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Vega$

  • TV-PG
  • 1978–1981
  • 3 seasons
  • Drama, Crime
  • 6.9

Private detective Dan Tanna drives 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.

Episodes

23 episodes
  1. 1Redhanded

    44 minSep 19, 1979

    A girl Two Leaf knows comes to town to take care of some business. Later she's killed with Two Leaf's knife and he has scratches on his face that matches her hands. Dan thinks he's being set up but Nelson has no choice but to take him in. Later a television reporter is trying to paint Two Leaf as a danger to society. Upon hearing this he breaks out of jail.

  2. 2The Usurper

    44 minSep 26, 1979

    Dan comes looking for Roth and finds a man named Rodmore in charge. So Dan tries to find Roth to find out what's going on but he appears to have vanished. So he tries to find out why Roth turned control of the company to Rodmore. At the same time someone is following Dan.

  3. 3Mixed Blessing

    44 minOct 3, 1979

    Sister Bridget Callahan hires Dan to find drug addict Jimmy Porter and recover the Cross of Casseras, which Jimmy stole from her New Mexico mission to sell to someone else. But she won't reveal Jimmy's name, thereby complicating Dan's task.

  4. 4Runaway

    44 minOct 24, 1979

    Dan is hired by a man to look for his daughter who is pregnant. While Dan tries to find her someone is following him. When he eventually finds her, she calls her father to come but when he arrive she claims he is not her father. That's when he pulls a gun.

  5. 5Design for Death

    44 minOct 31, 1979

    Dan's hired by a designer who's at the hotel to unveil her new line. It seems some of her models are being terrorized and one of them is Dan's ex. While investigating, the men who are terrorizing them are putting their plan in motion. One of the men who fears that Dan's ex who saw him commit one of their acts against them might identify him kills her which makes things more personal for Dan.

  6. 6Shadow on a Star

    44 minNov 14, 1979

    When a singer who's suppose to perform at the hotel is sexually assaulted, she asks for private investigator. So the manager calls Dan. She wants Dan to keep it quiet out of fear that it could ruin her career and life. So Dan asks Nelson to make it quiet. He then goes to a rape counselor who tells Dan that her attacker will do it again. What Dan doesn't know is that her attacker could be closer to her than he thinks

  7. 7Dan Tanna Is Dead

    44 minNov 21, 1979

    Victor Durand once ran a bogus clinic before Dan sent him to prison. Now Durand takes revenge by stealing a toxin, infecting Dan with it, and taunting him, while Dan and his doctors frantically search for a cure to keep Dan alive.

  8. 8The Macho Murders

    44 minNov 28, 1979

    When pimp Luke Manning is gunned down in his home, women's rights activist Virginia Marshall is accused, hires Dan, and tells him she couldn't have killed Luke because her gun was stolen two weeks earlier.

  9. 9The Day the Gambling Stopped

    44 minDec 12, 1979

    When pimp Luke Manning is gunned down in his home, women's rights activist Virginia Marshall is accused, hires Dan, and tells him she couldn't have killed Luke because her gun was stolen two weeks earlier.

  10. 10Classic Connection

    44 minDec 19, 1979

    When a friend of Dan's is killed he sets out to find out who killed him. At the same time another friend, Justin Marsh a former race car driver is in town for a car show. Dan notices a woman following Marsh so he asks her what she wants she tells him to back off. Later someone takes a shot at Dan. He goes to the woman and sees Nelson with her and she tells him that Matsh may have been involved with his friend's death. She reveals that Marsh after his career ending accident was approached by man who convinced him to aid him with illegal businesses. His friend may have been involved with Marsh's activities and wanted out which is why he was killed. Dan doesn't believe it but when he checks Marsh out he changes his mind.

  11. 11Night of a Thousand Eyes

    44 minJan 2, 1980

    When a friend of Dan's who's also a P.I. is killed, his girlfriend asks him to look into it. At the same time, there's a P.I. convention going on at the hotel and some other P.I.s are getting killed. A female P.I. knows something but she's not willing to share it. When an attempt is made on her, she reveals that she and other P.I.'s were hired to solve a case that's been unsolved for years.

  12. 12Lost Monday

    44 minJan 9, 1980

    Binzer goes to see Paula Conway a hypnotist for a little self improvement. But what he doesn't know is she has been hired by some malefactors to turn him into their private assassin. When Tanna notices Binzer has been missing for several days he looks for him. While looking for Binzer, Tanna runs into Jamie Randall, an old friend, who is a reporter doing research on point shaving at college basketball games. It seems the men who hired Paula are the ones behind the point shaving and Binzer being hypnotized to kill Jamie and a player whom they approached who turned them down, plus collateral damage and anyone who gets in Binzer's way. (The trigger word that will turn Binzer lethal is "superstar".)

