The Name of the Game - Season 3

1. So Long Baby, and Amen

Aired: 9/18/1970

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.

2. A Love To Remember

Aired: 9/25/1970

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.

3. Cynthia Is Alive and Living in Avalon

Aired: 10/2/1970

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.

4. Battle at Gannon's Bridge

Aired: 10/9/1970

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.

5. The Enemy Before Us

Aired: 10/16/1970

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.

6. The Time Is Now

Aired: 10/23/1970

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

7. The War Merchants

Aired: 10/30/1970

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

8. Little Bear Died Running

Aired: 11/6/1970

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

9. All the Old Familar Faces

Aired: 11/13/1970

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.

10. I Love You, Billy Baker (1)

Aired: 11/20/1970

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.

11. I Love You, Billy Baker (2)

Aired: 11/27/1970

12. Why I Blew Up Dakota

Aired: 12/4/1970

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

13. Aquarius Descending

Aired: 12/11/1970

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.

14. The Glory Shouter

Aired: 12/18/1970

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.

15. A Sister From Napoli

Aired: 1/8/1971

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

16. Los Angeles 2017

Aired: 1/15/1971

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.

17. The Man Who Killed A Ghost

Aired: 2/5/1971

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

18. Seek and Destroy

Aired: 2/5/1971

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

19. A Capitol Affair

Aired: 2/12/1971

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.

20. The Savage Eye

Aired: 2/19/1971

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

21. Appointment in Palermo

Aired: 2/26/1971

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.

22. Beware of the Watchdog

Aired: 3/5/1971

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.

23. The Broken Puzzle

Aired: 3/12/1971

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.

24. The Showdown

Aired: 3/19/1971

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