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 4 Episodes

S4E1
E1
Hold for Gloria Christmas
60 min 1962

Poet Duncan Kleist breaks out of a hospital alcholic ward to retrieve some verses he traded for drinks. But Stanley, th…

S4E2
E2
Idylls of a Running Back
1962

Pro football star shot by younger woman when he opens his hotel room door. The press assumes Elvin "Colossus of" Rhodes …

S4E3
E3
Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?
60 min 1962

A teenage girl is teased and handled a little roughly by four prankish teenage boys at a movie theater. The girl's fathe…

S4E4
E4
And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
1962

A young man with a disfigured face lives in the shadows of the city committing petty crimes until a young woman and Dete…

S4E5
E5
Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy
60 min 1962

A recently-retired policewoman who is facing her own mortality discovers, with the help of Detective Arcaro, how she has…

S4E6
E6
Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring
1962

Former contender Johnny Meigs, eking out a living after a brain injury, pleads to go back in the ring, to get money to s…

S4E7
E7
Go Fight City Hall
60 min 1962

A subway fare taker who tried to hide his drunken escapades by falsely reporting a crime, goes on a mini crime spree to …

S4E8
E8
Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long
1962

To remain straight, an ex-con informs on the would-be robbers of a bar where he works, instead of helping the stickup me…

S4E9
E9
Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona
1962

An old, but vibrant, man is shuffled off to an "Elderly Citizen's" home by his wealthy son. Both to get his son's attent…

S4E10
E10
A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!
1962

An almost-blind young man roams the streets of New York after separating from his class, while his teacher (Diahann Carr…

E11
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
1962

An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured s…

E12
The Virtues of Madame Douvay
1962

Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro.

E13
King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Table
1962

Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.

E14
Spectre of the Rose Street Gang
1962

Construction workers unearth the skeleton of a 14-year old boy, dead and buried for about 25 years. The only clue to his…

E15
Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It
1962

Two Las Vegas showgirls travel to New York for the purpose of abducting a married psychiatrist with whom one of the wome…

E16
Her Life in Moving Pictures
1963

The detectives try to build a case against a womanizing con man who manipulates lonely maids in order to gain their conf…

E17
Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow
1962

After a string of liquor store robberies and murders, a liquor store owner plans for retribution when his store is robbe…

E18
The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree
1963

A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.

E19
Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
60 min 1963

An ex-con, hustling a living by being part fence, sports bettor and police informant among other things,has a contract o…

E20
A Man Without a Skin
1963

A hot dog, newspaper headline-grabbing detective has himself assigned to the 65th Precinct to find the killer of his par…

E21
Prime of Life
1963

Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.

E22
Bringing Far Places Together
1963

An immigrant from Puerto Rico finds that things are not better and in many ways worse since moving to NYC. The inability…

E23
The Highest of Prizes
1963

A jury that seems hopelessly deadlocked debates the case of a man who murdered his wife in order to be with another woma…

E24
Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant
1963

A corporate man who accidentally killed a man in a fight over a parking space mentally and physically tortures himself w…

E25
Stop the Parade, a Baby Is Crying!
1963

The reporting of a car theft by a good looking blonde seems odd for some reason to Detectives Flint and Arcaro. Later th…

E26
On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important
1963

A psychotic who leads a burglary ring has an unfortunate habit of bursting into a murderous rage when things go wrong. W…

E27
Howard Running Bear Is a Turtle
60 min 1963

American Indians employed in NYC as "high floor construction workers" are a close knit group that follow tribal customs.…

E28
No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!
1963

An immature man is the landlord of a house who is given to act irrationally because of the memory of his overbearing, de…

E29
Carrier
1963

A young woman, a carrier of a deadly infectious disease, leaves a self-imposed exile of 14 years on Welfare Island (now …

E30
Color Schemes Like Never Before
60 min 1963

A man with no "point of view" is strongly attracted to an opinionated woman. After he witnesses the accidental death of …

E31
The S.S. American Dream
1963

An emotional scrap dealer wants to purchase a ship bound for salvage, but he needs at least $3000. When his business par…

E32
One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski
1963

The tension between a stock worker and his boss in a cardboard packaging plant, over a co-worker they both are in love w…

E33
Golden Lads and Girls
1963

A pair of married couples from different social and economic backgrounds find they do have something in common. The coup…

E34
Barefoot on a Bed of Coals
1963

A man who failed to qualify for the NYPD takes to impersonating a uniformed patrolman.His motives have to do with wantin…

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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