The Name of the Game

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.

Director

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

Created by

Richard Irving

Writers

Dean Hargrove,Dick Nelson,Anthony Spinner,Leslie Stevens