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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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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 3 Episode 29 - The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish
    8.7/10(71 votes)

    S3:E29

    Mild-mannered Herbert Konish is living multiple simultaneous and separate lives, stumping the detectives who are trying to figure out exactly who he is and what crimes he may have committed.

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Naked City Season 3 Episode 12 - Bridge Party
    8.6/10(75 votes)

    S3:E12

    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:Unknown

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  3. Naked City Season 3 Episode 30 - The King of Venus Will Take Care of You
    8.5/10(72 votes)

    S3:E30

    A man wanted by the police for robbery and murder is trapped in a tenement neighborhood.He crosses from building to building via rooftops and eventually hides in a water tank enclosure.The "king" of the neighborhood,a young fatherless boy,may or may not help him to escape from the police dragnet.

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Naked City Season 3 Episode 13 - The Face of the Enemy
    8.4/10(95 votes)

    S3:E13

    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:Unknown

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  5. Naked City Season 3 Episode 21 - Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming
    8.4/10(81 votes)

    S3:E21

    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

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  6. Naked City Season 3 Episode 23 - The One Marked Hot Gives Cold
    8.4/10(83 votes)

    S3:E23

    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:Unknown

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  7. Naked City Season 3 Episode 11 - Ooftus Goofus
    8.3/10(93 votes)

    S3:E11

    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:Unknown

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  8. Naked City Season 3 Episode 31 - The Rydecker Case
    8.3/10(72 votes)

    S3:E31

    Adam and an inexperienced D.A. attempt to prosecute the well-connected fiancé of a wealthy New York scion. Adam wonders just who is on trial and gets an education in Justice.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Naked City Season 3 Episode 4 - The Fingers of Henri Tourelle
    8.2/10(76 votes)

    S3:E4

    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:Unknown

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  10. Naked City Season 3 Episode 5 - A Wednesday Night Story
    8.2/10(84 votes)

    S3:E5

    An unhappy couple involve their Swedish nanny in their marital discord.

    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Naked City Season 3 Episode 7 - Which Is Joseph Creeley?
    8.1/10(84 votes)

    S3:E7

    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

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  12. Naked City Season 3 Episode 18 - A Case Study of Two Savages
    8.1/10(92 votes)

    S3:E18

    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:Unknown

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  13. Naked City Season 3 Episode 1 - Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes
    8.0/10(74 votes)

    S3:E1

    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:Unknown

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  14. Naked City Season 3 Episode 3 - The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street
    8.0/10(71 votes)

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown

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  15. Naked City Season 3 Episode 2 - Dead on the Field of Honor
    7.9/10(67 votes)

    S3:E2

    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:Unknown

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  16. Naked City Season 3 Episode 6 - The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff
    7.9/10(83 votes)

    S3:E6

    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:Unknown

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  17. Naked City Season 3 Episode 14 - Portrait of a Painter
    7.9/10(99 votes)

    S3:E14

    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:Unknown

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  18. Naked City Season 3 Episode 25 - Lament for a Dead Indian
    7.9/10(66 votes)

    S3:E25

    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

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  19. Naked City Season 3 Episode 33 - Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud
    7.8/10(66 votes)

    S3:E33

    Chauffeur snuffs his employer with roses, by forcing them in her face as the allergic dowager lies ill. Her agoraphobic daughter is ecstatic that now she'll never have to leave the mansion she loves, but torn over losing her harsh mother. Lt. Parker, a family friend, comforts the young heiress, but she immediately finds more succor in the arms of Harry, the handsome devil in the driver's seat. Flint pushes an objective view of the case on Lt. Parker.

    Director:Robert Gist
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Naked City Season 3 Episode 17 - One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World
    7.7/10(62 votes)

    S3:E17

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Naked City Season 3 Episode 19 - Let Me Die Before I Wake
    7.6/10(79 votes)

    S3:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Naked City Season 3 Episode 15 - The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos
    7.5/10(73 votes)

    S3:E15

    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:Unknown

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  23. Naked City Season 3 Episode 24 - Without Stick or Sword
    7.3/10(70 votes)

    S3:E24

    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:Unknown

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  24. Naked City Season 3 Episode 26 - The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth
    7.3/10(66 votes)

    S3:E26

    A Broadway agent dies in an actress' apartment and the detectives must discern who among those present is telling the truth: the actress, the married actor with whom she is having an affair, or the actor's chauffeur.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Naked City Season 3 Episode 20 - To Walk Like a Lion
    7.2/10(77 votes)

    S3:E20

    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:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish" is the best rated episode of "Naked City" season 3. It scored 8.7/10 based on 71 votes. Directed by David Lowell Rich and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/23/1962. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Bridge Party".