Legend TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Legend Tonight

Published: 31 August 2026

Legend is what the old Horror Channel turned into after its 2022 rebrand: still free to air, still fond of a monster, but now handing most of its evenings to sci-fi, fantasy and action cinema. Tuesday opens overnight with two lesser-known thrillers, Striking Distance and Beyond Suspicion, then a run of vintage American genre TV – Walker, Texas Ranger, The Six Million Dollar Man and Babylon 5 – carries the morning around three unconnected feature films: The Land That Time Forgot, the western Gunsmoke 5: One Man’s Justice and The Legend of Butch and Sundance, each separated by a short Legend Lowdown bulletin. Star Trek – The Original Series closes out daytime at 5pm before the evening repeats three of that morning’s TV strands and hands over to two very different films to close the night. Full breakdown below.

Legend Schedule: Tuesday 1 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Legend schedule for Tuesday 1 September 2026, on Freeview 41.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Legend today

Overnight brings two lesser-known thrillers rather than a genre double bill. Striking Distance opens at 1:20am, followed by Beyond Suspicion at 3:15am. Legend goes off air just after 5am, with a card announcing programmes resume at 5:30am, then runs teleshopping until the schedule proper starts at 8am.

Daytime is largely vintage American genre television. Walker, Texas Ranger opens the schedule proper at 8am, followed by The Six Million Dollar Man at 9am and an episode of Babylon 5 at 10am. Three unconnected films then carry the rest of the day: the fantasy adventure The Land That Time Forgot from 11am, the western Gunsmoke 5: One Man’s Justice from 1pm, and The Legend of Butch and Sundance from 3pm, each separated by a short Legend Lowdown bulletin. Star Trek – The Original Series closes out the daytime run at 5pm – tonight’s is one of the more celebrated episodes the original series made, with a deranged Dr McCoy stumbling through a time portal and Joan Collins guest starring – ahead of the evening line-up below.

Legend tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Legend primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 1 September 2026 – a quiet night by design, built entirely from archive TV and older films.

Star Trek: The Original Series — Legend, 5pm

Legend’s listing carries no episode title, but this is one of the original series’ most celebrated hours: a deranged Dr McCoy stumbles through a time portal and rewrites history, with Joan Collins guest starring.

The Six Million Dollar Man — Legend, 6pm

A missile goes missing and Steve Austin ends up working the case alongside a KGB man, which is not a partnership either side wants. Legend’s own series numbering contradicts itself here, so we’re naming the episode by what happens rather than printing a figure we can’t stand behind.

Babylon 5 — Legend, 7pm

Series 3, episode 17, the second half of “War Without End”: Sheridan gets a glimpse of his own future while the mission to bring Babylon 4 home continues.

Walker, Texas Ranger — Legend, 8pm

Part two of a story that began the night before: Cooper’s ghostly visitor points Alex and Trivette towards gold that vanished in 1866.

Shoot Out — Legend, 9pm

Gregory Peck’s 1971 western, about an ageing gunman hunting down his old partner.

Daylight — Legend, 10:55pm

Sylvester Stallone headlines this 1996 disaster thriller, built around a rescue mission through a collapsed tunnel.

What kind of shows are on Legend

Cult horror and its Horror Channel roots

Horror hasn’t been dropped, just demoted. Amicus and Hammer-adjacent anthologies still turn up, along with independent chillers and oddities like Horror Express, though these days they land in the afternoon or after midnight rather than at 9pm.

Sci-fi, fantasy and action films

Most evenings belong to genre cinema of a specific vintage: Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren, and further back, the fantasy adventures Ray Harryhausen animated. Film4 has the recent theatrical releases covered. Legend is working two or three decades earlier, and there is less competition for that ground than you would think.

Classic genre television

Very few channels still hand hours to vintage American genre TV. Legend does. The Twilight Zone runs as a nightly double bill, and Star Trek, Babylon 5 and The Six Million Dollar Man fill most weekday daytimes.

How to watch Legend

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Legend across the main UK television platforms:

No subscription is required on any of them. Virgin Media and Freesat numbers can shift depending on your box and region, so trust your on-screen guide over this table if the two disagree.

Streaming online

Legend streams live and free through the WatchFreeUK app, available on Freeview Play, Freesat and YouView, and as a download on iOS, Android, Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung and LG smart TVs. No account or sign-up is required, which is more than can be said for most of its rivals. The catch-up section carries a selection of recently broadcast programmes, but licensing means not everything that airs stays available, and windows vary by title.

Legend Xtra and sister channels

Legend Xtra launched on 1 July 2022 as HorrorXtra and took its current name in a November 2023 refresh. Same broad mix of action, sci-fi and horror, free on Freeview channel 69, Sky 317, Virgin Media 171, Freesat 138 and Freely 51, with a +1 timeshift on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat.

Both channels belong to the CBS AMC Networks UK Channels Partnership, a joint venture between Paramount Networks UK & Australia and AMC Networks International UK. True Crime and True Crime Xtra come from the same stable and sit alongside them in the WatchFreeUK app.

Frequently Asked Questions

What channel is Legend on Freeview?

Legend is on Freeview channel 41.

What’s on Legend tonight?

Tonight, Tuesday 1 September 2026, Legend runs a classic Star Trek episode at 5pm, The Six Million Dollar Man at 6pm, Babylon 5 at 7pm and Walker, Texas Ranger at 8pm, then closes the night with two films: Shoot Out (1971), starring Gregory Peck, from 9pm, and Daylight (1996), with Sylvester Stallone, from 10:55pm.

Is Legend free to watch?

Yes, entirely. There are advert breaks during films and between programmes, but no subscription fee on any platform.

What was Legend called before?

It launched in 2004 as The Horror Channel, briefly became Zone Horror in 2006, reverted to Horror Channel in 2010, and became Legend on 30 June 2022.

Can I watch Legend online?

Yes, live and free through the WatchFreeUK app, no account needed.

Verdict

Legend is not chasing prestige and would look daft if it tried. What it gives instead is proper scheduled hours to material other free channels treat as filler. Horror Channel-era chillers hold the fringes of the schedule, but most nights now belong to the action cinema Van Damme and his contemporaries were making through the 1990s.

Tuesday runs the same idea on different stock: two overnight thrillers nobody will have heard of, a daytime built from Legend’s own vintage American TV strands running around three unconnected feature films, then an evening that repeats three of those daytime series before handing over to two very different films – a Gregory Peck western and a Stallone disaster movie – back to back. Nobody is pretending this is a discovery channel. It knows exactly what it is.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV This Week