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The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 4

Every episode of Naked City Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Naked City Season 4!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Naked City Season 4 Episode 10 - A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!
    8.7/10(92 votes)

    S4:E10

    An almost-blind young man roams the streets of New York after separating from his class, while his teacher (Diahann Carroll) attempts to convince his parents that the boy can learn to ably use his limited sight and not become completely blind.

    Director:Denis Sanders
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Naked City Season 4 Episode 2 - Idylls of a Running Back
    8.6/10(78 votes)

    S4:E2

    Pro football star shot by younger woman when he opens his hotel room door. The press assumes Elvin "Colossus of" Rhodes was cheating on his wife, but Rhodes insists he doesn't even know the quiet, plain waitress. The paper trail fits the woman's claim they were lovers - separate hotel rooms as the player was on the road, gift receipts etc. check out, as Rhodes' life unravels.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Naked City Season 4 Episode 21 - Prime of Life
    8.6/10(92 votes)

    S4:E21

    Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Naked City Season 4 Episode 4 - And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
    8.5/10(72 votes)

    S4:E4

    A young man with a disfigured face lives in the shadows of the city committing petty crimes until a young woman and Detective Flint show him how his self-worth is tied to his actions, not his looks.

    Director:Irvin Kershner
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Naked City Season 4 Episode 34 - Barefoot on a Bed of Coals
    8.5/10(69 votes)

    S4:E34

    A man who failed to qualify for the NYPD takes to impersonating a uniformed patrolman.His motives have to do with wanting to serve the public and also wanting to attract more desirable women. When he becomes involved in stopping a robbery and uses his non-regulation firearm the real NYPD searches him out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Naked City Season 4 Episode 5 - Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy
    8.3/10(69 votes)

    S4:E5

    A recently-retired policewoman who is facing her own mortality discovers, with the help of Detective Arcaro, how she has missed so many opportunities for happiness.

    Director:Denis Sanders
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Naked City Season 4 Episode 14 - Spectre of the Rose Street Gang
    8.3/10(69 votes)

    S4:E14

    Construction workers unearth the skeleton of a 14-year old boy, dead and buried for about 25 years. The only clue to his identity -- and fate -- is a cigarette lighter with the monogram JLY. Learning of this from the morning paper, perpetual ne'er-do-well Sam Langan recognizes both the dead boy and a chance to advance himself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Naked City Season 4 Episode 17 - Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow
    8.3/10(69 votes)

    S4:E17

    After a string of liquor store robberies and murders, a liquor store owner plans for retribution when his store is robbed and his friend, the clerk, is killed.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Naked City Season 4 Episode 19 - Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
    8.3/10(67 votes)

    S4:E19

    An ex-con, hustling a living by being part fence, sports bettor and police informant among other things,has a contract out on his life. He scrambles to get enough money together to leave for Oklahoma and a reunion with his wife and son. Lt. Parker is sympathetic and tries to help his "stoolie" friend safely leave NYC.

    Director:George Sherman
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Naked City Season 4 Episode 29 - Carrier
    8.3/10(73 votes)

    S4:E29

    A young woman, a carrier of a deadly infectious disease, leaves a self-imposed exile of 14 years on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for Manhattan and a "normal" life. The NYPD is notified and seeks to find her before the "Van Nortons Sawyers Fever" infects the populace and causes multiple deaths.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Naked City Season 4 Episode 20 - A Man Without a Skin
    8.2/10(58 votes)

    S4:E20

    A hot dog, newspaper headline-grabbing detective has himself assigned to the 65th Precinct to find the killer of his partner. Both Lt. Parker and Det. Flint soon find that this brash and rash detective gets under their skin. He challenges their bravery and considers them to be safety first "parade cops".

    Director:George Sherman
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Naked City Season 4 Episode 31 - The S.S. American Dream
    8.2/10(52 votes)

    S4:E31

    An emotional scrap dealer wants to purchase a ship bound for salvage, but he needs at least $3000. When his business partner refuses to help, the scrapper flies into a rage and murders him at a construction site. He then turns to an unscrupulous loan shark, but can only get some of the money and the deal runs out as his conscience bears down on him.

