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The Name of the Game

  • 1968 – 1971
  • Ended
  • Action & Adventure · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • ~1h 30m / ep
  • 3 seasons
  • 7.0/10

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.

Latest: Season 3 · 1970

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  1. E1. So Long Baby, and Amen

    Sep 18, 1970 · 90m

    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.

  2. E2. A Love To Remember

    Sep 25, 1970 · 90m

    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.

  3. E3. Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon

    Oct 2, 1970 · 90m

    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.

  4. E4. Battle at Gannon's Bridge

    Oct 9, 1970 · 90m

    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.

  5. E5. The Enemy Before Us

    Oct 16, 1970 · 90m

    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.

  6. E6. The Time Is Now

    Oct 23, 1970 · 90m

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

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