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?
Don’t cancel Vegas.. Enough with NYC cop shows. Vegas is about a exciting time in America, with great actors, who take us back.
Cancel Golden Boy put Vegas back on. We have way too many Golden Boys on TV already
Love the show and characters please don’t cancel Vegas.
Cancell or not? 1st off it was said on a Teusday that Vegas would be back in 2 weeks(14 days) which would be a Teusday. Then I hear they move it to Friday. When I looked for it on Friday I did not see it. Did it get cancelled? Vegas looked great but overall: drawls, mediocre, even boring here and there. So if they cancell or already have…alright then.
DO NOT CANCEL!!!! I love this show! Dennis is awesome in this series and I want it to come back…….Cancel Golden Boy, barf!!
Please do NOT cancel this series. Vegas is one of the best shows around!
I look forward to Tuesday night tv because of the series Vegas. It is one of the best shows out now. I like all of the acting. Whoever wrote for this show , did an excellent job. I think it would be a shame to cancell it, so please don’t!
Do not cancel Vegas! Pleae renew it.
Please dont cancel there is nothing on tv anymore except vegas will have to watch another station which will have crap on and will just go to bed early.
Don’t cancel Vegas!
Next to NCIS this isthe very best show on TV!!!!! Have been looking and looking for it the past few weeks! NO-WAY, DO NOT CANCEL. Someone must be crazy to consider it!!
I Love this series!!! DO NOT CANCEL!!!!!
please don’t cancel Vegas it is one of the best shows to come out in a long time. The timeperiod is great with the clothes, music, cars and cast of characters. It seems like whenever a network gets something good it goes away for something like another reality or forensic medicine, enough already of them.
Leave Vegas on for those of us who live for Tuesday night TV good times
Leave the darn show on!! There are few enough of this quality left on air.
Please don’t cancel Vegas.Didn’t think I would like it but started watching and was hooked.Love the 60’s setting and the storyline.Absolutely hate Golden Boy,which seems to be a really bad atempt at making a young punk cop into a superhero.The acting is horrible,and to replace Vegas with this trash is not to CBS’s credit.So far you’ve got a great thing going with your award winning line up of Big Bang Theory,Mike & Molly,and Two and a Half Men,and countless others.Don’t fix what ain’t broke.