The Name of the Game
Season 3
197024 episodes
Episode 1
So Long Baby, and Amen
Sep 18, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 2
A Love To Remember
Sep 25, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 3
Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon
Oct 2, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 4
Battle at Gannon's Bridge
Oct 9, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 5
The Enemy Before Us
Oct 16, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 6
The Time Is Now
Oct 23, 19701h 30m
Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.
Episode 7
The War Merchants
Oct 30, 19701h 30m
Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
Episode 8
Little Bear Died Running
Nov 6, 19701h 30m
When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
Episode 9
All the Old Familar Faces
Nov 13, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 10
I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
Nov 20, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 11
I Love You, Billy Baker (2)
Nov 27, 19701h 30m
Episode 12
Why I Blew Up Dakota
Dec 4, 19701h 30m
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
Episode 13
Aquarius Descending
Dec 11, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 14
The Glory Shouter
Dec 18, 19701h 30m
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.
Episode 15
A Sister From Napoli
Jan 8, 19711h 30m
A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
Episode 16
Los Angeles 2017
Jan 15, 19711h 14m
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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.
Episode 17
The Man Who Killed A Ghost
Feb 5, 19711h 30m
The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
Episode 18
Seek and Destroy
Feb 5, 19711h 30m
Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
Episode 19
A Capitol Affair
Feb 12, 19711h 30m
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.
Episode 20
The Savage Eye
Feb 19, 19711h 30m
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
Episode 21
Appointment in Palermo
Feb 26, 19711h 30m
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.
Episode 22
Beware of the Watchdog
Mar 5, 19711h 30m
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.
Episode 23
The Broken Puzzle
Mar 12, 19711h 30m
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.
Episode 24
The Showdown
Mar 19, 19711h 30m
Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.