The Name of the Game
Total Seasons :3Total Episodes : 76
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.
Episodes(26)
1. Fear of High Places
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
Air Date : 1968-09-20
2. The Witness
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.
Air Date : 1968-09-27
3. The Taker
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.
Air Date : 1968-10-04
4. Collector's Edition
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.
Air Date : 1968-10-11
5. Nightmare
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Air Date : 1968-10-18
6. Incident in Berlin
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.
Air Date : 1968-10-25
7. Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
Air Date : 1968-11-01
8. Lola in Lipstick
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
Air Date : 1968-11-08
9. The Protector
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
Air Date : 1968-11-15
10. Ordeal
A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
Air Date : 1968-11-22
11. The White Birch
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
Air Date : 1968-11-29
12. High On A Rainbow
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.
Air Date : 1968-12-06
13. The Black Answer
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.
Air Date : 1968-12-13
14. Pineapple Rose
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
Air Date : 1968-12-20
15. The Revolutionary
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
Air Date : 1968-12-27
16. Swinger's Only
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.
Air Date : 1969-01-10
17. The Inquiry
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.
Air Date : 1969-01-17
18. The Incomparable Connie Walker
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.
Air Date : 1968-01-24
19. Love-In At Ground Zero
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.
Air Date : 1968-01-31
20. The Suntan Mob
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
Air Date : 1969-02-07
21. Keep the Doctor Away
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Air Date : 1969-02-14
22. The Bobby Currier Story
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.
Air Date : 1969-02-21
23. A Wrath of Angels
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.
Air Date : 1969-02-28
24. The Third Choice
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
Air Date : 1969-03-07
25. Breakout To A Fast Buck
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.
Air Date : 1969-03-14
26. An Agent of the Plaintiff
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.
Air Date : 1969-03-21
Cast
Susan Saint James
(Peggy Maxwell)
Ben Murphy
(Joe Sample)
Anthony Franciosa
(Jeff Dillon)
Cliff Potts
(Andy Hill)
Jeff Morrow
(Malcolm Parks)
Anne Baxter
(Magda Blain)
Ivan Dixon
(John X. Lee)
Vera Miles
(Marisa Cummings)
Tisha Sterling
(Niobe Redsmith)
Robert Webber
(William McKendricks)
Claudine Longet
(Lianne Jevret)
Jeanne Crain
(Mrs. McKendricks)
John Payne
(Russ (FBI Agent))
Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Mira Retzyk)
Joan Hackett
(Jean Thorndyke)
Ruth Roman
(Bea Decker)
Joseph Campanella
(Charles Thorndyke)
Jack Carter
(Ernie Cori)
Victor Jory
(Victor Foss)
Burl Ives
(Arthur Jellicoe)
Dana Elcar
(Hood)
Bradford Dillman
(Earl Keith)
Paul Mantee
(Father Minetti)
Lois Nettleton
(Ruth Prochek)
Laraine Day
(Grace Jellicoe)
Estelle Winwood
(Henrietta Tate)
Whit Bissell
(Donald Merrick)
Alan Oppenheimer
(Harvey)
John Saxon
(Peter Max)
Nina Foch
(Angela Morgan)
Paul Lukas
(Baron Vincennes)
Robert Loggia
(Arnold)
Don Gordon
(Art Panadero)
Senta Berger
(Mariette Bern)
Martin Balsam
(Herb Witmer)
Noah Keen
(Bob Miley)
Steve Ihnat
(Ralph Hoak)
Troy Donahue
(Norman Hoak)
Julie Sommars
(Barbara Ellis)
Larry Storch
(James Kelso)
John Agar
(Bert Walker)
Laraine Stephens
(Lorraine Farrell)
Josephine Hutchinson
(Millie Farrell)
Cloris Leachman
(Vera Walker)
Shannon Farnon
