TV Show

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

TV Show Stats +8%

4 seasons

138 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1958

Rating

TV Show

5.5/10

11 votes • HD

Season 1

39 episodes
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Meridian
Episode 1

Meridian

Episode 1 • Sep 30, 1958

Detective Halloran's first day as a detective brings him face-to-face with a cop killer and his accomplice who're holding hostages at the New York Coliseum..

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Nickel Ride
Episode 2

Nickel Ride

Episode 2 • Oct 07, 1958

The detectives visit the aging captain of the Staten Island Ferry at the same time that armed robbers are executing a daring heist of an armored car traveling on the ferry.

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Line of Duty
Episode 3

Line of Duty

Episode 3 • Oct 14, 1958

Det. Halloran easily kills a fleeing robber who's about to shoot him, but Halloran's lingering feelings of guilt make getting through the aftermath with the man's family anguish. Halloran's wife and Lieutenant support him throughout his search for meaning.

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Sidewalk Fisherman
Episode 4

Sidewalk Fisherman

Episode 4 • Oct 21, 1958

Gio, who lives by fishing coins out of sidewalk grates, longs to adopt an orphaned boy who he spins yarns for, as if Gio actually was a courageous deep-sea fisherman. By working 16 hours a day, old Gio saves money to adopt the boy, but in doing so violates the territorial rights of a local gang, who try to kill Gio.

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The Violent Circle
Episode 5

The Violent Circle

Episode 5 • Oct 28, 1958

Detective Halloran goes undercover as a patient in a hospital mental ward in an attempt to identify the murderer of patient who was a witness in a gang killing.

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Stakeout
Episode 6

Stakeout

Episode 6 • Nov 04, 1958

A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.

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Season 2

32 episodes
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A Death of Princes
Episode 1

A Death of Princes

Episode 1 • Oct 12, 1960

Detective walks from icing surrendering shooter Gimpy, so his commander asks Adam to volunteer to spy him. Adam struggles with taking the assignment on gun-happy comrade Bane, whose jacket includes 2 other recent kills, but many medals.

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The Pedigree Sheet
Episode 2

The Pedigree Sheet

Episode 2 • Oct 19, 1960

The investigation of a car wreck reveals two dead men (one killed by a bullet) and a survivor - a petulant, uncooperative young girl.

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A Succession of Heartbeats
Episode 3

A Succession of Heartbeats

Episode 3 • Oct 26, 1960

A millionaire playboy is murdered in his luxury apartment-along with a married woman. A "black book" filled with ladies telephone numbers doesn't include all of his conquests, including a woman who later confesses to the murders.

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Down the Long Night
Episode 4

Down the Long Night

Episode 4 • Nov 02, 1960

Norman Garry is harassed by former neighbor Max Evar. Evar,an "expert on horror", lost his family due to a fire he holds Garry responsible for. Garry asks the NYPD for help and Det. Flint becomes interested in the case. The discovery that Evar was recently released from a mental hospital heightens the drama.

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To Walk In Silence
Episode 5

To Walk In Silence

Episode 5 • Nov 09, 1960

A blue blood Wall Street investment manager witnesses a shooting. Afraid for his reputation,he stubbornly refuses to aid the NYPD in their investigation. After other possible witnesses have been killed and his daughter is kidnapped a difficult decision awaits him - shall he cooperate even with his daughter's life at risk?

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Killer with A Kiss
Episode 6

Killer with A Kiss

Episode 6 • Nov 16, 1960

A young man working at Bellevue Hospital, at the Mental Ward, has a neurosis himself. He harbors a deep seated hatred of his deceased military hero father, whom he blames for his mother's death. This has culminated in a twisted pattern of revenge. He lures uniformed policemen by faking emergencies and then murders them.

