The Name of the Game (TV series) / Episode list
This episode list contains all episodes of the US television series The Name of the Game , sorted by the US American first broadcast. The first broadcast was between September 20, 1968 and March 19, 1971 on the US broadcaster NBC .
Pilot film
Fame Is the Name of the Game premiered on November 26, 1966 on NBC . Stuart Rosenberg directed. Ranald MacDougall adapted the novel One Woman by Tiffany Thayer for the script .
Seasons
Season | Number of episodes | First broadcast in the USA | |
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Season premiere | Season finale | ||
1 | 26th | 20th September 1968 | March 20, 1969 |
2 | 26th | 19th September 1969 | April 10, 1970 |
3 | 24 | September 18, 1970 | March 19, 1971 |
season 1
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in the United States | Director | script | Main character | Guest actor |
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1 | 1 | Fear of High Places | Sep 20 1968 | William A. Graham | Mark Rodgers | Jeff Dillon | Robert Webber , Claudine Longet , Jeanne Crain , John Payne , Zsa Zsa Gabor |
2 | 2 | Witness | 27 Sep 1968 | Lamont Johnson | Dick Nelson | Dan Farrell | Joan Hackett , Ruth Roman , Joseph Campanella , Victor Jory |
3 | 3 | The taker | Oct 4, 1968 | Harvey Hart | Richard Levinson , William Link | Glenn Howard | Cliff Potts , Burl Ives , Bradford Dillman |
4th | 4th | Collectors' Edition | Oct 11, 1968 | Leslie Stevens | Eric Peters , Leslie Stevens | Jeff Dillon | John Saxon , Nina Foch , Robert Loggia , Senta Berger |
5 | 5 | Nightmare | Oct 18, 1968 | Alvin Ganzer | Ed Adamson | Dan Farrell | Martin Balsam , Steve Ihnat , Troy Donahue , Cloris Leachman |
6th | 6th | Incident in Berlin | Oct 25, 1968 | Seymour Robbie | Richard Levinson, William Link | Glenn Howard | Anne Francis , Kevin McCarthy , Geraldine Brooks |
7th | 7th | Shine On, Shine On, Jesse Gil | Nov 1, 1968 | Leslie Stevens | James M. Miller | Jeff Dillon | Darren McGavin , Juliet Prowse , Gypsy Rose Lee |
8th | 8th | Lola in lipstick | Nov 8, 1968 | Don Taylor | Peter Penduik | Glenn Howard | Ed Begley , Kathie Browne , Cesare Danova , Louis Jourdan |
9 | 9 | The Protector | Nov 15, 1968 | Richard Irving | Jack Miller | Glenn Howard | Robert Young , Anne Baxter , Ralph Meeker , Stephen McNally |
10 | 10 | Ordeal | Nov 22, 1968 | Ralph Senensky | Alvin Sapinsley | Dan Farrell | Jessica Walter , Farley Granger , Martha Hyer |
11 | 11 | The White Birch | Nov 29, 1968 | Lamont Johnson | Dean Hargrove , Luther Davis | Glenn Howard | Jean-Pierre Aumont , Pete Duel , Roddy McDowall , Susan Oliver , Boris Karloff |
12 | 12 | High on a rainbow | Dec 6, 1968 | Richard A. Colla | Irv Pearlberg , Robert L. Collins | Dan Farrell | Van Johnson , June Allyson , Broderick Crawford , Veronica Cartwright |
13 | 13 | The Black Answer | Dec 13, 1968 | Leslie Stevens | Leslie Stevens | Jeff Dillon | Susan Saint James , Ivan Dixon , Raymond St. Jacques |
14th | 14th | Pineapple Rose | Dec 20, 1968 | Nicholas Colasanto | Richard Neubert | Andy Hill | Susan Strasberg , Andrew Prine , Don Stroud |
15th | 15th | The Revolutionary | Dec. 27, 1968 | ? | ? | Glenn Howard | Vera Miles , Harry Guardino , Simon Oakland |
16 | 16 | Swingers Only | Jan. 10, 1969 | Barry Shear | Anthony Spinner | Dan Farrell | Robert Lansing , Jack Klugman , Clu Gulager , Ann Blyth |
