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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!

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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 picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary”

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Naked City Season 2 Episode 12 - Landscape with Dead Figures
    8.5/10(85 votes)

    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.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Naked City Season 2 Episode 13 - A Hole in the City
    8.5/10(114 votes)

    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.

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Howard Rodman

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  3. Naked City Season 2 Episode 10 - Bullets Cost Too Much
    8.4/10(100 votes)

    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

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Naked City Season 2 Episode 16 - Button in the Haystack
    8.4/10(82 votes)

    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.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Howard Rodman

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  5. Naked City Season 2 Episode 20 - The Fault in Our Stars
    8.4/10(103 votes)

    S2:E20

    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:Unknown

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  6. Naked City Season 2 Episode 18 - The Deadly Guinea Pig
    8.3/10(88 votes)

    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.

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Naked City Season 2 Episode 23 - New York to L.A.
    8.3/10(100 votes)

    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.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Howard Rodman

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  8. Naked City Season 2 Episode 26 - C3H5(NO3)3
    8.3/10(74 votes)

    S2:E26

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

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Naked City Season 2 Episode 29 - A Kettle of Precious Fish
    8.3/10(70 votes)

    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.

    Director:William Conrad
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Naked City Season 2 Episode 1 - A Death of Princes
    8.2/10(135 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Stirling Silliphant

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  11. Naked City Season 2 Episode 11 - Murder Is a Face I Know
    8.2/10(91 votes)

    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.

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Naked City Season 2 Episode 5 - To Walk In Silence
    8.1/10(103 votes)

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Naked City Season 2 Episode 19 - Vengeance Is a Wheel
    8.1/10(75 votes)

    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.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Naked City Season 2 Episode 30 - Sweet Prince of Delancey Street
    8.1/10(80 votes)

    S2:E30

    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:Unknown

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  15. Naked City Season 2 Episode 22 - A Memory of Crying
    8.0/10(90 votes)

    S2:E22

    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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  16. Naked City Season 2 Episode 28 - To Dream Without Sleep
    8.0/10(75 votes)

    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.

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Naked City Season 2 Episode 4 - Down the Long Night
    7.9/10(89 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Naked City Season 2 Episode 17 - Shoes for Vinnie Winford
    7.9/10(75 votes)

    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".

    Director:Elliot Silverstein
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Naked City Season 2 Episode 7 - Debt of Honor
    7.8/10(106 votes)

    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.

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Naked City Season 2 Episode 25 - An Economy of Death
    7.8/10(55 votes)

    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.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Naked City Season 2 Episode 3 - A Succession of Heartbeats
    7.7/10(87 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Naked City Season 2 Episode 8 - The Human Trap
    7.7/10(83 votes)

    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"

    Director:Lamont Johnson
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Naked City Season 2 Episode 24 - A Very Cautious Boy
    7.7/10(80 votes)

    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.

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Naked City Season 2 Episode 31 - The Day the Island Almost Sank
    7.7/10(67 votes)

    S2:E31

    The NYPD is shorthanded, overworked and sleep deprived due to various conventions being held at the same time in Manhattan. When a visiting conventioneer is found brutally murdered Lt. Parker has no choice but to send an exhausted Sgt. Arcaro out to investigate.An unlikely person emerges as a prime suspect.

    Director:William Conrad
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Naked City Season 2 Episode 2 - The Pedigree Sheet
    7.6/10(95 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Landscape with Dead Figures" is the best rated episode of "Naked City" season 2. It scored 8.5/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by Elliot Silverstein and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/18/1961. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "A Hole in the City".