8.5/1024 votes#1 - So Long Baby, and Amen
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1970
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.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: Steven Bochco
- 8.7/109 votes
#2 - A Love To Remember
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1970
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.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1020 votes
#3 - Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1970
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/107 votes
#4 - Battle at Gannon's Bridge
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1970
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1021 votes
#5 - The Enemy Before Us
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1970
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.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1018 votes
#6 - The Time Is Now
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1970
Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.
Director: Nicholas Colasanto
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1013 votes
#7 - The War Merchants
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1970
Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1014 votes
#8 - Little Bear Died Running
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1970
When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1020 votes
#9 - All the Old Familar Faces
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1970
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1017 votes
#10 - I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1970
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.
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1014 votes
#11 - I Love You, Billy Baker (2)
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1970
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Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1017 votes
#12 - Why I Blew Up Dakota
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1970
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/109 votes
#13 - Aquarius Descending
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1970
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1021 votes
#14 - The Glory Shouter
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1970
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1014 votes
#15 - A Sister From Napoli
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1971
A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
Director: Barry Shear
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10317 votes
#16 - Los Angeles 2017
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1971
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.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Philip Wylie
- 7.8/107 votes
#17 - The Man Who Killed A Ghost
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1971
The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/107 votes
#18 - Seek and Destroy
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1971
Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1011 votes
#19 - A Capitol Affair
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1971
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.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1022 votes
#20 - The Savage Eye
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1971
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1015 votes
#21 - Appointment in Palermo
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1971
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.
Director: Ben Gazzara
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1012 votes
#22 - Beware of the Watchdog
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1971
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.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
Writer: Jack Turley
- 7.8/108 votes
#23 - The Broken Puzzle
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1971
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1014 votes
#24 - The Showdown
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1971
Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: Dick Nelson
The Best Episodes of The Name of the Game Season 3
Every episode of The Name of the Game Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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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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".