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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7.7/1080 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 8.1/1073 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
8.4/10105 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
- 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
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
- 8.2/10126 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
- 7.7/1077 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
- 7.7/1054 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
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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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".