The Name of the Game - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes26
DatesJan. 16, 1969 - Apr. 10, 1970
Episodes
Season 2Episode 190 min
Lady on the Rocks
In order to purchase a magazine, Howard travels to England to convince the late owner's daughter. She has remarried to a politician who wants the publication for his own profit.
Sept. 19, 1969
Season 2Episode 290 min
A Hard Case of the Blues
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.
Sept. 26, 1969
Season 2Episode 390 min
Blind Man's Bluff
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.
Okt. 3, 1969
Season 2Episode 490 min
The Emissary
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.
Okt. 10, 1969
Season 2Episode 590 min
Chains of Command
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.
Okt. 17, 1969
Season 2Episode 690 min
Goodbye Harry
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.
Okt. 24, 1969
Season 2Episode 790 min
Give Till It Hurts
A thief pretends to be a charity fundraiser. Dan Farrell and Joe Sample ask an attorney, a fashion editor and an electrician to help them prove that Walter Grayson, a professional fund-raiser, is not the community-minded gentleman he pretends to be.
Okt. 31, 1969
Season 2Episode 890 min
The Perfect Image
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.
Nov. 7, 1969
Season 2Episode 990 min
The Prisoner Within
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.
Nov. 14, 1969
Season 2Episode 1090 min
The Civilized Men
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?
Nov. 28, 1969
Season 2Episode 1190 min
High Card
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.
Dez. 5, 1969
Season 2Episode 1290 min
The Power
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.
Dez. 12, 1969
Season 2Episode 1390 min
Laurie Marie
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.
Dez. 19, 1969
Season 2Episode 1490 min
The Tradition
Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.
Jan. 2, 1970
Season 2Episode 1590 min
The Brass Ring
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.
Jan. 9, 1970
Season 2Episode 1690 min
Island of Gold and Precious Stones
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.
Jan. 16, 1969
Season 2Episode 1790 min
The Takeover
As special envoy, Howard visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicion of a frame-up and spark a probe that sends him into guerrilla territory.
Jan. 23, 1970
Season 2Episode 1890 min
The Garden
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
Jan. 30, 1970
Season 2Episode 1990 min
Tarot
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.
Feb. 13, 1970
Season 2Episode 2090 min
The King of Denmark
Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.
Feb. 20, 1970
Season 2Episode 2190 min
The Skin Game
Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.
Feb. 27, 1970
Season 2Episode 2290 min
Man of the People
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.
März 6, 1970
Season 2Episode 2390 min
Echo of a Nightmare
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.
März 20, 1970
Season 2Episode 2490 min
Jenny Wilde is Drowning
When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.
März 27, 1970
Season 2Episode 2590 min
One of the Girls in Research
Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.
Apr. 3, 1970
Season 2Episode 2690 min
The Other Kind of Spy
Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.
Apr. 10, 1970
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