Fame Is the Name of the Game

Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) is an American TV-movie, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, that aired on NBC and served as the pilot episode of the subsequent series The Name of the Game. The film stars Tony Franciosa as an investigative journalist and presents the screen debut of 20-year-old Susan Saint James, who also continued her role in the later series. The telefilm also features Jill St. John, Jack Klugman, and Robert Duvall. In an unprecedented blitz of TV ads which garnered phenomenal ratings leading to a spin-off series, NBC erroneously billed the telefilm as television's first "world premiere" of a "major motion picture". Tony Franciosa as Jeff Dillon Jill St. John as Leona Purdy Jack Klugman as Ben Welcome George Macready as...