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The Name of the Game — Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

The Name of the Game — Series Details

The Name of the Game — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Fear of High Places (1968-09-20) — Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
• E2: The Witness (1968-09-27) — 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
• E3: The Taker (1968-10-04) — 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
• E4: Collector's Edition (1968-10-11) — 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
• E5: Nightmare (1968-10-18) — Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
• E6: Incident in Berlin (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 as a spy.
• E7: Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil (1968-11-01) — A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
• E8: Lola in Lipstick (1968-11-08) — While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
• E9: The Protector (1968-11-15) — Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
• E10: Ordeal (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 husband.
• E11: The White Birch (1968-11-29) — Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
• E12: High On A Rainbow (1968-12-06) — 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.
• E13: The Black Answer (1968-12-13) — 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.
• E14: Pineapple Rose (1968-12-20) — Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
• E15: The Revolutionary (1968-12-27) — Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
• E16: Swinger's Only (1969-01-10) — 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
• E17: The Inquiry (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 serving with the OSS in Italy during World War II.
• E18: The Incomparable Connie Walker (1968-01-24) — 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
• E19: Love-In At Ground Zero (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 army's testing of chemical warfare weapons.
• E20: The Suntan Mob (1969-02-07) — Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
• E21: Keep the Doctor Away (1969-02-14) — Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
• E22: The Bobby Currier Story (1969-02-21) — 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
• E23: A Wrath of Angels (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 powerful Mafioso.
• E24: The Third Choice (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 African government.
• E25: Breakout To A Fast Buck (1969-03-14) — 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
• E26: An Agent of the Plaintiff (1969-03-21) — Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.

Season 2

• E1: Lady On the Rocks (1969-09-19) — A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.
• E2: A Hard Case of the Blues (1969-09-26) — Blues singer Jesse Boone's business manager has just died under mysterious circumstances. He also swindled Jesse out of $200,000. Thing of it is, Jesse couldn't care less–and Crim
• E3: Blind Man's Bluff (1969-10-03) — An ex-district attorney gives Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. He was blinded several years earlier, and his wif
• E4: The Emissary (1969-10-10) — An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Ch
• E5: Chains of Command (1969-10-17) — Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the offici
• E6: Goodbye Harry (1969-10-24) — Roving reporter Sam Hardy's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (GB), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is
• E7: Give Till It Hurts (1969-10-31) — The object of Farrell's (RS) latest investigation is a professional fundraiser. The editor recognizes him as a notorious con man, so it should be no problem to expose his racket. B
• E8: The Perfect Image (1969-11-07) — Howard (GB) has recently been instrumental in getting the new mayor of Chicago elected. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that he is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Cr
• E9: The Prisoner Within (1969-11-14) — Dillon (TF) investigates the story of a young man who is challenged by an Army officer to undergo prisoner of war training. He accepts the survival training challenge.
• E10: The Civilized Men (1969-11-28) — Farrell (RS) heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government livestock. Could the Mob be in
• E11: High Card (1969-12-05) — A U.S. Senator claims to have photographic proof that Howard (GB)was the man who tipped off the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs.
• E12: The Power (1969-12-12) — Dan Farrell (RS) sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between two brothers battling for control of the lo
• E13: Laurie Marie (1969-12-19) — When Laurie Marie gets lost on the vast country estate of millionaire industrialist Robert Coates, he posts a $10,000 reward for anyone who can return the girl unharmed. This resul
• E14: The Tradition (1970-01-02) — Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.
• E15: The Brass Ring (1970-01-09) — A Boxer is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Dan Farrell (RS) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's
• E16: Island of Gold and Precious Stones (1969-01-16) — A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the decease
• E17: The Takeover (1970-01-23) — As special envoy, Howard (GB) visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose Chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicions of a frame
• E18: The Garden (1970-01-30) — Dan Farrell (RS) is on the trail of a possible scam. A ""Pop"" psychiatrist who is strong on placebos but short on ethics, treats his wealthy patients at a lavish remote retreat ca
• E19: Tarot (1970-02-13) — Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.
• E20: The King of Denmark (1970-02-20) — Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.
• E21: The Skin Game (1970-02-27) — Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.
• E22: Man of the People (1970-03-06) — Jilted by ""populist"" tycoon Cesar Rodriguez, Hilary thirsts for revenge. She plans to publish a series of articles exposing the popular Rodriguez as a fraud, using his Mexican he
• E23: Echo of a Nightmare (1970-03-20) — The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduct
• E24: Jenny Wilde Is Drowning (1970-03-27) — When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.
• E25: One of the Girls in Research (1970-04-03) — Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.
• E26: The Other Kind of Spy (1970-04-10) — Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.

