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The Name of the Game

Season 2 1969 - 1970
TV-PG

  • 1969-09-20T00:30:00Z on NBC
  • 1h 30m
  • 1d 10h 40m (26 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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.

26 episodes

Season Premiere

1969-09-20T00:30:00Z

2x01 Lady On the Rocks

Season Premiere

2x01 Lady On the Rocks

  • 1969-09-20T00:30:00Z1h 15m

A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.

1969-09-27T00:30:00Z

2x02 A Hard Case of the Blues

2x02 A Hard Case of the Blues

  • 1969-09-27T00:30:00Z1h 15m

Blues singer Jesse Boone's business manager has just died under mysterious circumstances. He also swindled Jesse out of $200,000. Thing of it is, Jesse couldn't care less--and Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) wants to know the reasons for her apathy.

1969-10-04T00:30:00Z

2x03 Blind Man's Bluff

2x03 Blind Man's Bluff

  • 1969-10-04T00:30:00Z1h 15m

An ex-district attorney gives Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. He was blinded several years earlier, and his wife's face was mutilated; now the former D.A. wants to trap the man responsible for his sightlessness.

1969-10-11T00:30:00Z

2x04 The Emissary

2x04 The Emissary

  • 1969-10-11T00:30:00Z1h 15m

An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Chinese delegation has just stormed out of an international health conference, and Howard has been assigned to woo them back.

1969-10-18T00:30:00Z

2x05 Chains of Command

2x05 Chains of Command

  • 1969-10-18T00:30:00Z1h 13m

Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the officials are getting rich on kickbacks. Assuming a false identity and taking a job in the border town becomes very hazardous.

1969-10-25T00:30:00Z

2x06 Goodbye Harry

2x06 Goodbye Harry

  • 1969-10-25T00:30:00Z1h 15m

Roving reporter Sam Hardy's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (GB), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is American missile scientist Harry Roarke. While it appears as though Harry has defected to Cuba, he may very well be hiding out in the States, in fear for his life.

1969-11-01T01:30:00Z

2x07 Give Till It Hurts

2x07 Give Till It Hurts

  • 1969-11-01T01:30:00Z1h 15m

The object of Farrell's (RS) latest investigation is a professional fundraiser. The editor recognizes him as a notorious con man, so it should be no problem to expose his racket. But problems there are, especially when an unknown gangster type pressures him to lay off.

1969-11-08T01:30:00Z

2x08 The Perfect Image

2x08 The Perfect Image

  • 1969-11-08T01:30:00Z1h 13m

Howard (GB) has recently been instrumental in getting the new mayor of Chicago elected. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that he is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Crime magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell try to weed out the truth.

1969-11-15T01:30:00Z

2x09 The Prisoner Within

2x09 The Prisoner Within

  • 1969-11-15T01:30:00Z1h 15m

Dillon (TF) investigates the story of a young man who is challenged by an Army officer to undergo prisoner of war training. He accepts the survival training challenge.

1969-11-29T01:30:00Z

2x10 The Civilized Men

2x10 The Civilized Men

  • 1969-11-29T01:30:00Z1h 15m

Farrell (RS) heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government livestock. Could the Mob be involved?

1969-12-06T01:30:00Z

2x11 High Card

2x11 High Card

  • 1969-12-06T01:30:00Z1h 14m

A U.S. Senator claims to have photographic proof that Howard (GB)was the man who tipped off the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs.

1969-12-13T01:30:00Z

2x12 The Power

2x12 The Power

  • 1969-12-13T01:30:00Z1h 15m

Dan Farrell (RS) sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between two brothers battling for control of the longshoreman's union.

1969-12-20T01:30:00Z

2x13 Laurie Marie

2x13 Laurie Marie

  • 1969-12-20T01:30:00Z1h 15m

When Laurie Marie gets lost on the vast country estate of millionaire industrialist Robert Coates, he posts a $10,000 reward for anyone who can return the girl unharmed. This results in a stampede of mercenary characters who make a shambles of Coates' estate. Watching from the sidelines is reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) and his girl friday Peggy.

1970-01-03T01:30:00Z

2x14 The Tradition

2x14 The Tradition

  • 1970-01-03T01:30:00Z1h 15m

Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.

1970-01-10T01:30:00Z

2x15 The Brass Ring

2x15 The Brass Ring

  • 1970-01-10T01:30:00Z1h 15m

A Boxer is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Dan Farrell (RS) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's manager may be arranging a fixed bout.

A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the deceased man's relatives. Each, it seems, has a reason for wanting the man dead, and each had opportunity to make off with the inheritance.

1970-01-24T01:30:00Z

2x17 The Takeover

2x17 The Takeover

  • 1970-01-24T01:30:00Z1h 15m

As special envoy, Howard (GB) visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose Chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicions of a frame-up and sparks a probe that sends him into guerrilla territory.

1970-01-31T01:30:00Z

2x18 The Garden

2x18 The Garden

  • 1970-01-31T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Dan Farrell (RS) is on the trail of a possible scam. A ""Pop"" psychiatrist who is strong on placebos but short on ethics, treats his wealthy patients at a lavish remote retreat called The Garden. Farrell is convinced that he is a phony, and tries to prove it

1970-02-14T01:30:00Z

2x19 Tarot

2x19 Tarot

  • 1970-02-14T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.

1970-02-21T01:30:00Z

2x20 The King of Denmark

2x20 The King of Denmark

  • 1970-02-21T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.

1970-02-28T01:30:00Z

2x21 The Skin Game

2x21 The Skin Game

  • 1970-02-28T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.

1970-03-07T01:30:00Z

2x22 Man of the People

2x22 Man of the People

  • 1970-03-07T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Jilted by ""populist"" tycoon Cesar Rodriguez, Hilary thirsts for revenge. She plans to publish a series of articles exposing the popular Rodriguez as a fraud, using his Mexican heritage to hornswoggle his own people.

1970-03-21T01:30:00Z

2x23 Echo of a Nightmare

2x23 Echo of a Nightmare

  • 1970-03-21T01:30:00Z1h 30m

The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduction victim's millionaire father tries to bribe Farrell to drop the case.

1970-03-28T01:30:00Z

2x24 Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

2x24 Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

  • 1970-03-28T01:30:00Z1h 30m

When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.

2x25 One of the Girls in Research

  • 1970-04-04T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.

1970-04-11T01:30:00Z

2x26 The Other Kind of Spy

2x26 The Other Kind of Spy

  • 1970-04-11T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.

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