S1 E1 • Centerfold

A model who is doing a shoot at the Desert Inn decides that it's time for her to quit but her manager, who's worried about losing his meal ticket, resorts to drastic measures. He hires two guys to pretend to be cosmetic executives and at the meeting they drug her and take naked pictures of her. The next morning she calls Dan who picks her up and brings her back to the Desert Inn. He asks Two-Leaf to take care of her while he looks for her manager. The manager is met by the two men he hired who want in on the million dollar contract he told her of but he says that he made it up, they shoot him. Later they send her the photos they took, along with a contract they want her to sign. Dan tries to find them but she decides to give them what they want so no one else will be hurt. When Dan learns that she went to meet them Dan and Two-Leaf go there and grab them and make them turn the negatives over.

Première diffusion : 20 septembre 1978

S1 E2 • The Games Girls Play

Three Beverly Hills wives who added some excitement to their lives by posing as call girls get more than they expected when a senator is threatened with blackmail photographs.

Première diffusion : 27 septembre 1978

S1 E3 • Mother Mishkin

When a former madam starts receiving death threats, Dan begins to suspect that a land speculator wants to drive her off her property.

Première diffusion : 11 octobre 1978

S1 E4 • Love, Laugh and Die

When a former call girl is killed, Dan tries to figure out which of three well-known former lovers is responsible: a folk singer, a tennis star, or a construction tycoon.

Première diffusion : 18 octobre 1978

S1 E5 • Yes, My Darling Daughter

When a newlywed thinks she sees her supposedly long-dead father in the back of the hall at her wedding, she hires Tanna to find out the truth.

Première diffusion : 25 octobre 1978

S1 E6 • Lady Ice

A glittering jewelry convention at the Desert Inn attracts many buyers and sellers to the dazzling array of pricey gems...as well as some cunning thieves who plan to rob a wealthy Sheikh of his collection of valuable rubies. When Tanna gets drawn into the case, he encounters a seductive woman who may be involved in the caper.

Première diffusion : 1 novembre 1978

S1 E7 • Milliken's Stash

Cocaine smuggler Marty Trafalgar tries to retire, but his former partner Wendell Milliken from Miami won't allow him to do so.

Première diffusion : 8 novembre 1978

S1 E8 • The Pageant

Mike Logan hires Dan to find his daughter Jenny's rapist. Bella discovers that the serial rapist targets slender blondes in their late teens. When the rapist kills a victim, Jenny becomes a witness and Bea becomes a decoy.

Première diffusion : 15 novembre 1978

S1 E9 • Lost Women

Tanna investigates the mysterious disappearances of beautiful Las Vegas showgirls and discovers they have been abducted by a white slaver. When he gets caught trying to rescue them, Binzer and Roth try to rescue him.

Première diffusion : 22 novembre 1978

S1 E10 • Second Stanza

Faded singer Ginny Gordon's comeback is threatened, and her sanity imperiled, by attempts on her life. Is her former partner responsible for the attempts, or is a recent acquaintance terrorizing her?

Première diffusion : 6 décembre 1978

S1 E11 • Serve, Volley and Kill

An obnoxious and tempremental tennis player is about to have a grudge match with a rival at the Desert Inn. Now he has been receiving phone calls threatening him unless he throws the match. His manager hires Dan to protect him but he feels that his manager is overreacting. And Dan doesn't want to work for someone as obnoxious and inconsiderate as him and was about to quit when some men beat him up. Dan decides to look into it further and discovers that his girlfriend is involved with the man behind everything. When they try to get her he lets her go away. Later, his sister is kidnapped and he agrees to throw the match. Dan deduces that either the manager or the promoter is connected to the man, so when he goes to his office to find the sister, he subdues the man and his henchmen and discovers that it's the promoter. He finds the sister and arrives just in time to let her brother come from behind.

Première diffusion : 20 décembre 1978

S1 E12 • Ghost of the Ripper

Someone is killing prostitutes, and the police are baffled. A prostitute who is a friend of Dan's is cautioned not to work but feeling that he already got his mark will strike so soon. At the police, a man named Phillip Grayson, an amateur criminologist, arrives who says that another prostitute will be killed before sunrise. And it was the one Dan spoke to earlier. He says that they are dealing with someone who is emulating Jack the Ripper, because each of the victims have the same name of the Ripper's victims. After stating that the Ripper's next killing will not take place for another month, they feel that they have time. But Grayson and Dan suspect that he may be losing touch with reality and will not wait for the month to carry out his next killing. Valerie, a policewoman and friend of Dan's, suspects the same thing so she sets herself as a prostitute with the name of the Ripper's next victim. Dan finds her and backs her up. What they don't know is that he is already there, hiding

Première diffusion : 10 janvier 1979

S1 E13 • The Eleventh Event

Leon Hazlet, an Olympic gold medalist and a friend of Dan's, is paralyzed. Paul Baker, an entertainer sponsors a telethon for but Leon doesn't exactly want to have anything to do with it. Dan convinces him to make an appearance. After Paul performs someone kidnaps him and demands $250,000 but it seems that Paul doesn't have that kind of money right now. Leon offers to pay the ransom. While waiting for the kidnapper Dan calls Paul's wife and plays a tape of the kidnapper and starts to talk to him, which means that she was in on it. It seems that she's tired of being Paul's wife. Leon, who dropped the ransom and was left in the desert by the kidnapper but who managed to hang on to the van. Dan arrives to take out the kidnapper and Paul's manager, who is also in on it, with Leon's help.

Première diffusion : 17 janvier 1979

S1 E14 • Kill Dan Tanna!

Première diffusion : 24 janvier 1979

S1 E15 • Death Mountain

Première diffusion : 31 janvier 1979

S1 E16 • Best Friends

Première diffusion : 7 février 1979

S1 E17 • Demand and Supply

Première diffusion : 14 février 1979

S1 E18 • Everything I Touch

A girl whom Dan is seeing is killed. Dan goes all out to find out who killed her. After talking to a friend of hers, she is killed also. Dan surmises that the only thing that they have in common is that he was with them before they were killed. Initial investigation shows that the girls struggled with their attacker which leads Dan to think that the killer might be a woman. But when Angie is also attacked she says that the one who attacked her was a man. When the attacker makes another attempt, Dan chases him and discovers that it's a woman whom he knows and it appears that she has a fatal attraction for him.

Première diffusion : 28 février 1979

S1 E19 • Doubtful Target

Binzer is dating Kimberly, a blind girl. He goes to pick her up at her place of work. While there in an office not far from hers, a man Cy Winters is threatening a man named Ty Dickerson. It seems that they've been playing poker and Dickerson owes Winters a lot of money but Dickerson is trying to weasel his way out of it. When Winters threatens to tell his boss that he has been embezzling money from his bank, Dickerson shoots him. Dickerson was on his way out when Binzer and Kimberly come out of her office and Dickerson sees them. Dickerson goes to Kimberly and shoots her. Nelson arrives and tells Dan about Winters and realizes that Kimberly worked in the same building. Dan tells Binzer about it and tells them that when he picked her up he saw a man coming out of another office, Nelson has Binzer work with a sketch artist. While doing that Dan learns that Winters was a poker player who was banned from the casinos, so Dan goes to a woman named Cynthia who supplies men who can't play in

Première diffusion : 7 mars 1979

S1 E20 • Touch of Death

Première diffusion : 14 mars 1979

S1 E21 • A Way to Live

Première diffusion : 2 mai 1979

S1 E22 • The Visitor

Première diffusion : 9 mai 1979