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The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 2

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The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 2

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 A Death of Princes
    8.2/10(132 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. Background image for The Pedigree Sheet
    7.7/10(94 votes)

    #2 - The Pedigree Sheet

    S2:E2

    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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    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for A Succession of Heartbeats
    7.8/10(132 votes)

    #3 - A Succession of Heartbeats

    S2:E3

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

    #4 - 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
  5. Background image for To Walk In Silence
    8.0/10(100 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for Killer with A Kiss
    7.4/10(81 votes)

    #6 - Killer with A Kiss

    S2:E6

    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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    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Debt of Honor
    7.8/10(144 votes)

    #7 - Debt of Honor

    S2:E7

    Murder during a poker game heist, doesn't faze the second biggest loser at the table. It's just hours before his betrothed arrives from Sicily via arranged marriage, but slick gambler Mori is blasé about that too. Detective Flint takes his actress girlfriend Libby dancing in the streets at Mori's wedding party, to find out who the robbers are, before they get killed the old way.

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    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Human Trap
    7.7/10(81 votes)

    #8 - The Human Trap

    S2:E8

    A wealthy playboy is dead from an icepick wound. He died in the upscale apartment of a woman whose ex-husband is a notorious gambling czar. The lady freely admits she killed the playboy - in defending her daughter from his advances. Lt. Parker and Det. Flint have the same feeling - "something about her story stinks"

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half
    7.6/10(87 votes)

    #9 - The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half

    S2:E9

    Dying crook Wicklow heists a museum's entire diamond exhibit. A gemologist sneers that the rocks are well-known to be plastic duplicates. Why pull an elaborate Rififi and kill a guard for such paste, the detectives wonder

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
  11. Background image for Bullets Cost Too Much
    8.4/10(98 votes)

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

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for Landscape with Dead Figures
    8.5/10(83 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for A Hole in the City
    8.6/10(109 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The Well-Dressed Termite
    7.2/10(107 votes)

    #14 - The Well-Dressed Termite

    S2:E14

    A shady businessman's junior partner takes it upon himself to order the death of a blackmailer. The junior partner has also schemed to reunite his boss and estranged wife. These "favors" lead to a fatal chain of events which no one, including the junior partner, could possibly have predicted.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Day It Rained Mink
    7.3/10(61 votes)

    #15 - The Day It Rained Mink

    S2:E15

    Four people, involved in the Manhattan fur trade, join together to steal fur coats valued at over $1,000,000 from a fashion show held at the Governor Clinton Hotel. The thieves have various motives for committing the crime. The ringleader's plan to leave his long-time wife for a tempestuous model complicates matters.

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

    #16 - 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
  18. Background image for Shoes for Vinnie Winford
    7.9/10(76 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for The Deadly Guinea Pig
    8.2/10(85 votes)

    #18 - 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
  20. Background image for Vengeance Is a Wheel
    8.1/10(73 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for The Fault in Our Stars
    8.4/10(106 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for Tombstone for a Derelict
    7.3/10(88 votes)

    #21 - Tombstone for a Derelict

    S2:E21

    Four young men decide to make known their concern about the problems of the world. They use a unique method to get everyone's attention - they randomly murder derelicts and leave clues that will lead back to themselves. The four believe strongly in their cause and will sacrifice their lives. Are they sane or hopelessly mad?

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

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for New York to L.A.
    8.2/10(126 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for A Very Cautious Boy
    7.7/10(77 votes)

    #24 - A Very Cautious Boy

    S2:E24

    A gangland syndicate headed by lawyer Roy Baxter has been collecting protection money from Joe and Mama Ganoulian, owners of a local restaurant. The Ganoulians hire protection called Lee Staunton to free them from the extortionists.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for An Economy of Death
    7.7/10(54 votes)

    #25 - An Economy of Death

    S2:E25

    An old couple are swindled and lied to by a fellow Hungarian refugee who claimed to have contact with their granddaughter behind the Iron Curtain. After being exposed, the man names a community activist now living in NYC who committed a worse crime-a crime which led to the death of 100 families in 1956 Hungary.

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    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Unknown

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"A Death of Princes" is the best rated episode of "Naked City" season 2. It scored 8.2/10 based on 132 votes. Directed by John Brahm and written by Stirling Silliphant, it aired on 10/12/1960. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Pedigree Sheet".