The BEST episodes of Vega$

Every episode of Vega$ ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Vega$!

This popular series, handsome, fun loving, private eye, Dan Tanna, drives around Las Vegas in his vintage Thunderbird solving private cases but is also on retainer to a wealthy casino owner to keep crime out of his hotels. He is helped by his smart and sexy assistant, a sexy and not too smart chorus girl who takes messages for him, and his enthusiastic, yet inept, legman.

Last Updated: 9/13/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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Love Affair
star
7.67
3 votes

#1 - Love Affair

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1980

Dan is unaware that the woman he has fallen in love with is a call girl---and possibly in danger. Pam: Priscilla Barnes. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Phil King: Dick Sargeant. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Fred Barr: Skip Homeier. Nelson: Greg Morris. Tony: Steve Sandor.

Directors: Cliff Bole
Writer: Robert Earll
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Centerfold
star
7.56
247 votes

#2 - Centerfold

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1978

A model who is doing a shoot at the Desert Inn decides that it's time for her to quit but her manager, who's worried about losing his meal ticket, resorts to drastic measures. He hires two guys to pretend to be cosmetic executives and at the meeting they drug her and take naked pictures of her. The next morning she calls Dan who picks her up and brings her back to the Desert Inn. He asks Two-Leaf to take care of her while he looks for her manager. The manager is met by the two men he hired who want in on the million dollar contract he told her of but he says that he made it up, they shoot him. Later they send her the photos they took, along with a contract they want her to sign. Dan tries to find them but she decides to give them what they want so no one else will be hurt. When Dan learns that she went to meet them Dan and Two-Leaf go there and grab them and make them turn the negatives over.

Directors: Harry Falk
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Mother Mishkin
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7.51
123 votes

#3 - Mother Mishkin

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1978

When a former madam starts receiving death threats, Dan begins to suspect that a land speculator wants to drive her off her property.

Directors: Bernard McEveety
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The Pageant
star
7.47
65 votes

#4 - The Pageant

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1978

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 becomes a witness and Bea becomes a decoy.

Directors: Lawrence Dobkin
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Love, Laugh and Die
star
7.47
64 votes

#5 - Love, Laugh and Die

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1978

When a former call girl is killed, Dan tries to figure out which of three well-known former lovers is responsible: a folk singer, a tennis star, or a construction tycoon.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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The Games Girls Play
star
7.40
211 votes

#6 - The Games Girls Play

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1978

Three Beverly Hills wives who added some excitement to their lives by posing as call girls get more than they expected when a senator is threatened with blackmail photographs.

Directors: Sutton Roley
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
star
7.34
94 votes

#7 - Yes, My Darling Daughter

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1978

When a newlywed thinks she sees her supposedly long-dead father in the back of the hall at her wedding, she hires Tanna to find out the truth.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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Serve, Volley and Kill
star
7.11
35 votes

#8 - Serve, Volley and Kill

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1978

An obnoxious and tempremental tennis player is about to have a grudge match with a rival at the Desert Inn. Now he has been receiving phone calls threatening him unless he throws the match. His manager hires Dan to protect him but he feels that his manager is overreacting. And Dan doesn't want to work for someone as obnoxious and inconsiderate as him and was about to quit when some men beat him up. Dan decides to look into it further and discovers that his girlfriend is involved with the man behind everything. When they try to get her he lets her go away. Later, his sister is kidnapped and he agrees to throw the match. Dan deduces that either the manager or the promoter is connected to the man, so when he goes to his office to find the sister, he subdues the man and his henchmen and discovers that it's the promoter. He finds the sister and arrives just in time to let her brother come from behind.

Directors: Sutton Roley
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Best Friends
star
7.03
33 votes

#9 - Best Friends

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1979

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?

Directors: Don Chaffey
Writer: Robert Earll
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Milliken's Stash
star
7.01
121 votes

#10 - Milliken's Stash

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1978

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

Directors: Lawrence Doheny
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star
7.00
3 votes

#11 - The Killing

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/1981

Ten persons are gunned down in a restaurant, and Dan is hired by a victim's widow to find the killers. Green: Paul Burke. Nelson: Greg Morris. Ann: Pamela Franklin. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Diamond Jim: Victor Buono. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Vance: Michael Cavanaugh.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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star
7.00
4 votes

#12 - Judgement Pronounced

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/10/1981

Someone posing as Dan has set himself up as a one-man judge and jury to kill criminals released on technicalities. Urich's brother Tom plays T. Errol Townsend. Ramsey: Alan Feinstein. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Lupino: Eddie Zammit. Nelson: Greg Morris.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly
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star
7.00
4 votes

#13 - Nightmare Come True

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/3/1981

Dan is skeptical about working with a psychic to solve the kidnapping of a teenager. Nelson: Greg Morris. Cornell: Frank Marth. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Larson: James Luisi. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Pierce: Tim O'Connor.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly
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star
7.00
2 votes

#14 - Seek and Destroy

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/1981

Dan helps prevent the murder of a defector who piloted a secret plane to the U.S. Col. Vance: Peter Haskell. Nelson: Greg Morris. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Victoria: Heather Menzies. Jack: Glenn Wilder. Suchak: Chuck Hicks.

