The Name of the Game: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
So Long Baby, and Amen
Sep 18, 1970
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.
A Love To Remember
Sep 25, 1970
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 Alive and Living in Avalon
Oct 2, 1970
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 urgin
Battle at Gannon's Bridge
Oct 9, 1970
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 neig
The Enemy Before Us
Oct 16, 1970
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
The Time Is Now
Oct 23, 1970
Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.
The War Merchants
Oct 30, 1970
Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
Little Bear Died Running
Nov 6, 1970
When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
All the Old Familar Faces
Nov 13, 1970
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 pr
I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
Nov 20, 1970
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
Why I Blew Up Dakota
Dec 4, 1970
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
Aquarius Descending
Dec 11, 1970
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
The Glory Shouter
Dec 18, 1970
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
A Sister From Napoli
Jan 8, 1971
A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
Los Angeles 2017
Jan 15, 1971
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
The Man Who Killed A Ghost
Feb 5, 1971
The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
Seek and Destroy
Feb 5, 1971
Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
A Capitol Affair
Feb 12, 1971
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 boyfrien
The Savage Eye
Feb 19, 1971
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
Appointment in Palermo
Feb 26, 1971
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.
Beware of the Watchdog
Mar 5, 1971
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
The Broken Puzzle
Mar 12, 1971
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 tha
The Showdown
Mar 19, 1971
Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.