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?
Vegas is such a good show!! What are your execs thinking?? They didn’t give the show a fair shake. This is a show that our family followed every week.
Thier are so many bad shows on TV that are still on and then you canceled Vegas. I don’t
beleive one of the better shows.I hope some other net work picks it up.
That’s it you TV Execs……keep cancelling the good stuff and drowning us in “reality shows” which are totally unreal and a waste of time.
VEGAS needs another season!!
Vegas was one of my favorite shows. Why would anyone cancel a show as well done as Vegas? Someone needs to be replaced with someone with taste for good shows. We are so tired of reality and stupidly. I really am disappointed with CBS , this is the reason I quit watching NBC.
Please don’t cancel this show! if you want to cancel a show that not worth watching cancel Bates Motel not Vegas!!!.
What is the matter with the networks. They always seem to cancel the good shows after they get you hooked on them and then replace them with crap like reality shows. If they don’t get their act together and start renewing the good shows I am going to quit watching them all together.
I can’t believe they canceled this show.It was one of the best shows on TV.What were the people that decide these things smoking?
Bring it back.
Tired of all the reality tv shows out there, keep a show on that people enjoy watching. Bring back Vegas!!!!
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL!! A definite favorite in our house!!
This was one of the better shows on T.V. Please reconsider and bring the show back.
Great show. I fell in love with Mia. Now I feel like Jack … I may never see her again. Jokes aside my wife and I loved the show. It was a fresh change to the other options on. Just another example of one of the three “nut works” and their lack of commitment. If a show is not an instant success it is a failure. Great job CBS. I have a great idea for a show. Give us a modern cop show where we can see lots of forensics and one where the only story line is the victims… Read more »
A great series…really need to give it a chance…..one of my favorite shows and the best new show of the season…..deserves another season…….renew it for another season
At least give the show one more season and see where it goes…… It really is a good show that is just getting started. Make the right choice CBS and give Vegas a chance.
very good show supper good writing . and acting .like
Another example of short sighted thinking by network executives. They didn’t give this show time “to grow legs”. They almost made the same mistake with Cheers and MASH, and instead of learning, they just commit the same errors. Great show, great cast, great plot. Pity!