The Name of the Game Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1968 - Mar 1971
Sep 1968 - Mar 1971
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Browse episode ratings trends for The Name of the Game. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of The Name of the Game's 76 episodes.
S1 Ep22
10.0
21st Feb 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.
S1 Ep18
10.0
24th Jan 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.
S2 Ep17
9.0
23rd Jan 1970
As special envoy, Howard (GB) visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose Chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicions of a frame-up and sparks a probe that sends him into guerrilla territory.
S2 Ep13
9.0
19th Dec 1969
When Laurie Marie gets lost on the vast country estate of millionaire industrialist Robert Coates, he posts a $10,000 reward for anyone who can return the girl unharmed. This results in a stampede of mercenary characters who make a shambles of Coates' estate. Watching from the sidelines is reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) and his girl friday Peggy.
S2 Ep5
9.0
17th Oct 1969
Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the officials are getting rich on kickbacks. Assuming a false identity and taking a job in the border town becomes very hazardous.
S1 Ep21
9.0
14th Feb 1969
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
S1 Ep17
9.0
17th Jan 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.
S1 Ep11
9.0
29th Nov 1968
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
S1 Ep1
2.7
20th Sep 1968
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
S1 Ep7
5.0
1st Nov 1968
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
S2 Ep6
5.0
24th Oct 1969
Roving reporter Sam Hardy's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (GB), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is American missile scientist Harry Roarke. While it appears as though Harry has defected to Cuba, he may very well be hiding out in the States, in fear for his life.
S1 Ep3
6.0
4th Oct 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.
S1 Ep8
6.0
8th Nov 1968
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
S2 Ep7
6.0
31st Oct 1969
The object of Farrell's (RS) latest investigation is a professional fundraiser. The editor recognizes him as a notorious con man, so it should be no problem to expose his racket. But problems there are, especially when an unknown gangster type pressures him to lay off.
S2 Ep16
6.0
16th Jan 1969
A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the deceased man's relatives. Each, it seems, has a reason for wanting the man dead, and each had opportunity to make off with the inheritance.
S3 Ep16
6.0
15th Jan 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 of a fascist government run by psychiatrists.
S1 Ep1
2.7
20th Sep 1968
Jeff Dillon investigates the death of a beautiful model, which involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
S1 Ep2
27th Sep 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.
S1 Ep3
6.0
4th Oct 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.
S1 Ep4
11th Oct 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.
S1 Ep5
18th Oct 1968
Dan Farrell patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
S1 Ep6
25th Oct 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.
S1 Ep7
5.0
1st Nov 1968
A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
S1 Ep8
6.0
8th Nov 1968
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
S1 Ep9
15th Nov 1968
Glenn Howard goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
S1 Ep10
8.0
22nd Nov 1968
A woman sitting on death row hopes that Dan Farrell can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
S1 Ep11
9.0
29th Nov 1968
Glenn Howard travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
S1 Ep12
8.0
6th Dec 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.
S1 Ep13
13th Dec 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.
S1 Ep14
8.0
20th Dec 1968
Peggy Maxwell is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star.
S1 Ep15
27th Dec 1968
Glenn Howard helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
S1 Ep16
8.0
10th Jan 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.
S1 Ep17
9.0
17th Jan 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.
S1 Ep18
10.0
24th Jan 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.
S1 Ep19
31st Jan 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.
S1 Ep20
7th Feb 1969
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
S1 Ep21
9.0
14th Feb 1969
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
S1 Ep22
10.0
21st Feb 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.
S1 Ep23
8.0
28th Feb 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.
S1 Ep24
7th Mar 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.
S1 Ep25
14th Mar 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.
S1 Ep26
8.0
21st Mar 1969
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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The first episode of The Name of the Game aired on September 20, 1968.
The last episode of The Name of the Game aired on March 19, 1971.
There are 76 episodes of The Name of the Game.
There are 3 seasons of The Name of the Game.
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The Name of the Game has ended.