The Name of the Game(1968)

series - first aired/released 1968-09-20 - audience 7.0

Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Directed by Abner Biberman, Alexander Singer, Alvin Ganzer, Barry Shear, Ben Gazzara, Boris Sagal, Daniel Petrie, Don McDougall, Don Taylor, Harvey Hart, Herbert Kenwith, James Neilson, John Llewellyn Moxey, John Newland, Lamont Johnson, Lawrence Dobkin, Leo Penn, Leslie Stevens, Marc Daniels, Marvin J. Chomsky, Michael Caffey, Nicholas Colasanto, Oscar Rudolph, Ralph Senensky, Richard A. Colla, Richard Irving, Robert Day, Seymour Robbie, Steven Spielberg, Sutton Roley, William A. Graham, William Conrad

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.