The Name of the Game (1968)
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
The Name of the Game: Season 1 - 26 Episode s
1x1 - Fear of High Places
September 20, 1968
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
1x2 - The Witness
September 27, 1968
When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime Magazine, looks for the only other witness to a major mob crime. She allegedly committed suicide eight years earlier.
1x3 - The Taker
October 4, 1968
Crime Magazine publisher Glenn Howard refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate and finds himself in a battle of wits over the takeover of his publishing empire.
1x4 - Collector's Edition
October 11, 1968
Photographer Peter Max had once saved Jeff Dillon's life when the two were on assignment in Vietnam. Now Max is accused of murder, and he's counting on Dillon's help in clearing his name.
1x5 - Nightmare
October 18, 1968
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
1x6 - Incident in Berlin
October 25, 1968
Glenn Howard goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors, who has been arrested in East Germany as a spy.
1x7 - Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
November 1, 1968
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
1x8 - Lola in Lipstick
November 8, 1968
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
1x9 - The Protector
November 15, 1968
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
1x10 - Ordeal
November 22, 1968
A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
1x11 - The White Birch
November 29, 1968
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
1x12 - High On A Rainbow
December 6, 1968
When drugs start appearing in the hands of schoolchildren, Dan Farrell and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as they investigate a narcotics ring.
1x13 - The Black Answer
December 13, 1968
Jeff Dillon is investigating the fire-bombing death of a black newspaper editor who advocated nonviolence. The chief suspect is Joe X. Lee, a leading black militant.
1x14 - Pineapple Rose
December 20, 1968
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
1x15 - The Revolutionary
December 27, 1968
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
1x16 - Swinger's Only
January 10, 1969
Farrell (RS) takes a hand in the investigation of a murder at a ""Swinging Singles"" apartment. The victim is the mistress of one of Farrell's editors. The wife of the victim who despite her despair over her husband's pecadilloes urges Farrell to find the guilty party.
1x17 - The Inquiry
January 17, 1969
Howard (GB) is called before a Senate committee to answer charges that he stole a fortune in U.S. Army funds while serving with the OSS in Italy during World War II.
1x18 - The Incomparable Connie Walker
January 24, 1968
Conway ""Connie"" Walker is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and arrows of racism, Walker is the target of accusations that he has been accepting kickbacks. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates when a city accountant is murdered.
1x19 - Love-In At Ground Zero
January 31, 1968
Howard (GB) is kidnapped by a group of protestors who demand he witness their suicide and then write an expose of the army's testing of chemical warfare weapons.
1x20 - The Suntan Mob
February 7, 1969
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
1x21 - Keep the Doctor Away
February 14, 1969
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
1x22 - The Bobby Currier Story
February 21, 1969
Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps the daughter of the local sheriff and goes on a murder spree. Dan Farrell (RS) tries to unearth the circumstances that turned the hapless Currier into a murderer.
1x23 - A Wrath of Angels
February 28, 1969
Dan Farrell (RS) investigates as a man and a priest try to clean up the slums and end up having a showdown with a powerful Mafioso.
1x24 - The Third Choice
March 7, 1969
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
1x25 - Breakout To A Fast Buck
March 14, 1969
Dan Farrell (RS ) is called in to investigate a prison break. One of the escapees is an elderly former building contractor, who didn't want to join his fellow cons in their breakout. Farrell suspects that the contractor is being sprung in order to help break into one of the buildings that he designed.
1x26 - An Agent of the Plaintiff
March 21, 1969
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.
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