It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and was produced by Ranald MacDougall, who also wrote the teleplay, from the novel One Woman by Tiffany Thayer.
In the film, Jeff Dillon writes for Fame magazine, a publication of Janus Enterprises, and Glenn Howard (George Macready) is just the managing editor.
[2] In the weeks before the telefilm's first broadcast, NBC ran an unprecedented blitz of TV ads which erroneously billed Fame is the Name of the Game as television's first "world premiere" of a "major motion picture".
The Los Angeles Times called it "a slickly produced and directed whudunnit so filled with gimmicks and gals that it really didn't matter who committed the murders or why.
"[3] The film received strong ratings of 23 with a 40 share of the audience,[4] leading to the spin-off series.