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Vega$

Wed, Sep 20, 1978
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  • Crime
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Robert Urich
    Robert Urich
    as Dan Tanna
  • Bart Braverman
    Bart Braverman
    as Bobby 'Binzer' Borso
  • Phyllis Davis
    Phyllis Davis
    as Beatrice Travis
  • Greg Morris
    Greg Morris
    as Lt. David Nelson
  • Naomi Stevens
    Naomi Stevens
    as Sgt. Bella Archer
  • Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis
    as Roth
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Episodes

3 seasons · 67 episodes

Ended · 67 aired
Season 1
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Centerfold
    Aired · Thu, Sep 21, 1978 · 60m

    Blackmailers drug a model and then take pornographic photos of her in order to force her to sign a management contract.

  • E2
    The Games Girls Play
    Aired · Thu, Sep 28, 1978 · 60m

    Dan is asked to find three women who lured a politician to a hotel in order to take compromising photos.

  • E3
    Mother Mishkin
    Aired · Thu, Oct 12, 1978 · 60m

    Dan suspects a greedy land speculator when wild animals, murder attempts and thugs beset Mother Mishkin.

  • E4
    Love, Laugh and Die
    Aired · Thu, Oct 19, 1978 · 60m

    The top suspects in the death of a reformed prostitute include three former loves: a folk singer, a tennis star and a construction tycoon.

  • E5
    Yes, My Darling Daughter
    Aired · Thu, Oct 26, 1978 · 60m

    A woman hires Dan to find her supposedly dead father, whom she thinks she saw in the back of the church during her wedding.

  • E6
    Lady Ice
    Aired · Thu, Nov 2, 1978 · 60m

    A glittering jewelry convention at the Desert Inn attracts many buyers and sellers to the dazzling array of pricey gems... as well as some cunning thieves who plan to rob a wealthy Sheik of his collection of valuable rubies. When Tanna gets drawn into the case, he encounters a seductive woman who may be involved in the caper.

  • E7
    Milliken's Stash
    Aired · Thu, Nov 9, 1978 · 60m

    Cocaine smuggler Marty Trafalgar tries to retire, but his former partner Wendell Milliken from Miami won't allow him to do so.

  • E8
    The Pageant
    Aired · Thu, Nov 16, 1978 · 60m

    A serial rapist appears to be targeting contestants of the "Miss Casino" beauty pageant. A description of the suspect is of some help, but with the attacker still loose, Tanna reluctantly allows his assistant Bea to act as bait to try to nab the assailant.

  • E9
    Lost Women
    Aired · Thu, Nov 23, 1978 · 60m

    Dan steps in when a white slavery ring run by a wealthy man kidnaps several chorus girls.

  • E10
    Second Stanza
    Aired · Thu, Dec 7, 1978 · 60m

    Faded singer Ginny Gordon's comeback is threatened, and her sanity imperiled, by attempts on her life. Is her former partner responsible for the attempts, or is a recent acquaintance terrorizing her?

  • E11
    Serve, Volley and Kill
    Aired · Thu, Dec 21, 1978 · 60m

    A tennis star is threatened with possibly fatal injury unless he loses an upcoming $100,000 match.

  • E12
    Ghost of the Ripper
    Aired · Thu, Jan 11, 1979 · 60m

    A police officer teams with Dan to nab a killer recreating the 19th century murders of prostitutes by "Jack the Ripper."

  • E13
    The Eleventh Event
    Aired · Thu, Jan 18, 1979 · 60m

    A wheelchair bound, former Olympic athlete offers to pay ransom when his singer friend is kidnapped

  • E14
    Kill Dan Tanna!
    Aired · Thu, Jan 25, 1979 · 60m

    A crippled Vietnam veteran hires two mercenaries to take his revenge against Dan, whom he blames for his wartime injury.

  • E15
    Death Mountain
    Aired · Thu, Feb 1, 1979 · 60m

    Dan suspects an Indian chief's death may be linked to a real estate mogul's attempts to buy up Indian land.

  • E16
    Best Friends
    Aired · Thu, Feb 8, 1979 · 60m

    Dan gets a surprise visit from his childhood best friend, unaware that he's grown up to be a hit man who has a contract to carry out in Las Vegas.

  • E17
    Demand and Supply
    Aired · Thu, Feb 15, 1979 · 60m

    Dan's surprised to learn that a high school guidance counselor is part of a ring leading teenage girls into prostitution.

  • E18
    Everything I Touch
    Aired · Thu, Mar 1, 1979 · 60m

    Dan searches for a mysterious killer who attacks women he's involved with.

  • E19
    Doubtful Target
    Aired · Thu, Mar 8, 1979 · 60m

    Binzer vows to track down the killer who murdered his girlfriend.

  • E20
    Touch of Death
    Aired · Thu, Mar 15, 1979 · 60m

    A distraught newlywed hires Dan to find her missing husband, who disappeared shortly after they had gotten into a minor traffic accident with a Government vehicle.

