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The Name of the Game: Season 1

26 episodes Premiered Sep 20, 1968 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Fear of High Places

Sep 20, 1968 · 75 min

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

S1·E2

The Witness

Sep 27, 1968 · 73 min

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 y

S1·E3

The Taker

Oct 4, 1968 · 75 min

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 h

S1·E4

Collector's Edition

Oct 11, 1968 · 75 min

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 hi

S1·E5

Nightmare

Oct 18, 1968 · 75 min

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

S1·E6

Incident in Berlin

Oct 25, 1968 · 74 min

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.

S1·E7

Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

Nov 1, 1968 · 75 min

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

S1·E8

Lola in Lipstick

Nov 8, 1968 · 74 min

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

S1·E9

The Protector

Nov 15, 1968 · 74 min

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

S1·E10

Ordeal

Nov 22, 1968 · 75 min

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

S1·E11

The White Birch

Nov 29, 1968 · 75 min

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

S1·E12

High On A Rainbow

Dec 6, 1968 · 75 min

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.

S1·E13

The Black Answer

Dec 13, 1968 · 75 min

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.

S1·E14

Pineapple Rose

Dec 20, 1968 · 73 min

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

S1·E15

The Revolutionary

Dec 27, 1968 · 75 min

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

S1·E16

Swinger's Only

Jan 10, 1969 · 73 min

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 d

S1·E17

The Inquiry

Jan 17, 1969 · 75 min

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.

S1·E18

The Incomparable Connie Walker

Jan 24, 1968 · 75 min

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

S1·E19

Love-In At Ground Zero

Jan 31, 1968 · 75 min

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.

S1·E20

The Suntan Mob

Feb 7, 1969 · 75 min

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

S1·E21

Keep the Doctor Away

Feb 14, 1969 · 75 min

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

S1·E22

The Bobby Currier Story

Feb 21, 1969 · 75 min

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 ci

S1·E23

A Wrath of Angels

Feb 28, 1969 · 75 min

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.

S1·E24

The Third Choice

Mar 7, 1969 · 75 min

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

S1·E25

Breakout To A Fast Buck

Mar 14, 1969 · 75 min

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 breakou

S1·E26

An Agent of the Plaintiff

Mar 21, 1969 · 75 min

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