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 great! Please do not replace with another cop show or reality show. Vegas projects values…
So worth watching. Please do not cancel this show. TV reality show are so boring.
LEAVE VEGAS ON…IT IS SO GOOD and SO DIFFERENT FROM EVERYTHING ELSE!
Please keep Vegas in the line up My husband and I look forward to Tuesday nights….
Keep Vegas ……. Pleaseeeeeeeeeee
Please do not cancel the program Vegas. I am so sick of reality television Snookie should be jailed for boring everyone to death with her stupidity, along with several others. This is a program that is refreshing and good. Figures if it’s good it’s up for consideration for cancellation.
NOOOOOO do not cancel the program, you finally get a good program and you take it off the air. It is not only entertaining but a decent show.
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL VEGAS!!!!!
You have got to be kidding if they think the same audience that enjoyed Vegas would watch this stupid Golden Boy. We watched for 10 minutes and ended up watching ME TV . Vegas had suspense, substance, plot and not your every predictable moment like Golden Boy. We love the cast of Vegas and the human aspect.
Please do not cancel one of the best new show in years
Great show way better than another reality show. Keep it going love the timeline set in fifties and or sixties.
Please don’t cancel!!!
One of the better shows of the better shows. Please don’t cancel
one of the best shows CBS has, I want it back, me and hubby looked forward to see what was going to happen next, grew up in the 60’s and we love Vegas, PLEASE do not take this show off, Golden Boy is okay, replace it with 2 1/2 men, that show sucks
Please, donot cancel Vegas , we love it!!!! There is so much junk on tv we don’t like. This show has good acting, good story line and suspence. And don’t goof it all up adding sex to keep our interest. There’s plenty of it already on tv, magazines and movies!! Enough already!!!
Don’t cancel!! Really enjoy the show.