The Name of the Game

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  • : 1968
  • : 76
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  • NBC
  • Action Adventure Drama Science-fiction

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1x17
The Inquiry
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17, 1968
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.
1x18
The Incomparable Connie Walker
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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 .. show full overview
1x19
Love-In At Ground Zero
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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.
1x1
Fear of High Places
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20, 1968
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates the death of a beautiful model. The murder involves an industrialist who is about to assume an important government post.
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The Witness
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27, 1968
When a Mafia informant is assassinated, Dan Farrell (RS), senior editor of Crime Magazine looks for the only other witness to a major mob crime. She allegedly committed suicide eight .. show full overview
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The Taker
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04, 1968
Glen Howard (GB), Crime Magazine publisher, refuses to support a powerful businessman who backs a crooked political candidate and finds himself in a battle of wits in the takeover of his publishing empire.
1x4
Collector's Edition
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11, 1968
Jeff Dillon (TF), investigative reporter for Crime Magazine. Max, a phtographer, had once saved 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.
1x5
Nightmare
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18, 1968
Dan Farrell (RS) patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
1x6
Incident in Berlin
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25, 1968
Howard (GB)goes to Berlin to arrange the release of one of his top editors who has been arrested in East Germany as a spy.
1x7
Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
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01, 1968
Howard (GB) assigns Dillon and Peggy to investigate the complexities of small-town politics after a murder occurs. A woman accuses a shrewd financial manipulator of being responsible for her brother's death.
1x8
Lola in Lipstick
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08, 1968
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard (GB) finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
1x9
The Protector
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15, 1968
Howard (GB) goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
1x10
Ordeal
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22, 1968
A woman sits on death row hoping that Farrell (RS) can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
1x11
The White Birch
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29, 1968
Howard (GB) travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
1x12
High On A Rainbow
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06, 1968
When drugs start appearing in the hands of school children, Farrell (RS)and Peggy pose as a truck driver and car-hop as they investigate a narcotics ring.
1x13
The Black Answer
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13, 1968
Crime Magazine reporter Jeff Dillon(TF)is investigating the fire-bombing death of a black newspaper editor who advocated nonviolence. The chief suspect is Joe X Lee, a leading black .. show full overview
1x14
Pineapple Rose
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20, 1968
This time the focus is on researcher Peggy Maxwell, who is kidnapped while digging up information on a famous rock star. The series' regulars sit this one out, permitting correspondent .. show full overview
1x15
The Revolutionary
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27, 1968
Howard(GB) helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
1x16
Swingers Only
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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 .. show full overview
1x20
The Suntan Mob
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07, 1969
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
1x21
Keep the Doctor Away
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14, 1969
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
1x22
The Bobby Currier Story
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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.
1x23
A Wrath of Angels
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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.
1x24
The Third Choice
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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.
1x25
Breakout To A Fast Buck
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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. .. show full overview
1x26
An Agent of The Plaintiff
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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.

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