The Name of the Game/Pineapple Rose

Pineapple Rose
Season 1, Episode 14
Airdate	December 20, 1968
Written by	Richard Neubert
Directed by	Nicholas Colasanto
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The Name of the Game — Season One

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Pineapple Rose is the fourteenth episode of the first season of The Name of the Game.

Starring: Cliff Potter (Andy Hill), Susan Saint James (Peggy Maxwell), Gene Barry (Glenn Howard)

Guest Starring: Susan Strasberg (Cheryl Bridges), Andrew Prine (Jigger), Nancy Ames (Inspector Louise Hahn), Don Stroud (Lincoln Bridges)

Special Guest Stars: Peter Mark Richman (Morris Latimer), Sidney Blackmer (Roman Stepanak), Mel Torme (Mort Binder)

Co-Starring: Harry Dean Stanton (Joe-Joe), Richard Van Vleet (Hal Martin), James Oliver (Ambrose), Tom Stewart (Rogers), Joan Shawlee (Mrs. Bronson), Fabian Dean (1st Policeman), Judy Jordan

Plot Overview

While doing a story on overnight star Lincoln Bridges, Peggy is kidnapped by a gang who mistake her for Bridges' sister. Andy, Howard's assistant, takes charge in the effort to get her back, with Howard offering the ransom money as well as arranging for the FBI's involvement. Andy discovers that Bridges has been giving a large chunk of his earnings to the Syndicate to pay off his father's gambling debts and wonders if the Mob had any involvement in the kidnapping.

Trivia

The Show

One of those rare instances in which one of the 'big three' is not the featured player in the episode (though Gene Barry does appear in this one)...Universal contract player Cliff Potter (later known as Cliff Potts) gets star billing here.