The Name of the Game - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes26
DatesJan 17, 1968 - Mar 21, 1969
Episodes
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
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
Season 1Episode 390 min
The Taker
Glen Howard (GB), Crime Magazine publisher, refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate and finds himself in a battle of wits in the takeover of his publishing empire.
Oct 4, 1968
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
Season 1Episode 590 min
Nightmare
Dan Farrell (RS) patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Oct 18, 1968
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 1Episode 2190 min
Keep the Doctor Away
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Feb 14, 1969
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
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
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
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
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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