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 NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
Season 1 Episodes
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an impor…
When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime Magazine, looks for the only other witness t…
Crime Magazine publisher Glenn Howard refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate …
Photographer Peter Max had once saved Jeff Dillon's life when the two were on assignment in Vietnam. Now Max is accused …
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Glenn Howard goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors, who has been arrested in East Germany as a…
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own priva…
A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husban…
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing aut…
When drugs start appearing in the hands of schoolchildren, Dan Farrell and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as t…
Jeff Dillon is investigating the fire-bombing death of a black newspaper editor who advocated nonviolence. The chief sus…
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
Farrell (RS) takes a hand in the investigation of a murder at a ""Swinging Singles"" apartment. The victim is the mistre…
Howard (GB) is called before a Senate committee to answer charges that he stole a fortune in U.S. Army funds while servi…
Conway ""Connie"" Walker is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and arrow…
Howard (GB) is kidnapped by a group of protestors who demand he witness their suicide and then write an expose of the ar…
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps the daughter of the local sheriff and goes…
Dan Farrell (RS) investigates as a man and a priest try to clean up the slums and end up having a showdown with a powerf…
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an Af…
Dan Farrell (RS ) is called in to investigate a prison break. One of the escapees is an elderly former building contract…
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plain…
