The Name of the Game - Season 1

The Name of the Game - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes26
DatesJan 17, 1968 - Mar 21, 1969
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Episodes

Fear of High Places
Season 1Episode 190 min

Fear of High Places

Jeff Dillon researches the murder of a model who was involved with an industrialist.

Sep 20, 1968
The Witness
Season 1Episode 290 min

The Witness

When a Mafia informant is murdered, Dan Farrell instigates a search for another witness—a woman whose suicide was reported eight years ago.

Sep 27, 1968
The Taker
Season 1Episode 390 min

The Taker

Glenn Howard faces a hostile takeover attempt by Arthur Jellicoe.

Oct 4, 1968
Collector's Edition
Season 1Episode 490 min

Collector's Edition

Jeff Dillon (TF), investigative reporter for Crime Magazine. Max, a phtographer, had once saved 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.
Oct 11, 1968
Nightmare
Season 1Episode 590 min

Nightmare

His wife murdered in his car, Dan Farrell launches a fraught investigation.

Oct 18, 1968
Incident in Berlin
Season 1Episode 690 min

Incident in Berlin

Howard (GB)goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors who has been arrested in East Germany as a spy.
Oct 25, 1968
Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
Season 1Episode 790 min

Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

Howard (GB) assigns Dillon and Peggy to investigate the complexities of small-town politics after a murder occurs. A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
Nov 1, 1968
Lola in Lipstick
Season 1Episode 890 min

Lola in Lipstick

While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard (GB) finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
Nov 8, 1968
The Protector
Season 1Episode 990 min

The Protector

Howard (GB) goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
Nov 15, 1968
Ordeal
Season 1Episode 1090 min

Ordeal

A woman sits on death row hoping that Farrell (RS) can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
Nov 22, 1968
The White Birch
Season 1Episode 1190 min

The White Birch

Howard (GB) travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
Nov 29, 1968
High on a Rainbow
Season 1Episode 1290 min

High on a Rainbow

When drugs start appearing in the hands of school children, Farrell (RS)and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as they investigate a narcotics ring.
Dec 6, 1968
The Black Answer
Season 1Episode 1390 min

The Black Answer

Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon(TF)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. The motive may have been that Lee was about to be exposed as a fraud, who'd sold out his brothers to the cops.
Dec 13, 1968
Pineapple Rose
Season 1Episode 1490 min

Pineapple Rose

This time the focus is on researcher Peggy Maxwell, who is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star. The series' regulars sit this one out, permitting correspondent Andy Hill (Cliff Potter) to investigate Peggy's disappearance. With the help of an FBI agent, Hill unearths a hotbed of mob-motivated intrigue.
Dec 20, 1968
The Revolutionary
Season 1Episode 1590 min

The Revolutionary

Howard(GB) helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
Dec 27, 1968
Swingers Only
Season 1Episode 1690 min

Swingers 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.
Jan 10, 1969
The Inquiry
Season 1Episode 1790 min

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.
Jan 17, 1968
The Incomparable Connie Walker
Season 1Episode 1890 min

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.
Jan 24, 1968
Love-In at Ground Zero
Season 1Episode 1990 min

Love-In at Ground Zero

A bunch of protesters plan to sacrifice their lives at a warfare test site in the Nevada desert. To call media attention, they've abducted Glenn Howard, who tries to talk sense to the group as zero hour approaches. 

Jan 31, 1968
The Suntan Mob
Season 1Episode 2090 min

The Suntan Mob

Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
Feb 7, 1969
Keep the Doctor Away
Season 1Episode 2190 min

Keep the Doctor Away

Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Feb 14, 1969
The Bobby Currier Story
Season 1Episode 2290 min

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.
Feb 21, 1969
A Wrath of Angels
Season 1Episode 2390 min

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.
Feb 28, 1969
The Third Choice
Season 1Episode 2490 min

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.
Mar 7, 1969
Breakout to a Fast Buck
Season 1Episode 2590 min

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.
Mar 14, 1969
An Agent of the Plaintiff
Season 1Episode 2690 min

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.
Mar 21, 1969

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