
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.
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Air Date: 1968-09-20
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an im...
Air Date: 1968-09-27
When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime Magazine, looks for the only other witnes...
Air Date: 1968-10-04
Crime Magazine publisher Glenn Howard refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candida...
Air Date: 1968-10-11
Photographer Peter Max had once saved Jeff Dillon's life when the two were on assignment in Vietnam. Now Max is accus...
Air Date: 1968-10-18
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Air Date: 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 a...
Air Date: 1968-11-01
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
Air Date: 1968-11-08
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
Air Date: 1968-11-15
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own pr...
Air Date: 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 hus...
Air Date: 1968-11-29
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing ...
Air Date: 1968-12-06
When drugs start appearing in the hands of schoolchildren, Dan Farrell and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop a...
Air Date: 1968-12-13
Jeff Dillon is investigating the fire-bombing death of a black newspaper editor who advocated nonviolence. The chief ...
Air Date: 1968-12-20
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
Air Date: 1968-12-27
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
Air Date: 1969-01-10
Farrell (RS) takes a hand in the investigation of a murder at a ""Swinging Singles"" apartment. The victim is the mis...
Air Date: 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 se...
Air Date: 1968-01-24
Conway ""Connie"" Walker is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and ar...
Air Date: 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...
Air Date: 1969-02-07
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
Air Date: 1969-02-14
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Air Date: 1969-02-21
Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps the daughter of the local sheriff and g...
Air Date: 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 pow...
Air Date: 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...
Air Date: 1969-03-14
Dan Farrell (RS ) is called in to investigate a prison break. One of the escapees is an elderly former building contr...
Air Date: 1969-03-21
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and pl...