17th | 17th | The Inquiry | Jan. 17, 1969 | Sutton Roley | Harold Livingston | Glenn Howard | Barry Sullivan , Jack Kelly , Fritz Weaver , Gia Scala |
18th | 18th | The Incomparable Connie Walker | Jan. 24, 1969 | Abner Biberman | Leslie Stevens | Jeff Dillon | Ivan Dixon, Jay C. Flippen , Dina Merrill |
19th | 19th | Love-In at Ground Zero | Jan. 31, 1969 | Richard Irving | Shimon Wincelberg , Dean Hargrove | Glenn Howard | Keenan Wynn , Tisha Sterling , Henry Jones |
20th | 20th | The Suntan Mob | Feb. 7, 1969 | Alexander Singer | Robert Buckner , Dick Nelson | Dan Farrell | Donald Sutherland , Suzanne Pleshette , Wilfrid Hyde-White |
21st | 21st | Keep the Doctor Away | Feb. 14, 1969 | Barry Shear | Robert Malcolm Young | Jeff Dillon | Robert Goulet , Carol Lawrence , Vera Miles |
22nd | 22nd | The Bobby Currier Story | Feb. 21, 1969 | Lamont Johnson | Robert L. Collins | Dan Farrell | Steve Forrest , Brandon De Wilde , Julie Harris , Anne Baxter |
23 | 23 | A Wrath of Angels | Feb. 28, 1969 | Alvin Ganzer | Dick Nelson, Gilbert Ralston | Dan Farrell | Ricardo Montalbán , John Kerr , Edward Andrews |
24 | 24 | The third choice | March 7, 1969 | Seymour Robbie | Jack Miller | Glenn Howard | Shirley Jones , Roscoe Lee Browne , Ossie Davis |
25th | 25th | Breakout to a Fast Buck | March 14, 1969 | Michael Caffey | Sy Salkowitz | Dan Farrell | Barry Nelson , Arthur O'Connell , Lorraine Gary |
26th | 26th | To Agent on the Plaintiff | March 20, 1969 | John Llewellyn Moxey | Marion Hargrove , Dean Hargrove | Glenn Howard | Honor Blackman , Maurice Evans , Brian Bedford |
season 2
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in the United States | Director | script | Main character | Guest actor |
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27 | 1 | Lady on the Rocks | 19 Sep 1969 | John Llewellin Moxey | Robert White , Phyllis White | Glenn Howard | Nigel Davenport , Laurence Naismith , James Robertson Justice , Janice Rule |
28 | 2 | A hard case of the blues | 26 Sep 1969 | Barry Shear | Philip DeGuere | Dan Farrell | Sharon Farrell , Michael Anderson, Jr. , Russ Tamblyn , Keenan Wynn |
29 | 3 | Blind Man's Bluff | Oct 3, 1969 | James Neilson | Henry Slesar | Jeff Dillon | Jack Klugman, Michele Carey , Broderick Crawford, Coleen Gray |
30th | 4th | The Emissary | Oct 10, 1969 | John Llewellin Moxey | Margaret Armen , Dean Hargrove | Glenn Howard | Charles Boyer , Zvonimir Črnko , Vernon Dobtcheff |
31 | 5 | Chains of Command | Oct 17, 1969 | Robert Day | Carol Sobieski | Dan Farrell | Pernell Roberts , Steve Ihnat, Jay C. Flippen, Dorothy Lamour |
32 | 6th | Goodbye Harry | Oct. 24, 1969 | Barry Shear | Gene L. Coon | Sam Hardy | James Whitmore , Dane Clark , Strother Martin , Marsha Hunt |
33 | 7th | Give Till It Hurts | Oct. 31, 1969 | Marc Daniels | William D. Gordon | Dan Farrell | Dennis Weaver , Diane Baker , Larry Storch , Karen Black |
34 | 8th | The perfect image | Nov 7, 1969 | Sutton Roley | David P. Harmon | Glenn Howard | Hal Holbrook , Diana Hyland , Clu Gulager, Joanna Barnes , Ida Lupino |
35 | 9 | The Prisoner Within | Nov 14, 1969 | ? | ? | Jeff Dillon | Susan Saint James, Steve Forrest, George Murdock , Robert DoQui |
