VEGAS SEASON 1(1978)
One of the best TV series ever(at leat the first four
seasons) starring Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney,
John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Janel Moloney, Richard
Schiff, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina, Stockard Channing and
others!
I guess it's pretty obvious what the shows about, a first
tern President and his cabinet and the workings inside
the West Wing!!
EPISODE # 1: PILOT(Sept. 22, 1999):
We are introduced to the entire team here: Josh Lyman, Toby
Ziegler, C.J. Craig, Leo McGarry, Sam Seaborn, Donna Moss
and of course President Josiah Bartlet!
Josh is in trouble for something he said to a religious
zelot on TV, Sam's in trouble for sleeping with a high
priced call girl(he was unaware of it at the time), and
there's a couple of hundred Cubans on their way to the
U.S. shoreline seeking assylum!
Thus starts the best drama ever on TV and just another
day at the West Wing!! A+
EPISODE # 2: POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC(Sept. 29, 199):
Sam is trying to "reform" the woman he slept with in
episode 1! The President wants his doctor that he's
been seeing to stay on permanently! Josh has to hire
his ex for a postition in Bartlet's administration!
And C.J. is attempting to ease the tension from the
Vice President! A+
EPISODE # 3: A PRPORTIONAL RESPONSE(Oct. 06, 1999):
This introduces another great character, Charlie
Young! Also here is Danny Concannon as a reporter,
who eventually becomes and important part of the
show!
As for the main story, it's about the retalliation for
the attack on the plane that carried doctors, nurses
and medication! Side stories are the hiring of Charlie,
Texas threatening the President and the ongoing story
about Sam and the call girl! A+
EPISODE # 4: FIVE VOTES DOWN(Oct. 13, 1999):
Leo is having marital problems, and the whole team need
to jump in when the bill for gun control is suddenly in
danger of failing!! A
EPISODE # 5: THE CRACKPOTS AND THESE WOMEN(Oct. 20, 1999):
A woman gets married in LV and sees her supposedly dead
father! She hires Tanner to find him!!
Guest starring: Stother Martin, Slim Pickens, Lauren
Tewes!! A
EPISODE # 6: MR. WILIS OF OHIO(Nov. 03, 1999):
A shiek is in Roth's hotel and he asks Dan to watch over
him, and the rubies he's brought! He also winds up being
the alabi for the perp!!!!
Guest starring: Nehemiah Persoff, Kim Basinger, Cameron
Mitchell! A
EPISODE # 7: THE STATE DINNER(Nov. 10, 1999):
A drug bust goes wrong and Dan gets the XXXX beat out of
him! The perps tell Tanna to stay away from Wendell
Milliken!
Guest starring: Shelly Berman, Pernell Roberts, Henry
Jones, Isabel Sandford! A-
EPISODE # 8: ENEMIES(Nov. 17, 1999):
I do not like shows about rape!!!
Guest starring: Robert Reed, Maureen McCormick! D
EPISODE # 9: THE SHORT LIST(Nov. 24, 1999):
A man is running a sex slave scheme!
Guest starring: Cesar Romero, Greg Morris(here as a guest
star, he returns later as a regular)! B+
EPISODE # 10: IN EXCELSIS DEO(Dec. 15, 1999):
A singer on a downward spiral is in the casino and Dan
takes an interest in her!
Guest starring: Joseph Campenella, Doc Severinsen, Harvey
Lembeck, Eugene Roche! B
EPISODE # 11: LORD JOHN MARBURY(Jan. 05, 2000):
A none-to-well-liked tennis player is getting threats
to throw an important match or else!! Also, our old
friend Tommy Circo(Red Buttons) is back posing as n
ordained minisister!!
Guest starring: Don DeFore, Pamelyn Ferdin, Red Buttons
returns, Mamie Van Doren, Dawn Wells, Lynda Day George! A
EPISODE # 12: HE SHALL, FROM TIME TO TIME...(Jan. 12, 2000):
A dude is going around doing what JTR did back in the
1800s!
This is the first episode with Greg Morris being listed
as a regular!
Guest starring: George Tekai, Peter Lind Hayes, Murray
Matheson! B<
EPISODE # 13: TAKE OUT THE TRASH DAY(Jan. 26, 2000)
A used-to-be track star who wound up paralized after a
car crash come back to his home town of Las Vegas for
a telethon hi his honor! But, of course this wouldn't
be Vegas without some bad guys/girls messing up the
whole thing!!
Thing is, is he really paralyzed?
Guest starring: Muhammad Ali, Robert Loggia! B
EPISODE # 14: TAKE THIS SABBATH DAY(Feb. 09, 2000):
A deranged former commander of Tanna's in the service
comes looking for Dan to pay him back for abandoning hims
and another soldier in Vietnam! B-
EPISODE # 15: CELESTIAL NAVIGATION(Feb. 16, 2000):
A very not-nice person wants to build on Indian land
and will do anything to git-r-dun!
Guest starring: Keye Luke, Joan Van Ark, Ken Curtis! A
EPISODE # 16: 20 HOURS IN L.A.(Feb. 23, 2000)
An old school friend of Dan's show up in town and
turns out to be a really good shot!!!
Guest starring: Harold J. Stone, Ned Glass! A
EPISODE # 17: THE WHITE HOUSE PRO-AM(Mar. 22, 2000):
All about teenage prostitutes!
Not a fan of these kind of shows!
Guest staring: John Fielder! C
EPISODE # 18: SIX MEETINGS BEFORE LUNCH(Apr. 05, 2000):
It seems someone's out after the women in Dan's life!!! A
EPISODE # 19: LET BARTLET BE BARTLET(Apr. 26, 2000)
Binzer's long time girlfriend gets killed by a bank
exec after he kills an investiment counselor! He
thinks that she and Binzer were witnesses to the
murder!
This was before Neilson became a comedy giant!!
Guest starring: the great Leslie Neilson!!! A
EPISODE # 20: MANDANTORY MINIMUMS(May 03, 2000):
A young couple get married and head to Vegas for their
honeymoon, almost get into a accident with an 18-wheeler,
arive in town, get a room, win at the roulette table,
buy a bottle of champaign, the guy goes to buy a gift
at the jewelery store, and disapppears!! No one will
back up her story and Tanna believes her and will not
rest till he gets answers!!
Guest starring: Alan Oppenheimer, Paul Mantee, Barbara
Baldavin! A
EPISODE # 21: LIES, DAMNS LIES AND STATISTICS(May 10, 2000):
A woman wants to make a record breaking jump that others
don't want her to!!
Guest starring: Alfred Hyde-White!! B
EPISODE # 22: WHAT KIND OF DAY HAS IT BEEN(May 17, 2000)
Dan is hired to protect a Princess!
Guest starring: Michael Ansara, Harry Darrow! A
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Reviewer From IMDb.com:
Just started re watching this amazing series again, which
may be a mistake as I can now see several weeks of zero
sleep coming up! Brilliantly written, acted, produced and
directed. Faultless from the very first introduction. Would
and have reccomended this to anyone who has any sort of
interest in quality TV. - billyl-10881