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The Name of the Game - Season 1

Episode List

Fear of High Places
E1 - Fear of High Places

Aired: September 20, 1968

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

The Witness
E2 - The Witness

Aired: September 27, 1968

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.

The Taker
E3 - The Taker

Aired: October 04, 1968

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.

Collector's Edition
E4 - Collector's Edition

Aired: October 11, 1968

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.

Nightmare
E5 - Nightmare

Aired: October 18, 1968

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

Incident in Berlin
E6 - Incident in Berlin

Aired: October 25, 1968

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.

Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
E7 - Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

Aired: November 01, 1968

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

Lola in Lipstick
E8 - Lola in Lipstick

Aired: November 08, 1968

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

The Protector
E9 - The Protector

Aired: November 15, 1968

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

Ordeal
E10 - Ordeal

Aired: November 22, 1968

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

The White Birch
E11 - The White Birch

Aired: November 29, 1968

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

High On A Rainbow
E12 - High On A Rainbow

Aired: December 06, 1968

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.

The Black Answer
E13 - The Black Answer

Aired: December 13, 1968

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.

Pineapple Rose
E14 - Pineapple Rose

Aired: December 20, 1968

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

The Revolutionary
E15 - The Revolutionary

Aired: December 27, 1968

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

Swinger's Only
E16 - Swinger's Only

Aired: January 10, 1969

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.

The Inquiry
E17 - The Inquiry

Aired: January 17, 1969

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.

The Incomparable Connie Walker
E18 - The Incomparable Connie Walker

Aired: January 24, 1968

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.

Love-In At Ground Zero
E19 - Love-In At Ground Zero

Aired: January 31, 1968

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.

The Suntan Mob
E20 - The Suntan Mob

Aired: February 07, 1969

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

Keep the Doctor Away
E21 - Keep the Doctor Away

Aired: February 14, 1969

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

The Bobby Currier Story
E22 - The Bobby Currier Story

Aired: February 21, 1969

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.

A Wrath of Angels
E23 - A Wrath of Angels

Aired: February 28, 1969

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.

The Third Choice
E24 - The Third Choice

Aired: March 07, 1969

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

Breakout To A Fast Buck
E25 - Breakout To A Fast Buck

Aired: March 14, 1969

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.

An Agent of the Plaintiff
E26 - An Agent of the Plaintiff

Aired: March 21, 1969

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