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The Worst Episodes of Naked City

Every episode of Naked City ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Naked City!

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...
Genres:DramaCrimeAction & Adventure
Network:ABC

Worst Episodes Summary

"One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski" is the worst rated episode of "Naked City". It scored 5.2/10 based on 51 votes. Directed by Robert Ellis Miller and written by N/A, it aired on 5/15/1963. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!".

  • One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski
    5.2/1051 votes
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    #1 - One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski

    Season 4 Episode 32 - Aired 5/15/1963

    The tension between a stock worker and his boss in a cardboard packaging plant, over a co-worker they both are in love with, escalates into a major fight. The police are called, but then the boss refuses to press charges against the employee. But the situation only gets worse.

    Director: Robert Ellis Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!
    5.7/1054 votes
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    #2 - No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!

    Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 4/17/1963

    An immature man is the landlord of a house who is given to act irrationally because of the memory of his overbearing, deceased father. When his fiancée is visiting from Italy, he panics at the thought of marrying her, and stages stunts like trying to set the house on fire and refusing his tenants' rent money.

    Director: Ralph Senensky

    Writer: N/A

  • ...And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them...
    5.9/1050 votes
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    #3 - ...And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them...

    Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 5/9/1962

    Detective Flint strives to stop his aging Romanian friend from using his big wedding party as cover for a bank robbery.

    Director: Robert Gist

    Writer: N/A

  • Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It
    6.0/1068 votes
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    #4 - Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1962

    Two Las Vegas showgirls travel to New York for the purpose of abducting a married psychiatrist with whom one of the women had an affair. The apparent motivation is to force the man to leave his wife for the Las Vegas dancer.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

  • Go Fight City Hall
    6.2/1047 votes
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    #5 - Go Fight City Hall

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1962

    A subway fare taker who tried to hide his drunken escapades by falsely reporting a crime, goes on a mini crime spree to try to make fools of the investigating detectives.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • A Running of Bulls
    6.4/1062 votes
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    #6 - A Running of Bulls

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/24/1959

    The detectives are assigned to protect visiting Latin Americans dignitaries, including the adolescent son of a dictator and his bodyguard, a former bullfighter who is involved in a plot to kill the young man.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • The Scorpion Sting
    6.5/1049 votes
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    #7 - The Scorpion Sting

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/2/1959

    The detectives investigate the source of numerous death threats that have been sent to a high-powered Madison Avenue agent having many real and perceived enemies.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Contract
    6.7/1064 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • The Bloodhounds
    6.8/1052 votes
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    #9 - The Bloodhounds

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/26/1959

    The detectives babysit a couple of bloodhounds belonging to a man involved in an auto accident, putting the dogs to good use while searching for a missing girl.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • Saw My Baby There
    6.8/1051 votes
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    #10 - Saw My Baby There

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/9/1959

    A pregnant woman's father is trying to kill her husband in order to cover up a stolen goods racket in which the two have been involved.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • The Canvas Bullet
    6.8/1050 votes
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    #11 - The Canvas Bullet

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/16/1959

    A washed-up boxer needs fast money and desperately wants to get back into the ring to earn it despite knowing his health is at risk.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • A Wood of Thorns
    6.8/1063 votes
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    #12 - A Wood of Thorns

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/23/1959

    To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hot Minerva
    6.8/1070 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Memory of a Red Trolley Car
    6.8/1053 votes
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    #14 - Memory of a Red Trolley Car

    Season 3 Episode 32 - Aired 6/13/1962

    A chemistry professor develops mental confusion symptoms after being exposed to a dangerous chemical spill, and the detectives race against the clock to find him before his condition deteriorates fatally.

    Director: Lawrence Doheny

    Writer: N/A

  • Hey, Teach!
    6.9/1061 votes
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    #15 - Hey, Teach!

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1959

    Halloran goes undercover as the home room teacher for a "modified-curriculum" high school class after their previous home room teacher fell out of the window to his death.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • Ticker Tape
    6.9/1061 votes
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    #16 - Ticker Tape

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1959

    The detectives work to stymie a bomb threat during a ticker-tape parade for an Olympic champion.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • Show Me the Way to Go Home
    6.9/1071 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Strike a Statue
    6.9/1049 votes
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    #18 - Strike a Statue

    Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 5/16/1962

    A renowned sculptor "immortalizing a moment in time" of a reviled European dictator is warned to stop working on the project. The men warning him, formerly supporters of the dictator but presently seeking his overthrow, are violent. The sculptor refuses to cease working as to him Art is not involved in politics.

    Director: John Newland

    Writer: N/A

  • Ten Cent Dreams
    7.0/1058 votes
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    #19 - Ten Cent Dreams

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1959

    A young immigrant hits a big score playing the numbers racket, but runs into complications collecting his winnings.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon
    7.0/1079 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • Stakeout
    7.1/1080 votes
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    #21 - Stakeout

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1958

    A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • Make-Believe Man
    7.1/1066 votes
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    #22 - Make-Believe Man

    Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 5/17/1961

    Officer Gode informs the detectives that one of his homeless men, a Frank Manfred, has disappeared and that some of the other Bowery citizens say he was kidnapped. The detectives are skeptical but follow up. Manfred has become the pawn in a South American Revolution. He is being used by Carlos Ruldan to impersonate a revolutionary leader named Colonel Bryar whom the people loved. When men with South American ties begin turning up dead the detectives believe there may be something to this kidnapping story.

    Director: Elliot Silverstein

    Writer: N/A

  • The Violent Circle
    7.2/1088 votes
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    #23 - The Violent Circle

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1958

    Detective Halloran goes undercover as a patient in a hospital mental ward in an attempt to identify the murderer of patient who was a witness in a gang killing.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: N/A

  • The Explosive Heart
    7.2/1065 votes
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    #24 - The Explosive Heart

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1958

    The detectives fight against time to unravel a plan to murder a Commander aboard his yacht.

    Director: William Beaudine

    Writer: N/A

  • The Manhole
    7.2/1070 votes
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    #25 - The Manhole

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1959

    When an elderly sewer worker learns that his son is the leader of a street gang, he begs him vainly to reform, and then tells police about his association. When the gang uses the sewers to escape after a jewel robbery, the old man follows them into the underground passages.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A