Episode
Vega$: Ghost of the Ripper
Overview
Psychotic Jack Schulman is killing prostitutes. Amateur criminologist Philiip Graykirk sees a pattern similar to the Jack-the-Ripper murders and predicts more deaths to come.
Details
- Series
- Vega$
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1979-01-10
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Ghost of the Ripper is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Vega$. It aired on 1979-01-10. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 11: Serve, Volley and Kill
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.
Episode 13: The Eleventh Event
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.
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Episode 9: Lost Women
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Episode 15: Death Mountain
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Episode 8: The Pageant
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.
Episode 16: Best Friends
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?
Episode 7: Milliken's Stash
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Episode 17: Demand and Supply
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.
Episode 6: Lady Ice
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Episode 18: Everything I Touch
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.