Name of the Game Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Name of the Game: Season 3

• Season 3 Episode 24: The Showdown

  A legendary gunfight in the Old West takes on current significance.

• Season 3 Episode 23: The Broken Puzzle

  Glenn Howard's plane crashes during his investigation of a corrupt governor, leaving the publisher with amnesia.

• Season 3 Episode 22: Beware of the Watchdog

  Dan Farrell investigates death threats against a dedicated consumer advocate.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Appointment in Palermo

  Glenn Howard is caught between warring Sicilian families when he travels to Italy to write a feature article.

• Season 3 Episode 20: The Savage Eye

  Dan Farrell investigates trouble with lumber interests resulting from Howard Publications' sponsorship of a documentary on ecology.

• Season 3 Episode 19: A Capitol Affair

  Misguided intentions of a Washington gossip columnist nearly destroy a promising government official's career.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Seek and Destroy

  Dan Farrell meets resistance when he visits a company town to find the reason for a scientist's mysterious death.

• Season 3 Episode 17: The Man Who Killed a Ghost

  A reporter (Robert Wagner) researching food franchises uncovers a secret about a heroic screen cowboy.

• Season 3 Episode 16: L.A. 2017

  Glenn Howard travels to the year 2017 and discovers pollution has forced the residents of Los Angeles to live underground.

• Season 3 Episode 15: A Sister From Napoli

  A reporter (Peter Falk) investigates a district attorney who is about to become a judge.

• Season 3 Episode 14: The Glory Shouter

  Dan Farrell investigates the finances of a famous evangelist, considered a saint by some and a charlatan by others.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Aquarius Descending

  An ambitious city councilman objects to a critical cover story about him in a Howard publication and decides to ruin Glenn.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Why I Blew Up Dakota

  Dan Farrell steps in to investigate when an eccentric artist loses his life in a bizarre bombing.

• Season 3 Episode 11: I Love You, Billy Baker

  Jeff Dillon reveals unexpected information while profiling a popular soul singer.

• Season 3 Episode 10: I Love You, Billy Baker

  A popular soul singer conceals a great need to be loved.

• Season 3 Episode 9: All the Old Familiar Faces

  Threats on his life impel Glenn Howard to find four people he either exposed or helped send to prison.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Little Bear Died Running

  A young Indian's murder of his boyhood chum leads a Howard publications reporter (Robert Culp) to New Mexico to get the story.

• Season 3 Episode 7: The War Merchants

  Dan Farrell uncovers international weapons smuggling when he investigates a friend's death in an airplane crash.

• Season 3 Episode 6: The Time Is Now

  Glenn Howard investigates when a black college dean is found dead after a heated debate with a radical black student.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Enemy Before Us

  Jeff Dillon returns home to find drugs have permeated his old neighborhood in New York City.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Battle at Gannon's Bridge

  Neighborhood resistance hampers the efforts of ex-convicts to maintain their halfway house.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon

  A reporter (Robert Culp) for Howard Publications poses as a thief to get a story on a fugitive heiress.

• Season 3 Episode 2: A Love to Remember

  Glenn Howard learns of the repercussions of a cruel practical joke played during his college days.

• Season 3 Episode 1: So Long Baby, and Amen

  Dan Farrell becomes a subpoenaed witness for a Senate subcommittee drug hearing and finds himself trying to rescue a girl from drug abuse.

Name of the Game: Season 2

• Season 2 Episode 26: The Other Kind of Spy

  Jeff Dillon's investigation of a mysterious explosion at a chemical plant uncovers industrial espionage.

• Season 2 Episode 25: One of the Girls in Research

  A research assistant romantically fantasizes about Glenn Howard as she helps him search for an industrialist threatening the publishing firm.

• Season 2 Episode 24: Jenny Wilde Is Drowning

  Jeff Dillon tries to stop an actress from taking her life just because she has been unsuccessful in Hollywood.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Echo of a Nightmare

  The death of a kidnapper just freed from prison hampers Dan Farrell's efforts to learn more about the abduction.

• Season 2 Episode 22: Man of the People

  A journalist overlooks her romantic feelings to reveal the flaws of a leader of Los Angeles' Mexican-American community.

• Season 2 Episode 21: The Skin Game

  Dan Farrell tries to learn who is profiting from the misery of African hospital patients dying from contaminated drugs.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The King of Denmark

  Discovery of a priceless, ancient manuscript coincides with a girl's mysterious disappearance.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Tarot

  Glenn Howard enters the world of mysticism to prove a girl didn't kill herself simply because he rejected her.

• Season 2 Episode 18: The Garden

  Dan Farrell searches for proof that a fashionable psychiatrist is a fortune-hunting fraud.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Takeover

  Glenn Howard travels to a small Eastern nation to investigate the sudden overthrow of the ruling regime.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Island of Gold and Precious Stones

  One of the world's wealthiest men leaves only a small estate upon his death, leading Jeff Dillon and Peggy Maxwell to search for the missing millions.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Brass Ring

  Dan Farrell comes to the aid of a Mexican-American prizefighter who is trapped in a mire of lies and corruption.