(Phyllis Hoak)
Victoria Paige Meyerink
(Nancy Farrell)
Anne Francis
(Carol Sherman)
Kevin McCarthy
(Carter Haines)
Geraldine Brooks
(Evelyn Smith)
Dane Clark
(Brian Smith)
John van Dreelen
(Deist)
Darren McGavin
(Jesse Gil McCray)
Juliet Prowse
(Aja Fowler)
Gary Collins
(Sheriff Beal)
Gypsy Rose Lee
(Rosetta Stewart)
Paul Fix
(Old Bob)
Simon Scott
(Harbald)
Ed Begley
(Gabe Sobel)
Kathie Browne
(Vicky)
Cesare Danova
(Alfieri)
Louis Jourdan
(Mario Lompardi)
Harvey Lembeck
(Jack Stephens)
William Windom
(Charlie Ross)
Dana Wynter
(Countess Lompardi)
Robert Young
(Herman Allison)
Ralph Meeker
(Senator Goddard)
Stephen McNally
(Albert Lang)
Glenda Farrell
(Woman)
Jessica Walter
(Linda Ramsey)
Farley Granger
(Hoagland Walters)
Sean Garrison
(Buck Hambleton)
Lloyd Bochner
(Tom Ramsey)
David Opatoshu
(Arthur Serokin)
Martha Hyer
(Billie Ramsey)
Ken Renard
(William)
Adrienne Marden
(Judge Davidson)
Lloyd Kino
(Coroner)
Jason Wingreen
(District Attorney Hammond)
Jean-Pierre Aumont
(Emilio Fazio)
Pete Duel
(Andrei Chernin)
Bethel Leslie
(Miss Haggblad)
Roddy McDowall
(Philip Saxon)
Susan Oliver
(Tatiana Czaleynokis)
Boris Karloff
(Mikhail Orlov)
Richard Jaeckel
(Malchek)
Louise Sorel
(Marie Fazio)
Lilia Skala
(Madame Orlov)
Van Johnson
(Sullivan)
June Allyson
(Joanne Robins)
Broderick Crawford
(Harry Ricco)
Scott Brady
(Marty Lench)
Kevin Coughlin
(Sonny)
Veronica Cartwright
(Nancy Robins)
Arch Johnson
(Sergeant Cook)
Ed Peck
(Charles Stein)
Raymond St. Jacques
(Ross Cutler)
Herb Jeffries
(W.B. Keys)
Abbey Lincoln
(Claudia Lee)
D'Urville Martin
(Carlton)
James McEachin
(Henderson)
Albert Popwell
(Chagga)
Susan Strasberg
(Cheryl Bridges)
Andrew Prine
(Jigger)
Nancy Ames
(Louise Hahn)
Don Stroud
(Lincoln Bridges)
Peter Mark Richman
(Latimer)
Sidney Blackmer
(Roman Stepanak)
Mel Tormé
(Mort Binder)
Harry Dean Stanton
(Joe Joe)
Richard Van Vleet
(Hal Martin)
Clive Clerk
(Tino Torres)
Harry Guardino
(Raul Oliva)
Simon Oakland
(Luis Fierro)
Robert Lansing
(Fred Martin)
Jack Klugman
(Frank Dovnik)
Clu Gulager
(Steve Heywood)
Ann Blyth
(Kay Martin)
Nancy Kovack
(Linda Mathews)
Jack Kelly
(Frank Fowler)
Fritz Weaver
(Walter Scharz)
Gia Scala
(Renata Marino)
Ray Danton
(Pietro Bertelli)
Gene Evans
(Ernest Maxwell)
Ed Asner
(Cesare Marino)
Richard Webb
(Warren Travis)
Carla Borelli
(Lisa Bertelli)
Jay C. Flippen
(Grover)
Bernie Hamilton
(Doc Cullen)
Dina Merrill
(Nancy Devlin)
Larry D. Mann
(Max Korbell)
Keenan Wynn
(Ed Wallaby)
Henry Jones
(Mr. McKim)
Jordan Christopher
(Bruce Roxton)
Bo Svenson
(G.B. Mosbie)
Jackie DeShannon
(Leora)
Grace Lee Whitney
(Suzette)
Donald Sutherland
(Jerry Trevor)
Suzanne Pleshette
(Geneva Rogers)
Paul Winfield
(Barada)
Robert Goulet
(Claude Evenhauer)
Carol Lawrence
(Janice Ridgely)
David Brian
(Elton Wakefield)
Harold J. Stone
(Harry Mudd)
George Murdock
(George Bertrand)
Pierre Jalbert
(Dr. Nieves)
Steve Forrest
(A.J. Ward)
Brandon De Wilde
(Bobby Currier)
Julie Harris
(Verna Ward)
Lonny Chapman
(Ralph Currier)
Stanley Adams
(Mr. Stephens)
Ricardo Montalban
(Bernard Torres)
John Kerr
(Billy Keaton)
Burr DeBenning
(Harry Ward)
Anne Helm
(Maria Ward)
David Sheiner
(Lieutenant Martinez)
Edward Andrews
(Milton Spencer)
Felice Orlandi
(Angelito Fidel)
Shirley Jones
(Jackie Harding)
Roscoe Lee Browne
(Wamumba)
Alan Caillou
(Graham)
Ossie Davis
(Kubani)
Jonathan Hole
(Victor Masters)
Craig Huebing
(Russo)
Janet MacLachlan
(Nicole)
John Marley
(Frank Chaney)
Frank Marth
(Carl Lund)
Barry Nelson
(Frank Sandler)
Arthur O'Connell
(Charlie Sherwin)
Lorraine Gary
(Carla Frazier)
Shelly Novack
(Russ Dickson)
Jack Hogan
(Richter)
Honor Blackman
(Bethany Cromwell)
Maurice Evans
(Harold Wyler)
Brian Bedford
(Anthony Malcolm)
Murray Matheson
(Dave Rogers)
Anthony Caruso
(Eddie Clark)
Eric Christmas
(Alfred Crammidge)
Lester Matthews
(Winston More)
Patrick O'Moore
(Lord Lansdale)
Richard Peel
(Martin Ross)
Barry Sullivan
(Creston Collins)
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