8.7/1086 votesLoading...#1 - The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 5/23/1962
Mild-mannered Herbert Konish is living multiple simultaneous and separate lives, stumping the detectives who are trying to figure out exactly who he is and what crimes he may have committed.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
8.7/1097 votesLoading...#2 - A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1962
An almost-blind young man roams the streets of New York after separating from his class, while his teacher (Diahann Carroll) attempts to convince his parents that the boy can learn to ably use his limited sight and not become completely blind.
Director: Denis Sanders
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10109 votesLoading...
#3 - A Hole in the City
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1961
Armored car robbers vanish across from Yankee Stadium, so Lt. Busti dragnets the neighborhood, house-to-house. Brutal gang mastermind Nunda has much more to worry about, because he's barged into his aunt's flat, and she brings back all his hideous Bronx past which kept him away so long.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Howard Rodman
8.6/1074 votesLoading...#4 - Idylls of a Running Back
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1962
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1078 votesLoading...#5 - And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1962
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.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1084 votesLoading...
#6 - Prime of Life
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1963
Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1082 votesLoading...
#7 - Landscape with Dead Figures
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1961
A talented artist who does not know his identity is a prisoner in a sanitarium. His long-term captivity ends due to the mention of an artist's name in the newspaper and a fluke opportunity to escape.He makes his way to Manhattan to see an auction of work by the man named in the paper-a man who died 20 years ago.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1086 votesLoading...
#8 - Baker's Dozen
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/14/1959
A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.
Director: George Sherman
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1096 votesLoading...
#9 - Bullets Cost Too Much
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/4/1961
A series of armed robberies made by four masked men eventually lead to a bar killing and public "second guessing" of Adam's handling of the situation. At the same time a resident doctor has his brother pressure him to help treat one of the hold-up men who has been shot. Adam and the NYPD doggedly pursue the case
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
8.4/10105 votesLoading...#10 - The Fault in Our Stars
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/22/1961
An actor, down on his luck, resorts to murder in order to raise the cash needed to pay his rent.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1070 votesLoading...
#11 - Bridge Party
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1961
A determined and utterly logical retiree wants an agreement to raise a drawbridge honored by a railroad - no matter what. When the railroad makes a series of trumped up charges against the man, Lt. Parker finds his tolerance of aggravation is at the breaking point. Det. Arcaro losing a prisoner on an elevator was bad enough.
Director: William Conrad
Writer: N/A
8.4/10102 votesLoading...#12 - The Face of the Enemy
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1962
Highly-decorated veteran, Cornelius 'Neil' Daggett, has deteriorated from hero to alcoholic bum since the end of the war, having alienated his wife and family. He desperately wants to again become a hero to them, but his efforts turn into tragedy.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1077 votesLoading...
#13 - Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1962
A mentally-stressed police officer suffers a debilitating breakdown over his family's poor financial condition, catalyzed by missing button on his uniform.
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: Howard Rodman
- 8.4/1098 votesLoading...
#14 - The One Marked Hot Gives Cold
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1962
A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1069 votesLoading...
#15 - The King of Venus Will Take Care of You
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 5/20/1962
A man wanted by the police for robbery and murder is trapped in a tenement neighborhood.He crosses from building to building via rooftops and eventually hides in a water tank enclosure.The "king" of the neighborhood,a young fatherless boy,may or may not help him to escape from the police dragnet.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1062 votesLoading...
#16 - Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1963
An ex-con, hustling a living by being part fence, sports bettor and police informant among other things,has a contract out on his life. He scrambles to get enough money together to leave for Oklahoma and a reunion with his wife and son. Lt. Parker is sympathetic and tries to help his "stoolie" friend safely leave NYC.
Director: George Sherman
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1069 votesLoading...
#17 - Carrier
Season 4 Episode 29 - Aired 4/24/1963
A young woman, a carrier of a deadly infectious disease, leaves a self-imposed exile of 14 years on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for Manhattan and a "normal" life. The NYPD is notified and seeks to find her before the "Van Nortons Sawyers Fever" infects the populace and causes multiple deaths.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1065 votesLoading...
#18 - Barefoot on a Bed of Coals
Season 4 Episode 34 - Aired 5/29/1963
A man who failed to qualify for the NYPD takes to impersonating a uniformed patrolman.His motives have to do with wanting to serve the public and also wanting to attract more desirable women. When he becomes involved in stopping a robbery and uses his non-regulation firearm the real NYPD searches him out.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1081 votesLoading...
#19 - Button in the Haystack
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/1961
Ex-con panics when his own loan shark gets killed at his gas station. He tosses his own gun onto a passing truck, doubting the police will buy his story. Idealistic young Det. Adam Flint believes he's chasing justice for a reformed businessman, but everyone one else in the bureau feels he's chasing a phantom.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: Howard Rodman
8.3/10108 votesLoading...#20 - Ooftus Goofus
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1961
George Bick is a 40 year old who never grew up. Fed up with his anonymous life and his henpecking wife, he decides to make the world notice him. He becomes the prankster known as "Ooftus Doofus"
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1069 votesLoading...
#21 - The Rydecker Case
Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 6/6/1962
Adam and an inexperienced D.A. attempt to prosecute the well-connected fiancé of a wealthy New York scion. Adam wonders just who is on trial and gets an education in Justice.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
8.3/1066 votesLoading...#22 - Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1962
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.
Director: Denis Sanders
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1065 votesLoading...
#23 - Spectre of the Rose Street Gang
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1962
Construction workers unearth the skeleton of a 14-year old boy, dead and buried for about 25 years. The only clue to his identity -- and fate -- is a cigarette lighter with the monogram JLY. Learning of this from the morning paper, perpetual ne'er-do-well Sam Langan recognizes both the dead boy and a chance to advance himself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1064 votesLoading...
#24 - Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1962
After a string of liquor store robberies and murders, a liquor store owner plans for retribution when his store is robbed and his friend, the clerk, is killed.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1074 votesLoading...
#25 - The Bumper
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1959
After Lt. Muldoon is killed in a car wreck deliberately caused by a mob hit man, the detectives pull out all the stops in their search for the killer.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Naked City
Every episode of Naked City ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish" is the best rated episode of "Naked City". It scored 8.7/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by David Lowell Rich and written by N/A, it aired on 5/23/1962. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!".