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The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 3

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The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 3

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 So Long Baby, and Amen
    8.5/10(24 votes)

    #1 - So Long Baby, and Amen

    S3:E1

    Dan Farrell (RS) reports his findings at a Congressional committee hearing on addictive drugs. Later he finds himself entangled with a self-destructive, drug-addicted young girl.

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  2. Background image for A Love To Remember
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #2 - A Love To Remember

    S3:E2

    At his college class reunion, Howard (GB) meets a strange, beautiful woman who tells him how a crush she once had on him has ruined her life.

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  3. Background image for Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon
    8.3/10(20 votes)

    #3 - Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon

    S3:E3

    Cynthia is a reclusive jet-setter who has of late become a political activist. She refuses all interviews and keeps hidden in a rambling house on the island of Avalon. At the urging of his pal, reporter Paul Tyler decides to make a name for himself by getting the exclusive story on Cynthia.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Battle at Gannon's Bridge
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Battle at Gannon's Bridge

    S3:E4

    An ex-convict Eddie Gannon, who holds the lease on a converted church used as a halfway house for recently released prisoners,is endangered by a rash of unsolved crimes in the neighborhood. Gannon asks Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) to prove that none of his fellow ex-cons are responsible for the thefts.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Enemy Before Us
    8.1/10(21 votes)

    #5 - The Enemy Before Us

    S3:E5

    Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) is back in his old neighborhood in New York's ""Little Italy"", Dillon hopes to take a break from his hectic responsibilities and recapture ""something real"" from his younger days. Unfortunately, he is bombarded by pain and disillusionment from every side: his stepmother is gravely ill, and her son is deeply involved with drug dealing.

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    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Time Is Now
    8.7/10(18 votes)

    #6 - The Time Is Now

    S3:E6

    Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.

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  8. Background image for The War Merchants
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #7 - The War Merchants

    S3:E7

    Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Little Bear Died Running
    8.4/10(14 votes)

    #8 - Little Bear Died Running

    S3:E8

    When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for All the Old Familar Faces
    8.5/10(20 votes)

    #9 - All the Old Familar Faces

    S3:E9

    Howard (GB) tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely suspects who, in flashback, explain just what might have prompted them to kill.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
    8.4/10(18 votes)

    #10 - I Love You, Billy Baker (1)

    S3:E10

    Las Vegas superstar Billy Baker, who is known far and wide for his reluctance to grant interviews,is particularly close-mouthed on the subject of a beautiful young dancer with whom he'd once been in love--and who now is very much dead. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to know why.

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    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for I Love You, Billy Baker (2)
    8.5/10(15 votes)

    #11 - I Love You, Billy Baker (2)

    S3:E11

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    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Why I Blew Up Dakota
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #12 - Why I Blew Up Dakota

    S3:E12

    Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Aquarius Descending
    8.7/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Aquarius Descending

    S3:E13

    Glenn Howard (GB), who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician. Seeking revenge, the politician orders a young hard-case to romance Howard's impressionable 17-year-old niece. The plan is to involve the girl in a scandal and ruin Howard and his magazine.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Glory Shouter
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #14 - The Glory Shouter

    S3:E14

    A fire-and-brimstone tele-evangelist is plagued by gremlins from within his organization who are tapping his till. Dan Farrell (RS), investigates only to deduce that he may be the one siphoning from his own flock's donations.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for A Sister From Napoli
    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #15 - A Sister From Napoli

    S3:E15

    A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).

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    Director:Barry Shear
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Los Angeles 2017
    6.6/10(330 votes)

    #16 - Los Angeles 2017

    S3:E16

    Glenn Howard finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb of a fascist government run by psychiatrists.

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  18. Background image for The Man Who Killed A Ghost
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #17 - The Man Who Killed A Ghost

    S3:E17

    The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Seek and Destroy
    7.8/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Seek and Destroy

    S3:E18

    Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.

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    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for A Capitol Affair
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #19 - A Capitol Affair

    S3:E19

    Howard Publications journalist intervenes when a misguided Washington gossip columnist tries to destroy the career of a promising government official who happens to be her boyfriend.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Savage Eye
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    #20 - The Savage Eye

    S3:E20

    Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.

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    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Appointment in Palermo
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #21 - Appointment in Palermo

    S3:E21

    Howard (GB) goes to Italy to research a story, then finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by one of the families involved in a centuries-old blood feud.

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    Director:Ben Gazzara
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Beware of the Watchdog
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Beware of the Watchdog

    S3:E22

    Dan Farrell (RS) investigates a consumer advocate who is currently masterminding an expose of the fish-canning industry. When several attempts are made on his life, the advertisers are under suspect.

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  24. Background image for The Broken Puzzle
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #23 - The Broken Puzzle

    S3:E23

    The governor of an unnamed state though popular with his constituents runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship, complete with uniformed thugs. Glenn Howard (GB) finds that the source of his power may have bigger political stakes in mind.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Showdown
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #24 - The Showdown

    S3:E24

    Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.

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    Director:Daniel Petrie

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"So Long Baby, and Amen" is the best rated episode of "The Name of the Game" season 3. It scored 8.5/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and written by Steven Bochco, it aired on 9/18/1970. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "A Love To Remember".