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Time Bomb (Vega$)
This is a list of episodes for the American private detective crime drama television series '' Vegas'', which aired on ABC from April 25, 1978, to June 3, 1981. Series overview Episodes TV Movie Season 1 (1978–79) Season 2 (1979–80) Season 3 (1980–81) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Vegas episodes Vegas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Detective
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases. History In 1833, Eugène François Vidocq, a French soldier, criminal, and privateer, founded the first known private detective agency, "Le Bureau des Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l'Industrie" ("The Office of Universal Information For Commerce and Industry") and hired ex-convicts. Much of what private investigators did in the early days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. Official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences after he had solved an embezzlement case. Vidocq later suspected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegas (1978 TV Series)
''Vegas'' (stylized as ''Vega$'') is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 20, 1978, to June 3, 1981, with the pilot episode airing April 25, 1978. ''Vegas'' was produced by Aaron Spelling and created by Michael Mann. The series (with the exception of special episodes filmed in Hawaii and San Francisco) was filmed in its entirety on location in Las Vegas, Nevada. ''Vegas'' stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drives to his detective assignments around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird convertible. (The red T-Bird replaced a 1967 yellow Chevrolet Corvette that was used in the pilot episode, a car which ended up being 'destroyed' by fire.) Working for a wide variety of Las Vegas clients, the detective work included locating missing persons, helping solve various Las Vegas crimes, solving casino chip and money scams, and making Las Vegas a safer place for residents and tourists alike. Dan Tanna makes a poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mann (director)
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, director, screenwriter, and Film producer, producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films ''Thief (film), Thief'' (1981), ''Manhunter (film), Manhunter'' (1986), ''The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film), The Last of the Mohicans'' (1992), ''Heat (1995 film), Heat'' (1995), ''The Insider (film), The Insider'' (1999), ''Collateral (film), Collateral'' (2004), and ''Public Enemies (2009 film), Public Enemies'' (2009). He is also known for his role as executive producer on the popular TV series ''Miami Vice'' (1984–89), which he adapted into a Miami Vice (film), 2006 feature film. For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As a producer, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Doheny
Lawrence Doheny (14 April 1924 - 7 September 1982) was an Irish-born American television and film director who directed more than 100 episodes of television from the 1950s to the 1980s. Born in Limerick, Doheny emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and began directing for television, first on the series '' The Big Story'' and ''Rescue 8''. In 1961 he wrote and directed a feature film, ''Teenage Millionaire''. This would be Doheny's only foray into feature films. For the rest of his career he directed television series, most notably ''Adam-12'' (13 episodes), ''The Rockford Files'' (12 episodes), ''Black Sheep Squadron'' (8 episodes), and ''Magnum, P.I.'' (8 episodes). Doheny also directed television films. In 1974 he directed '' Houston, We've Got a Problem'', the first dramatization of the Apollo 13 Apollo 13 (April 1117, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Schmerer
James Allen Schmerer (June 14, 1938 – October 4, 2019) was an American television producer, screenwriter and author, best known for his work on popular action, western and crime drama television programs of the seventies and eighties. Career After graduating from New York University with a bachelor's degree in motion picture production in 1960, Schmerer moved to Hollywood in 1961 and began his career as an assistant editor on the Mike Wallace-narrated series ''Biography'', before becoming a production coordinator on another documentary series, also produced by David L. Wolper, ''Hollywood and the Stars''. He joined the Writers Guild of America West, in 1965. In 1966, alongside producer Irving Allen, he made his jump into fiction, serving as associate producer on ''The Silencers'', the first film in Dean Martin's Matt Helm franchise. While he didn't work on the three following films, he would work with the character on the small screen, writing three episodes of the ABC televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Turley
Jack Bradford Turley (July 21, 1927 – January 19, 2021) was an American screenwriter. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team for his work on ''General Hospital''. His credits included ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', '' The Fugitive'', '' Rawhide'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Vega$ ''Vegas'' (stylized as ''Vega$'') is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 20, 1978, to June 3, 1981, with the pilot episode airing April 25, 1978. ''Vegas'' was produced by Aaron Spelling and created by Mich ...'' and '' 12 O'Clock High''. Turley died in January 2021, at the age of 93. References External links * 1927 births 2021 deaths American male screenwriters American soap opera writers American male television writers American television writers 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Aley
Albert Aley (April 25, 1919 - January 1, 1986) was an American producer, screenwriter, script doctor and story editor. Aley began his career, as an actor on the radio series ''Let's Pretend''. Later in his career, Aley worked on radio and wrote for two episodes for the television series ''Treasury Men in Action''. He later was an producer, screenwriter and script editor for ''Tom Corbett, Space Cadet''. His other credits includes, '' Ironside'', ''The Paper Chase'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''Quincy, M.E.'', ''Have Gun – Will Travel'', and '' Rawhide''. In 1971, Aley was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Series - Drama. He retired in 1981. Aley died in January 1986 at the Seattle Hospital in Seattle, Washington Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ..., a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Urich
Robert Michael Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an American film, television, and stage actor, and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, he starred in a record 15 television series. Urich began his career in television in the early 1970s. After guest stints and roles in short-lived television series, he won a co-starring role in the action/crime drama series ''S.W.A.T.'' in 1975. In 1978, he landed the lead role of Dan Tanna in the crime drama series ''Vega$'', which aired on ABC from 1978 to June 1981, and earned him two Golden Globe Award nominations. In addition to his work in television, Urich also co starred in several feature films, including ''Magnum Force'' (1973), ''The Ice Pirates'' (1984), and ''Turk 182'' (1985). From 1985 to 1988, he portrayed the title role in the detective television series '' Spenser: For Hire'', based on Robert B. Parker's series of mystery novels. In 1988, he began hosting the documentary series ''Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
