The Name of the Game
(1968)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 3
The Showdown
Episode 24 - 3-19-1971
1h 15m
Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.
8/10
Haven't Seen
The Broken Puzzle
Episode 23 - 3-12-1971
1h 15m
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.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Beware of the Watchdog
Episode 22 - 3-05-1971
1h 13m
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.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
Appointment in Palermo
Episode 21 - 2-26-1971
1h 15m
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.
7.1/10Haven't Seen
The Savage Eye
Episode 20 - 2-19-1971
1h 15m
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
A Capitol Affair
Episode 19 - 2-12-1971
1h 13m
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.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Seek and Destroy
Episode 18 - 2-05-1971
1h 15m
Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
The Man Who Killed A Ghost
Episode 17 - 2-05-1971
1h 15m
The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Los Angeles 2017
Episode 16 - 1-15-1971
1h 14m
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.
6.7/10Haven't Seen
A Sister From Napoli
Episode 15 - 1-08-1971
1h 15m
A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).
7.5/10Haven't Seen
The Glory Shouter
Episode 14 - 12-18-1970
1h 15m
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.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Aquarius Descending
Episode 13 - 12-11-1970
1h 15m
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 niece. The plan is to involve the girl in a scandal and ruin Howard and his magazine.
8.9/10Haven't Seen
Why I Blew Up Dakota
Episode 12 - 12-04-1970
1h 13m
Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.
7.5/10Haven't Seen
I Love You, Billy Baker (1)
Episode 10 - 11-20-1970
1h 15m
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 once been in love--and who now is very much dead. Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to know why.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
All the Old Familar Faces
Episode 9 - 11-13-1970
1h 15m
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.
8.6/10Haven't Seen
Little Bear Died Running
Episode 8 - 11-06-1970
1h 15m
When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
The War Merchants
Episode 7 - 10-30-1970
1h 15m
Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
The Time Is Now
Episode 6 - 10-23-1970
1h 15m
Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.
8.8/10Haven't Seen
The Enemy Before Us
Episode 5 - 10-16-1970
1h 15m
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 ""something real"" from his younger days. Unfortunately, he is bombarded by pain and disillusionment from every side: his stepmother is gravely ill, and her son is deeply involved with drug dealing.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Battle at Gannon's Bridge
Episode 4 - 10-09-1970
1h 15m
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 neighborhood. Gannon asks Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) to prove that none of his fellow ex-cons are responsible for the thefts.
8/10Haven't Seen
Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon
Episode 3 - 10-02-1970
1h 14m
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 his pal, reporter Paul Tyler decides to make a name for himself by getting the exclusive story on Cynthia.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
A Love To Remember
Episode 2 - 9-25-1970
1h 13m
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.
8.9/10Haven't Seen
So Long Baby, and Amen
Episode 1 - 9-18-1970
1h 15m
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.
8.6/10Haven't Seen
Season 2
The Other Kind of Spy
Episode 26 - 4-10-1970
1h 14m
Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.
7.7/10Haven't Seen
One of the Girls in Research
Episode 25 - 4-03-1970
1h 13m
Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.
9.2/10Haven't Seen
Jenny Wilde Is Drowning
Episode 24 - 3-27-1970
1h 15m
When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.
8.8/10Haven't Seen
Echo of a Nightmare
Episode 23 - 3-20-1970
1h 15m
The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduction victim's millionaire father tries to bribe Farrell to drop the case.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Man of the People
Episode 22 - 3-06-1970
1h 15m
Jilted by ""populist"" tycoon Cesar Rodriguez, Hilary thirsts for revenge. She plans to publish a series of articles exposing the popular Rodriguez as a fraud, using his Mexican heritage to hornswoggle his own people.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
The Skin Game
Episode 21 - 2-27-1970
1h 15m
Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
The King of Denmark
Episode 20 - 2-20-1970
1h 15m
Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Tarot
Episode 19 - 2-13-1970
1h 15m
Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.
8/10Haven't Seen
The Garden
Episode 18 - 1-30-1970
1h 15m
Dan Farrell (RS) is on the trail of a possible scam. A ""Pop"" psychiatrist who is strong on placebos but short on ethics, treats his wealthy patients at a lavish remote retreat called The Garden. Farrell is convinced that he is a phony, and tries to prove it
7.5/10Haven't Seen
The Takeover
Episode 17 - 1-23-1970
1h 15m
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.
7.1/10Haven't Seen
Island of Gold and Precious Stones
Episode 16 - 1-16-1969
1h 15m
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.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
The Brass Ring
Episode 15 - 1-09-1970
1h 15m
A Boxer is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Dan Farrell (RS) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's manager may be arranging a fixed bout.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
The Tradition
Episode 14 - 1-02-1970
1h 15m
Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.
6.8/10Haven't Seen
Laurie Marie
Episode 13 - 12-19-1969
1h 15m
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.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
The Power
Episode 12 - 12-12-1969
1h 15m
Dan Farrell (RS) sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between two brothers battling for control of the longshoreman's union.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
High Card
Episode 11 - 12-05-1969
1h 14m
A U.S. Senator claims to have photographic proof that Howard (GB)was the man who tipped off the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
The Civilized Men
Episode 10 - 11-28-1969
1h 15m
Farrell (RS) heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government livestock. Could the Mob be involved?
6/10Haven't Seen
The Prisoner Within
Episode 9 - 11-14-1969
1h 15m
Dillon (TF) investigates the story of a young man who is challenged by an Army officer to undergo prisoner of war training. He accepts the survival training challenge.
