List of episodes of the series «The Name of the Game»
- Seasons count: 3
- Episodes count: 76
- Total viewing time: 4 d. 8 h.
Release date: 9/20/1968
Fear of High Places
- Episode number: 1
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
Release date: 9/27/1968
The Witness
- Episode number: 2
- Episode duration: 73 min.
- Episode description: When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime Magazine, looks for the only other witness to a major mob crime. She allegedly committed suicide eight years earlier.
Release date: 10/4/1968
The Taker
- Episode number: 3
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Crime Magazine publisher Glenn Howard refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate and finds himself in a battle of wits over the takeover of his publishing empire.
Release date: 10/11/1968
Collector's Edition
- Episode number: 4
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Photographer Peter Max had once saved Jeff 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.
Release date: 10/18/1968
Nightmare
- Episode number: 5
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Release date: 10/25/1968
Incident in Berlin
- Episode number: 6
- Episode duration: 74 min.
- Episode description: Glenn Howard goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors, who has been arrested in East Germany as a spy.
Release date: 11/1/1968
Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
- Episode number: 7
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
Release date: 11/8/1968
Lola in Lipstick
- Episode number: 8
- Episode duration: 74 min.
- Episode description: While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
Release date: 11/15/1968
The Protector
- Episode number: 9
- Episode duration: 74 min.
- Episode description: Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
Release date: 11/22/1968
Ordeal
- Episode number: 10
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
Release date: 11/29/1968
The White Birch
- Episode number: 11
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
Release date: 12/6/1968
High On A Rainbow
- Episode number: 12
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: When drugs start appearing in the hands of schoolchildren, Dan Farrell and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as they investigate a narcotics ring.
Release date: 12/13/1968
The Black Answer
- Episode number: 13
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Jeff Dillon 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.
Release date: 12/20/1968
Pineapple Rose
- Episode number: 14
- Episode duration: 73 min.
- Episode description: Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
Release date: 12/27/1968
The Revolutionary
- Episode number: 15
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
Release date: 1/10/1969
Swinger's Only
- Episode number: 16
- Episode duration: 73 min.
- Episode description: 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.
Release date: 1/17/1969
The Inquiry
- Episode number: 17
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: 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.
Release date: 1/24/1968
The Incomparable Connie Walker
- Episode number: 18
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: 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.
Release date: 1/31/1968
Love-In At Ground Zero
- Episode number: 19
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Howard (GB) is kidnapped by a group of protestors who demand he witness their suicide and then write an expose of the army's testing of chemical warfare weapons.
Release date: 2/7/1969
The Suntan Mob
- Episode number: 20
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
Release date: 2/14/1969
Keep the Doctor Away
- Episode number: 21
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Release date: 2/21/1969
The Bobby Currier Story
- Episode number: 22
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: 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.
Release date: 2/28/1969
A Wrath of Angels
- Episode number: 23
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: 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.
Release date: 3/7/1969
The Third Choice
- Episode number: 24
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
Release date: 3/14/1969
Breakout To A Fast Buck
- Episode number: 25
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: 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.
Release date: 3/21/1969
An Agent of the Plaintiff
- Episode number: 26
- Episode duration: 75 min.
- Episode description: Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.