36 | 10 | The Civilized Men | Nov 28, 1969 | ? | ? | Dan Farrell | Jack Kelly, Jill St. John , Rod Cameron |
37 | 11 | High card | Dec 5, 1969 | Sutton Roley | Herman Groves , Dean Hargrove, Mitch Lindemann | Glenn Howard | Barry Sullivan, John Colicos , Martine Beswick |
38 | 12 | The Power | Dec 12, 1969 | Lawrence Dobkin | Arthur Weingarten | Dan Farrell | William Conrad , Broderick Crawford, John Ireland |
39 | 13 | Laurie Marie | Dec. 19, 1969 | Harvey Hart | David P. Harmon, Henry Slesar | Jeff Dillon | Peter Mark Richman , Antoinette Bower , John Kerr, Barry Atwater |
40 | 14th | The tradition | Jan. 2, 1970 | John Llewellin Moxey | Tim Kelly , Dean Hargrove | Glenn Howard | Ina Balin , Nico Minardos |
41 | 15th | Brass ring | Jan. 9, 1970 | Barry Shear | Barry Oringer | Dan Farrell | Van Johnson, Tim O'Connor , Celeste Holm |
42 | 16 | Island of Gold and Precious Stones | Jan. 16, 1970 | John Newland | Anthony Skene | Jeff Dillon | Lee Meriwether , Henry Jones, Hazel Court , Yvonne De Carlo , Rudy Vallée |
43 | 17th | The takeover | Jan. 23, 1970 | Herbert Kenwith | John McGreevey , Ernestine Barton | Glenn Howard | Anne Baxter, David Sheiner , Michael Ansara , Gloria Grahame |
44 | 18th | The Garden | Jan. 30, 1970 | Seymour Robbie | Charles McDaniel | Dan Ferrell | Richard Kiley , Anne Francis, Brenda Scott , Woodrow Parfrey |
45 | 19th | Tarot | Feb 13, 1970 | Nicholas Colasanto | Dick Nelson | Glenn Howard | José Ferrer , Bethel Leslie , David Carradine , William Shatner |
46 | 20th | The King of Denmark | Feb 20, 1970 | Leo Penn | Anthony Skene | Jeff Dillon | Joseph Cotten , Noel Harrison , Louise Latham , Charles McGraw |
47 | 21st | The Skim Game | Feb. 27, 1970 | ? | ? | Dan Farrell | Ben Murphy , Rossano Brazzi , Charles Drake , Suzanne Pleshette |
48 | 22nd | Man of the People | March 6, 1970 | ? | Elinor Karpf | Hilary Vanderman | Fernando Lamas , James Gregory , Jackie Coogan , Robert Alda |
49 | 23 | Echo of a Nightmare | March 20, 1970 | John Newland | Don Brinkley | Dan Farrell | Arthur Hill , Andrew Prine, Hoagy Carmichael , Ricardo Montalbán |
50 | 24 | Jenny Wilde Is Drowning | March 27, 1970 | Boris Sagal | Henry Slesar, Stanford Whitmore | Jeff Dillon | Pamela Franklin , Gavin MacLeod , Frank Gorshin |
51 | 25th | One of the Girls in Research | 3rd April 1970 | ? | Marion Hargrove | Glenn Howard | Will Geer , Brenda Vaccaro , Stephen McNally, George Chandler , Sheree North , Woodrow Parfrey |
52 | 26th | The Other Kind of Spy | April 10, 1970 | Boris Sagal | Chester Krumholz | Jeff Dillon | Leslie Nielsen , Joseph Campanella, Jeanette Nolan , Robert Lipton , Edward Andrews |
season 3
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in the United States | Director | script | Main character | Guest actor |
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53 | 1 | So Long, Baby, and Amen | Sep 18 1970 | Marvin J. Chomsky | Steven Bochco | Dan Farrell | Julie Harris, James Gregory, Harold J. Stone , Sal Mineo |
54 | 2 | A love to remember | 25 Sep 1970 | Nicholas Colasanto | Dick Nelson | Glenn Howard | Ray Milland , JD Cannon , Tom Bosley , Lee Grant |
55 | 3 | Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon | Oct 2, 1970 | Gene Levitt | Benjamin Masselink | Paul Tyler | Barbara Feldon , Tom Skerritt , Mickey Rooney , Alan Oppenheimer |
