Naked City
Drama • Series

Naked City

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City."

5.7/10 1958 4 Seasons 138 Episodes Ended

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”.

Season: 1 2 3 4

Season 2 Episodes

E1
A Death of Princes
1960

Detective walks from icing surrendering shooter Gimpy, so his commander asks Adam to volunteer to spy him. Adam struggle…

E2
The Pedigree Sheet
1960

The investigation of a car wreck reveals two dead men (one killed by a bullet) and a survivor - a petulant, uncooperativ…

E3
A Succession of Heartbeats
1960

A millionaire playboy is murdered in his luxury apartment-along with a married woman. A "black book" filled with ladies …

E4
Down the Long Night
1960

Norman Garry is harassed by former neighbor Max Evar. Evar,an "expert on horror", lost his family due to a fire he holds…

E5
To Walk In Silence
1960

A blue blood Wall Street investment manager witnesses a shooting. Afraid for his reputation,he stubbornly refuses to aid…

E6
Killer with A Kiss
1960

A young man working at Bellevue Hospital, at the Mental Ward, has a neurosis himself. He harbors a deep seated hatred of…

E7
Debt of Honor
1960

Murder during a poker game heist, doesn't faze the second biggest loser at the table. It's just hours before his betroth…

E8
The Human Trap
1960

A wealthy playboy is dead from an icepick wound. He died in the upscale apartment of a woman whose ex-husband is a notor…

E9
The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half
1960

Dying crook Wicklow heists a museum's entire diamond exhibit. A gemologist sneers that the rocks are well-known to be pl…

E10
Bullets Cost Too Much
1961

A series of armed robberies made by four masked men eventually lead to a bar killing and public "second guessing" of Ada…

E11
Murder Is a Face I Know
1961

Hitman's arrest destroys his double life as a small businessman who earned his new community's respect. Hurting the most…

E12
Landscape with Dead Figures
1961

A talented artist who does not know his identity is a prisoner in a sanitarium. His long-term captivity ends due to the …

E13
A Hole in the City
1961

Armored car robbers vanish across from Yankee Stadium, so Lt. Busti dragnets the neighborhood, house-to-house. Brutal ga…

E14
The Well-Dressed Termite
1961

A shady businessman's junior partner takes it upon himself to order the death of a blackmailer. The junior partner has a…

E15
The Day It Rained Mink
1961

Four people, involved in the Manhattan fur trade, join together to steal fur coats valued at over $1,000,000 from a fash…

E16
Button in the Haystack
1961

Ex-con panics when his own loan shark gets killed at his gas station. He tosses his own gun onto a passing truck, doubti…

E17
Shoes for Vinnie Winford
1961

A rich-kid,Mama's boy is ignored by the Board of Directors when made President of his deceased father's corporation. The…

E18
The Deadly Guinea Pig
1961

An investigation into the shooting deaths of an NYPD uniformed patrolman and a citizen leads to a tangled web of ex-Nazi…

E19
Vengeance Is a Wheel
1961

Security guard's murder during a burglary mobilizes his huge, close-knit Sicilian family. One of the watchman's sons wan…

S2E20
E20
The Fault in Our Stars
1961

An actor, down on his luck, resorts to murder in order to raise the cash needed to pay his rent.

E21
Tombstone for a Derelict
1961

Four young men decide to make known their concern about the problems of the world. They use a unique method to get every…

S2E22
E22
A Memory of Crying
1961

A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.

E23
New York to L.A.
1961

Det. Flint and Lt. Busti head to Los Angeles to extradite two sociopath brothers to face robbery and murder charges back…

E24
A Very Cautious Boy
1961

A gangland syndicate headed by lawyer Roy Baxter has been collecting protection money from Joe and Mama Ganoulian, owner…

E25
An Economy of Death
1961

An old couple are swindled and lied to by a fellow Hungarian refugee who claimed to have contact with their granddaughte…

E26
C3H5(NO3)3
1961

After quarreling with his wife Martha, chemistry professor James Fallon goes out and drowns his troubles in drink.

S2E27
E27
Make-Believe Man
1961

Officer Gode informs the detectives that one of his homeless men, a Frank Manfred, has disappeared and that some of the …

E28
To Dream Without Sleep
1961

A lonely woman falls in love with a man she meets through an escort service. Assuming they will marry, she becomes hyste…

E29
A Kettle of Precious Fish
1961

A well organized team of extortionists kidnap a group of businessmen on a chartered fishing boat. Ransom amounts and ins…

E30
Sweet Prince of Delancey Street
1961

Factory worker Peter Wilkins is fired from his job. In a moment of drunken anger, he threatens reprisal on the company.

E31
The Day the Island Almost Sank
1961

The NYPD is shorthanded, overworked and sleep deprived due to various conventions being held at the same time in Manhatt…

S2E32
E32
Take and Put
1961

A once wealthy family is now penniless. To "keep up appearances" and somewhat live as they became accustomed to,they inv…

Cast

Harry Bellaver
Harry Bellaver
Frank Arcaro
Paul Burke
Paul Burke
Adam Flint
Horace McMahon
Horace McMahon
Mike Parker
Lawrence Dobkin
Lawrence Dobkin
Narrator (voice)
Nancy Malone
Nancy Malone
Libby Kingston

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