Network: CBS
Episodes: 21 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: September 25, 2012 — May 10, 2013
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jason O’Mara, and Taylor Handley.
TV show description:
This TV series is based on the true story of former Las Vegas Sheriff Ralph Lamb (Dennis Quaid), a fourth-generation rancher tasked with bringing order to Las Vegas in the 1960s. It’s a gambling and entertainment mecca that’s emerging from the tumbleweeds.
Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb’s command as a military police officer during World War II, the Mayor appeals to his sense of duty to look into a murder of a casino worker.
This begins Lamb’s clash with Vincent Savino (Michael Chiklis), a ruthless Chicago gangster who’s moved West and plans to make Vegas his own. (The character is based on real-life crime boss Marcello Giuseppe Caifano.)
Lamb has two deputies who help him keep law and order. His diplomatic and even-keeled brother is Deputy Jack Lamb (Jason O’Mara). Deputy Dixon Lamb (Taylor Handley) is his charming but impulsive son.
The ambitious Assistant District Attorney, Katherine O’Connell (Carrie-Anne Moss), grew up on the ranch next to the Lambs and also lends a hand in preserving justice.
Episode #21 — Sons of Nevada
After Porter Gainsley’s bombing of the Tumbleweed and attempt on Katherine’s life, Lamb and Savino decide to team up to take out their common adversary once and for all. To prove his commitment to the task, Lamb hands over the tapes with the recordings from the bug in Savino’s phone, and then the mobster and former sheriff get to planning their assault on Gainsley.
Since the ranching mogul is too heavily protected at his home, they decide to target him at a livestock auction, but that plan goes awry when Dixon shows up and holds Gainsley at gunpoint. A firefight breaks out and Lamb is forced to save his son and flee, giving Gainsley time to regroup and amass more artillery for the coming war.
When Jack is ousted as interim Sheriff by more of Gainsley’s men, he and Dixon join forces with Lamb and Savino, and together they craft a plan that involves using Jones the hitman to put Gainsley in a corner. Jones plays his part well and leads Gainsley and his thugs into a trap, where Lamb gives him his freedom as a reward.
After an intense firefight, Lamb gets the drop on Gainsley and decides to arrest him instead of killing him, setting the proper example for his son and staying true to his morals.
In the end, Lamb gets his Sheriff job back, putting him at odds with Savino and his plans for growth in Vegas yet again.
Meanwhile, Jack plans to propose to Mia, but his plans are derailed when she breaks up with him after finding out about the bug he planted in Savino’s phone.
Tommy pursues Mia even harder, and the two wind up spending the night together. After Gainsley is taken into custody, Jack goes to Mia’s place to fight for her, but is crushed when he discovers Tommy there with her — in nothing but a bath robe.
First aired: May 10, 2013
What do you think? Do you like the Vegas TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
My family and friends are in the 18-49 age range and loved Vegas!! Hoping they change their minds and bring it back. Please renew as all the reality talent and survivor types shows are sooo boring and we are tired of.
CBS did Vegas an injustice. Love the show and then they took it off mid-season and put in Golden Boy which to me was a TOTAL FLOP. Then they said Vegas would be back in two weeks – kept waiting but they continued to show the looser Golden Boy. Finally, after about six weeks they brought Vegas back on Fridays. Loved the Tuesday night line up – two NCISs and then Vegas. Now I avoid TV after the NCISs. Friday nights I avoid TV again until Vegas and Bluebloods come on. HATE reality shows – give me good drama like… Read more »
We love that show. Please, I hope another network will pick it up. It is a great show, with wonderful actors.
Wise up CBS and uncancel Vegas. Best new show
CBS has had in a longtime. Great actors, great story too bad their
network couldn’t see it. Bring Vegas back
I love Vegas. I hope in continues
Vegas is a great show! CBS may be looking at younger viewers, but they need to realize their parents in many situations are the ones with the money. CBS needs to reconsider this decision.
Amen! Lets hope a cable network will renew it.
It didn’t rate high enough in the 18-49 age group, which is all the networks really care about. If you are over 50, watch TV if you want, but the networks do really care what you like.
How any 18-30 years today have free money? Us professional 50-65 year olds in general have a lot more free money
It probably was an expensive show to make and needed to be a mega hit, but fell short. Young viewers just don’t appreciate good drama unless there is fantasy involved . This 18-49 demographic that the networks all bow down to makes me not even want to turn on the TV.
Vegas and Blue Bloods are two of the few network shows we make a point to watch..please give Vegas another season…we can’t take another reality or talent show! If not, I guess we’ll just be watching even more cable series!
Please renew Vegas! I really love this show!
After nearly 30 years in the TV Ratings business of sales and analysis, the East & West Coast audiences just don’t make a show. Not knowing the data, I’m sure the ratings are higher in the top DMA’s than the smaller cities. Plus, the advertisers (thus networks) want ONLY VIEWERS AGED 18-49, OR 18-34. 25-54 COUNT ONLY FOR NEWS. Add to this the actual lack of those watching traditional TV (as opposed to tabs/phones/laptops, etc, and there you have it…another quality show bites the dust.
Love this show. I can’t believe they are cancelling it. Hope it’s not for more dumb ass reality show. CBS had more shows I watch than any other network and slowly they are killing them. What a bummer!
This was one of the best shows on TV. I enjoyed it very much. The cancelling of this show shows that network bigwigs just like management of corporations knew when they have a good thing. The original Tuesday night line up for programs was the best they ever had and now they have destroyed it. I sure they will replace it with some STUPID show like they always do. Great actors seem to always get SCREWED while CRAP actors always remain on the air, go figure.
I was seriously questioning the I.Q. levels of those making decisions at CBS, but now that I see that you cancelled all 3 of the only good shows that you network had this past season, i see that the I.Q. levels of those involved in decision making are too low to be recordable. I don’t know what plans you may have for your fall lineup, but if it’s anything like the rest of the crap on your schedule this past season, then I won’t be watching your network.
For crying out loud you guys!! Why would you cancel Vegas? It is a GREAT SHOW —
do you not know how much so many of us hate the crap you put on? PLEASE…I suppose another reality show is in the offing — This is another indication of the sad decline of a once great culture that understood and appreciated good writing and drama.
Goodbye TV!