26 episodes

The Name of the Game - Season 1

First aired Sep 20, 1968Season 1

Browse all 26 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Fear of High Places

NR
Sep 20, 196875 min

Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.

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Episode 2

The Witness

NR
Sep 27, 196873 min

When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime Magazine, looks for the only other witness to a major mob crime. She allegedly committed suicide eight years earlier.

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Episode 3

The Taker

NR
Oct 4, 196875 min

Crime Magazine publisher Glenn Howard refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate and finds himself in a battle of wits over the takeover of his publishing empire.

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Episode 4

Collector's Edition

NR
Oct 11, 196875 min

Photographer Peter Max had once saved Jeff Dillon's life when the two were on assignment in Vietnam. Now Max is accused of murder, and he's counting on Dillon's help in clearing his name.

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Episode 5

Nightmare

NR
Oct 18, 196875 min

Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.

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Episode 6

Incident in Berlin

NR
Oct 25, 196874 min

Glenn Howard goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors, who has been arrested in East Germany as a spy.

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Episode 7

Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

NR
Nov 1, 196875 min

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

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Episode 8

Lola in Lipstick

NR
Nov 8, 196874 min

While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.

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Episode 9

The Protector

NR
Nov 15, 196874 min

Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.

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Episode 10

Ordeal

NR
Nov 22, 196875 min

A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.

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Episode 11

The White Birch

NR
Nov 29, 196875 min

Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.

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Episode 12

High On A Rainbow

NR
Dec 6, 196875 min

When drugs start appearing in the hands of schoolchildren, Dan Farrell and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as they investigate a narcotics ring.

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Episode 13

The Black Answer

NR
Dec 13, 196875 min

Jeff Dillon is investigating the fire-bombing death of a black newspaper editor who advocated nonviolence. The chief suspect is Joe X. Lee, a leading black militant.

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Episode 14

Pineapple Rose

NR
Dec 20, 196873 min

Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.

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Episode 15

The Revolutionary

NR
Dec 27, 196875 min

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

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Episode 16

Swinger's Only

NR
Jan 10, 196973 min

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.

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Episode 17

The Inquiry

NR
Jan 17, 196975 min

Howard (GB) is called before a Senate committee to answer charges that he stole a fortune in U.S. Army funds while serving with the OSS in Italy during World War II.

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Episode 18

The Incomparable Connie Walker

NR
Jan 24, 196875 min

Conway ""Connie"" Walker is the first black mayor of a large unnamed city. In addition to suffering the slings and arrows of racism, Walker is the target of accusations that he has been accepting kickbacks. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates when a city accountant is murdered.

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Episode 19

Love-In At Ground Zero

NR
Jan 31, 196875 min

Howard (GB) is kidnapped by a group of protestors who demand he witness their suicide and then write an expose of the army's testing of chemical warfare weapons.

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Episode 20

The Suntan Mob

NR
Feb 7, 196975 min

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

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Episode 21

Keep the Doctor Away

NR
Feb 14, 196975 min

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

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Episode 22

The Bobby Currier Story

NR
Feb 21, 196975 min

Currier (Brandon de Wilde) is a young, small-town perennial loser. He kidnaps the daughter of the local sheriff and goes on a murder spree. Dan Farrell (RS) tries to unearth the circumstances that turned the hapless Currier into a murderer.

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Episode 23

A Wrath of Angels

NR
Feb 28, 196975 min

Dan Farrell (RS) investigates as a man and a priest try to clean up the slums and end up having a showdown with a powerful Mafioso.

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Episode 24

The Third Choice

NR
Mar 7, 196975 min

Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.

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Episode 25

Breakout To A Fast Buck

NR
Mar 14, 196975 min

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.

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Episode 26

An Agent of the Plaintiff

NR
Mar 21, 196975 min

Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.