachel becomes the sole beneficiary in a will after the death of her aunt.
E20
The Signalman
Fri, Sep 6 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
After a dream, Alex seeks out an old acquaintance of hers from college who, up until recently, didn't believe in anything he couldn't scientifically prove.
E21
The Reckoning
Fri, Sep 13 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Rachel's grandfather comes back.
E22
A Traitor Among Us
Fri, Sep 20 1996 4:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
A trio, comprised of three other heads of Legacy houses, comes to the San Francisco house because a Legacy member there has accused Derek of being evil and conspiring to bring down the house.

Season 2

22 episodes

Season 3

22 episodes

Season 4

22 episodes
Derek de Lint
Derek de Lint as Derek Rayne
Martin Cummins
Martin Cummins as Nick Boyle
Robbi Chong
Robbi Chong as Alexandra Moreau
Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver as Rachel Corrigan
Kristin Lehman
Kristin Lehman as Kristin Adams

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