The Name of the Game
Season 1
196826 episodes
Episode 1
Fear of High Places
Sep 20, 19681h 15m
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
Episode 2
The Witness
Sep 27, 19681h 13m
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.
Episode 3
The Taker
Oct 4, 19681h 15m
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.
Episode 4
Collector's Edition
Oct 11, 19681h 15m
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.
Episode 5
Nightmare
Oct 18, 19681h 15m
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
Episode 6
Incident in Berlin
Oct 25, 19681h 14m
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.
Episode 7
Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
Nov 1, 19681h 15m
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
Episode 8
Lola in Lipstick
Nov 8, 19681h 14m
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
Episode 9
The Protector
Nov 15, 19681h 14m
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
Episode 10
Ordeal
Nov 22, 19681h 15m
A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
Episode 11
The White Birch
Nov 29, 19681h 15m
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
Episode 12
High On A Rainbow
Dec 6, 19681h 15m
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.
Episode 13
The Black Answer
Dec 13, 19681h 15m
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.
Episode 14
Pineapple Rose
Dec 20, 19681h 13m
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
Episode 15
The Revolutionary
Dec 27, 19681h 15m
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
Episode 16
Swinger's Only
Jan 10, 19691h 13m
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.
Episode 17
The Inquiry
Jan 17, 19691h 15m
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.
Episode 18
The Incomparable Connie Walker
Jan 24, 19681h 15m
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.
Episode 19
Love-In At Ground Zero
Jan 31, 19681h 15m
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.
Episode 20
The Suntan Mob
Feb 7, 19691h 15m
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
Episode 21
Keep the Doctor Away
Feb 14, 19691h 15m
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
Episode 22
The Bobby Currier Story
Feb 21, 19691h 15m
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.
Episode 23
A Wrath of Angels
Feb 28, 19691h 15m
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.
Episode 24
The Third Choice
Mar 7, 19691h 15m
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
Episode 25
Breakout To A Fast Buck
Mar 14, 19691h 15m
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.
Episode 26
An Agent of the Plaintiff
Mar 21, 19691h 15m
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.