The Most Deadly Game - Season 1

The Most Deadly Game - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes12
DatesOct 10, 1970 - Jan 16, 1971

Episodes

Little David
Season 1Episode 160 min

Little David

Amid swank surroundings, criminologists Jonathan Croft, Vanessa Smith and Ethan Arcane deduce that a rich, much despised hunter has been polished off by a slingshot weapon. All evidence points to a gun-hating hippie named David. Jonathan does the leg work with quiet, understated charm, Vanessa is an exquisite but unbelievable sleuth, and Ethan ponders.

Oct 10, 1970
Witches' Sabbath
Season 1Episode 260 min

Witches' Sabbath

You'll have a grand time getting chills as you watch "The Most Deadly Game's" excellent tale of horror. It starts in a lovely coastline community where several upper middle-class types join in a Black Mass, during which a girl dies just as a goat is being sacrificed. Jonathan, Ethan and Vanessa are brought into the case by the dead woman's former fiance. Vanessa goes to the town first, where she meets Jordan, who turns out to be the coven's warlock. Then Jonathan gets into the act, wooing Lydia, a very mature woman for all her youth

Oct 17, 1970
Gabrielle
Season 1Episode 360 min

Gabrielle

This episode lets you know something of the background of Jonathan Croft. Turns out his wife was assassinated during an earlier mission that didn't come off. Now Gabrielle appears on the scene as a woman who looks like his wife, and she arouses a bit of jealousy in Vanessa.

Oct 24, 1970
Breakdown
Season 1Episode 460 min

Breakdown

A company psychiatrist is murdered. So Jonathan and Vanessa join a psychotherapy session. She records everything said during the 48-hour marathon while Ethan, back in his office, listens for clues. Lots of emoting and breast-beating here.

Oct 31, 1970
Who Killed Kindness?
Season 1Episode 560 min

Who Killed Kindness?

The owner of a dude ranch is killed and the killer could be: Clint, the dead man's son; Davis, his foreman; Brooke, a horse trainer, or Lottie, his housekeeper and spurned love.

Nov 7, 1970
Photo Finish
Season 1Episode 660 min

Photo Finish

"THE MOST DEADLY GAME" has borrowed from the headlines about the Zodiac killer. Here they are dealing with the Scorpio killer, who obviously wants to be stopped and who takes photos of his victims and mails them to our group. Eventually there is a picture of a "dead" Vanessa for them to deal with.

Nov 14, 1970
War Games
Season 1Episode 760 min

War Games

THE MOST DEADLY GAME has a most intriguing promise in a script that can't maintain the standard it sets for itself. A man is killed. The dead man was Croft's commander in Vietnam, and it looks as if he may be the killer. While the police are questioning him, four fellows show up — all with Croft in Vietnam — and each one confesses to the killing.

Nov 28, 1970
Nightbirds
Season 1Episode 860 min

Nightbirds

Croft becomes the bodyguard for Hawk, a superstar rock singer, after a threat on his life kills his girlfriend.

Dec 12, 1970
Model for Murder
Season 1Episode 960 min

Model for Murder

THERE'S A HOMICIDAL maniac loose, which is really The Most Deadly Game. He seems to be killing fashion models, so Vanessa (Yvette Mimeux) is set up as bait — and she's caught. Among the suspects are three ex-series stars — Frank Converse of NYPD; Barbara Hale, of Perry Mason; and Bill Smith, of Laredo. The fashions you'll see were created by Nolan Miller, who does all of Yvette's clothes.

Dec 19, 1970
The Classic Burial Position
Season 1Episode 1060 min

The Classic Burial Position

Young girl on an archaeologist's dig is found dead in an ancient Indian tomb.

Jan 2, 1971
The Lady from Praha
Season 1Episode 1160 min

The Lady from Praha

Three criminologists sift through a bewildering array of facts and relationships to find the killer of a foreign representative.

Jan 9, 1971
I, Said the Sparrow
Season 1Episode 1260 min

I, Said the Sparrow

A Mystery writer is murdered while watching himself on the Dick Cavett Show.

Jan 16, 1971

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