7.7/1037 votes#1 - 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
- 7.8/1019 votes
#2 - 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
- 8.1/1024 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.7/1014 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.9/1025 votes
#5 - 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
- 8.0/1016 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.2/1014 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.8/1012 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.1/1018 votes
#9 - 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
- 8.4/1025 votes
#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
- 8.3/1046 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.8/1016 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.8/1014 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.8/1030 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.4/107 votes
#15 - 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
- 6.8/1032 votes
#16 - 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
- 8.2/1024 votes
#17 - 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
- 8.4/1019 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.9/1023 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.3/1013 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.2/1013 votes
#21 - 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
- 8.3/109 votes
#22 - 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
- 8.1/1017 votes
#23 - 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
- 8.6/1010 votes
#24 - 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
- 7.6/1018 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 1
Every episode of The Name of the Game Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Fear of High Places" is the best rated episode of "The Name of the Game" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 37 votes. Directed by William A. Graham and written by Mark Rodgers, it aired on 9/20/1968. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Witness".