Series

The Name of the Game

1968 · 3 seasons · 76 episodes · Ended · NBC

Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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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.

Episodes

  • S01E01Fear of High Places1968-09-2075m

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

  • S01E02The Witness1968-09-2773m

    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.

  • S01E03The Taker1968-10-0475m

    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.

  • S01E04Collector's Edition1968-10-1175m

    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.

  • S01E05Nightmare1968-10-1875m

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

  • S01E06Incident in Berlin1968-10-2574m

    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.

  • S01E07Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil1968-11-0175m

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

  • S01E08Lola in Lipstick1968-11-0874m

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

  • S01E09The Protector1968-11-1574m

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

  • S01E10Ordeal1968-11-2275m

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

  • S01E11The White Birch1968-11-2975m

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

  • S01E12High On A Rainbow1968-12-0675m

    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.

  • S01E13The Black Answer1968-12-1375m

    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.

  • S01E14Pineapple Rose1968-12-2073m

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

  • S01E15The Revolutionary1968-12-2775m

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

  • S01E16Swinger's Only1969-01-1073m

    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.

  • S01E17The Inquiry1969-01-1775m

    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.

  • S01E18The Incomparable Connie Walker1968-01-2475m

    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.

  • S01E19Love-In At Ground Zero1968-01-3175m

    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.

  • S01E20The Suntan Mob1969-02-0775m

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

  • S01E21Keep the Doctor Away1969-02-1475m

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

  • S01E22The Bobby Currier Story1969-02-2175m

    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.

  • S01E23A Wrath of Angels1969-02-2875m

    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.

  • S01E24The Third Choice1969-03-0775m

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

  • S01E25Breakout To A Fast Buck1969-03-1475m

    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.

  • S01E26An Agent of the Plaintiff1969-03-2175m

    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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