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Season 3

33 episodes
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Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes
Episode 1

Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes

Episode 1 • Sep 27, 1961

After a military style armored car robbery has left six people dead, including two NYPD cops, the gang's leader is identified. Lt. Parker insists that a reluctant Det. Flint seek leads to the ringleader's whereabouts from a troubled ex-partner of the criminal. The ex-partner is consumed with guilt over having been an informant once before.

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Dead on the Field of Honor
Episode 2

Dead on the Field of Honor

Episode 2 • Oct 04, 1961

A 35 year old man, raised by his cultured Southern grandmother to be a "man of honor", has not had fortune shine upon him. He becomes unbalanced and begins to use a dueling pistol to right wrongs in his "field of honor" - Central Park. The bizarre shootings are thoroughly looked into by the NYPD as the man's mental state worsens.

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The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street
Episode 3

The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street

Episode 3 • Oct 11, 1961

After a car wreck between a truck and a hearse, a "corpse" gets up and walks away. The casket used was really a "submarine" - a means to smuggle an illegal immigrant into the U.S. The Undertaker tied to the incoming delivery did not know his "fixer" friend was also having something else illegally brought into the country.

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The Fingers of Henri Tourelle
Episode 4

The Fingers of Henri Tourelle

Episode 4 • Oct 18, 1961

A business owner is killed by gunshot in his office. The person who fired the shot couldn't have left the premises before the police arrived to investigate, but the responsible gunman proves elusive.

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A Wednesday Night Story
Episode 5

A Wednesday Night Story

Episode 5 • Nov 01, 1961

An unhappy couple involve their Swedish nanny in their marital discord.

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The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff
Episode 6

The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff

Episode 6 • Nov 08, 1961

Kidnappers target a millionaire to pay the ransom for their victim, a young girl from a poor family. The criminals are a husband who's failed at everything he's tried and a still-ambitious wife who'll leave him if he won't go along with her scheme. The child's mother is afraid to go to the police, but a nosy neighbor pieces together the story for the detectives. The husband is torn about the crime, because he loves children, but his wife is bitter from having to parent her younger siblings.

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Season 4

34 episodes
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Hold for Gloria Christmas
Episode 1

Hold for Gloria Christmas

Episode 1 • Sep 19, 1962

Poet Duncan Kleist breaks out of a hospital alcholic ward to retrieve some verses he traded for drinks. But Stanley, the bartender who now has the poems, tells Duncan he will have to buy them back.

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Idylls of a Running Back
Episode 2

Idylls of a Running Back

Episode 2 • Sep 26, 1962

Pro football star shot by younger woman when he opens his hotel room door. The press assumes Elvin "Colossus of" Rhodes was cheating on his wife, but Rhodes insists he doesn't even know the quiet, plain waitress. The paper trail fits the woman's claim they were lovers - separate hotel rooms as the player was on the road, gift receipts etc. check out, as Rhodes' life unravels.

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Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?
Episode 3

Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?

Episode 3 • Oct 03, 1962

A teenage girl is teased and handled a little roughly by four prankish teenage boys at a movie theater. The girl's father downplays the incident when the NYPD investigates. The father, a WWII combat veteran, has a plan to "save his daughter from any public embarrassment". He will hunt the boys down and mete out justice.

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And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
Episode 4

And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...

Episode 4 • Oct 10, 1962

A young man with a disfigured face lives in the shadows of the city committing petty crimes until a young woman and Detective Flint show him how his self-worth is tied to his actions, not his looks.

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Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy
Episode 5

Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy

Episode 5 • Oct 17, 1962

A recently-retired policewoman who is facing her own mortality discovers, with the help of Detective Arcaro, how she has missed so many opportunities for happiness.

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Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring
Episode 6

Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring

Episode 6 • Oct 24, 1962

Former contender Johnny Meigs, eking out a living after a brain injury, pleads to go back in the ring, to get money to send his unknowing wife Kathy to compete in a floral show in Baltimore. Crooked boxing manager Gus Slate lines up an elderly, alcoholic physician to give Meigs a passing physical.

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