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The Best Episodes of Vega$

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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 Fan Favorite
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    Vega$ Season 3 Episode 20 - Dead Ringer
    8.8/10(56 votes)

    #1 - Dead Ringer

    S3:E20

    Someone sent Wayne Newton a message saying he is a fake and if he continues to perform he will die. So Wayne calls Dan and tries to find out who this guy is.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 22 - Judgement Pronounced
    8.6/10(51 votes)

    #2 - Judgement Pronounced

    S3:E22

    A criminal just as he is leaving the courthouse with his lawyer, after beating another rap, is shot by a man driving a car like Dan's and dressed like Dan. Dan is brought in and he can't account for his whereabouts at the time of the shooting. When the witness can't make a positive id, Dan's released and he tries to find out who's impersonating him. Later another criminal is killed and this time the witness says it's Dan.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 23 - Nightmare Come True
    8.6/10(49 votes)

    #3 - Nightmare Come True

    S3:E23

    At the insistence of worried parents, Dan teams up with a beautiful psychic, Cynthia Jennnings (Cristina Ferrare) to find their kidnapped daughter (Karlene Crockett). Ransom is 2 million in diamonds. Binzer tries to help Bea go on a diet.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Anne Collins

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  4. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 19 - Seek and Destroy
    8.5/10(43 votes)

    #4 - Seek and Destroy

    S3:E19

    A Russian who was testing a new fighter plane decides to defect and goes to Las Vegas and lands at the nearby military base. One of the bases intelligence men is contacted by an informant who tells him that the Russians have mobilized a team to take out the pilot and the plane. He learns one of the members of the team is a Las Vegas based private investigator who's an explosive expert. So he calls Dan to help him. Before he can meet Dan the men grab him and his contact and take them away. They are later found killed in a car accident which Dan claims is not true. Dan is later taken to the base who fills in on the Commanding officer what his friend told him and that he wants to help. So Dan tries to find the man his friend wants him to find. Can he find them before they make their move.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 21 - French Twist
    8.5/10(52 votes)

    #5 - French Twist

    S3:E21

    French detective Rambeua (Louis Jourdan) returns to investigate male escorts, including Randolph Mantooth. He stays with Dan and Bea dates Mantooth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 7 - Dan Tanna Is Dead
    8.3/10(66 votes)

    #6 - Dan Tanna Is Dead

    S2:E7

    Victor Durand once ran a bogus clinic before Dan sent him to prison. Now Durand takes revenge by stealing a toxin, infecting Dan with it, and taunting him, while Dan and his doctors frantically search for a cure to keep Dan alive.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 4 - Sudden Death
    8.2/10(53 votes)

    #7 - Sudden Death

    S3:E4

    Dan fatally shoots a man who points a gun at him. When he finds out it was a young guy with a BB gun, Dan is deeply affected. He investigates the guy's life, which creates friction.

    Director:Gabrielle Beaumont
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 12 - Backlash
    8.2/10(48 votes)

    #8 - Backlash

    S3:E12

    Three young girls who are on probation are being coerced by their probation officer to help him extort men who came to town looking for a little action from young girls. One of the girls' mother suspects something's going on hires Dan to find out and help them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 18 - The Killing
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #9 - The Killing

    S3:E18

    A couple (Pamela Franklin and Jerry Ayres) are at their wedding anniversary. 2 masked men rob the restaurant, and then machine gun all the patrons.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 9 - The Day the Gambling Stopped
    8.1/10(61 votes)

    #10 - The Day the Gambling Stopped

    S2:E9

    When pimp Luke Manning is gunned down in his home, women's rights activist Virginia Marshall is accused, hires Dan, and tells him she couldn't have killed Luke because her gun was stolen two weeks earlier.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 6 - A Deadly Victim
    8.1/10(56 votes)

    #11 - A Deadly Victim

    S3:E6

    When two vagrants come across an attempted hit, and one of them is killed. The other calls Dan. When Dan goes to the place and asks Nelson to meet him and there are no signs of a hit. Dan then sees the vagrant; an old friend. Dan believes her and sets out to prove it. Later some men tell Dan to back off which he doesn't. Dan learns that the government may be involved. And the hit men set out to find her.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 16 - Out of Sight
    8.1/10(48 votes)

    #12 - Out of Sight

    S3:E16

    Two men grab Dan out of his place and take him to the desert where they try to kill him but Dan tries to get away but is shot. When Dan is found and taken to the hospital. When he wakes up, he discovers he's blind. Dan thinks that the case he was currently working on, wherein an oilman suspects another oilman whom he is competition for some oil leases, is mobbed up, is why someone tried to kill him, because it looks like a mob hit. And later one of the doctors at the hospital tells Dan than his blindness was not caused by the gun shot. The doctor thinks it could be psychological which Dan doesn't believe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 10 - Classic Connection
    8.0/10(61 votes)