7.1/10Haven't Seen
The Perfect Image
Episode 8 - 11-07-1969
1h 13m
Howard (GB) has recently been instrumental in getting the new mayor of Chicago elected. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that he is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Crime magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell try to weed out the truth.
7.5/10Haven't Seen
Give Till It Hurts
Episode 7 - 10-31-1969
1h 15m
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.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
Goodbye Harry
Episode 6 - 10-24-1969
1h 15m
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.
8.9/10Haven't Seen
Chains of Command
Episode 5 - 10-17-1969
1h 13m
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.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
The Emissary
Episode 4 - 10-10-1969
1h 15m
An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Chinese delegation has just stormed out of an international health conference, and Howard has been assigned to woo them back.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Blind Man's Bluff
Episode 3 - 10-03-1969
1h 15m
An ex-district attorney gives Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. He was blinded several years earlier, and his wife's face was mutilated; now the former D.A. wants to trap the man responsible for his sightlessness.
6.9/10Haven't Seen
A Hard Case of the Blues
Episode 2 - 9-26-1969
1h 15m
Blues singer Jesse Boone's business manager has just died under mysterious circumstances. He also swindled Jesse out of $200,000. Thing of it is, Jesse couldn't care less--and Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (RS) wants to know the reasons for her apathy.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Lady On the Rocks
Episode 1 - 9-19-1969
1h 15m
A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
Season 1
An Agent of the Plaintiff
Episode 26 - 3-21-1969
Howard (GB) is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his own attorney, the lovely-but-lethal Bethany Cromwell, and plaintiff Harold Wyler.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
Breakout To A Fast Buck
Episode 25 - 3-14-1969
1h 15m
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.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
The Third Choice
Episode 24 - 3-07-1969
1h 15m
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
8.8/10Haven't Seen
A Wrath of Angels
Episode 23 - 2-28-1969
1h 15m
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.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
The Bobby Currier Story
Episode 22 - 2-21-1969
1h 15m
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.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
Keep the Doctor Away
Episode 21 - 2-14-1969
1h 15m
Jeff Dillon (TF) investigates a doctor who is really a bungling killer.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
The Suntan Mob
Episode 20 - 2-07-1969
1h 15m
Dan Farrell (RS) convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island.
7.3/10Haven't Seen
Love-In At Ground Zero
Episode 19 - 1-31-1968
1h 15m
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.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
The Incomparable Connie Walker
Episode 18 - 1-24-1968
1h 15m
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.
8.4/10Haven't Seen
The Inquiry
Episode 17 - 1-17-1968
1h 15m
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.
8.2/10Haven't Seen
Swinger's Only
Episode 16 - 1-10-1969
1h 13m
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.
6.9/10Haven't Seen
The Revolutionary
Episode 15 - 12-27-1968
1h 15m
Howard(GB) helps an exiled president of a South American nation regain control in the midst of a counter-revolution.
7.4/10Haven't Seen
Pineapple Rose
Episode 14 - 12-20-1968
1h 13m
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 Andy Hill (Cliff Potter) to investigate Peggy's disappearance. With the help of an FBI agent, Hill unearths a hotbed of mob-motivated intrigue.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
The Black Answer
Episode 13 - 12-13-1968
1h 15m
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 militant. The motive may have been that Lee was about to be exposed as a fraud, who'd sold out his brothers to the cops.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
High On A Rainbow
Episode 12 - 12-06-1968
1h 15m
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.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
The White Birch
Episode 11 - 11-29-1968
1h 15m
Howard (GB) travels to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he and other rival journalists try to get custody of an ailing author's latest work.
8.3/10Haven't Seen
Ordeal
Episode 10 - 11-22-1968
1h 15m
A woman sits on death row hoping that Farrell (RS) can find enough evidence to prove that she did not murder her husband.
8.5/10Haven't Seen
The Protector
Episode 9 - 11-15-1968
1h 14m
Howard (GB) goes up against a bigoted millionaire who sets out to solve the nation's racial problems with his own private army.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
Lola in Lipstick
Episode 8 - 11-08-1968
1h 14m
While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard (GB) finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil
Episode 7 - 11-01-1968
1h 15m
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.
7.2/10Haven't Seen
Incident in Berlin
Episode 6 - 10-25-1968
1h 14m
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.
8/10Haven't Seen
Nightmare
Episode 5 - 10-18-1968
1h 15m
Dan Farrell (RS) patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife.
7.9/10Haven't Seen
Collector's Edition
Episode 4 - 10-11-1968
1h 15m
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.
7.6/10Haven't Seen
The Taker
Episode 3 - 10-04-1968
1h 15m
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.
8.1/10Haven't Seen
The Witness
Episode 2 - 9-27-1968
1h 13m
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 years earlier, Farrell discovers that she is living in a village under an assumed name; unfortunately, he is being followed by the mob assassin.
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Fear of High Places
Episode 1 - 9-20-1968
1h 15m
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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One of the Girls in Research
Episode 25 - 4-03-1970
1h 13m
Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.
9.2/10Haven't Seen
Goodbye Harry
Episode 6 - 10-24-1969
1h 15m
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.
8.9/10Haven't Seen
A Love To Remember
Episode 2 - 9-25-1970
1h 13m
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.
8.9/10Haven't Seen
Aquarius Descending
Episode 13 - 12-11-1970
1h 15m
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 niece. The plan is to involve the girl in a scandal and ruin Howard and his magazine.
8.9/10Haven't Seen
The Third Choice
Episode 24 - 3-07-1969
1h 15m
Howard (GB) tries to save a Howard Publications editor kidnapped by a man who hopes to use the ransom to overthrow an African government.
8.8/10Haven't Seen
