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The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game

Every episode of The Name of the Game ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Name of the Game!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"One of the Girls in Research" is the best rated episode of "The Name of the Game". It scored 9.1/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/3/1970. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Goodbye Harry".

  • One of the Girls in Research
    9.1/1011 votes
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    #1 - One of the Girls in Research

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/3/1970

    Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Goodbye Harry
    8.9/1019 votes
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    #2 - Goodbye Harry

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1969

    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 American missile scientist Harry Roarke. While it appears as though Harry has defected to Cuba, he may very well be hiding out in the States, in fear for his life.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: Gene L. Coon

  • Jenny Wilde Is Drowning
    8.7/1020 votes
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    #3 - Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/27/1970

    When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Love To Remember
    8.7/109 votes
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    #4 - A Love To Remember

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1970

    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.

    Director: Nicholas Colasanto

    Writer: N/A

  • The Time Is Now
    8.7/1018 votes
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    #5 - The Time Is Now

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1970

    Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.

    Director: Nicholas Colasanto

    Writer: N/A

  • Aquarius Descending
    8.7/109 votes
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    #6 - Aquarius Descending

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1970

    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 niece. The plan is to involve the girl in a scandal and ruin Howard and his magazine.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Third Choice
    8.6/1010 votes
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    #7 - The Third Choice

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1969

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

    Director: Seymour Robbie

    Writer: N/A

  • So Long Baby, and Amen
    8.5/1024 votes
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    #8 - So Long Baby, and Amen

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1970

    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.

    Director: Marvin J. Chomsky

    Writer: Steven Bochco

  • All the Old Familar Faces
    8.5/1020 votes
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    #9 - All the Old Familar Faces

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1970

    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 prompted them to kill.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ordeal
    8.4/1025 votes
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    #10 - Ordeal

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1968

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

    Director: Ralph Senensky

    Writer: Alvin Sapinsley

  • The Incomparable Connie Walker
    8.4/1019 votes
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    #11 - The Incomparable Connie Walker

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1968

    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.

    Director: Abner Biberman

    Writer: Leslie Stevens

  • Little Bear Died Running
    8.4/1014 votes
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    #12 - Little Bear Died Running

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1970

    When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I Love You, Billy Baker (2)
    8.4/1014 votes
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    #13 - I Love You, Billy Baker (2)

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1970

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    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

  • The White Birch
    8.3/1046 votes
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    #14 - The White Birch

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1968

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

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: Dean Hargrove, Luther Davis

  • The Bobby Currier Story
    8.3/109 votes
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    #15 - The Bobby Currier Story

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1969

    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.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: Robert L. Collins

  • An Agent of the Plaintiff
    8.3/1018 votes
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    #16 - An Agent of the Plaintiff

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1969

    Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.

    Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: Dean Hargrove, Marion Hargrove

  • Lady On the Rocks
    8.3/1013 votes
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    #17 - Lady On the Rocks

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1969

    A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.

    Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: N/A

  • Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon
    8.3/1020 votes
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    #18 - Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1970

    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 urging of his pal, reporter Paul Tyler decides to make a name for himself by getting the exclusive story on Cynthia.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The War Merchants
    8.3/1013 votes
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    #19 - The War Merchants

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1970

    Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
    8.3/1017 votes
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    #20 - I Love You, Billy Baker (1)

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1970

    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 he'd once been in love--and who now is very much dead. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to know why.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: N/A

  • The Inquiry
    8.2/1024 votes
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    #21 - The Inquiry

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1969

    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.

    Director: Sutton Roley

    Writer: Harold Livingston

  • Give Till It Hurts
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #22 - Give Till It Hurts

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1969

    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. But problems there are, especially when an unknown gangster type pressures him to lay off.

    Director: Marc Daniels

    Writer: William D. Gordon

  • The Taker
    8.1/1024 votes
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    #23 - The Taker

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1968

    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.

    Director: Harvey Hart

    Writer: William Link, Richard Levinson

  • The Protector
    8.1/1018 votes
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    #24 - The Protector

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1968

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

    Director: Richard Irving

    Writer: N/A

  • A Wrath of Angels
    8.1/1017 votes
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    #25 - A Wrath of Angels

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1969

    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.

    Director: Alvin Ganzer

    Writer: Dick Nelson, Gilbert Ralston