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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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?
#10 - Lady Ice
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1978
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 Sheikh 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.
#11 - 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.
#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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#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.
#16 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#19 - 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
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#25 - Death Mountain
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1979
Chief Gray Bear is trying to stall a Japanese businessman's construction project on the reservation.