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The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 2

Genres:DramaCrimeAction & Adventure
Network:ABC

Every episode of Naked City Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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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  • A Hole in the City
    8.6/10(109)
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    #1 - 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

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  • Landscape with Dead Figures
    8.5/10(82)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Bullets Cost Too Much
    8.4/10(97)
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    #3 - 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

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  • The Fault in Our Stars
    8.4/10(105)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Button in the Haystack
    8.3/10(81)
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    #5 - 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

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  • A Death of Princes
    8.2/10(132)
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    #6 - A Death of Princes

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 10/12/1960

    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.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: Stirling Silliphant

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  • Murder Is a Face I Know
    8.2/10(89)
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    #7 - Murder Is a Face I Know

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 1/11/1961

    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.

    Director: Arthur Hiller

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Deadly Guinea Pig
    8.2/10(85)
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    #8 - The Deadly Guinea Pig

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 3/8/1961

    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.

    Director: William A. Graham

    Writer: N/A

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  • New York to L.A.
    8.2/10(126)
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    #9 - New York to L.A.

    Season 2 Episode 23

    Aired 4/19/1961

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

    Director: Elliot Silverstein

    Writer: Howard Rodman

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  • C3H5(NO3)3
    8.2/10(72)
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    #10 - C3H5(NO3)3

    Season 2 Episode 26

    Aired 5/10/1961

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

    Director: William A. Graham

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Kettle of Precious Fish
    8.2/10(68)
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    #11 - A Kettle of Precious Fish

    Season 2 Episode 29

    Aired 5/31/1961

    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.

    Director: William Conrad

    Writer: N/A

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  • Vengeance Is a Wheel
    8.1/10(73)
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    #12 - Vengeance Is a Wheel

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 3/15/1961

    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.

    Director: Elliot Silverstein

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sweet Prince of Delancey Street
    8.1/10(94)
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    #13 - Sweet Prince of Delancey Street

    Season 2 Episode 30

    Aired 6/7/1961

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

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

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  • To Walk In Silence
    8.0/10(99)
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    #14 - To Walk In Silence

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 11/9/1960

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • To Dream Without Sleep
    8.0/10(71)
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    #15 - To Dream Without Sleep

    Season 2 Episode 28

    Aired 5/24/1961

    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.

    Director: William A. Graham

    Writer: N/A

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  • Down the Long Night
    7.9/10(88)
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    #16 - Down the Long Night

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 11/2/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Shoes for Vinnie Winford
    7.9/10(76)
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    #17 - Shoes for Vinnie Winford

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 3/1/1961

    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".

    Director: Elliot Silverstein

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Memory of Crying
    7.9/10(89)
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    #18 - A Memory of Crying

    Season 2 Episode 22

    Aired 4/12/1961

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

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: David T. Chantler

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  • A Succession of Heartbeats
    7.8/10(131)
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    #19 - A Succession of Heartbeats

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 10/26/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Debt of Honor
    7.8/10(143)
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    #20 - Debt of Honor

    Season 2 Episode 7

    Aired 11/23/1960

    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.

    Director: Tay Garnett

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Pedigree Sheet
    7.7/10(94)
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    #21 - The Pedigree Sheet

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 10/19/1960

    The investigation of a car wreck reveals two dead men (one killed by a bullet) and a survivor - a petulant, uncooperative young girl.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Human Trap
    7.7/10(80)
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    #22 - The Human Trap

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 11/30/1960

    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"

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Very Cautious Boy
    7.7/10(77)
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    #23 - A Very Cautious Boy

    Season 2 Episode 24

    Aired 4/26/1961

    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.

    Director: William A. Graham

    Writer: N/A

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  • An Economy of Death
    7.7/10(54)
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    #24 - An Economy of Death

    Season 2 Episode 25

    Aired 5/3/1961

    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.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half
    7.6/10(87)
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    #25 - The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 12/14/1960

    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

    Director: Buzz Kulik

    Writer: Howard Rodman

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"A Hole in the City" is the best rated episode of "Naked City" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by David Lowell Rich and written by Howard Rodman, it aired on 2/1/1961. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Landscape with Dead Figures".