ABC · Ended

Vega$

Drama, Crime, Mystery · 1978 · Rated 8/10

Last aired: S3 E23, Judgement Pronounced · 1981-06-10

Vega$ was an American crime drama television series that followed private detective Dan Tanna. Working for a wide variety of Las Vegas clients, the detective work included locating missing persons, helping solve various Las Vegas hotel and casino crimes, solving casino chip and money scams, and working to make Las Vegas a safer place for residents and tourists alike. Dan Tanna made a point of not accepting divorce cases, or working as a bodyguard. Being in Las Vegas, Tanna was occasionally hired to work for well known celebrity clients who had issues regarding their personal safety, and needed help solving personal issues or threats against them.

Cast

Robert Urich Dan Tanna

Bart Braverman Bobby "Binzer" Borso

Phyllis Davis Beatrice Travis

Greg Morris Lt. David Nelson

Naomi Stevens Sgt. Bella Archer

Tony Curtis Phillip "Slick" Roth

Judy Landers Angie

Season 3

Season 1 Season 2 Season 3

E1 Aloha, You're Dead (1) 1980-11-05 · 60 min 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) 1980-11-05 · 60 min 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 1980-11-12 · 60 min 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 1980-11-19 · 60 min 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 1980-11-26 · 60 min 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 1980-12-03 · 60 min 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 1980-12-10 · 60 min A nun claims to hold the deed to the land on which the Desert Inn stands.

E8 Christmas Story 1980-12-17 · 60 min 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 1981-01-07 · 60 min A drug dealer plans to hook Dan on narcotics.

E10 Sourdough Suite 1981-01-14 · 60 min 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 1981-01-21 · 60 min 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 1981-02-18 · 60 min A mother hires Dan to find out why her grown daughter goes out at night dressed like a teenager.

E13 Heist 1981-02-25 · 60 min 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 1981-03-04 · 60 min 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 1981-03-11 · 60 min 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 1981-03-18 · 60 min Dan's investigation of a mobster abruptly ends when Tanna is temporarily blinded after being shot in the head by thugs.

E17 Set Up 1981-03-25 · 60 min A porno movie producer tries to take Lt. Nelson off the streets by framing him for murder.

E18 The Killing 1981-04-15 · 60 min 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 1981-04-22 · 60 min Dan helps prevent the murder of a defector who piloted a secret plane to the U.S.

E20 Dead Ringer 1981-04-29 · 60 min 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 1981-05-06 · 60 min 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 1981-06-03 · 60 min 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 1981-06-10 · 60 min Someone posing as Dan has set himself up as a one man judge and jury to kill criminals released on technicalities.

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