Season 3

• E1: So Long Baby, and Amen (1970-09-18) — Dan Farrell (RS) reports his findings at a Congressional committee hearing on addictive drugs. Later he finds himself entangled with a self-destructive, drug-addicted young girl.
• E2: A Love To Remember (1970-09-25) — At his college class reunion, Howard (GB) meets a strange, beautiful woman who tells him how a crush she once had on him has ruined her life.
• E3: Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon (1970-10-02) — Cynthia is a reclusive jet-setter who has of late become a political activist. She refuses all interviews and keeps hidden in a rambling house on the island of Avalon. At the urgin
• E4: Battle at Gannon's Bridge (1970-10-09) — An ex-convict Eddie Gannon, who holds the lease on a converted church used as a halfway house for recently released prisoners,is endangered by a rash of unsolved crimes in the neig
• E5: The Enemy Before Us (1970-10-16) — Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) is back in his old neighborhood in New York's ""Little Italy"", Dillon hopes to take a break from his hectic responsibilities and recapture
• E6: The Time Is Now (1970-10-23) — Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.
• E7: The War Merchants (1970-10-30) — Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
• E8: Little Bear Died Running (1970-11-06) — When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
• E9: All the Old Familar Faces (1970-11-13) — Howard (GB) tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely suspects who, in flashback, explain just what might have pr
• E10: I Love You, Billy Baker (1) (1970-11-20) — Las Vegas superstar Billy Baker, who is known far and wide for his reluctance to grant interviews,is particularly close-mouthed on the subject of a beautiful young dancer with whom
• E11: I Love You, Billy Baker (2) (1970-11-27)
• E12: Why I Blew Up Dakota (1970-12-04) — Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
• E13: Aquarius Descending (1970-12-11) — Glenn Howard (GB), who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician. Seeking revenge, the politician orders a young hard-case to romance Howard's impressionable 17-year-old
• E14: The Glory Shouter (1970-12-18) — A fire-and-brimstone tele-evangelist is plagued by gremlins from within his organization who are tapping his till. Dan Farrell (RS), investigates only to deduce that he may be the
• E15: A Sister From Napoli (1971-01-08) — A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
• E16: Los Angeles 2017 (1971-01-15) — Glenn Howard finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb
• E17: The Man Who Killed A Ghost (1971-02-05) — The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
• E18: Seek and Destroy (1971-02-05) — Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
• E19: A Capitol Affair (1971-02-12) — Howard Publications journalist intervenes when a misguided Washington gossip columnist tries to destroy the career of a promising government official who happens to be her boyfrien
• E20: The Savage Eye (1971-02-19) — Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
• E21: Appointment in Palermo (1971-02-26) — Howard (GB) goes to Italy to research a story, then finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by one of the families involved in a centuries-old blood feud.
• E22: Beware of the Watchdog (1971-03-05) — Dan Farrell (RS) investigates a consumer advocate who is currently masterminding an expose of the fish-canning industry. When several attempts are made on his life, the advertisers
• E23: The Broken Puzzle (1971-03-12) — The governor of an unnamed state though popular with his constituents runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship, complete with uniformed thugs. Glenn Howard (GB) finds tha
• E24: The Showdown (1971-03-19) — Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does The Name of the Game have? 3 season(s) with 76 episodes.

Where can I watch The Name of the Game? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.