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The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 2

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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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  1. Background image for Lady On the Rocks
    8.3/10(13 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.

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  2. Background image for A Hard Case of the Blues
    7.4/10(26 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.

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  3. Background image for Blind Man's Bluff
    6.9/10(14 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.

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  4. Background image for The Emissary
    7.9/10(11 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.

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  5. Background image for Chains of Command
    8.1/10(18 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.

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    Director:Robert Day
  6. Background image for Goodbye Harry
    8.9/10(20 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.

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    Director:Barry Shear
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  8. Background image for Give Till It Hurts
    8.2/10(13 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.

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  9. Background image for The Perfect Image
    7.5/10(16 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.

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  10. Background image for The Prisoner Within
    7.1/10(9 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.

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  11. Background image for The Civilized Men
    6.0/10(7 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?

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    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for High Card
    7.2/10(8 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.

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    7.6/10(9 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.

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  14. Background image for Laurie Marie
    7.2/10(14 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.

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    Director:Harvey Hart
  15. Background image for The Tradition
    6.8/10(15 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.

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  16. Background image for The Brass Ring
    7.3/10(11 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.

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    Director:Barry Shear
  17. Background image for Island of Gold and Precious Stones
    8.1/10(18 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.

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  18. Background image for The Takeover
    7.2/10(15 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.

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  19. Background image for The Garden
    7.5/10(16 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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Tarot
    8.0/10(19 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.

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  21. Background image for The King of Denmark
    7.8/10(15 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.

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    Director:Leo Penn
  22. Background image for The Skin Game
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #21 - The Skin Game

    S2:E21

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Man of the People
    7.6/10(8 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Echo of a Nightmare
    7.9/10(12 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.

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    Director:John Newland
  25. Background image for Jenny Wilde Is Drowning
    8.8/10(21 votes)

    #24 - Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

    S2:E24

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for One of the Girls in Research
    9.3/10(14 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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 Unknown, it aired on 9/19/1969. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "A Hard Case of the Blues".