8.3/1013 votes#1 - 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
- 7.4/1026 votes
#2 - A Hard Case of the Blues
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1969
Blues singer Jesse Boone's business manager has just died under mysterious circumstances. He also swindled Jesse out of $200,000. Thing of it is, Jesse couldn't care less--and Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) wants to know the reasons for her apathy.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.
- 6.9/1014 votes
#3 - Blind Man's Bluff
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1969
An ex-district attorney gives Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. He was blinded several years earlier, and his wife's face was mutilated; now the former D.A. wants to trap the man responsible for his sightlessness.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: Henry Slesar
- 7.9/1011 votes
#4 - The Emissary
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1969
An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Chinese delegation has just stormed out of an international health conference, and Howard has been assigned to woo them back.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Dean Hargrove, Margaret Armen
- 8.1/1018 votes
#5 - Chains of Command
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1969
Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the officials are getting rich on kickbacks. Assuming a false identity and taking a job in the border town becomes very hazardous.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Carol Sobieski
- 8.9/1019 votes
#6 - 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
- 8.2/1013 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.5/1016 votes
#8 - The Perfect Image
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1969
Howard (GB) has recently been instrumental in getting the new mayor of Chicago elected. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that he is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Crime magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell try to weed out the truth.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: David P. Harmon
- 7.1/109 votes
#9 - The Prisoner Within
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1969
Dillon (TF) investigates the story of a young man who is challenged by an Army officer to undergo prisoner of war training. He accepts the survival training challenge.
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Writer: Richard H. Landau
- 6.0/107 votes
#10 - The Civilized Men
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1969
Farrell (RS) heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government livestock. Could the Mob be involved?
Director: Don McDougall
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/108 votes
#11 - High Card
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1969
A U.S. Senator claims to have photographic proof that Howard (GB)was the man who tipped off the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Dean Hargrove, Herman Groves
- 7.6/109 votes
#12 - The Power
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1969
Dan Farrell (RS) sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between two brothers battling for control of the longshoreman's union.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Arthur Weingarten
- 7.2/1014 votes
#13 - Laurie Marie
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1969
When Laurie Marie gets lost on the vast country estate of millionaire industrialist Robert Coates, he posts a $10,000 reward for anyone who can return the girl unharmed. This results in a stampede of mercenary characters who make a shambles of Coates' estate. Watching from the sidelines is reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) and his girl friday Peggy.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: Henry Slesar
- 6.8/1015 votes
#14 - The Tradition
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1970
Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Dean Hargrove, Tim Kelly
- 7.3/1011 votes
#15 - The Brass Ring
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1970
A Boxer is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Dan Farrell (RS) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's manager may be arranging a fixed bout.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: Barry Oringer
- 8.1/1018 votes
#16 - Island of Gold and Precious Stones
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1969
A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the deceased man's relatives. Each, it seems, has a reason for wanting the man dead, and each had opportunity to make off with the inheritance.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Anthony Skene
- 7.2/1015 votes
#17 - The Takeover
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1970
As special envoy, Howard (GB) visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose Chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicions of a frame-up and sparks a probe that sends him into guerrilla territory.
Director: Herbert Kenwith
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.5/1016 votes
#18 - The Garden
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1970
Dan Farrell (RS) is on the trail of a possible scam. A ""Pop"" psychiatrist who is strong on placebos but short on ethics, treats his wealthy patients at a lavish remote retreat called The Garden. Farrell is convinced that he is a phony, and tries to prove it
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1019 votes
#19 - Tarot
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1970
Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: Dick Nelson
- 7.8/1015 votes
#20 - The King of Denmark
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1970
Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Anthony Skene
- 7.2/108 votes
#21 - The Skin Game
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1970
Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.
Director: William Conrad
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/108 votes
#22 - Man of the People
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1970
Jilted by ""populist"" tycoon Cesar Rodriguez, Hilary thirsts for revenge. She plans to publish a series of articles exposing the popular Rodriguez as a fraud, using his Mexican heritage to hornswoggle his own people.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1012 votes
#23 - Echo of a Nightmare
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1970
The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduction victim's millionaire father tries to bribe Farrell to drop the case.
Director: John Newland
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 8.7/1020 votes
#24 - 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
- 9.1/1011 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 2
Every episode of The Name of the Game Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 2!
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 2 Ratings Summary
"Lady On the Rocks" is the best rated episode of "The Name of the Game" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and written by N/A, it aired on 9/19/1969. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "A Hard Case of the Blues".