The Name of the Game (1968) · WatchGuide

The Name of the Game (1968) · WatchGuide

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E1 · Airs Sep 20, 1968 · 1h 15m
Fear of High Places
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
E2 · Airs Sep 27, 1968 · 1h 13m
The Witness
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.
E3 · Airs Oct 4, 1968 · 1h 15m
The Taker
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.
E4 · Airs Oct 11, 1968 · 1h 15m
Collector's Edition
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.
E5 · Airs Oct 18, 1968 · 1h 15m
Nightmare
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
E6 · Airs Oct 25, 1968 · 1h 14m
Incident in Berlin
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.
E7 · Airs Nov 1, 1968 · 1h 15m
Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
E8 · Airs Nov 8, 1968 · 1h 14m
Lola in Lipstick
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
E9 · Airs Nov 15, 1968 · 1h 14m
The Protector
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
E10 · Airs Nov 22, 1968 · 1h 15m
Ordeal
A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
E11 · Airs Nov 29, 1968 · 1h 15m
The White Birch
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
E12 · Airs Dec 6, 1968 · 1h 15m
High On A Rainbow
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.
E13 · Airs Dec 13, 1968 · 1h 15m
The Black Answer
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.
E14 · Airs Dec 20, 1968 · 1h 13m
Pineapple Rose
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
E15 · Airs Dec 27, 1968 · 1h 15m
The Revolutionary
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
E16 · Airs Jan 10, 1969 · 1h 13m
Swinger's Only
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.
E17 · Airs Jan 17, 1969 · 1h 15m
The Inquiry
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.
E18 · Airs Jan 24, 1968 · 1h 15m
The Incomparable Connie Walker
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.
E19 · Airs Jan 31, 1968 · 1h 15m
Love-In At Ground Zero
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.
E20 · Airs Feb 7, 1969 · 1h 15m
The Suntan Mob
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
E21 · Airs Feb 14, 1969 · 1h 15m
Keep the Doctor Away
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
E22 · Airs Feb 21, 1969 · 1h 15m
The Bobby Currier Story
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.
E23 · Airs Feb 28, 1969 · 1h 15m
A Wrath of Angels
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.
E24 · Airs Mar 7, 1969 · 1h 15m
The Third Choice
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
E25 · Airs Mar 14, 1969 · 1h 15m
Breakout To A Fast Buck
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.
E26 · Airs Mar 21, 1969 · 1h 15m
An Agent of the Plaintiff
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.