The WORST episodes of Vega$
Every episode of Vega$ ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - The Man Who Was Twice
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/1980
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.
#2 - The Visitor
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/9/1979
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 she herself is shot dead in Zara's hotel room.
#3 - The Andreas Addiction
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/7/1981
A drug dealer plans to hook Dan on narcotics. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Marty: Don Stroud. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Dr. Michaels: June Lockhart. Lottie: Hermione Baddeley. Casino Manager: Vito Scotti. Burns: Chase Cordell. Charlie: Tony Ballen.
#4 - Sourdough Suite
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/1981
An old prospector finds a satchel of money in the desert. Dan: Robert Urich. Max: Cesare Danova. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Donny: Joe Kapp. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Angela: Edie Adams. Nelson: Greg Morris. Willis: Crofton Hardester.
#5 - The Golden Gate Cop Killer (1)
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/19/1980
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.
#6 - Mixed Blessings
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1979
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.
#7 - Design for Death
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1979
Sarah Bancroft, a swimsuit designer, is planning to launch her line at the Desert Inn. She hires Dan, because it seems that her models are being terrorized. Dan begins by interviewing a girl who had a car accident; he also meets an old girlfriend, Holly, another model, who saw a man through a pipe on them. Dan goes to see Manny the mechanic, and learns that her car was tampered with. Later, there's a fire at the photo lab of Tom, Sarah's nephew, the photographer. The man fearing that Holly might recognize him kills her. Sarah considers canceling the show but Tom convinces her that they should go on. Tom goes to see the man, and his boss, George Crowley. It seems that Crowley is suppose to arrive at the Desert Inn with two million in diamonds. It seems he wants security concentrated at the fashion show, and his man will rob him of the diamonds, and he will then file an insurance claim and blame it on the inadequate security. When Crowley fears that Dan is getting too close, they try to
#8 - Dan Tanna is Dead
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/1979
A man steals a toxin from a medical research facility, then proceeds to infect Tanna with it. Dan, after feeling a little uneasy, decides to go to the doctor, who tells him that Dan's infected with a toxin and that he is going to die. The man calls and taunts Dan. He intially suspects a man named Cruger, who he sent to prison, but he tells him that he has nothing to do with it but is looking forward to seeing Dan die. He also tells him where he can go to find some of the answers he is looking for at the Nevada Research Center, because the man who did it called him. When Dan gets there, the doctor in charge of the project tells him that unless they get back the toxin so that they could make an anti-toxin, Dan has very little hope. Dan suspects that a doctor named Durand, whom he sent away for making bogus cures and medical treatments. But Nelson tells him that Durand is still in prison but when they get there, they discover that the man whom the prison believes to be Durand is not Duran
#9 - All Kinds of Love
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1980
Dan believes that Bea's new boyfriend is the same one who stole the girl he loved a few years ago and then killed her after he stole all of her money.
#10 - The Magic Sister Slayings
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1980
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.
#11 - Consortium
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1980
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.
#12 - Black Cat Killer
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/1980
Dan searches for a deadly cat burglar after Beatrice is gunned down in her apartment. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Jenny: Erin Gray. Nelson: Greg Morris. Mickey: Joe E. Tata. Doctor: Richard Lenz. Diamond Jim: Victor Buono. Augie Brenner: Harold J. Stone. Reel: Chuck Tamburro.
#13 - A Deadly Victim
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/1980
Two vagrants happen upon a murder attempt---one dies in the ensuing melee, and the other calls her friend Dan Tanna. Laurie: Eleanor Parker. Nelson: Greg Morris. Wright: Vincent Baggetta. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Bridges: Bubba Smith. Binzer: Bart Braverman.
#14 - Heist
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/25/1981
Roth asks Dan to test his hotel's security system with a mock robbery. Freddie: Dick Bakalyan. Nelson: Greg Morris. Jerry: James MacArthur. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis. Vinnie: Joe E. Tata. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Klaus: Werner Klemperer.
#15 - Out of Sight
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/18/1981
Dan is blinded by a gunman who may have been working for the mob. Landauer: Ed Nelson. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Benton: Bill Lucking. Nelson: Greg Morris. Geades: John Karlen. Dr. Lutness: Lynne Marta. Varga: Harry Guardino.
#16 - Aloha, You're Dead (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1980
Conclusion: Dan is kidnapped and taken to Hawaii, where his captors propose that he commit a murder for them.
#17 - Set Up
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/25/1981
A porno-movie producer tries to take Nelson off the streets by framing him for murder. Dan: Robert Urich. Capt. Smith: David S. Sheiner. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Miller: Simon Oakland. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis.
#18 - The Classic Connection
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/1979
Justin Marsh, who was once a great race car driver, and Dan's friend is in town for a classic car auction. Wells Tate, a mechanic, who works on Dan's T-Bird was found dead and it seems that he was planning to call Dan but was killed before he could. Dan then notices that a woman is following Justin and when he confronts her, she tells him that Justin Marsh is working for a man named Rollins who smuggles drugs into the country in classic automobiles. And buy the cars at auctions. And it seems that Wells Tate was their buyer and when he refused to continue doing it, they killed him. Dan after doing a little investigating, agress to help her, after nailing Rollins, Dan goes after Justin, Justin tries to get away but Dan chases him and Justin drives his car off a cliff.
#19 - Deadly Blessing
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/10/1980
A nun claims to hold the deed to the land on which the Desert Inn stands. Robert Urich, Phyllis Davis. Roth: Tony Curtis. Lt. Nelson: Greg Morris.
#20 - Murder by Mirrors
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/21/1981
Beatrice witnesses a murder from a plane, but when the police arrive the body is gone. Dan: Robert Urich. Lyle: Patrick Macnee. Nelson: Greg Morris. Margaret: Julie Adams. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Marcus: Gene Evans. Richardson: Richard Dana. Michael: Robert Hoy. Janet: Jenny Sherman.
#21 - Time Bomb
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/1981
Two ex-cons strong-arm Binzer for the loot from a robbery he helped them commit. Dan: Robert Urich. Vinnie: Dick Butkus. Roth: Tony Curtis. Art: Denny Miller. Nelson: Greg Morris. Margie: Cindy Morgan. Arnie: Michael Constantine.
#22 - Aloha, You're Dead (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/1980
Dan is kidnapped and taken to Hawaii, where his captors propose that he commit a murder for them.
#23 - Runaway
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1979
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.
#24 - Lost Women
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1978
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, Binzer and Roth try to rescue him.
#25 - Second Stanza
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1978
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 acquaintance terrorizing her?