The Name of the Game

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  • Premiered: Jan 1968
  • Episodes: 76
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Unknown
  • Action Adventure Drama Science-fiction

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Season 3
3x1
So Long, Baby, And Amen
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 18, 1970
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.
3x2
A Love to Remember
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Air date
Sep 25, 1970
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.
3x3
Cynthia Is Alive And Living in Avalon
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Air date
Oct 02, 1970
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 .. show full overview
3x4
Battle at Gannon's Bridge
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Oct 09, 1970
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 .. show full overview
3x5
The Enemy Before Us
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Oct 16, 1970
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 .. show full overview
3x6
The Time Is Now
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Oct 23, 1970
Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.
3x7
The War Merchants
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Air date
Oct 30, 1970
Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
3x8
Little Bear Died Running
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Air date
Nov 06, 1970
When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
3x9
All The Old Familar Faces
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Air date
Nov 13, 1970
Howard (GB) tries to find out who is behind a series of death threats levelled against him. He interviews several likely suspects who, in flashback, explain just what might have prompted them to kill.
3x10
I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
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Air date
Nov 20, 1970
Las Vegas superstar Billy Baker, who is known far and wide for his reluctance to grant interviews,is particularly close-mouthed on the subject of a beautiful young dancer with whom he'd .. show full overview
3x11
I Love You, Billy Baker (2)
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Nov 27, 1970
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3x12
Why I Blew Up Dakota
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Dec 04, 1970
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
3x13
Aquarius Descending
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Dec 11, 1970
Glenn Howard (GB), who is instrumental in discrediting a corrupt politician. Seeking revenge, the politician orders a young hard-case to romance Howard's impressionable 17-year-old .. show full overview
3x14
The Glory Shouter
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Air date
Dec 18, 1970
A fire-and-brimstone tele-evangelist is plagued by gremlins from within his organization who are tapping his till. Dan Farrell (RS), investigates only to deduce that he may be the one siphoning from his own flock's donations.
3x15
A Sister From Napoli
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Air date
Jan 08, 1971
A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
3x16
Los Angeles 2017
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Air date
Jan 15, 1971
Publisher Glenn Howard (GB)is suddenly whisked away from his plush office in 1971. He finds himself in a world beneath the Earth's surface, circa 2017. The powers-that-be in this .. show full overview
3x17
The Man Who Killed A Ghost
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Feb 05, 1971
The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
3x18
Seek And Destroy
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Air date
Feb 05, 1971
Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
3x19
A Capitol Affair
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Air date
Feb 12, 1971
Howard Publications journalist intervenes when a misguided Washington gossip columnist tries to destroy the career of a promising government official who happens to be her boyfriend.
3x20
The Savage Eye
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Air date
Feb 19, 1971
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
3x21
Appointment in Palermo
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Air date
Feb 26, 1971
Howard (GB) goes to Italy to research a story, then finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by one of the families involved in a centuries-old blood feud.
3x22
Beware of The Watchdog
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Air date
Mar 05, 1971
Dan Farrell (RS) investigates a consumer advocate who is currently masterminding an expose of the fish-canning industry. When several attempts are made on his life, the advertisers are under suspect.
3x23
The Broken Puzzle
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Air date
Mar 12, 1971
The governor of an unnamed state though popular with his constituents runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship, complete with uniformed thugs. Glenn Howard (GB) finds that the source of his power may have bigger political stakes in mind.
3x24 Show finale
The Showdown
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Air date
Mar 19, 1971
Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.

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