    #13 - Classic Connection

    S2:E10

    When a friend of Dan's is killed he sets out to find out who killed him. At the same time another friend, Justin Marsh a former race car driver is in town for a car show. Dan notices a woman following Marsh so he asks her what she wants she tells him to back off. Later someone takes a shot at Dan. He goes to the woman and sees Nelson with her and she tells him that Matsh may have been involved with his friend's death. She reveals that Marsh after his career ending accident was approached by man who convinced him to aid him with illegal businesses. His friend may have been involved with Marsh's activities and wanted out which is why he was killed. Dan doesn't believe it but when he checks Marsh out he changes his mind.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 9 - The Andreas Addiction
    8.0/10(48 votes)

    #14 - The Andreas Addiction

    S3:E9

    Joe Penny, June Lockhart, and Don Stroud. Regarding a vendetta, Dan is addicted to angel dust and heroin planted in Dan's morning health drink. He is, then, held captive. Lt. Nelson, Bea and Binzer are franticly looking for him.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 14 - No Way to Treat a Victim
    8.0/10(46 votes)

    #15 - No Way to Treat a Victim

    S3:E14

    A masked man kidnaps and rapes Bea's friend Lisa and Lisa thinks her boyfriend was killed in the attack. More attacks happen. Bea feels responsible and asks Dan to help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 17 - Set Up
    8.0/10(45 votes)

    #16 - Set Up

    S3:E17

    Nelson gets a call from one of his informants who asks Nelson to meet him. Nelson goes there and finds the man dead, that's when someone knocks him out. He then takes out Nelson's gun and puts another one in his hands. He then goes out and tampers with the phone and Nelson's radio. When Nelson wakes up he tries to call but can't, he then tries to use the radio but couldn't also. So he drives of. When he returns he finds police cars already there. An investigation ensues and they discover that it was Nelson's gun that was used to kill the man. Nelson says he was set up. Dan tries to help and finds out what happened to the phone and his radio. Nelson asks around and gets a lead on a private investigator, so he goes to see his employer a lawyer. The man doesn't tell him much because he's the one behind the whole thing. It seems like he wanted to stop one of Nelson's investigations.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Robert Earll, E. Duke Vincent

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  17. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 14 - Kill Dan Tanna
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #17 - Kill Dan Tanna

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Curtis Harrington
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 17 - Consortium
    7.9/10(58 votes)

    #18 - Consortium

    S2:E17

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 18 - The Hunter Hunted
    7.9/10(60 votes)

    #19 - The Hunter Hunted

    S2:E18

    When someone with a grudge against Nelson goes after his family, he tries to handle it on his own. But Dan insists on helping.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 11 - Murder by Mirrors
    7.9/10(51 votes)

    #20 - Murder by Mirrors

    S3:E11

    Bea on final approach of her 1st solo flight, see's a murder on the ground. Tannna, Nelson and Bea go to the home and are met by the wealthy Lyle Jeffries-Patrick Macnee. A pool party is taking place so no one believes Bea, except Dan.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Vega$ Season 3 Episode 15 - Time Bomb
    7.9/10(49 votes)

    #21 - Time Bomb

    S3:E15

    A couple of men who know Binzer are staying at the hotel and when they see they jump him, Dan tries to help but they get away. Binzer tells Dan he doesn't know them. Later they show up at Binzer's place and it seems that a few years ago Binzer helped them rob someone and they were caught and were sent to prison for three years and Binzer got away with the money. Binzer claims that he lost the money but they don't believe him. They tell Binzer to get the money or else they'll turn him in for being an accomplice in the robbery.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Robert Earll

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  22. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 11 - Serve, Volley and Kill
    7.8/10(75 votes)

    #22 - Serve, Volley and Kill

    S1:E11

    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 stop Tommy Cirko's petty larceny: impersonating a minister.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Vega$ Season 1 Episode 20 - Touch of Death
    7.8/10(69 votes)

    #23 - Touch of Death

    S1:E20

    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 hysteria only hampers Dan's investigation.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 1 - Redhanded
    7.8/10(74 votes)

    #24 - Redhanded

    S2:E1

    A girl Two Leaf knows comes to town to take care of some business. Later she's killed with Two Leaf's knife and he has scratches on his face that matches her hands. Dan thinks he's being set up but Nelson has no choice but to take him in. Later a television reporter is trying to paint Two Leaf as a danger to society. Upon hearing this he breaks out of jail.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Vega$ Season 2 Episode 6 - Shadow on a Star
    7.8/10(57 votes)

    #25 - Shadow on a Star

    S2:E6

    When a singer who's suppose to perform at the hotel is sexually assaulted, she asks for private investigator. So the manager calls Dan. She wants Dan to keep it quiet out of fear that it could ruin her career and life. So Dan asks Nelson to make it quiet. He then goes to a rape counselor who tells Dan that her attacker will do it again. What Dan doesn't know is that her attacker could be closer to her than he thinks

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dead Ringer" is the best rated episode of "Vega$". It scored 8.8/10 based on 56 votes. Directed by Cliff Bole and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/29/1981. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Judgement Pronounced".