The Name of the Game - Season 1

The Name of the Game - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes26
DatesJan. 17, 1968 - März 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.

Sept. 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.

Sept. 27, 1968
The Taker
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.
Okt. 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.
Okt. 11, 1968
Nightmare
Season 1Episode 590 min

Nightmare

Dan Farrell (RS) patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Okt. 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.
Okt. 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.
Dez. 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.
Dez. 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.
Dez. 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.
Dez. 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.
März 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.
März 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.
März 21, 1969

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