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The Name of the Game: Season 2

26 episodes Premiered Sep 19, 1969
Previously on The Name of the Game

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Name of the Game Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (22): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Lady On the Rocks

Sep 19, 1969

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

S2·E2 Core

A Hard Case of the Blues

Sep 26, 1969

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 Crim

S2·E3 Core

Blind Man's Bluff

Oct 3, 1969

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 wif

S2·E4 Core

The Emissary

Oct 10, 1969

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 Ch

S2·E5 Core

Chains of Command

Oct 17, 1969

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 offici

S2·E6 Core

Goodbye Harry

Oct 24, 1969

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

S2·E7 Core

Give Till It Hurts

Oct 31, 1969

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. B

S2·E8 Core

The Perfect Image

Nov 7, 1969

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 Cr

S2·E9 Core

The Prisoner Within

Nov 14, 1969

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.

S2·E10 Core

The Civilized Men

Nov 28, 1969

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 in

S2·E11 Core

High Card

Dec 5, 1969

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.

S2·E12 Core

The Power

Dec 12, 1969

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 lo

S2·E13 Core

Laurie Marie

Dec 19, 1969

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 resul

S2·E14 Core

The Tradition

Jan 2, 1970

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

S2·E15 Core

The Brass Ring

Jan 9, 1970

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

S2·E16 Core

Island of Gold and Precious Stones

Jan 16, 1969

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 decease

S2·E17 Core

The Takeover

Jan 23, 1970

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

S2·E18 Core

The Garden

Jan 30, 1970

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 ca

S2·E19 Core

Tarot

Feb 13, 1970

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.

S2·E20 Core

The King of Denmark

Feb 20, 1970

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

S2·E21 Core

The Skin Game

Feb 27, 1970

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

S2·E22 Core

Man of the People

Mar 6, 1970

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 he

S2·E23 Mytharc

Echo of a Nightmare

Mar 20, 1970

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 abduct

S2·E24 Core

Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

Mar 27, 1970

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

S2·E25 Mytharc

One of the Girls in Research

Apr 3, 1970

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

S2·E26 Mytharc

The Other Kind of Spy

Apr 10, 1970

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

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