Who played the main role of Dan Tanna in the American TV series "Vega$"?

Vega$ was a television series from ABC that aired from 1978 to 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling and created by Michael Mann.

It revolved around the life of Las Vegas private investigator Dan Tanna (Robert Urich) who went around solving various crimes. He drives around in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird convertible. Working for a wide variety of Las Vegas clients, detective work included locating missing persons, solving money and casino chip scams. He did not accept divorce cases, nor did he work as a bodyguard.

Robert Michael Urich (Ohio, USA, December 19, 1946 – California, USA, April 16, 2002) was an American film, television, and stage actor, and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, he starred in a record 15 television series.

He received a four-year football scholarship to Florida State University, where he majored in communications before getting his master's in broadcast research and management from Michigan State University.

Though his heart was in acting, he joined Chicago's WGN radio as an account executive in the early 1970s before getting his first big break as Burt Reynolds' younger brother in the play "The Rainmaker". Later, he headed to Hollywood, where he landed his first TV part on the 1973 comedy series "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice". But it wasn't until his role as officer Jim Street on ABC's 1975 cop series "S.W.A.T." that audiences began to take notice.

He died from a rare form of cancer, synovial cell sarcoma.