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The Name of the Game

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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.

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  1. Play Fear of High Places
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    Fear of High Places

    1968-09-20

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

  2. Play The Witness
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    The Witness

    1968-09-27

    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 years earlier.

  3. Play The Taker
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    The Taker

    1968-10-04

    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 his publishing empire.

  4. Play Collector's Edition
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    Collector's Edition

    1968-10-11

    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 his name.

  5. Play Nightmare
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    Nightmare

    1968-10-18

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

  6. Play Incident in Berlin
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    Incident in Berlin

    1968-10-25

    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.

  7. Play Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
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    Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

    1968-11-01

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

  8. Play Lola in Lipstick
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    Lola in Lipstick

    1968-11-08

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

  9. Play The Protector
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    The Protector

    1968-11-15

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

  10. Play Ordeal
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    Ordeal

    1968-11-22

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

  11. Play The White Birch
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    The White Birch

    1968-11-29

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

  12. Play High On A Rainbow
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    High On A Rainbow

    1968-12-06

    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.

  13. Play The Black Answer
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    The Black Answer

    1968-12-13

    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.

  14. Play Pineapple Rose
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    Pineapple Rose

    1968-12-20

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

  15. Play The Revolutionary
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    The Revolutionary

    1968-12-27

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

  16. Play Swinger's Only
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    Swinger's Only

    1969-01-10

    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 despite her despair over her husband's pecadilloes urges Farrell to find the guilty party.

  17. Play The Inquiry
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    The Inquiry

    1969-01-17

    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.

  18. Play The Incomparable Connie Walker
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    The Incomparable Connie Walker

    1968-01-24

    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 been accepting kickbacks. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates when a city accountant is murdered.

  19. Play Love-In At Ground Zero
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    Love-In At Ground Zero

    1968-01-31

    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.

  20. Play The Suntan Mob
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    The Suntan Mob

    1969-02-07

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

  21. Play Keep the Doctor Away
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    Keep the Doctor Away

    1969-02-14

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

  22. Play The Bobby Currier Story
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    The Bobby Currier Story

    1969-02-21

    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 circumstances that turned the hapless Currier into a murderer.

  23. Play A Wrath of Angels
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    A Wrath of Angels

    1969-02-28

    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.

  24. Play The Third Choice
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    The Third Choice

    1969-03-07

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

  25. Play Breakout To A Fast Buck
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    Breakout To A Fast Buck

    1969-03-14

    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 breakout. Farrell suspects that the contractor is being sprung in order to help break into one of the buildings that he designed.

  26. Play An Agent of the Plaintiff
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    An Agent of the Plaintiff

    1969-03-21

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

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