56 | 4th | Battle at Gannon's Bridge | Oct 9, 1970 | Robert Day | Herb Meadow | Dan Farrell | Darren McGavin, Joan Blondell , Keenan Wynn |
57 | 5 | The Enemy Before Us | Oct 16, 1970 | Barry Shear | Joseph Calvelli | Jeff Dillon | Martin Balsam, Richard Conte , Katina Paxinou |
58 | 6th | The Time Is Now | Oct 23, 1970 | Nicholas Colasanto | Wanda Coleman | Glenn Howard | Jack Klugman, Yaphet Kotto , Roscoe Lee Browne, Dana Andrews |
59 | 7th | The War Merchants | Oct. 30, 1970 | Boris Sagal | William D. Gordon | Dan Farrell | Robert Wagner , Scott Brady , Frank Aletter |
60 | 8th | Little Bear Died Running | Nov 6, 1970 | Gene Levitt | Edward J. Lakso | Paul Tyler | Steve Forrest, Simon Oakland, Edgar Buchanan , Slim Pickens , Dean Jagger |
61 | 9 | All the Old Familiar Faces | Nov 13, 1970 | Seymour Robbie | Phil Hargrove | Glenn Howard | Burgess Meredith , Michael Constantine , Stephen McNally, Lois Nettleton , Anne Baxter |
62 | 10 | I Love You, Billy Baker: Part 1 | Nov 20, 1970 | Barry Shear | Richard De Roy | Jeff Dillon | Carla Borelli , Sammy Davis, Jr. , Nina Foch |
63 | 11 | I Love You, Billy Baker: Part 2 | Nov 27, 1970 | Barry Shear | Richard De Roy | Jeff Dillon | Carla Borelli, Sammy Davis, Jr., Nina Foch |
64 | 12 | Why I Blew Up Dakota | Dec. 4, 1970 | John Newland | Ken Trevey | Dan Ferrell | José Ferrer, Carolyn Jones , Clu Gulager, Roddy McDowall |
65 | 13 | Aquarius Descending | Dec 11, 1970 | ? | ? | Glenn Howard | Arthur Hill, Michael Callan , Brenda Scott, William Smithers , Hermione Gingold |
66 | 14th | The Glory Shouter | Dec 18, 1970 | Joseph Pevney | ? | Dan Ferrell | Howard Duff , William Shatner, Rachel Ames |
67 | 15th | A Sister From Napoli | Jan. 8, 1971 | Barry Shear | Stanley Adams , Peter Allan Fields , George F. Slavin | Lewis Corbett | David Wayne , Robert Emhardt , Kurt Kasznar , Geraldine Page |
68 | 16 | LA 2017 | Jan. 15, 1971 | Steven Spielberg | Philip Wylie | Glenn Howard | Barry Sullivan, Edmond O'Brien , Severn Darden , Paul Stewart , Louise Latham |
69 | 17th | The Man Who Killed a Ghost | Jan. 29, 1971 | ? | ? | Dave Corey | Janet Leigh , David Hartman , Lex Barker , William Bryant , Lurene Tuttle |
70 | 18th | Seek and Destroy | Feb 5, 1971 | Robert Day | ? | Dan Farrell | Leif Erickson , John Vernon , John McGiver , Susan Oliver |
71 | 19th | A capitol affair | Feb 12, 1971 | Marvin J. Chomsky | Richard De Roy | Glenn Howard | Suzanne Pleshette, Larry Hagman , Monte Markham , Leon Ames , Mercedes McCambridge |
72 | 20th | The Savage Eye | Feb. 19, 1971 | Leo Penn | Leon Tokatyan | Dan Farrell | Pete Duel, Jim Hutton , John Randolph |
73 | 21st | Appointment in Palermo | Feb 26, 1971 | Ben Gazzara | Joseph Calvelli | Glenn Howard | Harry Guardino, John Marley , Joe De Santis , Brenda Vaccaro |
74 | 22nd | Beware of the watchdog | March 5th 1971 | Marvin J. Chomsky | Jack Turley | Dan Farrell | Richard Kiley, Pernell Roberts, Diana Muldaur , Ed Flanders |
75 | 23 | The Broken Puzzle | March 12, 1971 | ? | ? | Glenn Howard | Charles Aidman , Chuck Connors , Pat Crowley |
76 | 24 | The showdown | March 19, 1971 | Daniel Petrie | Dick Nelson | Glenn Howard | Jessica Walter, Warren Oates , Albert Salmi , Jack Albertson |
Web links
- Episode list in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Episode list on TV.com (English)
- Episode list on TVGuide.com (English)