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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.
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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.
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Episode 1
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.
Directed by Harry FalkGuest stars Morey Amsterdam, Vic Tayback, Abe Vigoda, Dane Clark, Cristina Ferrare
Episode 2
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.
Directed by Sutton RoleyGuest stars Troy Donahue, George Jessel, Linda Thompson, Alex Trebek, Don Porter, Skip Homeier, John Carradine, Shelley Fabares
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Bernard McEveetyGuest stars Molly Picon, Antonio Fargas, Anne Francis, Sid Caesar, Ross Martin
Episode 4
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.
Directed by Don ChaffeyGuest stars Jonathan Harris, Robert Mandan, Dorothy Malone, Gene Dynarski, Bobby Van, Don Galloway, Andrew Duggan, Bill Dana
Episode 5
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.
Directed by Don ChaffeyGuest stars Strother Martin, Barbara McNair, Randy Powell, Slim Pickens, Whitman Mayo, Lauren Tewes, Lloyd Bochner
Episode 6
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.
Directed by Marc DanielsGuest stars Cameron Mitchell, Kim Basinger, Barbara McNair, Richard Bakalyan, Nehemiah Persoff
Episode 7
Cocaine smuggler Marty Trafalgar tries to retire, but his former partner Wendell Milliken from Miami won't allow him to do so.
Directed by Lawrence DohenyGuest stars John Marley, Pernell Roberts, Raymond St. Jacques, Anthony James, Shelley Berman, Henry Jones, Isabel Sanford, Marvin Brody
Episode 8
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.
Directed by Lawrence DobkinGuest stars Michael Callan, Michael Swan, Dolly Read, Inga Swenson, Robert Reed, Peter Brown
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars Charles Dierkop, Cesar Romero, Peter Mark Richman, Moses Gunn, Rhonda Hopkins
Episode 10
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 Ronee Blakley, Doc Severinsen, Harvey Lembeck, Joseph Campanella, Peter Breck, Eugene Roche, Johnny Seven
Episode 11
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.
Directed by Sutton RoleyGuest stars Mamie Van Doren, Christopher George, Dawn Wells, Philip Abbott, Lynda Day George, Randolph Mantooth, Red Buttons, Don DeFore
Episode 12
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.
Directed by Lawrence DobkinGuest stars Pamela Hensley, Peter Lind Hayes, George Takei, John Larch
Episode 13
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.
Directed by Don ChaffeyGuest stars Michael Conrad, Jill Haworth, Clifton Davis, Squire Fridell, Vernee Watson, Robert Loggia, James McKenna
Episode 14
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.
Directed by Curtis HarringtonGuest stars Julie Harris, Byron Morrow, Don Gordon, Richard Lynch, Kyle Richards
Episode 15
Chief Gray Bear is trying to stall a Japanese businessman's construction project on the reservation.
Directed by George McCowanGuest stars Keye Luke, Dehl Berti, Ken Curtis, Joan Van Ark, John Tuell, Glenn R. Wilder
Episode 16
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?
Directed by Don ChaffeyGuest stars John Rubinstein, Abbe Lane, Ned Glass
Episode 17
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.
Directed by Cliff BoleGuest stars Michael D. Roberts, R.G. Armstrong, William Smith, John Fiedler, Gregory Walcott, Cindy Eilbacher, Lynn Theel
Episode 18
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.
Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars Vivian Blaine, Heather Menzies, Adam West
Episode 19
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?
Directed by Lawrence DohenyGuest stars Leslie Nielsen, Woodrow Parfrey, Louise Sorel, Anne Jeffreys
Episode 20
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.
Directed by Don ChaffeyGuest stars John Randolph, Paul Mantee, Stephen Elliott, Sarah Cunningham, Alan Oppenheimer, Noah Keen, Jerry Ayres, Sondra West
Episode 21
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.
Directed by Don ChaffeyGuest stars Kenneth Tobey, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jason Wingreen, Norman Alden, Marlyn Mason, Jeffrey Druce
Episode 22
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.
Directed by Lawrence DohenyGuest stars Henry Darrow, Michael Ansara, Kim Cattrall, Belinda Balaski, Eduard Franz, Victor Campos
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Robert UrichDan Tanna
Bart BravermanBobby 'Binzer' Borso
Phyllis DavisBeatrice Travis
Greg MorrisLt. David Nelson
Naomi StevensSgt. Bella Archer
Tony CurtisRoth
Cameron Mitchell
Lorne Greene
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