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 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Sudden Death
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1980
After killing a burglar in self-defense, guilt compels Dan to look into the young victim's background. Edward St. John: Gary Lockwood. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Nelson: Greg Morris. Mavis: Jill St. John. Valerio: Robert Tessier. Cathy: Stepfanie Kramer.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Vendetta
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/1980
A cursed goblet is blamed for the drug-overdose death of Dan's friend, a restaurateur, until a second death occurs.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Lido Girls
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1980
A trio of beauties become suspiciously good at the baccarat table. Another player at the table, Everett Mason (L.Q. Jones), wants in on their secret. As it turns out, so does aging French detective, Nicholas Rambeau.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - French Twist
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1981
Dan's detective idol asks for help in solving the murder of a woman he followed from Paris to Las Vegas. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Peterson: Randolph Mantooth. Dan: Robert Urich. Thorton: Tony Epper. Nelson: Greg Morris.
#22 - Dead Ringer
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/1981
Wayne Newton (as himself) hires Dan after receiving threatening phone calls that accuse him of being an imposter. Benny: Richard Lynch. Binzer: Bart Braverman. Capt. Smith: David Sheiner. Beatrice: Phyllis Davis.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.