Episode
Vega$: Love, Laugh and Die
Overview
Call girl Lexy Gardner is shot dead, so her mother hires Dan to find out who did it and how Lexy wound up hooking. The case expands to involve singer Eddie Banning, tennis pro Lou Spitz, and contractor William Virgil.
Details
- Series
- Vega$
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1978-10-18
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Love, Laugh and Die is Episode 4 in Season 1 of Vega$. It aired on 1978-10-18. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 3: Mother Mishkin
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.
Episode 5: Yes, My Darling Daughter
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.
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