April 25, 1978 –
We all got to hang out on the strip with Dan Tanna, when the pilot of Vega$, starring Robert Urich, first aired on ABC TV on this date.
Robert Urich was 31 when the series premiered, but since he looked a decade younger than he was, they wanted to make the character of Dan Tanna, 20. But since he was a Vietnam veteran and that would be too young, they decided to make him 25, even though he still looked younger. In real life, Robert Urich was older than most of the actresses who played his girlfriends on the show, even though his character Dan Tanna was younger than most of his character’s girlfriends.
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