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The Name of the Game
1968 - 1971 6.8 (12 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
NBC

The Name of the Game

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Seasons

Season 1 (1968)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Fear of High Places
1968-09-20

Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 2: The Witness
1968-09-27

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.

Runtime: 73 min
Episode 3: The Taker
1968-10-04

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 4: Collector's Edition
1968-10-11

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 5: Nightmare
1968-10-18

Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 6: Incident in Berlin
1968-10-25

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.

Runtime: 74 min
Episode 7: Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
1968-11-01

A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 8: Lola in Lipstick
1968-11-08

While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.

Runtime: 74 min
Episode 9: The Protector
1968-11-15

Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.

Runtime: 74 min
Episode 10: Ordeal
1968-11-22

A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 11: The White Birch
1968-11-29

Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 12: High On A Rainbow
1968-12-06

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 13: The Black Answer
1968-12-13

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 14: Pineapple Rose
1968-12-20

Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.

Runtime: 73 min
Episode 15: The Revolutionary
1968-12-27

Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 16: Swinger's Only
1969-01-10

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.

Runtime: 73 min
Episode 17: The Inquiry
1969-01-17

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 18: The Incomparable Connie Walker
1968-01-24

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 19: Love-In At Ground Zero
1968-01-31

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 20: The Suntan Mob
1969-02-07

Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 21: Keep the Doctor Away
1969-02-14

Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 22: The Bobby Currier Story
1969-02-21

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 23: A Wrath of Angels
1969-02-28

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 24: The Third Choice
1969-03-07

Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 25: Breakout To A Fast Buck
1969-03-14

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.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 26: An Agent of the Plaintiff
1969-03-21

Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.

Runtime: 75 min
Season 2 (1969)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Lady On the Rocks
1969-09-19

A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 2: A Hard Case of the Blues
1969-09-26

Blues singer Jesse Boone's business manager has just died under mysterious circumstances. He also swindled Jesse out of $200,000. Thing of it is, Jesse couldn't care less--and Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) wants to know the reasons for her apathy.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 3: Blind Man's Bluff
1969-10-03

An ex-district attorney gives Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. He was blinded several years earlier, and his wife's face was mutilated; now the former D.A. wants to trap the man responsible for his sightlessness.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 4: The Emissary
1969-10-10

An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Chinese delegation has just stormed out of an international health conference, and Howard has been assigned to woo them back.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 5: Chains of Command
1969-10-17

Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the officials are getting rich on kickbacks. Assuming a false identity and taking a job in the border town becomes very hazardous.

Runtime: 73 min
Episode 6: Goodbye Harry
1969-10-24

Roving reporter Sam Hardy's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (GB), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is American missile scientist Harry Roarke. While it appears as though Harry has defected to Cuba, he may very well be hiding out in the States, in fear for his life.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 7: Give Till It Hurts
1969-10-31

The object of Farrell's (RS) latest investigation is a professional fundraiser. The editor recognizes him as a notorious con man, so it should be no problem to expose his racket. But problems there are, especially when an unknown gangster type pressures him to lay off.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 8: The Perfect Image
1969-11-07

Howard (GB) has recently been instrumental in getting the new mayor of Chicago elected. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that he is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Crime magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell try to weed out the truth.

Runtime: 73 min
Episode 9: The Prisoner Within
1969-11-14

Dillon (TF) investigates the story of a young man who is challenged by an Army officer to undergo prisoner of war training. He accepts the survival training challenge.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 10: The Civilized Men
1969-11-28

Farrell (RS) heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government livestock. Could the Mob be involved?

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 11: High Card
1969-12-05

A U.S. Senator claims to have photographic proof that Howard (GB)was the man who tipped off the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs.

Runtime: 74 min
Episode 12: The Power
1969-12-12

Dan Farrell (RS) sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between two brothers battling for control of the longshoreman's union.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 13: Laurie Marie
1969-12-19

When Laurie Marie gets lost on the vast country estate of millionaire industrialist Robert Coates, he posts a $10,000 reward for anyone who can return the girl unharmed. This results in a stampede of mercenary characters who make a shambles of Coates' estate. Watching from the sidelines is reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) and his girl friday Peggy.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 14: The Tradition
1970-01-02

Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 15: The Brass Ring
1970-01-09

A Boxer is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Dan Farrell (RS) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's manager may be arranging a fixed bout.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 16: Island of Gold and Precious Stones
1969-01-16

A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the deceased man's relatives. Each, it seems, has a reason for wanting the man dead, and each had opportunity to make off with the inheritance.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 17: The Takeover
1970-01-23

As special envoy, Howard (GB) visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose Chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicions of a frame-up and sparks a probe that sends him into guerrilla territory.

