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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 NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 1 - Lady On the Rocks
    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #1 - Lady On the Rocks

    S2:E1

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

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 2 - A Hard Case of the Blues
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #2 - A Hard Case of the Blues

    S2:E2

    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.

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  3. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 3 - Blind Man's Bluff
    6.3/10(15 votes)

    #3 - Blind Man's Bluff

    S2:E3

    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

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  4. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 4 - The Emissary
    6.9/10(12 votes)

    #4 - The Emissary

    S2:E4

    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
    Writers:Dean Hargrove, Margaret Armen

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  5. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 5 - Chains of Command
    7.6/10(19 votes)

    #5 - Chains of Command

    S2:E5

    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

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  6. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 6 - Goodbye Harry
    7.9/10(23 votes)

    #6 - Goodbye Harry

    S2:E6

    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

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  7. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 7 - Give Till It Hurts
    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #7 - Give Till It Hurts

    S2:E7

    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

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  8. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 8 - The Perfect Image
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    #8 - The Perfect Image

    S2:E8

    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

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  9. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 9 - The Prisoner Within
    6.1/10(10 votes)

    #9 - The Prisoner Within

    S2:E9

    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

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  10. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 10 - The Civilized Men
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #10 - The Civilized Men

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 11 - High Card
    5.6/10(9 votes)

    #11 - High Card

    S2:E11

    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
    Writers:Dean Hargrove, Herman Groves

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  12. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 12 - The Power
    6.6/10(10 votes)

    #12 - The Power

    S2:E12

    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

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  13. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 13 - Laurie Marie
    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Laurie Marie

    S2:E13

    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

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  14. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 14 - The Tradition
    6.3/10(16 votes)

    #14 - The Tradition

    S2:E14

    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
    Writers:Dean Hargrove, Tim Kelly

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  15. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 15 - The Brass Ring
    6.4/10(12 votes)

    #15 - The Brass Ring

    S2:E15

    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

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  16. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 16 - Island of Gold and Precious Stones
    7.6/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Island of Gold and Precious Stones

    S2:E16

    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

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  17. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 17 - The Takeover
    6.8/10(17 votes)

    #17 - The Takeover

    S2:E17

    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

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  18. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 18 - The Garden
    6.9/10(17 votes)

    #18 - The Garden

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 19 - Tarot
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #19 - Tarot

    S2:E19

    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

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  20. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 20 - The King of Denmark
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #20 - The King of Denmark

    S2:E20

    Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Anthony Skene

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  21. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 21 - The Skin Game
    6.0/10(9 votes)

    #21 - The Skin Game

    S2:E21

    Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.

    Director:William Conrad
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 22 - Man of the People
    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Man of the People

    S2:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 23 - Echo of a Nightmare
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Echo of a Nightmare

    S2:E23

    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

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  24. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 24 - Jenny Wilde Is Drowning
    7.7/10(23 votes)

    #24 - Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

    S2:E24

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Name of the Game Season 2 Episode 25 - One of the Girls in Research
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #25 - One of the Girls in Research

    S2:E25

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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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 7.5/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/19/1969. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "A Hard Case of the Blues".