Vega$
Vega$
TV ShowEnded

Vega$

7.0 / 10
1978
3 seasons
68 episodes
DramaCrime

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

Seasons

  • Centerfold

    1.Centerfold

    20-09-197844m

    Model Shawn Adams' agent Nat Finer is a two-bit hustler whose shady friend Mr. Smith drugs Shawn, takes X-rated photos of her, then tries to blackmail her into a five-year contract...

  • The Games Girls Play

    2.The Games Girls Play

    27-09-197844m

    A senator gets photographed in a compromising position with three housewives whose husbands neglect them. When one girl is run down by a car, it's obvious that all three are in dan...

  • Mother Mishkin

    3.Mother Mishkin

    11-10-197844m

    Mother Mishkin tries to nail shady real estate developer Worthmeyer and thinks her life is in danger from him, so she hires Dan to protect her. Meanwhile, Dan recruits bumbling Bin...

  • Love, Laugh and Die

    4.Love, Laugh and Die

    18-10-197844m

    Call girl Lexy Gardner is shot dead, so her mother hires Dan to find out who did it and how Lexy wound up hooking. The case expands to involve singer Eddie Banning, tennis pro Lou...

  • Yes, My Darling Daughter

    5.Yes, My Darling Daughter

    25-10-197844m

    On her wedding day, Cindy Jenner Smalley sees. or thinks she sees, her dead father Hank, a famous country-western singer who vanished shortly after arranging his wife's mercy killi...

  • Lady Ice

    6.Lady Ice

    01-11-197844m

    A sheik who is staying at Roth's hotel doesn't realize that his female escort Allison Jordan is the one female in a trio of crooks who steal twelve rubies from him. Her romantic ev...

  • Milliken's Stash

    7.Milliken's Stash

    08-11-197844m

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

  • The Pageant

    8.The Pageant

    15-11-197844m

    Mike Logan hires Dan to find his daughter Jenny's rapist. Bella discovers that the serial rapist targets slender blondes in their late teens. When the rapist kills a victim, Jenny...

  • Lost Women

    9.Lost Women

    22-11-197844m

    Tanna investigates the mysterious disappearances of beautiful Las Vegas showgirls and discovers they have been abducted by a white slaver. When he gets caught trying to rescue them...

  • Second Stanza

    10.Second Stanza

    06-12-197844m

    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 acquaintan...

  • Serve, Volley and Kill

    11.Serve, Volley and Kill

    20-12-197844m

    Temperamental tennis pro Bobby Howard has been receiving threatening phone calls. His coach Sid Green hires Dan to protect Bobby, who doesn't want it. Meanwhile, Binzer tries to st...

  • Ghost of the Ripper

    12.Ghost of the Ripper

    10-01-197944m

    Psychotic Jack Schulman is killing prostitutes. Amateur criminologist Philiip Graykirk sees a pattern similar to the Jack-the-Ripper murders and predicts more deaths to come.

  • The Eleventh Event

    13.The Eleventh Event

    17-01-197944m

    A benefit telethon is planned for Leon Hazlett, a five-time Olympic gold medalist who was crippled in a car crash. But emcee Paul Baker is kidnapped and a $200,000 ransom is demand...

  • Kill Dan Tanna

    14.Kill Dan Tanna

    24-01-197944m

    When Dan was in Vietnam, he once defied the orders of Captain North, who wound up crippled. North hires goons to help him take revenge by terrorizing Dan and the people around him.

  • Death Mountain

    15.Death Mountain

    31-01-197944m

    Chief Gray Bear is trying to stall a Japanese businessman's construction project on the reservation.

  • Best Friends

    16.Best Friends

    07-02-197944m

    Dan's childhood friend visits Vegas. Unknown to Dan, he is the felon who kills Erwin Levy and wounds Roth in the process. Will Philip Roth be the next victim?

  • Demand and Supply

    17.Demand and Supply

    14-02-197944m

    A teenager gets assaulted at the seedy Pinecrest Hotel. Her mother's friend, begs Dan to take the case. Meanwhile, the pimp threatens to harm another teenage girl if she doesn't tu...

  • Everything I Touch

    18.Everything I Touch

    28-02-197944m

    Dan's love interest Christy Winters is strangled in her hotel room. Her friend tries to help him solve the case and becomes the next victim. Both girls were with Dan right before t...

  • Doubtful Target

    19.Doubtful Target

    07-03-197944m

    Savings and loan president Tyler Dickinson murders investment counselor Cy Winters and then Binzer's girlfriend Kim Sarrason. Binzer is first devastated and then vindictive. Can Da...

  • Touch of Death

    20.Touch of Death

    14-03-197944m

    Newlywed Gary Cole goes to buy some jewelry for his wife Wendy, and disappears. When Wendy realizes he's missing, nobody that she questions seems to recognize the couple. Her hyste...

  • The Way to Live

    21.The Way to Live

    10.0
    02-05-197944m

    Daredevil Shara Stanley's drunken mechanic Bill Woods tries to talk her out of a dangerous stunt because her beneficiaries plan to sabotage it and have her killed so they can colle...

  • The Visitor

    22.The Visitor

    09-05-197944m

    Dan is hired to be the escort and bodyguard of Princess Zara during her stay in Las Vegas. But political problems follow her. Fanatic Lucille tries to kill both Dan and Zara before...

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