• Season 2 Episode 14: The Tradition

  Glenn Howard must escape with a woman after they challenge an ancient custom and insult the virility of a young Greek.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Laurie Marie

  Jeff Dillon and Peggy Maxwell learn a lesson in the corrupting power of money when a reward is offered for a child lost in the woods.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Power

  Two obstinate brothers battling for control of a Longshoremen's local involve Dan Farrell in their fight.

• Season 2 Episode 11: High Card

  Accusations claim Glenn Howard warned the Cuban government about the Bay of Pigs invasion.

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Civilized Men

  Dan Farrell investigates reports of modern-day rustling on the huge ranches of Florida.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Prisoner Within

  Jeff Dillon is unaware of a secret from the past when he accepts an Army officer's challenge to undergo prisoner-of-war training.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Perfect Image

  Glenn Howard discovers that a politician endorsed by his magazine is the front man for a crime syndicate.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Give Till It Hurts

  A thief masquerades as a charity fund-raiser.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Goodbye, Harry

  A desperate search begins for a missing American rocket scientist under suspicion as a traitor.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Chains of Command

  Corruption taints the operations of a state penitentiary.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Emissary

  A kidnapping and Communist intrigue disrupt an international conference on air pollution, held in Paris.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Blind Man's Bluff

  A sightless district attorney seeks vengeance on the man responsible for his blindness and the disfigurement of his wife.

• Season 2 Episode 2: A Hard Case of the Blues

  Dan Farrell's investigation of music-business corruption involves him in the world of folk-rock.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Lady on the Rocks

  Glenn Howard suspects his friend's contentment in marriage is really a front for concealed fear and guilt.

Name of the Game: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 26: An Agent for the Plaintiff

  Glenn Howard suspects a frame-up when a shady woman lawyer sues him on behalf of her greedy boyfriend.

• Season 1 Episode 25: Breakout to a Fast Buck

  Dan Farrell has reason to believe an aging crook was forced to escape to take part in a multimillion dollar theft.

• Season 1 Episode 24: The Third Choice

  Glenn Howard flies to Africa in an attempt to rescue a kidnapped editor.

• Season 1 Episode 23: A Wrath of Angels

  Dan Farrell joins in a militant priest's battle to improve conditions in a slum owned by an underworld organization.

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Bobby Currier Story

  An embittered and confused young man commits a series of violent crimes.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Keep the Doctor Away

  Jeff Dillon sets out to prove that a noted society physician is dangerously incompetent.

• Season 1 Episode 20: The Suntan Mob

  Dan Farrell uses a gangster's girlfriend to prove a crime syndicate holds sway over a small island.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Love-In at Ground Zero

  A group of radicals plans to commit a 'protest' suicide and captures Glenn Howard to be the witness.

• Season 1 Episode 18: The Incomparable Connie Walker

  Jeff Dillon and Peggy Maxwell look into charges lodged against the black mayor of a major city.

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Inquiry

  Glenn Howard is the target of a United States senator's charges that stolen government money was used to found Howard Publications.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Swingers Only

  A Howard Publications editor faces a murder charge.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Revolutionary

  Glenn Howard gets involved in a revolution when he tries to help the exiled president of an embattled South American country return home.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Pineapple Rose

  Kidnappers snatch Peggy Maxwell for ransom when they mistake her for the sister of a famous rock 'n' roll singer.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Black Answer

  Jeff Dillon comes to the defense of a black militant accused of murder.

• Season 1 Episode 12: High on a Rainbow

  Dan Farrell and Peggy Maxwell go under cover to find the source of drugs distributed to schoolchildren.

• Season 1 Episode 11: The White Birch

  Glenn Howard becomes involved in events surrounding a rebel uprising in Czechoslovakia.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Ordeal

  Dan Farrell tries to prove the innocence of a woman awaiting execution after confessing to murdering her husband.

• Season 1 Episode 9: The Protector

  A bigoted millionaire sets up his own private army to quash national racial rebellions.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Lola in Lipstick

  The investigation of the death of an international playgirl in Rome leads Glenn Howard into a miasma of corruption, secret loves and drugs.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil

  Death and corruption lurk behind the facade of a small town.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Incident in Berlin

  Glenn Howard attempts to arrange a spy exchange when he discovers one of his top editors is in custody in East Germany.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Nightmare

  Dan Farrell investigates a robbery operation that resulted in the shooting death of his wife many years earlier.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Collector's Edition

  Jeff Dillon and Peggy Maxwell ignore their own conclusions whey they try to prove a friend innocent of murder.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Taker

  Glenn Howard may lose his publishing empire when he is blackmailed after refusing to back a political candidate.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Witness

  The syndicate slays the only man who can prove a crime boss guilty of murder, leaving Dan Farrell to track down the second witness -- a supposed suicide.

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Fear of High Places

  Jeff Dillon receives an indiscreet photo of a government official, but his witness dies before Dillon can learn if the picture was intended for blackmail.