The Name of the Game

Season 31968

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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26 Episodes

E01 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.

September 20, 1968

E02 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.

September 27, 1968

E03 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.

October 4, 1968

E04 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.

October 11, 1968

E05 Nightmare

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

October 18, 1968

E06 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.

October 25, 1968

E07 Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

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

November 1, 1968

E08 Lola in Lipstick

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

November 8, 1968

E09 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.

November 15, 1968

E10 Ordeal

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

November 22, 1968

E11 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.

November 29, 1968

E12 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.

December 6, 1968

E13 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.

December 13, 1968

E14 Pineapple Rose

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

December 20, 1968

E15 The Revolutionary

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

December 27, 1968

E16 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.

January 10, 1969

E17 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.

January 17, 1969

E18 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.

January 24, 1968

E19 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.

January 31, 1968

E20 The Suntan Mob

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

February 7, 1969

E21 Keep the Doctor Away

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

February 14, 1969

E22 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.

February 21, 1969

E23 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.

February 28, 1969

E24 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

E25 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

E26 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

The Name of the Game

E01 Fear of High Places

E02 The Witness

E03 The Taker

E04 Collector's Edition

E05 Nightmare

E06 Incident in Berlin

E07 Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

E08 Lola in Lipstick

E09 The Protector

E10 Ordeal

E11 The White Birch

E12 High On A Rainbow

E13 The Black Answer

E14 Pineapple Rose

E15 The Revolutionary

E16 Swinger's Only

E17 The Inquiry

E18 The Incomparable Connie Walker

E19 Love-In At Ground Zero

E20 The Suntan Mob

E21 Keep the Doctor Away

E22 The Bobby Currier Story

E23 A Wrath of Angels

E24 The Third Choice

E25 Breakout To A Fast Buck

E26 An Agent of the Plaintiff

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E01 Fear of High Places

E02 The Witness

E03 The Taker

E04 Collector's Edition

E05 Nightmare

E06 Incident in Berlin

E07 Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

E08 Lola in Lipstick

E09 The Protector

E10 Ordeal

E11 The White Birch

E12 High On A Rainbow

E13 The Black Answer

E14 Pineapple Rose

E15 The Revolutionary

E16 Swinger's Only

E17 The Inquiry

E18 The Incomparable Connie Walker

E19 Love-In At Ground Zero

E20 The Suntan Mob

E21 Keep the Doctor Away

E22 The Bobby Currier Story

E23 A Wrath of Angels

E24 The Third Choice

E25 Breakout To A Fast Buck

E26 An Agent of the Plaintiff