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The Name of the Game : Season 1
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Air date: 20 Sep '68 - 26 episodesThe 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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List of Episodes (26)
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The Name of the Game (1968)
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1. Fear of High Places
20 Sep '68Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates the death of a beautiful model. The murder involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
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2. The Witness
27 Sep '68When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell (RS), senior editor of Crime Magazine looks for the only other witness to a major mob crime. She allegedly committed suicide eight years earlier, Farrell discovers that she is living in a village under an assumed name; unfortunately, he is being followed by the mob assassin.
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3. The Taker
04 Oct '68Glen Howard (GB), Crime Magazine publisher, refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate and finds himself in a battle of wits in the takeover of his publishing empire.
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4. Collector's Edition
11 Oct '68Jeff Dillon (TF), investigative reporter for Crime Magazine. Max, a phtographer, had once saved 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.
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5. Nightmare
18 Oct '68Dan Farrell (RS) patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
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6. Incident in Berlin
25 Oct '68Howard (GB)goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors who has been arrested in East Germany as a spy.
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7. Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
01 Nov '68Howard (GB) assigns Dillon and Peggy to investigate the complexities of small-town politics after a murder occurs. A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
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8. Lola in Lipstick
08 Nov '68While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard (GB) finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
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9. The Protector
15 Nov '68Howard (GB) goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
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10. Ordeal
22 Nov '68A woman sits on death row hoping that Farrell (RS) can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
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11. The White Birch
29 Nov '68Howard (GB) travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
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12. High On A Rainbow
06 Dec '68When drugs start appearing in the hands of school children, Farrell (RS)and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as they investigate a narcotics ring.
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13. The Black Answer
13 Dec '68Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon(TF)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. The motive may have been that Lee was about to be exposed as a fraud, who'd sold out his brothers to the cops.
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14. Pineapple Rose
20 Dec '68This time the focus is on researcher Peggy Maxwell, who is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star. The series' regulars sit this one out, permitting correspondent Andy Hill (Cliff Potter) to investigate Peggy's disappearance. With the help of an FBI agent, Hill unearths a hotbed of mob-motivated intrigue.
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15. The Revolutionary
27 Dec '68Howard(GB) helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
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16. Swinger's Only
10 Jan '69Farrell (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.
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17. The Inquiry
17 Jan '68Howard (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.
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18. The Incomparable Connie Walker
24 Jan '68Conway ""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.
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19. Love-In At Ground Zero
31 Jan '68Howard (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.
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20. The Suntan Mob
07 Feb '69Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
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21. Keep the Doctor Away
14 Feb '69Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
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22. The Bobby Currier Story
21 Feb '69Currier (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.
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23. A Wrath of Angels
28 Feb '69Dan 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.
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24. The Third Choice
07 Mar '69Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
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25. Breakout To A Fast Buck
14 Mar '69Dan 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.
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