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Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Vega$ Season 1 Episode 3 - Mother Mishkin
    6.9/10(94 votes)

    #1 - Mother Mishkin

    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(71 votes)

    #2 - The Eleventh Event

    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 5 - Yes, My Darling Daughter
    7.1/10(90 votes)

    #3 - Yes, My Darling Daughter

    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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  4. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 12 - Ghost of the Ripper
    7.1/10(77 votes)

    #4 - Ghost of the Ripper

    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 6 - Lady Ice
    7.2/10(90 votes)

    #5 - Lady Ice

    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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  6. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 10 - Second Stanza
    7.2/10(71 votes)

    #6 - Second Stanza

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

    #7 - The Man Who Was Twice

    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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  8. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 7 - Milliken's Stash
    7.3/10(73 votes)

    #8 - Milliken's Stash

    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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  9. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 21 - The Way to Live
    7.3/10(70 votes)

    #9 - The Way to Live

    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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  10. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 13 - Comeback
    7.3/10(62 votes)

    #10 - Comeback

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

    #11 - Love, Laugh and Die

    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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  12. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 15 - The Magic Sister Slayings
    7.4/10(57 votes)

    #12 - The Magic Sister Slayings

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

    #13 - Siege of the Desert Inn

    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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  14. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 2 - The Games Girls Play
    7.5/10(99 votes)

    #14 - The Games Girls Play

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

    #15 - Death Mountain

    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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  16. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 16 - Best Friends
    7.5/10(68 votes)

    #16 - Best Friends

    S1:E16

    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?

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 19 - Doubtful Target
    7.5/10(72 votes)

    #17 - Doubtful Target

    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(77 votes)

    #18 - The Visitor

    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)

    #19 - Mixed Blessing

    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 21 - The Golden Gate Cop Killer: Part 2
    7.5/10(47 votes)

    #20 - The Golden Gate Cop Killer: Part 2

    S2:E21

    Conclusion

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 1 - Centerfold
    7.6/10(110 votes)

    #21 - Centerfold

    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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  22. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 9 - Lost Women
    7.6/10(85 votes)

    #22 - Lost Women

    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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  23. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 17 - Demand and Supply
    7.6/10(68 votes)

    #23 - Demand and Supply

    S1:E17

    A teenager gets assaulted at the seedy Pinecrest Hotel. Her mother's friend, begs Dan to take the case. Meanwhile, the pimp threatens to harm another teenage girl if she doesn't turn tricks.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 18 - Everything I Touch
    7.6/10(77 votes)

    #24 - Everything I Touch

    S1:E18

    Dan's love interest Christy Winters is strangled in her hotel room. Her friend tries to help him solve the case and becomes the next victim. Both girls were with Dan right before their murders, leaving Dan badly grief-stricken.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 5 - Design for Death
    7.6/10(66 votes)

    #25 - Design for Death

    S2:E5

    Dan's hired by a designer who's at the hotel to unveil her new line. It seems some of her models are being terrorized and one of them is Dan's ex. While investigating, the men who are terrorizing them are putting their plan in motion. One of the men who fears that Dan's ex who saw him commit one of their acts against them might identify him kills her which makes things more personal for Dan.

    Director:Unknown
    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 94 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".