The Las Vegas Show is an American late night television program broadcast during the month of May 1967 on the United Network.

[4][2] Bill Dana, a former writer for Steve Allen and a comedian best known for his José Jiménez character,[4][11] was named as host of the program by late March.

[4][16] A previously unused showroom in the Hacienda was converted into a 300-seat studio[2] with the audience sitting at tables with access to free soft drinks; additional remote broadcast capability allowed the show to transmit from up to nine other hotels in the city.

[3] Master tapes were transported to Acme Film Laboratories in Los Angeles[2] prior to transmission over leased AT&T Bell System network lines.

"[6] A later review by Gould called the show "indifferent variety, wanting in pace, cohesion and personality" and the remote broadcasts as "... disjointed and suggested a poor man's 'Hollywood Palace'.

[38] Robert Goldsborough of the Chicago Tribune was more receptive to Dana's "hesitant" on-air persona and saw the "endless parade of top talent moving steadily thru the gambling mecca" of Las Vegas as an asset, but was critical of the show's frequent commercial breaks.

[39] Variety viewed the excessive ads as detrimental to "a surprisingly posh program", saying they "made the Vegas end of [the show] seem mere wraparound for a Madison Ave. blurb festival ... as a kind of parallel McLuhanism, '[the] money is the message.

"[40] Hank Grant of The Hollywood Reporter praised Las Vegas as "... a potpourri that threatened to boil over with too much talent"[41] while Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News called it "... a late-night jackpot ... [that] promises to be everything a TV late show should be.

[50] In the last few days, Oliver Treyz made a direct on-camera appeal for potential sponsors, emphasizing the advertising rates for Las Vegas were a fraction of Tonight on NBC.

[50] Bill Dana, who blamed the failure of United on the reluctance of ownership to provide it financial sustenance, mused, "At least I set a record.

"[52] Historian Hal Erickson wrote that "The Las Vegas Show [was] the first series in history to leave the air because its network was cancelled.