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 3 Episodes
Dan Farrell (RS) reports his findings at a Congressional committee hearing on addictive drugs. Later he finds himself en…
At his college class reunion, Howard (GB) meets a strange, beautiful woman who tells him how a crush she once had on him…
Cynthia is a reclusive jet-setter who has of late become a political activist. She refuses all interviews and keeps hidd…
An ex-convict Eddie Gannon, who holds the lease on a converted church used as a halfway house for recently released pris…
Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) is back in his old neighborhood in New York's ""Little Italy"", Dillon hopes to…
Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and m…
Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
Howard (GB) tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely…
Las Vegas superstar Billy Baker, who is known far and wide for his reluctance to grant interviews,is particularly close-…
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
Glenn Howard (GB), who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician. Seeking revenge, the politician orders a yo…
A fire-and-brimstone tele-evangelist is plagued by gremlins from within his organization who are tapping his till. Dan F…
A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
Glenn Howard finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are li…
The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
Howard Publications journalist intervenes when a misguided Washington gossip columnist tries to destroy the career of a …
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
Howard (GB) goes to Italy to research a story, then finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by …
Dan Farrell (RS) investigates a consumer advocate who is currently masterminding an expose of the fish-canning industry.…
The governor of an unnamed state though popular with his constituents runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship…
Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.
