Details

Release year: 1978

Storyline

Dan Tanna is a private investigator in the gambling town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Vegas can be seedy or glamorous, depending on your point of view.

Top credits

Cast

Robert Urich — Dan Tanna
Bart Braverman — Bobby 'Binzer' Borso
Phyllis Davis — Beatrice Travis
Greg Morris — Lt. David Nelson, Lt. George Nelson

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Just before this show premiered on September 20, 1978, Robert Urich briefly appeared (in a backdoor pilot) as Dan Tanna at the end of Charlie's Angels (1976)' season three, episode one, "Angels in Vegas". Supposedly, Dan Tanna was a friend of Charlie and Bosley.

• Robert Urich packed on 40 pounds of muscle for the role of Dan Tanna. His weight boosted from a skinny 180 pounds to a solid, muscular 220 pounds.

• The name "Dan Tanna" was taken from the name of a favorite restaurant of Aaron Spelling on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Dan Tana's Restaurant is still in business as of November 2008. On May 14, 2020, Michael Gotovac---its bartender for the past 50 plus years---died of complications from COVID-19.