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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...
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Season 1

  • Fear of High Places
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    Fear of High Places

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1968

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

    Director: William A. Graham

    Writer: Mark Rodgers

  • The Witness
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    The Witness

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1968

    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 years earlier.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: Dick Nelson

  • The Taker
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    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

  • Collector's Edition
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    Collector's Edition

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1968

    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 his name.

    Director: Leslie Stevens

    Writer: Leslie Stevens, Eric Peters

  • Nightmare
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    Nightmare

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1968

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

    Director: Alvin Ganzer

    Writer: Ed Adamson

  • Incident in Berlin
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    Incident in Berlin

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1968

    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.

    Director: Seymour Robbie

    Writer: William Link, Richard Levinson

  • Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
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    Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1968

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

    Director: Leslie Stevens

    Writer: James M. Miller

  • Lola in Lipstick
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    Lola in Lipstick

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1968

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

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: Richard Alan Simmons

  • The Protector
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    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

  • Ordeal
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    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 White Birch
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    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

  • High On A Rainbow
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    High On A Rainbow

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1968

    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.

    Director: Richard A. Colla

    Writer: Irv Pearlberg, Robert L. Collins

  • The Black Answer
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    The Black Answer

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1968

    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.

    Director: Leslie Stevens

    Writer: Leslie Stevens

  • Pineapple Rose
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    Pineapple Rose

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1968

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

    Director: Nicholas Colasanto

    Writer: Richard Neubert

  • The Revolutionary
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    The Revolutionary

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1968

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

    Director: Seymour Robbie

    Writer: James D. Buchanan, Ronald Austin

  • Swinger's Only
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    Swinger's Only

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1969

    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 despite her despair over her husband's pecadilloes urges Farrell to find the guilty party.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: Anthony Spinner

  • The Inquiry
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    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

  • The Incomparable Connie Walker
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    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

  • Love-In At Ground Zero
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    Love-In At Ground Zero

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1968

    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.

    Director: Richard Irving

    Writer: Dean Hargrove, Shimon Wincelberg

  • The Suntan Mob
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    The Suntan Mob

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1969

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

    Director: Alexander Singer

    Writer: Dick Nelson, Robert Buckner

  • Keep the Doctor Away
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    Keep the Doctor Away

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1969

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

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: Robert M. Young

  • The Bobby Currier Story
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    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

  • A Wrath of Angels
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    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

  • The Third Choice
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    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

  • Breakout To A Fast Buck
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    Breakout To A Fast Buck

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1969

    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 breakout. Farrell suspects that the contractor is being sprung in order to help break into one of the buildings that he designed.

    Director: Michael Caffey

    Writer: Sy Salkowitz

  • An Agent of the Plaintiff
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    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