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The Best Episodes of Naked City

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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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  1. Background image for The Violent Circle
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Violent Circle

    S1:E5

    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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    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Stakeout
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Stakeout

    S1:E6

    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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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Other Face of Goodness
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Other Face of Goodness

    S1:E10

    New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Lady Bug, Lady Bug
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Lady Bug, Lady Bug

    S1:E11

    A wealthy industrialist refuses to give in to an extortionist's demands even after the extortionist brutally assaults a neighbor girl and threatens the life of the man's alienated son.

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for A Hole in the City
    8.6/10(109 votes)

    #5 - A Hole in the City

    S2:E13

    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.

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  6. Background image for Landscape with Dead Figures
    8.5/10(83 votes)

    #6 - Landscape with Dead Figures

    S2:E12

    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.

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  8. Background image for Bullets Cost Too Much
    8.4/10(98 votes)

    #7 - Bullets Cost Too Much

    S2:E10

    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

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Fault in Our Stars
    8.4/10(106 votes)

    #8 - The Fault in Our Stars

    S2:E20

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Button in the Haystack
    8.3/10(81 votes)

    #9 - Button in the Haystack

    S2:E16

    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.

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    Director:Tay Garnett
  11. Background image for A Kettle of Precious Fish
    8.3/10(69 votes)

    #10 - A Kettle of Precious Fish

    S2:E29

    A well organized team of extortionists kidnap a group of businessmen on a chartered fishing boat. Ransom amounts and instructions are phoned to the victims' wives. The NYPD becomes involved in the case when the charter boat captain is found tied up and drugged-but alive. Meanwhile, the businessmen plan a revolt.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for A Death of Princes
    8.2/10(132 votes)

    #11 - A Death of Princes

    S2:E1

    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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  13. Background image for Murder Is a Face I Know
    8.2/10(90 votes)

    #12 - Murder Is a Face I Know

    S2:E11

    Hitman's arrest destroys his double life as a small businessman who earned his new community's respect. Hurting the most is his son, a university basketball ace who worships his father, and can't believe that he's such a stony, experienced assassin.

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    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Deadly Guinea Pig
    8.2/10(85 votes)

    #13 - The Deadly Guinea Pig

    S2:E18

    An investigation into the shooting deaths of an NYPD uniformed patrolman and a citizen leads to a tangled web of ex-Nazi's and concentration camp survivors.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for New York to L.A.
    8.2/10(127 votes)

    #14 - New York to L.A.

    S2:E23

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

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  16. Background image for C3H5(NO3)3
    8.2/10(72 votes)

    #15 - C3H5(NO3)3

    S2:E26

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Vengeance Is a Wheel
    8.1/10(74 votes)

    #16 - Vengeance Is a Wheel

    S2:E19

    Security guard's murder during a burglary mobilizes his huge, close-knit Sicilian family. One of the watchman's sons wants the 65th Precinct's detectives to track the dockside killers who stole a rare oil used for perfume, all other kin vote to take revenge by themselves. They start with the French perfumer, who lost his whole season's rose oil supply.

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  18. Background image for Sweet Prince of Delancey Street
    8.1/10(95 votes)

    #17 - Sweet Prince of Delancey Street

    S2:E30

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

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Sidewalk Fisherman
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Sidewalk Fisherman

    S1:E4

    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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    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Explosive Heart
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Explosive Heart

    S1:E14

    The detectives fight against time to unravel a plan to murder a Commander aboard his yacht.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Manhole
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Manhole

    S1:E15

    When an elderly sewer worker learns that his son is the leader of a street gang, he begs him vainly to reform, and then tells police about his association. When the gang uses the sewers to escape after a jewel robbery, the old man follows them into the underground passages.

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    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for To Walk In Silence
    8.0/10(100 votes)

    #21 - To Walk In Silence

    S2:E5

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for To Dream Without Sleep
    8.0/10(72 votes)

    #22 - To Dream Without Sleep

    S2:E28

    A lonely woman falls in love with a man she meets through an escort service. Assuming they will marry, she becomes hysterical and accidentally stabs him upon finding out that he is already married. Desperate and in a panic, she tries to figure out what to do while at the same time the NYPD tracks her down.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Down the Long Night
    7.9/10(88 votes)

    #23 - Down the Long Night

    S2:E4

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Shoes for Vinnie Winford
    7.9/10(76 votes)

    #24 - Shoes for Vinnie Winford

    S2:E17

    A rich-kid,Mama's boy is ignored by the Board of Directors when made President of his deceased father's corporation. The young "Napoleon" however already has a business where he is paid strict attention to. He secretly owns a Burlesque house and physically abuses the women at his whim-until the NYPD seeks to find a missing "dancer".

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  26. Background image for A Memory of Crying
    7.9/10(89 votes)

    #25 - A Memory of Crying

    S2:E22

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

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Violent Circle" is the best rated episode of "Naked City". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Douglas Heyes and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/28/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Stakeout".