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No Way to Treat a Victim
star
7.00
2 votes

#15 - No Way to Treat a Victim

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/4/1981

A friend of Bea's is raped after she and her date are abducted, but later the date can't be found. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Dan: Robert Urich. Lisa: Deborah Wakeham. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Gene: Michael Cole. Nelson: Greg Morris. Larry: Michael Swan. Tracey: Corinne Kason.

Directors: Ray Austin
Writer: Anne Collins
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Siege of the Desert Inn
star
7.00
2 votes

#16 - Siege of the Desert Inn

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/1980

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.

Directors: Lawrence Dobkin
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The Hunter Hunted
star
7.00
2 votes

#17 - The Hunter Hunted

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/1980

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

Directors: Cliff Bole
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The Macho Murders
star
7.00
2 votes

#18 - The Macho Murders

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1979

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.

Directors: Lawrence Doheny
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Shadow on a Star
star
7.00
2 votes

#19 - Shadow on a Star

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1979

A singer who's going to perform at the hotel is attacked. She calls Dan but wants the whole thing kept quiet for fear that it might have a negative impact on her career. Dan sets out to find the attacker and learns that he will do it again.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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Red Handed
star
7.00
3 votes

#20 - Red Handed

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1979

Dawn Peters, a girl whom Two-Leaf knows comes to Vegas to do a favor for someone. While having a drink in the lobby, a man approaches them and goads Two-Leaf into a fight. Dawn lets Two-Leaf rest and places the knife that he carries with him on the table. She then makes a phone call. The next day she is dead, killed with Two-Leaf's knife and he has some scratches on his face. Nelson has no choice but to arrest him. Dan doesn't believe he's guilty but still has to prove it. Dan learns that she went to a Dr. Barrow, who tells her that she came for a vitamin shot. Merrill Wayne, a television reporter has been painting Two-Leaf in a bad light. When Two-Leaf watches her, he loses it. When a guard tries to calm him, Two-Leaf knocks him, takes his uniform and gets out of the jail. Dan learns that Dawn was once a call girl so he goes to where she worked and talked to the man in charge Shining. It seems that Dawn worked there before he joined and that she called to talk his partner who died rec

Directors: Don Chaffey
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Ghost of the Ripper
star
7.00
5 votes

#21 - Ghost of the Ripper

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/1979

Someone is killing prostitutes, and the police are baffled. A prostitute who is a friend of Dan's is cautioned not to work but feeling that he already got his mark will strike so soon. At the police, a man named Phillip Grayson, an amateur criminologist, arrives who says that another prostitute will be killed before sunrise. And it was the one Dan spoke to earlier. He says that they are dealing with someone who is emulating Jack the Ripper, because each of the victims have the same name of the Ripper's victims. After stating that the Ripper's next killing will not take place for another month, they feel that they have time. But Grayson and Dan suspect that he may be losing touch with reality and will not wait for the month to carry out his next killing. Valerie, a policewoman and friend of Dan's, suspects the same thing so she sets herself as a prostitute with the name of the Ripper's next victim. Dan finds her and backs her up. What they don't know is that he is already there, hiding

Directors: Lawrence Dobkin
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The Golden Gate Cop Killer (2)
star
7.00
1 votes

#22 - The Golden Gate Cop Killer (2)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/19/1980

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.

Directors: Cliff Bole
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Kill Dan Tanna!
star
6.97
34 votes

#23 - Kill Dan Tanna!

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1979

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.

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The Eleventh Event
star
6.97
33 votes

#24 - The Eleventh Event

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/1979

Leon Hazlet, an Olympic gold medalist and a friend of Dan's, is paralyzed. Paul Baker, an entertainer sponsors a telethon for but Leon doesn't exactly want to have anything to do with it. Dan convinces him to make an appearance. After Paul performs someone kidnaps him and demands $250,000 but it seems that Paul doesn't have that kind of money right now. Leon offers to pay the ransom. While waiting for the kidnapper Dan calls Paul's wife and plays a tape of the kidnapper and starts to talk to him, which means that she was in on it. It seems that she's tired of being Paul's wife. Leon, who dropped the ransom and was left in the desert by the kidnapper but who managed to hang on to the van. Dan arrives to take out the kidnapper and Paul's manager, who is also in on it, with Leon's help.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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A Way to Live
star
6.97
32 votes

#25 - A Way to Live

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/1979

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 collect on her insurance.

Directors: Don Chaffey
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