The Name of the Game (Staffel 3)

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

  • Poster for So Long Baby, and Amen

    So Long Baby, and Amen (Folge 1)

    Autor: Steven Bochco

    Sendedatum: 1970-09-18

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for A Love To Remember

    A Love To Remember (Folge 2)

    Sendedatum: 1970-09-25

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon

    Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon (Folge 3)

    Sendedatum: 1970-10-02

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Battle at Gannon's Bridge

    Battle at Gannon's Bridge (Folge 4)

    Sendedatum: 1970-10-09

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Enemy Before Us

    The Enemy Before Us (Folge 5)

    Sendedatum: 1970-10-16

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Time Is Now

    The Time Is Now (Folge 6)

    Sendedatum: 1970-10-23

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: Howard (GB) investigates the death of a moderate black educator at a campus torn into a struggle between militants and moderates.

  • Poster for The War Merchants

    The War Merchants (Folge 7)

    Sendedatum: 1970-10-30

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: Farrell (RS) investigates the death of an old friend and discovers an international weapons-smuggling operation.

  • Poster for Little Bear Died Running

    Little Bear Died Running (Folge 8)

    Sendedatum: 1970-11-06

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: When an Indian kills the friend of a reporter, Paul Tyler (RC) investigates.

  • Poster for All the Old Familar Faces

    All the Old Familar Faces (Folge 9)

    Sendedatum: 1970-11-13

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for I Love You, Billy Baker (1)

    I Love You, Billy Baker (1) (Folge 10)

    Sendedatum: 1970-11-20

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for I Love You, Billy Baker (2)

    I Love You, Billy Baker (2) (Folge 11)

    Sendedatum: 1970-11-27

    Laufzeit: 90 min

  • Poster for Why I Blew Up Dakota

    Why I Blew Up Dakota (Folge 12)

    Sendedatum: 1970-12-04

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: Dan Farrell (RS) looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist.

  • Poster for Aquarius Descending

    Aquarius Descending (Folge 13)

    Sendedatum: 1970-12-11

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Glory Shouter

    The Glory Shouter (Folge 14)

    Sendedatum: 1970-12-18

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for A Sister From Napoli

    A Sister From Napoli (Folge 15)

    Sendedatum: 1971-01-08

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: A district attorney up for a judgeship is deemed unfit and an investigation ensues by Lewis Corbett(PF).

  • Poster for Los Angeles 2017

    Los Angeles 2017 (Folge 16) 7.3

    Autor: Philip Wylie

    Sendedatum: 1971-01-15

    Laufzeit: 74 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Man Who Killed A Ghost

    The Man Who Killed A Ghost (Folge 17)

    Sendedatum: 1971-02-05

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: The real personality of a famous cowboy star is exposed by David Corey (RW).

  • Poster for Seek and Destroy

    Seek and Destroy (Folge 18)

    Sendedatum: 1971-02-05

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: Dan Farrell (RS) runs into many dead ends as he endeavors to discover why an important scientist suddenly died.

  • Poster for A Capitol Affair

    A Capitol Affair (Folge 19)

    Sendedatum: 1971-02-12

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Savage Eye

    The Savage Eye (Folge 20)

    Sendedatum: 1971-02-19

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: Dan Farrell (RS) looks into a conflict involving loggers and the filming of a documentary.

  • Poster for Appointment in Palermo

    Appointment in Palermo (Folge 21)

    Sendedatum: 1971-02-26

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for Beware of the Watchdog

    Beware of the Watchdog (Folge 22)

    Autor: Jack Turley

    Sendedatum: 1971-03-05

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Broken Puzzle

    The Broken Puzzle (Folge 23)

    Sendedatum: 1971-03-12

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: 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.

  • Poster for The Showdown

    The Showdown (Folge 24)

    Autor: Dick Nelson

    Sendedatum: 1971-03-19

    Laufzeit: 90 min

    Übersicht: Howard's (GB) ancestor, an old west gambler, tries to stay alive in the face of a showdown.

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