7.6 /10 1 Votes
7.8/10 IMDb Final episode date 19 March 1971 | 7.2/10 TV First episode date 20 September 1968 Network NBC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Drama, Mystery, Adventure Film, Action fiction Cast Gene Barry, Anthony Franciosa, Susan Saint James, Robert Stack, Ben Murphy Similar The Virginian, Run for Your Life, Columbo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ironside | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is a list of episodes for the NBC television series The Name of the Game. The star of almost every episode of this rotating series was either Gene Barry as Glenn Howard, Anthony Franciosa (credited as Tony Franciosa) as Jeff Dillon, or Robert Stack as Dan Farrell. After Franciosa was fired during the third season, the four remaining episodes for which he was contracted starred different actors (Robert Culp, Peter Falk, Robert Wagner) as other characters.
The pilot for this series was the 1966 TV-movie Fame Is the Name of the Game starring Franciosa, along with Susan Saint James (making her debut) and guest stars Jill St. John, Jack Klugman and Robert Duvall.
Series overview
At present, this series has not been released on home video.
The second-season episode "The King of Denmark" co-starred Anthony Franciosa and Susan Saint James (who was given the bigger role in this one episode).
In the third season, Robert Culp (two episodes), Peter Falk and Robert Wagner substituted as "special guest leads" for four episodes in Franciosa's place.