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Vega$

Season: 1

Episode: 1

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Air Date:20/09/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Harry Falk

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Morey Amsterdam

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Department: Acting

Name: Vic Tayback

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Abe Vigoda

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dane Clark

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Department: Acting

Name: Cristina Ferrare

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Episode: 2

The Games Girls Play

Air Date:27/09/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Sutton Roley

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Troy Donahue

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: George Jessel

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Linda Thompson

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Alex Trebek

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Don Porter

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Skip Homeier

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: John Carradine

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Department: Acting

Name: Shelley Fabares

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Department: Acting

Name: Ed Nelson

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Episode: 3

Mother Mishkin

Air Date:11/10/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Bernard McEveety

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Molly Picon

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Antonio Fargas

Character: 'Fast' Freddie Tibbs

Department: Acting

Name: Anne Francis

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Sid Caesar

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Ross Martin

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Department: Acting

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Episode: 4

Love, Laugh and Die

Air Date:18/10/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Don Chaffey

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Jonathan Harris

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Mandan

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dorothy Malone

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Gene Dynarski

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Bobby Van

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Don Galloway

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Andrew Duggan

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Bill Dana

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Department: Acting

Name: Milton Selzer

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Episode: 5

Yes, My Darling Daughter

Air Date:25/10/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Don Chaffey

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Strother Martin

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Barbara McNair

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Randolph Powell

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Slim Pickens

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Whitman Mayo

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Lauren Tewes

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Department: Acting

Name: Lloyd Bochner

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Episode: 6

Lady Ice

Air Date:01/11/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Marc Daniels

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Cameron Mitchell

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Kim Basinger

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Barbara McNair

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Bakalyan

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Department: Acting

Name: Nehemiah Persoff

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Episode: 7

Milliken's Stash

Air Date:08/11/1978

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

Crew

Name: Lawrence Doheny

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Marley

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Pernell Roberts

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Raymond St. Jacques

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Anthony James

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Shelley Berman

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Henry Jones

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Isabel Sanford

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Marvin Brody

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Episode: 8

The Pageant

Air Date:15/11/1978

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 becomes a witness and Bea becomes a decoy.

Crew

Name: Lawrence Dobkin

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Michael Callan

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Swan

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dolly Read

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Inga Swenson

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Reed

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Department: Acting

Name: Peter Brown

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Episode: 9

Lost Women

Air Date:22/11/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Paul Stanley

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Charles Dierkop

Character: Lenny

Department: Acting

Name: Cesar Romero

Character: Christopher Vincente

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Mark Richman

Character: Grady

Department: Acting

Name: Moses Gunn

Character: Domo

Department: Acting

Name: Rhonda Hopkins

Character: Joyce

Department: Acting

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Episode: 10

Second Stanza

Air Date:06/12/1978

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?

Guest Stars

Name: Ronee Blakley

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Doc Severinsen

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Harvey Lembeck

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Joseph Campanella

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Breck

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Eugene Roche

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Johnny Seven

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Department: Acting

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Episode: 11

Serve, Volley and Kill

Air Date:20/12/1978

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.

Crew

Name: Sutton Roley

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Mamie Van Doren

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Christopher George

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dawn Wells

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Philip Abbott

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Lynda Day George

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Randolph Mantooth

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Red Buttons

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Don DeFore

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Department: Acting

Name: Pamelyn Ferdin

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Episode: 12

Ghost of the Ripper

Air Date:10/01/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Lawrence Dobkin

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Pamela Hensley

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Lind Hayes

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: George Takei

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Department: Acting

Name: John Larch

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Department: Acting

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Episode: 13

The Eleventh Event

Air Date:17/01/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Don Chaffey

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Michael Conrad

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jill Haworth

Character: Lily Baker

Department: Acting

Name: Clifton Davis

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Squire Fridell

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Vernee Watson-Johnson

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Loggia

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: James McKenna

Character: Bellhop

Department: Acting

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Episode: 14

Kill Dan Tanna

Air Date:24/01/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Curtis Harrington

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Julie Harris

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Byron Morrow

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Don Gordon

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Lynch

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Kyle Richards

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Department: Acting

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Episode: 15

Death Mountain

Air Date:31/01/1979

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

Crew

Name: George McCowan

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Keye Luke

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dehl Berti

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Ken Curtis

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Joan Van Ark

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: John Tuell

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Glenn R. Wilder

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Department: Crew

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Episode: 16

Best Friends

Air Date:07/02/1979

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?

Crew

Name: Don Chaffey

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Rubinstein

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Abbe Lane

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Department: Acting

Name: Ned Glass

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Episode: 17

Demand and Supply

Air Date:14/02/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Cliff Bole

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Michael D. Roberts

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: R.G. Armstrong

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: William Smith

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: John Fiedler

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Gregory Walcott

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Cindy Eilbacher

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Lynn Theel

Character: Dahlia

Department: Acting

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Episode: 18

Everything I Touch

Air Date:28/02/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Paul Stanley

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Vivian Blaine

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Heather Menzies

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Adam West

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Department: Acting

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Episode: 19

Doubtful Target

Air Date:07/03/1979

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?

Crew

Name: Lawrence Doheny

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Leslie Nielsen

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Woodrow Parfrey

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Louise Sorel

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Department: Acting

Name: Anne Jeffreys

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Department: Acting

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Episode: 20

Touch of Death

Air Date:14/03/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Don Chaffey

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Randolph

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Mantee

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Stephen Elliott

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Sarah Cunningham

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Alan Oppenheimer

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Noah Keen

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jerry Ayres

Character: Phil Reese / Alex

Department: Acting

Name: Sondra West

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Department: Acting

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Episode: 21

The Way to Live

Air Date:02/05/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Don Chaffey

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Kenneth Tobey

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Wilfrid Hyde-White

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jason Wingreen

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Norman Alden

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Marlyn Mason

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jeffrey Druce

Character: Benny Trudo / Clerk

Department: Acting

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Episode: 22

The Visitor

Air Date:09/05/1979

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.

Crew

Name: Lawrence Doheny

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Henry Darrow

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Ansara

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Kim Cattrall

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Belinda Balaski

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Eduard Franz

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Victor Campos

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Department: Acting

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