  • E21
    A Way to Live
    Aired · Thu, May 3, 1979 · 60m

    Dan can't seem to convince an old friend, a beautiful motorcycle daredevil, that the accidents befalling her are really attempts on her life.

  • E22
    The Visitor
    Aired · Thu, May 10, 1979 · 60m

    Dan must protect a Middle Eastern princess from fanatics who disapprove of the government she represents.

Season 2
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Redhanded
    Aired · Thu, Sep 20, 1979 · 60m

    Dan attempts to clear his good friend Harlon Twoleaf of a murder charge.

  • E2
    The Usurper
    Aired · Thu, Sep 27, 1979 · 60m

    Dan traces Roth's steps to learn why he turned over his business to another man and then disappeared.

  • E3
    Mixed Blessing
    Aired · Thu, Oct 4, 1979 · 60m

    Dan helps a young nun who's arrived in Las Vegas seeking a stolen religious artifact.

  • E4
    Runaway
    Aired · Thu, Oct 25, 1979 · 60m

    A wealthy Kentucky rancher hires Dan to track down a pregnant, runaway teenager whom he claims is his daughter.

  • E5
    Design for Death
    Aired · Thu, Nov 1, 1979 · 60m

    Jewel thieves try to divert police by terrorizing a designer and her models.

  • E6
    Shadow on a Star
    Aired · Thu, Nov 15, 1979 · 60m

    Dan comes to the aid of a popular singer who's being stalked by a man who attacked her once before.

  • E7
    Dan Tanna is Dead
    Aired · Thu, Nov 22, 1979 · 60m

    A vengeful convict gives Dan a dose of toxic venom, leaving the detective 20 hours to locate a cure.

  • E8
    The Macho Murders
    Aired · Thu, Nov 29, 1979 · 60m

    A feminist denies murdering a pimp, despite overwhelming evidence.

  • E9
    The Day the Gambling Stopped
    Aired · Thu, Dec 13, 1979 · 60m

    Dan is hired to find the source of counterfeit chips which caused an overage of $2 million in the Roth casinos.

  • E10
    Classic Connection
    Aired · Thu, Dec 20, 1979 · 60m

    Dan discovers that an old friend, an auto racer, is involved in smuggling drugs in the bodies of classic cars.

  • E11
    Night of a Thousand Eyes (a.k.a. The Private Eye Connection)
    Aired · Thu, Jan 3, 1980 · 60m

    Dan looks into the suspicious deaths of two fellow private investigators who are in town for a convention.

  • E12
    Lost Monday
    Aired · Thu, Jan 10, 1980 · 60m

    A hypnotist involves unsuspecting Binzer in a plot to murder a basketball player and a sportswriter.

  • E13
    Comeback (a.k.a. Casualty of War)
    Aired · Thu, Jan 17, 1980 · 60m

    Dan suspects vengeful veterans when a bomb similar to ones used in Vietnam kills the wife of an old war buddy now performing in Las Vegas.Note: Will Sampson appears in this episode but only in flashbacks from the pilot.

  • E14
    All Kinds of Love
    Aired · Thu, Jan 24, 1980 · 60m

    Dan suspects that Beatrice's fiancé may actually be more interested in the $2 million a wealthy uncle left to Bea's daughter.

  • E15
    The Magic Sister Slayings
    Aired · Thu, Jan 31, 1980 · 60m

    Costigian gets kidnapped and two beautiful magicians who are involved in the kidnapping wind up dead, leading Dan to a ruthless man for whom the detective has evidence that would cause the Gaming Commission to deny him a casino license.

  • E16
    The Lido Girls
    Aired · Thu, Feb 7, 1980 · 60m

    A trio of beauties become suspiciously good at the baccarat table.

  • E17
    Consortium
    Aired · Thu, Feb 28, 1980 · 60m

    A slain prostitute is found in Dan's car while a group of investors, including Dan's brother-in-law, meet to buy a casino.

  • E18
    The Hunter Hunted
    Aired · Thu, Mar 6, 1980 · 60m

    When someone with a grudge against Nelson goes after his family, he tries to handle it on his own. But Dan insists on helping.

  • E19
    The Man Who Was Twice
    Aired · Thu, Mar 13, 1980 · 60m

    Dan searches for a mysterious stalker who's after a famous female impersonator.

  • E20
    The Golden Gate Cop Killer
    Aired · Thu, Mar 20, 1980 · 120m

    The search for an old friend's killer leads Dan to San Francisco, where he teams up with two beautiful policewomen.

  • E21
    Siege of the Desert Inn
    Aired · Thu, May 1, 1980 · 60m

    Beatrice and some showgirls are held captive by convicts demanding $5 million for their release.

