7.9/1070 votes#1 - Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1961
After a military style armored car robbery has left six people dead, including two NYPD cops, the gang's leader is identified. Lt. Parker insists that a reluctant Det. Flint seek leads to the ringleader's whereabouts from a troubled ex-partner of the criminal. The ex-partner is consumed with guilt over having been an informant once before.
Director: Jules Munshin
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1065 votes
#2 - Dead on the Field of Honor
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1961
A 35 year old man, raised by his cultured Southern grandmother to be a "man of honor", has not had fortune shine upon him. He becomes unbalanced and begins to use a dueling pistol to right wrongs in his "field of honor" - Central Park. The bizarre shootings are thoroughly looked into by the NYPD as the man's mental state worsens.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1067 votes
#3 - The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1961
After a car wreck between a truck and a hearse, a "corpse" gets up and walks away. The casket used was really a "submarine" - a means to smuggle an illegal immigrant into the U.S. The Undertaker tied to the incoming delivery did not know his "fixer" friend was also having something else illegally brought into the country.
Director: Alex March
Writer: N/A
8.2/1071 votes#4 - The Fingers of Henri Tourelle
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1961
A business owner is killed by gunshot in his office. The person who fired the shot couldn't have left the premises before the police arrived to investigate, but the responsible gunman proves elusive.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1078 votes
#5 - A Wednesday Night Story
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1961
An unhappy couple involve their Swedish nanny in their marital discord.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1081 votes
#6 - The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1961
Kidnappers target a millionaire to pay the ransom for their victim, a young girl from a poor family. The criminals are a husband who's failed at everything he's tried and a still-ambitious wife who'll leave him if he won't go along with her scheme. The child's mother is afraid to go to the police, but a nosy neighbor pieces together the story for the detectives. The husband is torn about the crime, because he loves children, but his wife is bitter from having to parent her younger siblings.
Director: Alex March
Writer: N/A
8.1/1092 votes#7 - Which Is Joseph Creeley?
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1961
A man sentenced to die for the coldblooded murder of another man, is given an operation to remove a tumor from his brain. When the tumor is removed, he becomes a docile individual with no memory of the murder he committed. He is retried. Will he be found not guilty this time?
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
- 6.9/1071 votes
#8 - Show Me the Way to Go Home
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1961
A young man with emotional problems becomes violent when his mother wants him to be mentally evaluated at Bellevue. After assaulting her boyfriend, the NYPD attempts to find him - and his missing knife. Meanwhile, he is attracted to a charitable girl who is trying to help a confused old woman to find her way home.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1070 votes
#9 - The Hot Minerva
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1961
The 65th Precinct's detectives take a crash course in the art underworld to recover an ancient statue of the goddess Athena. Who'd steal the hot Minerva, when they can never display it ? The gang of thieves are led by an odd couple who model themselves after Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but look more like Wall Street CPAs. The museum's curator is not much help, because she's perfectly willing to pay a ransom for the statue she worships, no questions asked.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1079 votes#10 - Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1961
Shoemaker Anthony Scarzi, the much older husband of Josephine Ametto Scarzi, his wife of two years, struggles with her unfaithfulness and her desire to annul their marriage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10108 votes#11 - Ooftus Goofus
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1961
George Bick is a 40 year old who never grew up. Fed up with his anonymous life and his henpecking wife, he decides to make the world notice him. He becomes the prankster known as "Ooftus Doofus"
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1070 votes
#12 - Bridge Party
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1961
A determined and utterly logical retiree wants an agreement to raise a drawbridge honored by a railroad - no matter what. When the railroad makes a series of trumped up charges against the man, Lt. Parker finds his tolerance of aggravation is at the breaking point. Det. Arcaro losing a prisoner on an elevator was bad enough.
Director: William Conrad
Writer: N/A
8.4/10102 votes#13 - The Face of the Enemy
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1962
Highly-decorated veteran, Cornelius 'Neil' Daggett, has deteriorated from hero to alcoholic bum since the end of the war, having alienated his wife and family. He desperately wants to again become a hero to them, but his efforts turn into tragedy.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1093 votes
#14 - Portrait of a Painter
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1962
A mentally-disturbed young painter confesses to murdering his wife, who was found on the floor of his studio. But the detectives seek to establish, with the help of the painter's psychiatrist, the full set of details that the painter cannot seem to recollect, which could prove either his guilt or innocence.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1070 votes
#15 - The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1962
A middle-aged neighborhood doctor faces a moral dilemma after a young man, Joey, who is like a son to her, and his friend Phillip break into a fire-damaged haberdashery, and Phillip gets shot and wounded.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: N/A
6.7/1064 votes#16 - The Contract
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1962
Both the fiancé and the guardian of a beautiful dead young woman claim to have murdered her, and it's up to the detectives to discover who's telling the truth.
Director: N/A
Writer: Norman Lessing
- 7.8/1059 votes
#17 - One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1962
A widowed gangster is being challenged for custody of his son by his sister in-law. To show the court that he is a positive influence the gangster needs to convince his son's teacher to change a failing grade to an "A". The teacher is stubborn and the gangster offers the tempting bribe of a chorus girl.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10106 votes
#18 - A Case Study of Two Savages
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1962
Two newlyweds from Arkansas, honeymoon in New York City. Their happy time is interrupted by the husband's continual penchant for murder and robbery as a means of getting what he wants for himself and his bride.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: N/A
7.6/1077 votes#19 - Let Me Die Before I Wake
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1962
A psychologically-troubled moving company owner discovers some troubling truths about his family after a young girl is injured by a hit-and-run truck driver who was really targeting him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1075 votes#20 - To Walk Like a Lion
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1962
An embezzler who stole to finance his mother's medical care runs into trouble while trying to end his scheme and return the leftover money.
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1077 votes
#21 - Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1962
A mentally-stressed police officer suffers a debilitating breakdown over his family's poor financial condition, catalyzed by missing button on his uniform.
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: Howard Rodman
- 7.3/1057 votes
#22 - A Run for the Money
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1962
A middle aged hired killer, who committed his first murder for pay at age 14,is hunted both by organized crime which has put out a contract on his life and the police. Needing a bankroll for leaving the country, the killer hires an "arm". The expert craps player he has chosen to win him money is as unpredictable as the roll of the dice.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Howard Rodman
- 8.4/1098 votes
#23 - The One Marked Hot Gives Cold
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1962
A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1066 votes
#24 - Without Stick or Sword
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/28/1962
A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1063 votes
#25 - Lament for a Dead Indian
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 4/11/1962
A man recently released from prison comes to NYC to get his friend to join him in running a farm. He is warned that his "partner" is bad news by Flint and Arcaro. The friend is not interested in leaving NYC and is heavily involved in the rackets-including murder. The man tragically tries to help his friend.
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: Arnold Manoff
The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 3
Every episode of Naked City Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Naked City Season 3!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes" is the best rated episode of "Naked City" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 70 votes. Directed by Jules Munshin and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1961. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Dead on the Field of Honor".