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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.
Episode 24 : The Showdown
March. 19,1971
Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.
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Episode 23 : The Broken Puzzle
March. 12,1971
The governor of an unnamed state though popular with his constituents runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship, complete with uniformed thugs. Glenn Howard (GB) finds that the source of his power may have bigger political stakes in mind.
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Episode 22 : Beware of the Watchdog
March. 05,1971
Dan Farrell (RS) investigates a consumer advocate who is currently masterminding an expose of the fish-canning industry. When several attempts are made on his life, the advertisers are under suspect.
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Episode 21 : Appointment in Palermo
February. 26,1971
Howard (GB) goes to Italy to research a story, then finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by one of the families involved in a centuries-old blood feud.
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Episode 20 : The Savage Eye
February. 19,1971
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
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Episode 19 : A Capitol Affair
February. 12,1971
Howard Publications journalist intervenes when a misguided Washington gossip columnist tries to destroy the career of a promising government official who happens to be her boyfriend.
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Episode 18 : Seek and Destroy
February. 05,1971
Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
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Episode 17 : The Man Who Killed A Ghost
February. 05,1971
The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
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Episode 16 : Los Angeles 2017
January. 15,1971
Glenn Howard finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to learn that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb of a fascist government run by psychiatrists.
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Episode 15 : A Sister From Napoli
January. 08,1971
A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
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Episode 14 : The Glory Shouter
December. 18,1970
A fire-and-brimstone tele-evangelist is plagued by gremlins from within his organization who are tapping his till. Dan Farrell (RS), investigates only to deduce that he may be the one siphoning from his own flock's donations.
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Episode 13 : Aquarius Descending
December. 11,1970
Glenn Howard (GB), who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician. Seeking revenge, the politician orders a young hard-case to romance Howard's impressionable 17-year-old niece. The plan is to involve the girl in a scandal and ruin Howard and his magazine.
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Episode 12 : Why I Blew Up Dakota
December. 04,1970
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
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Episode 11 : I Love You, Billy Baker (2)
November. 27,1970
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Episode 10 : I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
November. 20,1970
Las Vegas superstar Billy Baker, who is known far and wide for his reluctance to grant interviews,is particularly close-mouthed on the subject of a beautiful young dancer with whom he'd once been in love--and who now is very much dead. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to know why.
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Episode 9 : All the Old Familar Faces
November. 13,1970
Howard (GB) tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely suspects who, in flashback, explain just what might have prompted them to kill.
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Episode 8 : Little Bear Died Running
November. 06,1970
When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
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Episode 7 : The War Merchants
October. 30,1970
Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
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Episode 6 : The Time Is Now
October. 23,1970
Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.
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Episode 5 : The Enemy Before Us
October. 16,1970
Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) is back in his old neighborhood in New York's ""Little Italy"", Dillon hopes to take a break from his hectic responsibilities and recapture ""something real"" from his younger days. Unfortunately, he is bombarded by pain and disillusionment from every side: his stepmother is gravely ill, and her son is deeply involved with drug dealing.
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Episode 4 : Battle at Gannon's Bridge
October. 09,1970
An ex-convict Eddie Gannon, who holds the lease on a converted church used as a halfway house for recently released prisoners,is endangered by a rash of unsolved crimes in the neighborhood. Gannon asks Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) to prove that none of his fellow ex-cons are responsible for the thefts.
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Episode 3 : Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon
October. 02,1970
Cynthia is a reclusive jet-setter who has of late become a political activist. She refuses all interviews and keeps hidden in a rambling house on the island of Avalon. At the urging of his pal, reporter Paul Tyler decides to make a name for himself by getting the exclusive story on Cynthia.
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Episode 2 : A Love To Remember
September. 25,1970
At his college class reunion, Howard (GB) meets a strange, beautiful woman who tells him how a crush she once had on him has ruined her life.
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Episode 1 : So Long Baby, and Amen
September. 18,1970
Dan Farrell (RS) reports his findings at a Congressional committee hearing on addictive drugs. Later he finds himself entangled with a self-destructive, drug-addicted young girl.
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