“Vega$-The First Season, Volume 2,” is the second release of the popular, but brief series starring Robert Urich as Las Vegas private eye Dan Tanna.
As was typical with other Aaron Spelling action television shows of this era (and Urich himself starred as James Street in Spelling’s even shorter-lived series SWAT), Vega$ featured lots of fistfights, gunfights, car chases, and plots that not only strained credulity, but often broke it. But faithful viewers didn’t care about how realistic the show was, but how much fun and pure escapism it was. Urich as Tanna was a former Special Forces soldier now making his career as a rough and tumble private eye, who relied on help from girl Friday Bea (Phyllis Davis), a former showgirl, his buddy Binzer (Bart Braverman), his police contact, Lt. Dave Nelson (Greg Morris) and Vegas hotel owner Phillip Roth (Tony Curtis). A unique feature of Tanna’s apartment behind Roth’s hotel was the fact that he could drive his cool sports car into his living room.
It is great to have the late Urich’s work on DVD, and Vega$ will be enjoyed today by many who spent evenings enjoying the show in their youth.
“Vega$-The First Season, Volume 2,” is the second release of the popular, but brief series starring Robert Urich as Las Vegas private eye Dan Tanna.
As was typical with other Aaron Spelling action television shows of this era (and Urich himself starred as James Street in Spelling’s even shorter-lived series SWAT), Vega$ featured lots of fistfights, gunfights, car chases, and plots that not only strained credulity, but often broke it. But faithful viewers didn’t care about how realistic the show was, but how much fun and pure escapism it was. Urich as Tanna was a former Special Forces soldier now making his career as a rough and tumble private eye, who relied on help from girl Friday Bea (Phyllis Davis), a former showgirl, his buddy Binzer (Bart Braverman), his police contact, Lt. Dave Nelson (Greg Morris) and Vegas hotel owner Phillip Roth (Tony Curtis). A unique feature of Tanna’s apartment behind Roth’s hotel was the fact that he could drive his cool sports car into his living room.
It is great to have the late Urich’s work on DVD, and Vega$ will be enjoyed today by many who spent evenings enjoying the show in their youth.
Rating: 4 / 5