Vega$: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Centerfold
Sep 20, 1978 · 44 min
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
The Games Girls Play
Sep 27, 1978 · 44 min
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 dan
Mother Mishkin
Oct 11, 1978 · 44 min
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 Bin
Love, Laugh and Die
Oct 18, 1978 · 44 min
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
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Oct 25, 1978 · 44 min
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 killi
Lady Ice
Nov 1, 1978 · 44 min
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 ev
Milliken's Stash
Nov 8, 1978 · 44 min
Cocaine smuggler Marty Trafalgar tries to retire, but his former partner Wendell Milliken from Miami won't allow him to do so.
The Pageant
Nov 15, 1978 · 44 min
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
Lost Women
Nov 22, 1978 · 44 min
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
Second Stanza
Dec 6, 1978 · 44 min
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 acquaintan
Serve, Volley and Kill
Dec 20, 1978 · 44 min
Temperamental tennis pro Bobby Howard has been receiving threatening phone calls. His coach Sid Green hires Dan to protect Bobby, who doesn't want it. Meanwhile, Binzer tries to st
Ghost of the Ripper
Jan 10, 1979 · 44 min
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.
The Eleventh Event
Jan 17, 1979 · 44 min
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 demand
Kill Dan Tanna
Jan 24, 1979 · 44 min
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.
Death Mountain
Jan 31, 1979 · 44 min
Chief Gray Bear is trying to stall a Japanese businessman's construction project on the reservation.
Best Friends
Feb 7, 1979 · 44 min
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?
Demand and Supply
Feb 14, 1979 · 44 min
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 tu
Everything I Touch
Feb 28, 1979 · 44 min
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 t
Doubtful Target
Mar 7, 1979 · 44 min
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 Da
Touch of Death
Mar 14, 1979 · 44 min
Newlywed Gary Cole goes to buy some jewelry for his wife Wendy, and disappears. When Wendy realizes he's missing, nobody that she questions seems to recognize the couple. Her hyste
The Way to Live
May 2, 1979 · 44 min
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 colle
The Visitor
May 9, 1979 · 44 min
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