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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.
- Created by:
- Michael Mann
- Cast:
- Robert Urich, Bart Braverman, Phyllis Davis, Greg Morris
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- ABC
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Seasons
Season 1
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
Centerfold
1978-09-20 · 44mModel 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.
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E02
Episode 2
The Games Girls Play
1978-09-27 · 44mA 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.
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E03
Episode 3
Mother Mishkin
1978-10-11 · 44mMother 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.
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E04
Episode 4
Love, Laugh and Die
1978-10-18 · 44mCall 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.
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E05
Episode 5
Yes, My Darling Daughter
1978-10-25 · 44mOn 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.
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E06
Episode 6
Lady Ice
1978-11-01 · 44mA 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.
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E07
Episode 7
Milliken's Stash
1978-11-08 · 44mCocaine smuggler Marty Trafalgar tries to retire, but his former partner Wendell Milliken from Miami won't allow him to do so.
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E08
Episode 8
The Pageant
1978-11-15 · 44mMike 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.
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E09
Episode 9
Lost Women
1978-11-22 · 44mTanna 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.
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E10
Episode 10
Second Stanza
1978-12-06 · 44mFaded 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?
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E11
Episode 11
Serve, Volley and Kill
1978-12-20 · 44mTemperamental 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.
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E12
Episode 12
Ghost of the Ripper
1979-01-10 · 44mPsychotic 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.
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E13
Episode 13
The Eleventh Event
1979-01-17 · 44mA 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.
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E14
Episode 14
Kill Dan Tanna
1979-01-24 · 44mWhen 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.
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E15
Episode 15
Death Mountain
1979-01-31 · 44mChief Gray Bear is trying to stall a Japanese businessman's construction project on the reservation.
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E16
Episode 16
Best Friends
1979-02-07 · 44mDan'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?
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E17
Episode 17
Demand and Supply
1979-02-14 · 44mA 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.
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E18
Episode 18
Everything I Touch
1979-02-28 · 44mDan'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.
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E19
Episode 19
Doubtful Target
1979-03-07 · 44mSavings 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?
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E20
Episode 20
Touch of Death
1979-03-14 · 44mNewlywed 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.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 10.0The Way to Live
1979-05-02 · 44mDaredevil 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.
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E22
Episode 22
The Visitor
1979-05-09 · 44mDan 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.
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Robert Urich
Dan Tanna
Bart Braverman
Bobby 'Binzer' Borso
Phyllis Davis
Beatrice Travis
Greg Morris
Lt. David Nelson
Naomi Stevens
Sgt. Bella Archer
Tony Curtis
Roth