The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game
TV ShowEnded

The Name of the Game

6.8 / 10
1968
3 seasons
76 episodes
Action & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

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

  • Ep 1

    1.Fear of High Places

    20-09-196875m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.The Witness

    27-09-196873m

    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 y...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Taker

    04-10-196875m

    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 h...

  • Ep 4

    4.Collector's Edition

    11-10-196875m

    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 hi...

  • Ep 5

    5.Nightmare

    18-10-196875m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.Incident in Berlin

    25-10-196874m

    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.

  • Ep 7

    7.Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

    01-11-196875m

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

  • Ep 8

    8.Lola in Lipstick

    08-11-196874m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.The Protector

    15-11-196874m

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

  • Ep 10

    10.Ordeal

    22-11-196875m

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

  • Ep 11

    11.The White Birch

    29-11-196875m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.High On A Rainbow

    06-12-196875m

    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.

  • Ep 13

    13.The Black Answer

    13-12-196875m

    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.

  • Ep 14

    14.Pineapple Rose

    20-12-196873m

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

  • Ep 15

    15.The Revolutionary

    27-12-196875m

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

  • Ep 16

    16.Swinger's Only

    10-01-196973m

    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 d...

  • Ep 17

    17.The Inquiry

    17-01-196975m

    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.

  • Ep 18

    18.The Incomparable Connie Walker

    24-01-196875m

    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...

  • Ep 19

    19.Love-In At Ground Zero

    31-01-196875m

    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.

  • Ep 20

    20.The Suntan Mob

    07-02-196975m

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

  • Ep 21

    21.Keep the Doctor Away

    14-02-196975m

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

  • Ep 22

    22.The Bobby Currier Story

    21-02-196975m

    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 ci...

  • Ep 23

    23.A Wrath of Angels

    28-02-196975m

    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.

  • Ep 24

    24.The Third Choice

    07-03-196975m

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

  • Ep 25

    25.Breakout To A Fast Buck

    14-03-196975m

    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 breakou...

  • Ep 26

    26.An Agent of the Plaintiff

    21-03-196975m

    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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