The Lazarus Man
Shortly after the Civil War, a man pulls himself out of a grave in the South wearing Southern clothing but carrying Northern gold and carrying a US Army revolver. He has no memory save for some gorgeous brunette and being beaten over the head by a man in a derby just before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He calls himself "Lazarus" after the man Jesus resurrected until he can figure out who he is and why he was buried alive and left for dead.
- 1996-1996
- 1 season
- TNT
- Drama, Suspense, Action & Adventure
Shortly after the Civil War, a man pulls himself out of a grave in the South wearing Southern clothing but carrying Northern gold and carrying a US Army revolver. He has no memory save for some gorgeous brunette and being beaten over the head by a man in a derby just before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He calls himself "Lazarus" after the man Jesus resurrected until he can figure out who he is and why he was buried alive and left for dead.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1996
Episode 1
Awakening: Part 1
Sat, Jan 20, 1996 44 mins
A former bodyguard of President Lincoln digs his way out of a grave but has amnesia. He gets involved with a group of Civil War veterans who want to assassinate Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Episode 2
Awakening: Part 2
Sat, Jan 27, 1996 44 mins
After being taking in by a family and nursed back to health, Lazarus bonds with a young boy and comes to the aid of his family against a group of corrupt former soldiers.
Episode 3
The Palace of Dreams
Sat, Feb 3, 1996
After a mysterious woman leaves Lazarus with a locket containing a photo of a woman he remembers but can't name and a Palace of Dreams business card in the pilot episode, he travels to New Orleans to find the Palace and get answers.
Episode 4
Purgatory
Sat, Feb 10, 1996
Lazarus meets a man from his past who lures him to a place where Lazarus' former supervisor on President Lincoln's security detail hopes to capture him.
Episode 5
The Conspirator
Sat, Feb 17, 1996
Lazarus asks the proprietor of an Arkansas Freedmen Bureau to contact someone he trusts in Washington to hear Lazarus' first-person account of the Lincoln assassination.
Episode 6
The Boy General
Sat, Feb 24, 1996
Lazarus saves the life of Gen. Custer, who hires him as a scout.
Episode 7
The Cattle Drive
Sat, Mar 2, 1996
Lazarus survives a nocturnal assassination attempt, wounds his assailant without seeing him, then joins a nearby cattle drive as a new wrangler in March 1866.
Episode 8
Panorama
Sat, Mar 9, 1996
In April 1866, Lazarus arrives in Serenity, Colorado, where a visiting showman has created a mythological panorama drama based on Lazarus exploits. The showman pits Lazarus against a former gunman who had been living incognito.
Episode 9
The Wallpaper Prison
Sat, Mar 16, 1996
Lazarus runs afoul of a malevolent brothel owner and tries to save one of his employees from the life.
Episode 10
The Catamount
Sat, Mar 30, 1996
Lazarus is drawn to a New Mexico Territory archaeological dig where men have been stealing artifacts and being killed, apparently by a cougar. But who is really responsible?
Episode 11
Among the Dead
Sat, Apr 20, 1996
Holed up in a ghost town with a deluded woman, Lazarus and the woman must defend themselves against five men who want Lazarus dead.
Episode 12
The Journal
Sat, Apr 27, 1996
On the trail, Lazarus finds a wallet, a journal, an old mining camp and a dead body. The mystery they represent is solved in a nearby small town.
Episode 13
Jehovah and Son, Inc.
Sat, May 4, 1996
Lazarus runs afoul of the law after a mentally unbalanced man steals his gun and shoots a senator.
Episode 14
The Rescue
Sat, May 11, 1996
Lazarus helps a group of men "rescue" a woman who was captured by Comanches years ago when she was 6. But the woman would rather stay with her Comanche family.
Episode 15
Killer
Sat, May 18, 1996
Lazarus rides with a bounty hunter who enjoys killing men a little too much, wonders if the Civil War changed him as much as it changed the bounty hunter.
Episode 16
The Hold-Up
Sat, Oct 12, 1996
Working for a small stage coach line, Lazarus is caught up in events as the payroll he is transporting is stolen.
Episode 17
The Penance
Sat, Oct 19, 1996
Lazarus gets involved with a group of pacifist Canaanites whose presence is objected to by a rancher who believe the land isn't fertile enough to support them all.
Episode 18
The Sheriff
Sat, Oct 26, 1996
Lazarus encounters a man determined to take revenge on the people of a town where he was humiliated as a youth, particularly the man who gave him a public beating.
Episode 19
The Angel Maker
Thu, Sep 12, 1996
Lazarus rides into Cherry Creek and gets involved with a man and his mail-order bride who bears a striking resemblance to Lazarus' wife Claire.
Episode 20
Quality of the Enemy
Sat, Nov 9, 1996
Lazarus is captured by a bounty hunter who wants to take him to the feds. But the two are soon captured by four other men and must work together to escape.
Episode 21
The Tartarus Wheel
Thu, Sep 12, 1996
Lazarus is mesmerized, perhaps hypnotized, by a multicolored, spilling Tartarus Wheel that brings back memories, but they may be false memories.
Episode 22
Dance with Shadows
Thu, Sep 12, 1996
A group of 25 men set a trap for Lazarus in a small western town, using his wife as bait.