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?
CBS is notorious for canceling shows that are doing well. I am still VERY UPSET that CBS canceled CSI: Miami without having a proper closure to it. When they shipped it to Sunday nights and didn’t air sometimes until after 11, because of runover from sports, that hurt it. Now, CBS is threatening to cancel Vegas. Vegas is very well written and acted. This is one of the few shows I can get into. I like NCIS, LA, Criminal Minds, CSI:(Vegas and NY) and Blue Bloods, as well. Vegas should get a fair chance. If CBS doesn’t want to put… Read more »
Vegas is exciting and fun vintage TV “good guy/bad guy” stuff. It should last for may seasons
Please keep Vegas on. We look forward to it every week. Always liked Dennis Quaid, and Jason O’mara is great. Vegas, Blue Bloods, Good Wife and Elementary have been the reasons we watch CBS now instead of NBC. Older Americans appreciate the historical type backround.
My husband and I love this show !!!!! Please bring it back. It is one of our favorites.
Please do NOT cancel Vegas! Look forward to this show every week! Excellent cast with Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis with believable plots and exciting action! Having gotten married in the 60’s, this time period (with the Corvair model that I still own!) is so exciting!
I reaaly enjoy the show and look forward to it every week-it seems every time I get involved in a good series they do some stupid thing to it or cancel it, this is a great series why cancel a winner to put some other junk in its place,never could understand-it seems if it works and people like it why change some thing or try to improve on it-usually they mess it up more than fixing something-KEEP VEGAS
Please do not cancel Vegas. It is my husband and my favorite show. Different from all the other copy cat shows on TV. Bring it on!!!!
Evidently CBS’ powers that be are setting on their brains again! educated plum beyond their intelligence!!!!
What can you be thinking? One of the few shows that is out there that is entertaining and shows how it really was in 60’s plus how things were handled vs. the mess we are in now. Every time we get something good someone wants to put on another reality show and those really aren’t real.
Please do not cancel. Great show.
Loved the show, please keep it on.
Please do not cancel the show Vegas. We love it. If we are not going to be home on the night it is aired, we tape it. There is not too much phoney about it. I am sure that what the script is about goes on in Las Vegas all of the time. At least it used too. We also love the actors in the movie.
Please don’t cancl Vegas!! It is one of the few good shows on TV anymore and it would be a shame if it were dropped!
Please leave it on it is a great show.
I, as well as my friends agree with the great praises of the others here. Please keep VEGAS on ! Some time, some where. We truly enjoy the show, and would be sad to lose it.