Production
The Name of the Game provided Steven Spielberg with his first long-form directing assignment: the dystopic science fiction episode, "L.A. 2017," written by Philip Wylie (who earlier wrote Barry's memorable offbeat episode 'Love in at Ground Zero' in season one). In the episode, Glenn Howard is hunted down in a lethally polluted Los Angeles of the future, where the fascist government is ruled by psychiatrists and the populace has been driven to live in underground bunkers to survive the pollution, while a rather obvious explanation was included at the episode's end to return to the contemporary stance of the modern day Non Science Fiction nature of the series.
Steven Bochco received one of his first writing credits on the series, and served as story editor for the third-season Robert Stack episodes.
Segment Producers / Executive Producers included David Victor ('The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' etc.), Dean Hargrove (U.N.C.L.E., Perry Mason Returns, Diagnosis Murder, etc.), Gene L.Coon (Star Trek, etc.), and Leslie Stevens ('The Outer Limits', 'Mystery Movies', etc.)
The Universal Studios headquarters building was used for exterior shots of the "Howard Publications" building.
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