The Name of the Game/Keep the Doctor Away

Keep the Doctor Away
Season 1, Episode 21
Airdate	February 14, 1969
Written by	Robert Malcolm Young
Directed by	Barry Shear
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The Name of the Game — Season One

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Keep the Doctor Away is the twenty-first episode of the first season of The Name of the Game.

Starring: Tony Franciosa (Jeff Dillon)

Guest Starring: Robert Goulet (Dr. Claude Evanhauer), Carol Lawrence (Nurse Janice Ridgely), David Brian (Elton Wakefield), Susan Saint James (Peggy Maxwell)

Special Guest Star: Vera Miles (Tracy Cannon)

Co-Starring: Harold J. Stone (Harry Mudd), George Murdock (Dr. Peter Bertram), Pierre Jalbert (Dr. Nieves), Vaughn Taylor (Percy), Penny Santon (Head Nurse), Richard Peel (Oscar Pimm), Anna Hagan (Nurse), Stella Garcia (Receptionist)

Plot Overview

While on vacation in Mexico, a senior editor and old friend of Dillon's is critically injured in a surfing accident and needs surgery. Dillon notices that a prominent doctor, a bone specialist, is also vacationing and persuades him to help his friend, but the friend dies of complications while on the operating table. After overhearing a nurse say that the man didn't have to die, Dillon goes back to the States and launches a probe of Dr. Evanhauer and discovers that behind the man's charming facade lies a maniac who's willing to commit murder, his sick rationale being that two lives can be sacrificed if it means saving hundreds of thousands.

Trivia

The Show

Guest stars Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence were married in real life at the time of this episode.