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The Name of the Game(1968)

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First Air Date: 1968-09-20
Average Runtime: 1h 30m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 13
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 76

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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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 26
E01
Fear of High Places

Air Date: 1968-09-20

1h 15m

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

E02
The Witness

Air Date: 1968-09-27

1h 13m

When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime Magazine, looks for the only other witnes...

E03
The Taker

Air Date: 1968-10-04

1h 15m

Crime Magazine publisher Glenn Howard refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candida...

E04
Collector's Edition

Air Date: 1968-10-11

1h 15m

Photographer Peter Max had once saved Jeff Dillon's life when the two were on assignment in Vietnam. Now Max is accus...

E05
Nightmare

Air Date: 1968-10-18

1h 15m

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

E06
Incident in Berlin

Air Date: 1968-10-25

1h 14m

Glenn Howard goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors, who has been arrested in East Germany a...

E07
Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

Air Date: 1968-11-01

1h 15m

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

E08
Lola in Lipstick

Air Date: 1968-11-08

1h 14m

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

E09
The Protector

Air Date: 1968-11-15

1h 14m

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

E10
Ordeal

Air Date: 1968-11-22

1h 15m

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

E11
The White Birch

Air Date: 1968-11-29

1h 15m

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

E12
High On A Rainbow

Air Date: 1968-12-06

1h 15m

When drugs start appearing in the hands of schoolchildren, Dan Farrell and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop a...

E13
The Black Answer

Air Date: 1968-12-13

1h 15m

Jeff Dillon is investigating the fire-bombing death of a black newspaper editor who advocated nonviolence. The chief ...

E14
Pineapple Rose

Air Date: 1968-12-20

1h 13m

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

E15
The Revolutionary

Air Date: 1968-12-27

1h 15m

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

E16
Swinger's Only

Air Date: 1969-01-10

1h 13m

Farrell (RS) takes a hand in the investigation of a murder at a ""Swinging Singles"" apartment. The victim is the mis...

E17
The Inquiry

Air Date: 1969-01-17

1h 15m

Howard (GB) is called before a Senate committee to answer charges that he stole a fortune in U.S. Army funds while se...

E18
The Incomparable Connie Walker

Air Date: 1968-01-24

1h 15m

Conway ""Connie"" Walker is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and ar...

E19
Love-In At Ground Zero

Air Date: 1968-01-31

1h 15m

Howard (GB) is kidnapped by a group of protestors who demand he witness their suicide and then write an expose of the...

E20
The Suntan Mob

Air Date: 1969-02-07

1h 15m

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

E21
Keep the Doctor Away

Air Date: 1969-02-14

1h 15m

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

E22
The Bobby Currier Story

Air Date: 1969-02-21

1h 15m

Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps the daughter of the local sheriff and g...

E23
A Wrath of Angels

Air Date: 1969-02-28

1h 15m

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...

E24
The Third Choice

Air Date: 1969-03-07

1h 15m

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

E25
Breakout To A Fast Buck

Air Date: 1969-03-14

1h 15m

Dan Farrell (RS ) is called in to investigate a prison break. One of the escapees is an elderly former building contr...

E26
An Agent of the Plaintiff

Air Date: 1969-03-21

1h 15m

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

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