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"The Name of the Game" (1968) More at IMDbPro »

• 'Anthony Franciosa' was fired during the show's third season. Instead of being replaced by one actor, he was replaced by a series of actors filling in on his rotation, including Robert Culp, Peter Falk, Darren McGavin and Robert Wagner.
  
  
• The pilot for this episode was a two-hour TV-movie produced by Universal for N.B.C. called Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) (TV). Universal and N.B.C. were the same entities that pioneered the made-for-TV movie (with 1964's See How They Run (1964) (TV), the first full-length film produced especially for home television). "Fame is the Name of the Game", aired in 1966, was the first tele-film produced as a pilot that was picked up for a regular TV series.
  
  
• Anthony Franciosa's character, Jeff Dillon, worked for "People Magazine". This was 6 years before the real People Magazine existed.
  
  

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