Runtime: 75 min
Episode 18: The Garden
1970-01-30

Dan Farrell (RS) is on the trail of a possible scam. A ""Pop"" psychiatrist who is strong on placebos but short on ethics, treats his wealthy patients at a lavish remote retreat called The Garden. Farrell is convinced that he is a phony, and tries to prove it

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 19: Tarot
1970-02-13

Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 20: The King of Denmark
1970-02-20

Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 21: The Skin Game
1970-02-27

Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 22: Man of the People
1970-03-06

Jilted by ""populist"" tycoon Cesar Rodriguez, Hilary thirsts for revenge. She plans to publish a series of articles exposing the popular Rodriguez as a fraud, using his Mexican heritage to hornswoggle his own people.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 23: Echo of a Nightmare
1970-03-20

The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduction victim's millionaire father tries to bribe Farrell to drop the case.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 24: Jenny Wilde Is Drowning
1970-03-27

When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 25: One of the Girls in Research
1970-04-03

Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 26: The Other Kind of Spy
1970-04-10

Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.

Runtime: 90 min
Season 3 (1970)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: So Long Baby, and Amen
1970-09-18

Dan Farrell (RS) reports his findings at a Congressional committee hearing on addictive drugs. Later he finds himself entangled with a self-destructive, drug-addicted young girl.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 2: A Love To Remember
1970-09-25

At his college class reunion, Howard (GB) meets a strange, beautiful woman who tells him how a crush she once had on him has ruined her life.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 3: Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon
1970-10-02

Cynthia is a reclusive jet-setter who has of late become a political activist. She refuses all interviews and keeps hidden in a rambling house on the island of Avalon. At the urging of his pal, reporter Paul Tyler decides to make a name for himself by getting the exclusive story on Cynthia.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 4: Battle at Gannon's Bridge
1970-10-09

An ex-convict Eddie Gannon, who holds the lease on a converted church used as a halfway house for recently released prisoners,is endangered by a rash of unsolved crimes in the neighborhood. Gannon asks Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) to prove that none of his fellow ex-cons are responsible for the thefts.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 5: The Enemy Before Us
1970-10-16

Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) is back in his old neighborhood in New York's ""Little Italy"", Dillon hopes to take a break from his hectic responsibilities and recapture ""something real"" from his younger days. Unfortunately, he is bombarded by pain and disillusionment from every side: his stepmother is gravely ill, and her son is deeply involved with drug dealing.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 6: The Time Is Now
1970-10-23

Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 7: The War Merchants
1970-10-30

Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 8: Little Bear Died Running
1970-11-06

When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 9: All the Old Familar Faces
1970-11-13

Howard (GB) tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely suspects who, in flashback, explain just what might have prompted them to kill.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 10: I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
1970-11-20

Las Vegas superstar Billy Baker, who is known far and wide for his reluctance to grant interviews,is particularly close-mouthed on the subject of a beautiful young dancer with whom he'd once been in love--and who now is very much dead. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to know why.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 11: I Love You, Billy Baker (2)
1970-11-27

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 12: Why I Blew Up Dakota
1970-12-04

Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 13: Aquarius Descending
1970-12-11

Glenn Howard (GB), who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician. Seeking revenge, the politician orders a young hard-case to romance Howard's impressionable 17-year-old niece. The plan is to involve the girl in a scandal and ruin Howard and his magazine.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 14: The Glory Shouter
1970-12-18

A fire-and-brimstone tele-evangelist is plagued by gremlins from within his organization who are tapping his till. Dan Farrell (RS), investigates only to deduce that he may be the one siphoning from his own flock's donations.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 15: A Sister From Napoli
1971-01-08

A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 16: Los Angeles 2017
1971-01-15

Glenn Howard finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb of a fascist government run by psychiatrists.

Runtime: 74 min
Episode 17: The Man Who Killed A Ghost
1971-02-05

The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 18: Seek and Destroy
1971-02-05

Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 19: A Capitol Affair
1971-02-12

Howard Publications journalist intervenes when a misguided Washington gossip columnist tries to destroy the career of a promising government official who happens to be her boyfriend.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 20: The Savage Eye
1971-02-19

Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 21: Appointment in Palermo
1971-02-26

Howard (GB) goes to Italy to research a story, then finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by one of the families involved in a centuries-old blood feud.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 22: Beware of the Watchdog
1971-03-05

Dan Farrell (RS) investigates a consumer advocate who is currently masterminding an expose of the fish-canning industry. When several attempts are made on his life, the advertisers are under suspect.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 23: The Broken Puzzle
1971-03-12

The governor of an unnamed state though popular with his constituents runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship, complete with uniformed thugs. Glenn Howard (GB) finds that the source of his power may have bigger political stakes in mind.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 24: The Showdown
1971-03-19

Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.

Runtime: 90 min

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