Susan Saint James
Peggy Maxwell
The Name of the Game (1968)
Season 1
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.
Released Jan. 25, 1968
Episode 90 min
10+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction
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Production Companies: Universal Television
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Fear of High Places
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
Sept. 20, 1968, midnight
S1E2 - The Witness
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.
Sept. 27, 1968, midnight
S1E3 - The Taker
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.
Oct. 4, 1968, midnight
S1E4 - Collector's Edition
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.
Oct. 11, 1968, midnight
S1E5 - Nightmare
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Oct. 18, 1968, midnight
S1E6 - Incident in Berlin
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.
Oct. 25, 1968, midnight
S1E7 - Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
Nov. 1, 1968, midnight
S1E8 - Lola in Lipstick
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
Nov. 8, 1968, midnight
S1E9 - The Protector
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
Nov. 15, 1968, midnight
S1E10 - Ordeal
A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
Nov. 22, 1968, midnight
S1E11 - The White Birch
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
Nov. 29, 1968, midnight
S1E12 - High On A Rainbow
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.
Dec. 6, 1968, midnight
S1E13 - The Black Answer
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.
Dec. 13, 1968, midnight
S1E14 - Pineapple Rose
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
Dec. 20, 1968, midnight
S1E15 - The Revolutionary
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
Dec. 27, 1968, midnight
S1E16 - Swinger's Only
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.
Jan. 10, 1969, midnight
S1E17 - The Inquiry
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.
Jan. 17, 1969, midnight
S1E18 - The Incomparable Connie Walker
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.
Jan. 24, 1968, midnight
S1E19 - Love-In At Ground Zero
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.
Jan. 31, 1968, midnight
S1E20 - The Suntan Mob
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
Feb. 7, 1969, midnight
S1E21 - Keep the Doctor Away
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Feb. 14, 1969, midnight
S1E22 - The Bobby Currier Story
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.
Feb. 21, 1969, midnight
S1E23 - A Wrath of Angels
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.
Feb. 28, 1969, midnight
S1E24 - The Third Choice
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
March 7, 1969, midnight
S1E25 - Breakout To A Fast Buck
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.
March 14, 1969, midnight
S1E26 - An Agent of the Plaintiff
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.
March 21, 1969, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 90 min.
Season Runtime: 90 min.
Released: Jan. 25, 1968
Last Air Date: March 19, 1971, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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