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The Name of the Game

Season 3 1970 - 1971
TV-PG

  • 1970-09-19T00:30:00Z on NBC
  • 1h 30m
  • 1d 11h 44m (24 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.

24 episodes

Season Premiere

1970-09-19T00:30:00Z

3x01 So Long Baby, and Amen

Season Premiere

3x01 So Long Baby, and Amen

  • 1970-09-19T00:30:00Z1h 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.

1970-09-26T00:30:00Z

3x02 A Love To Remember

3x02 A Love To Remember

  • 1970-09-26T00:30:00Z1h 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.

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.

1970-10-10T00:30:00Z

3x04 Battle at Gannon's Bridge

3x04 Battle at Gannon's Bridge

  • 1970-10-10T00:30:00Z1h 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.

1970-10-17T00:30:00Z

3x05 The Enemy Before Us

3x05 The Enemy Before Us

  • 1970-10-17T00:30:00Z1h 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.

1970-10-24T00:30:00Z

3x06 The Time Is Now

3x06 The Time Is Now

  • 1970-10-24T00:30:00Z1h 30m

Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.

1970-10-31T01:30:00Z

3x07 The War Merchants

3x07 The War Merchants

  • 1970-10-31T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.

1970-11-07T01:30:00Z

3x08 Little Bear Died Running

3x08 Little Bear Died Running

  • 1970-11-07T01:30:00Z1h 30m

When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.

1970-11-14T01:30:00Z

3x09 All the Old Familar Faces

3x09 All the Old Familar Faces

  • 1970-11-14T01:30:00Z1h 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.

3x10 I Love You, Billy Baker (1)

  • 1970-11-21T01:30:00Z1h 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.

3x11 I Love You, Billy Baker (2)

  • 1970-11-28T01:30:00Z1h 30m

1970-12-05T01:30:00Z

3x12 Why I Blew Up Dakota

3x12 Why I Blew Up Dakota

  • 1970-12-05T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.

1970-12-12T01:30:00Z

3x13 Aquarius Descending

3x13 Aquarius Descending

  • 1970-12-12T01:30:00Z1h 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.

1970-12-19T01:30:00Z

3x14 The Glory Shouter

3x14 The Glory Shouter

  • 1970-12-19T01:30:00Z1h 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.

1971-01-09T01:30:00Z

3x15 A Sister From Napoli

3x15 A Sister From Napoli

  • 1971-01-09T01:30:00Z1h 30m

A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).

1971-01-16T01:30:00Z

3x16 Los Angeles 2017

3x16 Los Angeles 2017

  • 1971-01-16T01:30:00Z1h 14m

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.

3x17 The Man Who Killed A Ghost

  • 1971-02-06T01:30:00Z1h 30m

The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).

1971-02-06T01:30:00Z

3x18 Seek and Destroy

3x18 Seek and Destroy

  • 1971-02-06T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.

1971-02-13T01:30:00Z

3x19 A Capitol Affair

3x19 A Capitol Affair

  • 1971-02-13T01:30:00Z1h 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.

1971-02-20T01:30:00Z

3x20 The Savage Eye

3x20 The Savage Eye

  • 1971-02-20T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.

1971-02-27T01:30:00Z

3x21 Appointment in Palermo

3x21 Appointment in Palermo

  • 1971-02-27T01:30:00Z1h 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.

1971-03-06T01:30:00Z

3x22 Beware of the Watchdog

3x22 Beware of the Watchdog

  • 1971-03-06T01:30:00Z1h 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.

1971-03-13T01:30:00Z

3x23 The Broken Puzzle

3x23 The Broken Puzzle

  • 1971-03-13T01:30:00Z1h 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.

1971-03-20T01:30:00Z

3x24 The Showdown

3x24 The Showdown

  • 1971-03-20T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.

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