  13. 13Comeback

    44 minJan 16, 1980

    Mitch Costigian, Dan's Army buddy who's been away for sometime returns to town to perform at the hotel. He's also a newlywed. When he and Dan go to the hotel, his wife stays behind to fix things at the house. Later someone plants an explosive and blows the house up. Mitch is devastated. Later Dan learns that the explosive used is similar to what was used in Vietnam. So Dan thinks there may be a link to their time in Vietnam to what happened to Mitch's wife. Mitch is on a mission to find the one who killed his wife.

  14. 14All Kinds of Love

    44 minJan 23, 1980

    Bea meets a guy while on vacation and gets engaged. She brings him to Vegas to meet everyone. When Tanna sees him he recognizes him as Miles Glover (now calling himself "Drew Marley"), the man who stole away a girl Tanna was dating years earlier. Later, she died mysteriously and he walked away with her money. Unfortunately, Dan's word is not enough so he tries to get information and find the sister of the dead girl who knew the man back then. Meanwhile, Glover/Marley tries to ensure that Tanna does not spoil his plans.

  15. 15The Magic Sister Slayings

    44 minJan 30, 1980

    Dan is targeted by a man who's trying to get a gaming license because Dan has a videotape that shows him consorting with criminals. He sends a professional hit man to get Dan but he misses. He abducts Mitch Costigian, Dan's friend and holds him to get Dan to turn the tape over to him.

  16. 16The Lido Girls

    44 minFeb 6, 1980

    A trio of beauties become suspiciously good at the baccarat table. Another player at the table, Everett Mason, wants in on their secret. As it turns out, so does aging French detective Nicholas Rambeau.

  17. 17Consortium

    44 minFeb 27, 1980

    Roth is planning to put a hotel casino in Toronto and to help him with financing, he organizes a consortium of businessmen. But they're having a hard time on deciding who should be in charge. Roth wants Paul Bracken, one of his people and Dan's brother in law to be the one. But one of the members of the consortium, Mel Brandon, wants to be the one in charge. So sets out to make Paul undesirable by going after Dan and everyone around him, Bea and Binzer.

  18. 18The Hunter Hunted

    44 minMar 5, 1980

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

  19. 19The Man Who Was Twice

    44 minMay 12, 1980

    A headlining, talented, versatile illusionist and female impersonator is receiving bizarre death threats. His manager says he's just over reacting. When he reaches out to Dan Tanna for help, Dan begins, also, to get death threats.

  20. 20The Golden Gate Cop Killer: Part 1

    50 minMar 19, 1980

    A cop from San Francisco who's a friend of Dan's comes to Vegas. It seems that someone is targeting cops, sending them messages telling them when they will be killed usually with a number in it. The man follows the cop and kills him in front of Dan. Dan notices two women when his friend was killed. Dan decides to go to San Francisco and is shunned by the police department but decides to investigate nonetheless and sees the women and later learns that they're cops who were sent by his friend's boss to keep an eye on him. Their boss wants Dan to leave but upon learning that he made some discoveries decides to let Dan stay.

  21. 21The Golden Gate Cop Killer: Part 2

    50 minMar 19, 1980

    Conclusion

  22. 22Siege of the Desert Inn

    44 minApr 30, 1980

    Some men try to rob the hotel but something goes wrong and they take some the showgirls hostage and Bea who was there watching them was also taken. They hold up in a room where the cops can't get to them. The leader then demands 5 million dollars or else he'll kill one of the girls every hour. And to prove he's serious, he kills one and sends her down the elevator. Dan tries to find a way to save the girls and Bea.

  23. 23Vendetta

    May 7, 1980

    An old friend of Dan's who owns a Italian restaurant, is poisoned during a wedding celebration when a bad guy adds drugs to his silver wine goblet. Until Dan investigates, an old vendetta is blamed and the goblet is considered cursed.

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Series cast

Robert UrichDan Tanna68 episodes
Bart BravermanBobby 'Binzer' Borso68 episodes
Phyllis DavisBeatrice Travis68 episodes
Greg MorrisLt. David Nelson68 episodes
Naomi StevensSgt. Bella Archer23 episodes
Tony CurtisRoth (uncredited)23 episodes
Byron MorrowJudge Hunt5 episodes
Richard Bakalyan5 episodes
Peter Haskell4 episodes
Heather Menzies3 episodes
Pernell Roberts3 episodes
Linda Thompson3 episodes
Victor Buono3 episodes
Paul ManteeRoy3 episodes
David Sheiner3 episodes
Peter Mark RichmanGrady3 episodes
Lloyd Bochner3 episodes
Dian Parkinson3 episodes

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