The Name of the Game

Season 1

26 episodes · Sep 20, 1968

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  • S1E1

    Fear of High Places

    Sep 20, 196875m

    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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  • S1E2

    The Witness

    Sep 27, 196873m

    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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  • S1E3

    The Taker

    Oct 4, 196875m

    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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  • S1E4

    Collector's Edition

    Oct 11, 196875m

    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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  • S1E5

    Nightmare

    Oct 18, 196875m

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

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  • S1E6

    Incident in Berlin

    Oct 25, 196874m

    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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  • S1E7

    Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

    Nov 1, 196875m

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

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  • S1E8

    Lola in Lipstick

    Nov 8, 196874m

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

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  • S1E9

    The Protector

    Nov 15, 196874m

    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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  • S1E10

    Ordeal

    Nov 22, 196875m

    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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  • S1E11

    The White Birch

    Nov 29, 196875m

    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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  • S1E12

    High On A Rainbow

    Dec 6, 196875m

    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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  • S1E13

    The Black Answer

    Dec 13, 196875m

    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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  • S1E14

    Pineapple Rose

    Dec 20, 196873m

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

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  • S1E15

    The Revolutionary

    Dec 27, 196875m

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

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  • S1E16

    Swinger's Only

    Jan 10, 196973m

    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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  • S1E17

    The Inquiry

    Jan 17, 196975m

    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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  • S1E18

    The Incomparable Connie Walker

    Jan 24, 196875m

    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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  • S1E19

    Love-In At Ground Zero

    Jan 31, 196875m

    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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  • S1E20

    The Suntan Mob

    Feb 7, 196975m

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

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  • S1E21

    Keep the Doctor Away

    Feb 14, 196975m

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

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  • S1E22

    The Bobby Currier Story

    Feb 21, 196975m

    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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  • S1E23

    A Wrath of Angels

    Feb 28, 196975m

    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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  • S1E24

    The Third Choice

    Mar 7, 196975m

    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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  • S1E25

    Breakout To A Fast Buck

    Mar 14, 196975m

    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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  • S1E26

    An Agent of the Plaintiff

    Mar 21, 196975m

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

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