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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.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Vega$ Season 1 Episode 3 - Mother Mishkin
    6.9/10(95 votes)

    S1:E3

    Mother Mishkin tries to nail shady real estate developer Worthmeyer and thinks her life is in danger from him, so she hires Dan to protect her. Meanwhile, Dan recruits bumbling Binzer to repossess a car from deadbeat Freddie Tibbs.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 13 - The Eleventh Event
    7.0/10(72 votes)

    S1:E13

    A benefit telethon is planned for Leon Hazlett, a five-time Olympic gold medalist who was crippled in a car crash. But emcee Paul Baker is kidnapped and a $200,000 ransom is demanded.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 1 - Centerfold
    7.1/10(112 votes)

    S1:E1

    Model Shawn Adams' agent Nat Finer is a two-bit hustler whose shady friend Mr. Smith drugs Shawn, takes X-rated photos of her, then tries to blackmail her into a five-year contract.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 12 - Ghost of the Ripper
    7.1/10(81 votes)

    S1:E12

    Psychotic Jack Schulman is killing prostitutes. Amateur criminologist Philiip Graykirk sees a pattern similar to the Jack-the-Ripper murders and predicts more deaths to come.

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 5 - Yes, My Darling Daughter
    7.2/10(92 votes)

    S1:E5

    On her wedding day, Cindy Jenner Smalley sees. or thinks she sees, her dead father Hank, a famous country-western singer who vanished shortly after arranging his wife's mercy killing ten years before. Dan takes the case.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 6 - Lady Ice
    7.2/10(91 votes)

    S1:E6

    A sheik who is staying at Roth's hotel doesn't realize that his female escort Allison Jordan is the one female in a trio of crooks who steal twelve rubies from him. Her romantic evening with Dan becomes her alibi for the crime.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 10 - Second Stanza
    7.2/10(72 votes)

    S1:E10

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 19 - The Man Who Was Twice
    7.2/10(60 votes)

    S2:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 13 - Comeback
    7.3/10(64 votes)

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 4 - Love, Laugh and Die
    7.4/10(86 votes)

    S1:E4

    Call girl Lexy Gardner is shot dead, so her mother hires Dan to find out who did it and how Lexy wound up hooking. The case expands to involve singer Eddie Banning, tennis pro Lou Spitz, and contractor William Virgil.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 7 - Milliken's Stash
    7.4/10(74 votes)

    S1:E7

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

    Director:Lawrence Doheny
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 21 - The Way to Live
    7.4/10(71 votes)

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 15 - The Magic Sister Slayings
    7.4/10(58 votes)

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 22 - Siege of the Desert Inn
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    S2:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 2 - The Games Girls Play
    7.5/10(102 votes)

    S1:E2

    A senator gets photographed in a compromising position with three housewives whose husbands neglect them. When one girl is run down by a car, it's obvious that all three are in danger from a vengeful victim.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 15 - Death Mountain
    7.5/10(60 votes)

    S1:E15

    Chief Gray Bear is trying to stall a Japanese businessman's construction project on the reservation.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 19 - Doubtful Target
    7.5/10(71 votes)

    S1:E19

    Savings and loan president Tyler Dickinson murders investment counselor Cy Winters and then Binzer's girlfriend Kim Sarrason. Binzer is first devastated and then vindictive. Can Dan prevent Binzer from exacting vigilante justice?

    Director:Lawrence Doheny
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 22 - The Visitor
    7.5/10(78 votes)

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Lawrence Doheny
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 3 - Mixed Blessing
    7.5/10(66 votes)

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 14 - All Kinds of Love
    7.5/10(66 votes)

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 21 - The Golden Gate Cop Killer: Part 2
    7.5/10(48 votes)

    S2:E21

    Conclusion

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 1 - Aloha, You're Dead: Part 1
    7.5/10(69 votes)

    S3:E1

    Tanna is kidnapped by a cartel of illegal casino operators who recruit him to kill Philip Roth, whom they see as a threat when they learn that Roth plans to expand his casino empire into international markets. They do this by taking Tanna to their base in Hawaii and hypnotize him to try to get him to kill Roth.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 2 - Aloha, You're Dead: Part 2
    7.5/10(55 votes)

    S3:E2

    Part 2 of 2. Tanna, after a series of rigorous torture sessions involving hypnosis and high-frequency noise intended to program him into killing Roth, manages to trick Remick and his henchmen into thinking that their efforts were successful. Unknown to them, Tanna has used a candle to make earplugs and a splinter in his mouth to block pain impulses used in the sessions. Giving him a rifle loaded with wax bullets, Tanna aims and fires at what he's led to believe is Roth, but is simply another test, as the floating body turns out to be that of a double, and is alive and well. Shortly after this, federal agents arrive and question Tanna, who learns that he and The Commission have been under surveillance all along, and that Roth has been in protective custody and not in any danger. Though initially enraged at the thought of agents sitting idly by while he was tortured, Tanna agrees to help in their investigation to bring Remick and his men to justice.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 13 - Heist
    7.5/10(51 votes)

    S3:E13

    After the D.I. death of 2 security guards, 1 of whom was very close to Roth, in an effort to tighten security, Roth hires Dan to put together the team of his choice to try and knock off any of his 5 casinos. Slick is paying $25,000.00 each.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 9 - Lost Women
    7.6/10(87 votes)

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mother Mishkin" is the worst rated episode of "Vega$". It scored 6.9/10 based on 95 votes. Directed by Bernard McEveety and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/11/1978. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Eleventh Event".