The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game

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

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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

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

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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

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

Director: Nicholas Colasanto

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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.

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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

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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

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.

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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

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

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

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Director: Barry Shear

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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

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

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

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

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

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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.

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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