    Director:Allen H. Miner
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Naked City Season 4 Episode 23 - The Highest of Prizes
    8.1/10(67 votes)

    S4:E23

    A jury that seems hopelessly deadlocked debates the case of a man who murdered his wife in order to be with another woman, but there might not be enough physical evidence to sway all of the jurors.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Naked City Season 4 Episode 3 - Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?
    8.0/10(84 votes)

    S4:E3

    A teenage girl is teased and handled a little roughly by four prankish teenage boys at a movie theater. The girl's father downplays the incident when the NYPD investigates. The father, a WWII combat veteran, has a plan to "save his daughter from any public embarrassment". He will hunt the boys down and mete out justice.

    Director:David Lowell Rich
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Naked City Season 4 Episode 22 - Bringing Far Places Together
    8.0/10(70 votes)

    S4:E22

    An immigrant from Puerto Rico finds that things are not better and in many ways worse since moving to NYC. The inability to speak English has lead to confusion, not being able to find a job, contempt for being an alien and misunderstanding by the police. Betrayal by one of his own people only makes it even worse.

    Director:Irvin Kershner
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Naked City Season 4 Episode 24 - Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant
    8.0/10(64 votes)

    S4:E24

    A corporate man who accidentally killed a man in a fight over a parking space mentally and physically tortures himself while the detectives search for the killer.

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Naked City Season 4 Episode 26 - On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important
    8.0/10(53 votes)

    S4:E26

    A psychotic who leads a burglary ring has an unfortunate habit of bursting into a murderous rage when things go wrong. When Adam investigates the scene of of the bloody break-ins, the head of an advertising agency offers him a lucrative position.

    Director:Robert Ellis Miller
    Writer:Howard Rodman

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  18. Naked City Season 4 Episode 8 - Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long
    7.9/10(67 votes)

    S4:E8

    To remain straight, an ex-con informs on the would-be robbers of a bar where he works, instead of helping the stickup men, his former pals. But the hoods' connection to Link Toland, a seemingly respectable businessman with serious political juice, cranks the heat way up on the young informant, his family, the investigating detectives, and even the tavern owner.

    Director:Robert Gist
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Naked City Season 4 Episode 30 - Color Schemes Like Never Before
    7.9/10(47 votes)

    S4:E30

    A man with no "point of view" is strongly attracted to an opinionated woman. After he witnesses the accidental death of a "client" of his brother and his business associates he is told to leave NYC. He resists due to his newly found love and is a danger to them. Will he tell the NYPD the true story or be killed first?

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Naked City Season 4 Episode 18 - The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree
    7.8/10(63 votes)

    S4:E18

    A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Naked City Season 4 Episode 9 - Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona
    7.7/10(52 votes)

    S4:E9

    An old, but vibrant, man is shuffled off to an "Elderly Citizen's" home by his wealthy son. Both to get his son's attention and amuse himself, the man begins to make threatening crank telephone calls. A fellow resident, a retired cop, overhears him doing this and begins to blackmail his "friend".

    Director:George Sherman
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Naked City Season 4 Episode 16 - Her Life in Moving Pictures
    7.7/10(56 votes)

    S4:E16

    The detectives try to build a case against a womanizing con man who manipulates lonely maids in order to gain their confidence and burglarize the homes of their wealthy employers. Flint is bothered by having used one woman's private diary in order to locate the man, and she is more bitter with the police for this than she is with the suspect for using her.

    Director:George Sherman
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Naked City Season 4 Episode 33 - Golden Lads and Girls
    7.7/10(68 votes)

    S4:E33

    A pair of married couples from different social and economic backgrounds find they do have something in common. The couples both are involved in physically abusive relationships and must go through the same legal system. The realization that they have similar problems despite their different stations in life is quite an eye opener.

    Director:William A. Graham
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Naked City Season 4 Episode 6 - Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring
    7.6/10(68 votes)

    S4:E6

    Former contender Johnny Meigs, eking out a living after a brain injury, pleads to go back in the ring, to get money to send his unknowing wife Kathy to compete in a floral show in Baltimore. Crooked boxing manager Gus Slate lines up an elderly, alcoholic physician to give Meigs a passing physical.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Naked City Season 4 Episode 27 - Howard Running Bear Is a Turtle
    7.6/10(57 votes)

    S4:E27

    American Indians employed in NYC as "high floor construction workers" are a close knit group that follow tribal customs. A loveless arranged marriage that has not worked out eventually leads to a fatal fight between a husband and the tribesman she really loves. Rather than telling the NYPD the truth, the tribe "honors" the dead man by saying nothing.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!" is the best rated episode of "Naked City" season 4. It scored 8.7/10 based on 92 votes. Directed by Denis Sanders and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/21/1962. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Idylls of a Running Back".