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?
Do not cancel. Good show
Really enjoy this series, please do not cancel
Vegas is awesome!!!! We do not like the show that you have replaced it with. Very slow….Boring….
PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT EVER CANCEL VEGAS. CAN’T WAIT TO WATCH IT EVERY TUESDAY….
THX
I love this show…………PLEASE do not cancel.
I love this show! Do not cancel!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please do not cancel Vegas. It is brilliant, and gets better with each additional episode.
Lots of great storylines yet to be explored! Please save it!!!
one of best shows on tv
do not cancel Vegas–one of the best series on tv
It is such a good tv program-Vegas do not cancel
Vegas is one of the best shows on tv. Do not cancel it.
If CBS cancels this show the only other I will be watching on their network is The Good Wife IF it makes it. What did they expect putting it in a time slot against Parenthood and Private Practice (show ended last month). Each had about five million viewers so this show started minus ten. I recorded both shows and watched this one on my computer. Ironic as some nights there is not one show I want to “watch” and most only one! No matter how long Survivor or the Great Race is on, there are a bunch of us who… Read more »
Love this show and the cast. Quaid is perfect in his role. And he would have been perfect in the Jack Reacher movie from my impression of the book character. (I would have seen the movie if he had been the star). However, I would not want to lose him as Sheriff Lamb. Quaid, O’Mara and Handley make it work, squabbles and all. Chiklis, you make a really good bad guy. CBS, be smart! TV viewers need a real story line and a valid family situation is a huge plus. Thank heaven ‘Vegas’ is not another destruction of humanity reality… Read more »
Please keep the show Vegas on, we really enjoy watching it.
Please keep Vegas on, we really enjoy it .
Please, Please do not cancel Vegas this is the best show on since the old Dallas. I love Dennis Quaid and his family, it has a good story line true to reality about the mod bosses of Vegas. I have lost all of my family in the last few months and this show is the one bright star I have to look forward to. Please bring it back, just look at that face of Dennis how could you let him go?