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The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 2

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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Network:ABC

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".

  • A Death of Princes
    8.2/10132 votes

    #1 - 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

  • The Pedigree Sheet
    7.7/1094 votes

    #2 - 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

  • A Succession of Heartbeats
    7.8/10131 votes

    #3 - 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

  • Down the Long Night
    7.9/1088 votes

    #4 - 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

  • To Walk In Silence
    8.0/1099 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Killer with A Kiss
    7.4/1081 votes

    #6 - Killer with A Kiss

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1960

    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.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A

  • Debt of Honor
    7.8/10143 votes

    #7 - 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

  • The Human Trap
    7.7/1079 votes

    #8 - 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

  • The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half
    7.6/1087 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Bullets Cost Too Much
    8.4/1096 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Murder Is a Face I Know
    8.2/1089 votes

    #11 - 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

  • Landscape with Dead Figures
    8.5/1082 votes

    #12 - 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

  • A Hole in the City
    8.6/10109 votes

    #13 - 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

  • The Well-Dressed Termite
    7.2/10107 votes

    #14 - The Well-Dressed Termite

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/1961

    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.

    Director: László Benedek

    Writer: N/A

  • The Day It Rained Mink
    7.2/1060 votes

    #15 - The Day It Rained Mink

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/1961

    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.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • Button in the Haystack
    8.3/1081 votes

    #16 - 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

  • Shoes for Vinnie Winford
    7.9/1074 votes

    #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

  • The Deadly Guinea Pig
    8.2/1085 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Vengeance Is a Wheel
    8.1/1072 votes

    #19 - 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

  • The Fault in Our Stars
    8.4/10104 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Tombstone for a Derelict
    7.3/1087 votes

    #21 - Tombstone for a Derelict

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/5/1961

    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?

    Director: Elliot Silverstein

    Writer: N/A

  • A Memory of Crying
    7.9/1088 votes

    #22 - 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

  • New York to L.A.
    8.2/10125 votes

    #23 - 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

  • A Very Cautious Boy
    7.7/1076 votes

    #24 - 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

  • An Economy of Death
    7.7/1053 votes

    #25 - 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