  • E22
    Vendetta
    Aired · Thu, May 8, 1980 · 60m

    The mysterious death of a restaurateur convinces his family they're the targets of a vendetta.

Season 3
23 episodes · 23 aired
▾
  • E1
    Aloha, You're Dead (1)
    Aired · Thu, Nov 6, 1980 · 60m

    Dan is kidnapped while jogging and taken to Hawaii, where a crime syndicate orders him to murder Roth. Part one of two.

  • E2
    Aloha, You're Dead (2)
    Aired · Thu, Nov 6, 1980 · 60m

    Conclusion. Dan stages Roth's murder with a lookalike, then sets out to hunt down the leader of the conspiracy.

  • E3
    The Black Cat Killer
    Aired · Thu, Nov 13, 1980 · 60m

    After Beatrice is shot while in her apartment, Dan links the attack to a killer who has already slain three other people.

  • E4
    Sudden Death
    Aired · Thu, Nov 20, 1980 · 60m

    Dan's private eye license, and possibly his freedom, are in jeopardy unless he can prove that he shot and killed a young man in self defense.

  • E5
    Love Affair
    Aired · Thu, Nov 27, 1980 · 60m

    Dan is horrified to discover that his new girlfriend has a double life as one of the Strip's highest paid hookers and that her life is in danger.

  • E6
    A Deadly Victim
    Aired · Thu, Dec 4, 1980 · 60m

    A bag lady turns to Dan for help when she can't convince anyone that her friend didn't die accidentally, but was murdered.

  • E7
    Deadly Blessing
    Aired · Thu, Dec 11, 1980 · 60m

    A nun claims to hold the deed to the land on which the Desert Inn stands.

  • E8
    Christmas Story
    Aired · Thu, Dec 18, 1980 · 60m

    Dan cuts his ski vacation short upon meeting a young girl who claims to be his daughter, and he must help her find her mother, a distraught old flame of Dan's who's out to kill herself.

  • E9
    The Andreas Addiction
    Aired · Thu, Jan 8, 1981 · 60m

    A drug dealer plans to hook Dan on narcotics.

  • E10
    Sourdough Suite
    Aired · Thu, Jan 15, 1981 · 60m

    Dan helps an old friend in trouble, a prospector who found a fortune in money in the desert and now has thugs chasing him for it.

  • E11
    Murder by Mirrors
    Aired · Thu, Jan 22, 1981 · 60m

    While flying in a small airplane over the city, Bea claims to have witnessed a murder, yet no body or evidence of a crime can be found.

  • E12
    Backlash
    Aired · Thu, Feb 19, 1981 · 60m

    A mother hires Dan to find out why her grown daughter goes out at night dressed like a teenager.

  • E13
    Heist
    Aired · Thu, Feb 26, 1981 · 60m

    Dan assembles a gang to pull off a fake robbery to test Roth's security system, but the gang decides to make it a real robbery.

  • E14
    No Way to Treat a Victim
    Aired · Thu, Mar 5, 1981 · 60m

    A rape victim hires Dan to find her attacker, and he is led to a man she dated, who may be a serial rapist.

  • E15
    Time Bomb
    Aired · Thu, Mar 12, 1981 · 60m

    Two men from Binzer's past return and demand that he pay them $50,000, sending Binzer on a panicked search for someone to lend him the money.

  • E16
    Out of Sight
    Aired · Thu, Mar 19, 1981 · 60m

    Dan's investigation of a mobster abruptly ends when Tanna is temporarily blinded after being shot in the head by thugs.

  • E17
    Set Up
    Aired · Thu, Mar 26, 1981 · 60m

    A porno movie producer tries to take Lt. Nelson off the streets by framing him for murder.

  • E18
    The Killing
    Aired · Thu, Apr 16, 1981 · 60m

    Ten persons are gunned down in a restaurant, and Dan is hired by a victim's widow to find the killers.

  • E19
    Seek and Destroy
    Aired · Thu, Apr 23, 1981 · 60m

    Dan helps prevent the murder of a defector who piloted a secret plane to the U.S.

  • E20
    Dead Ringer
    Aired · Thu, Apr 30, 1981 · 60m

    Dan comes to the aid of Wayne Newton when the famed entertainer is threatened by a psychotic who claims that he's the real Wayne Newton and that Wayne is an impostor.

  • E21
    French Twist
    Aired · Thu, May 7, 1981 · 60m

    Dan's detective idol asks for help in solving the murder of a woman he followed from Paris to Las Vegas.

  • E22
    Nightmare Come True
    Aired · Thu, Jun 4, 1981 · 60m

    Dan is reluctant to work with a psychic to locate a couple's daughter, kidnapped for a ransom of $2 million in diamonds.

  • E23
    Judgement Pronounced
    Aired · Thu, Jun 11, 1981 · 60m

    Someone posing as Dan has set himself up as a one man judge and jury to kill criminals released on technicalities.