The Name of the Game

Season 2

26 episodes · Sep 19, 1969

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  • S2E1

    Lady On the Rocks

    Sep 19, 196975m

    A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.

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  • S2E2

    A Hard Case of the Blues

    Sep 26, 196975m

    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.

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  • S2E3

    Blind Man's Bluff

    Oct 3, 196975m

    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.

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  • S2E4

    The Emissary

    Oct 10, 196975m

    An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Chinese delegation has just stormed out of an international health conference, and Howard has been assigned to woo them back.

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  • S2E5

    Chains of Command

    Oct 17, 196973m

    Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the officials are getting rich on kickbacks. Assuming a false identity and taking a job in the border town becomes very hazardous.

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  • S2E6

    Goodbye Harry

    Oct 24, 196975m

    Roving reporter Sam Hardy's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (GB), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is American missile scientist Harry Roarke. While it appears as though Harry has defected to Cuba, he may very well be hiding out in the States, in fear for his life.

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  • S2E7

    Give Till It Hurts

    Oct 31, 196975m

    The object of Farrell's (RS) latest investigation is a professional fundraiser. The editor recognizes him as a notorious con man, so it should be no problem to expose his racket. But problems there are, especially when an unknown gangster type pressures him to lay off.

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  • S2E8

    The Perfect Image

    Nov 7, 196973m

    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.

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  • S2E9

    The Prisoner Within

    Nov 14, 196975m

    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.

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  • S2E10

    The Civilized Men

    Nov 28, 196975m

    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?

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  • S2E11

    High Card

    Dec 5, 196974m

    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.

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  • S2E12

    The Power

    Dec 12, 196975m

    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.

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  • S2E13

    Laurie Marie

    Dec 19, 196975m

    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.

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  • S2E14

    The Tradition

    Jan 2, 197075m

    Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.

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  • S2E15

    The Brass Ring

    Jan 9, 197075m

    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.

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  • S2E16

    Island of Gold and Precious Stones

    Jan 16, 196975m

    A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the deceased man's relatives. Each, it seems, has a reason for wanting the man dead, and each had opportunity to make off with the inheritance.

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  • S2E17

    The Takeover

    Jan 23, 197075m

    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.

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  • S2E18

    The Garden

    Jan 30, 197090m

    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

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  • S2E19

    Tarot

    Feb 13, 197090m

    Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.

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  • S2E20

    The King of Denmark

    Feb 20, 197090m

    Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.

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  • S2E21

    The Skin Game

    Feb 27, 197090m

    Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.

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  • S2E22

    Man of the People

    Mar 6, 197090m

    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.

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  • S2E23

    Echo of a Nightmare

    Mar 20, 197090m

    The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduction victim's millionaire father tries to bribe Farrell to drop the case.

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  • S2E24

    Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

    Mar 27, 197090m

    When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.

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  • S2E25

    One of the Girls in Research

    Apr 3, 197090m

    Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.

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  • S2E26

    The Other Kind of Spy

    Apr 10, 197090m

    Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.

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