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- Category: Dramas
- Founded: Mar 1, 2003
- Language: English
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Devoted to discussion of the television series "The Name of the Game," which starred Gene Barry, Tony Franciosa, and Robert Stack as intrepid reporters for Howard Publications' People and Crime magazines, generally assisted by series regular Susan Saint James.
Series producers included Richard Irving, Dean Hargrove, Leslie Stevens, David Victor, George Eckstein, Boris Sagal, and Gene L. Coon. The famous theme music was by Dave Grusin along with background music by Dominic Frontiere, Benny Carter, and others. Directors included Steven Spielberg, Barry Shear, Leo Penn, Alexander Singer, Robert Day, Lamont Johnson, Nicholas Colasanto.
The series ran on Mystery Channel back in 1998, but only half the episodes aired before it was dropped. New members please introduce yourself and tell us what you liked best about this series.
(Photo: The stars of 'The Name of the Game' - Robert Stack, Tony Franciosa, and Gene Barry.)
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Anthony Franciosa on TV
There's a plethora of films featuring Anthony Franciosa this month. Who knows why. His birthday is not until October. A face in the Crowd?? June 16 Fathom June
Posted - Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:52 am
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Re: Why The Long Delay?
... Lee, WOW, you are totally right, I overlooked that one. "Iron Horse" was based on the very early ABC MTV movie "Scalplock"(aired in April 1966). It was
Posted - Tue Jun 9, 2009 2:01 pm
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dataguy592003
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Re: Why The Long Delay?
Sorry!! I hadn't meant to be cryptic! I actually meant The Iron Horse with Dale Robertson, which debuted as a series before the Name of the Game movie aired.
Posted - Tue Jun 9, 2009 12:09 pm
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r0thornhill
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Re: Why The Long Delay?
Ironside (TV film, March 1967-- series debut September 1967) BTW, Name Of The Game story editor Steven Bochco did "supplementary" writing(extra stuff to pad
Posted - Mon Jun 8, 2009 7:03 pm
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dataguy592003
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Re: Why The Long Delay?
This is stretching my trivia prowess...what was the show? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Posted - Mon Jun 8, 2009 2:42 pm
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