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The Worst Episodes of The Name of the Game

Every episode of The Name of the Game ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Name of the Game!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Civilized Men" is the worst rated episode of "The Name of the Game". It scored 6/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Don McDougall and written by N/A, it aired on 11/28/1969. This episode scored 0.7 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Los Angeles 2017".

  • The Civilized Men
    6.0/107 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • Los Angeles 2017
    6.7/10316 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • Swinger's Only
    6.8/1032 votes
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    #3 - Swinger's Only

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1969

    Farrell (RS) takes a hand in the investigation of a murder at a ""Swinging Singles"" apartment. The victim is the mistress of one of Farrell's editors. The wife of the victim who despite her despair over her husband's pecadilloes urges Farrell to find the guilty party.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: Anthony Spinner

  • The Tradition
    6.8/1015 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Blind Man's Bluff
    6.9/1014 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • The Prisoner Within
    7.1/109 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Appointment in Palermo
    7.1/1015 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
    7.2/1014 votes
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    #8 - Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1968

    A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.

    Director: Leslie Stevens

    Writer: James M. Miller

  • Keep the Doctor Away
    7.2/1013 votes
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    #9 - Keep the Doctor Away

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1969

    Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.

    Director: Barry Shear

    Writer: Robert M. Young

  • High Card
    7.2/108 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Laurie Marie
    7.2/1014 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • The Takeover
    7.2/1015 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • The Skin Game
    7.2/108 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • The Suntan Mob
    7.3/1013 votes
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    #14 - The Suntan Mob

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1969

    Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.

    Director: Alexander Singer

    Writer: Dick Nelson, Robert Buckner

  • The Brass Ring
    7.3/1011 votes
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    #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

  • The Revolutionary
    7.4/107 votes
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    #16 - The Revolutionary

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1968

    Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.

    Director: Seymour Robbie

    Writer: James D. Buchanan, Ronald Austin

  • A Hard Case of the Blues
    7.4/1026 votes
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    #17 - 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.

  • A Capitol Affair
    7.4/1011 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • The Perfect Image
    7.5/1016 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • The Garden
    7.5/1016 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Why I Blew Up Dakota
    7.5/1017 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • A Sister From Napoli
    7.5/1014 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Breakout To A Fast Buck
    7.6/1018 votes
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    #23 - Breakout To A Fast Buck

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1969

    Dan Farrell (RS ) is called in to investigate a prison break. One of the escapees is an elderly former building contractor, who didn't want to join his fellow cons in their breakout. Farrell suspects that the contractor is being sprung in order to help break into one of the buildings that he designed.

    Director: Michael Caffey

    Writer: Sy Salkowitz

  • The Power
    7.6/109 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Man of the People
    7.6/108 votes
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    #25 - 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