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The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game

Season 1

September 20, 1968

26 Episodes

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Episodes

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E1

Fear of High Places

September 20, 1968

Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.

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E2

The Witness

September 27, 1968

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.

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The Taker

October 4, 1968

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.

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E4

Collector's Edition

October 11, 1968

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.

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E5

Nightmare

October 18, 1968

Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.

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E6

Incident in Berlin

October 25, 1968

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.

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E7

Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

November 1, 1968

A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.

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E8

Lola in Lipstick

November 8, 1968

While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.

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E9

The Protector

November 15, 1968

Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.

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E10

Ordeal

November 22, 1968

A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.

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E11

The White Birch

November 29, 1968

Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.

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E12

High On A Rainbow

December 6, 1968

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.

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E13

The Black Answer

December 13, 1968

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.

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E14

Pineapple Rose

December 20, 1968

Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.

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E15

The Revolutionary

December 27, 1968

Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.

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E16

Swinger's Only

January 10, 1969

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.

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E17

The Inquiry

January 17, 1969

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.

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E18

The Incomparable Connie Walker

January 24, 1968

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.

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E19

Love-In At Ground Zero

January 31, 1968

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.

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E20

The Suntan Mob

February 7, 1969

Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.

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E21

Keep the Doctor Away

February 14, 1969

Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.

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E22

The Bobby Currier Story

February 21, 1969

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.

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E23

A Wrath of Angels

February 28, 1969

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.

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E24

The Third Choice

March 7, 1969

Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.

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E25

Breakout To A Fast Buck

March 14, 1969

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.

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E26

An Agent of the Plaintiff

March 21, 1969

Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.