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The Worst Episodes of Naked City

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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...

Seasons4

  1. 5.2/10(52 votes)

    #1 - One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski

    S4:E32

    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.

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  2. 5.7/10(54 votes)

    #2 - No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!

    S4:E28

    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.

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  3. 5.9/10(50 votes)

    #3 - ...And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them...

    S3:E27

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

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    Director:Robert Gist
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  4. 6.0/10(68 votes)

    #4 - Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It

    S4:E15

    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.

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    Director:Alex March
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  5. 6.2/10(47 votes)

    #5 - Go Fight City Hall

    S4:E7

    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.

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  6. 6.4/10(62 votes)

    #6 - A Running of Bulls

    S1:E26

    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.

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  8. 6.5/10(49 votes)

    #7 - The Scorpion Sting

    S1:E36

    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.

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    Director:John Brahm
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  9. 6.5/10(64 votes)

    #8 - The Contract

    S3:E16

    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.

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  10. 6.7/10(71 votes)

    #9 - The Hot Minerva

    S3:E9

    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.

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  11. 6.8/10(53 votes)

    #10 - The Bloodhounds

    S1:E35

    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.

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  12. 6.8/10(51 votes)

    #11 - Saw My Baby There

    S1:E37

    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.

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  13. 6.8/10(50 votes)

    #12 - The Canvas Bullet

    S1:E38

    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.

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  14. 6.8/10(63 votes)

    #13 - A Wood of Thorns

    S1:E39

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

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  15. 6.8/10(53 votes)

    #14 - Memory of a Red Trolley Car

    S3:E32

    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.

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  16. 6.9/10(61 votes)

    #15 - Hey, Teach!

    S1:E21

    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.

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  17. 6.9/10(61 votes)

    #16 - Ticker Tape

    S1:E22

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

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  18. 6.9/10(71 votes)

    #17 - Show Me the Way to Go Home

    S3:E8

    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.

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  19. 6.9/10(80 votes)

    #18 - Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon

    S3:E10

    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.

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  20. 6.9/10(49 votes)

    #19 - Strike a Statue

    S3:E28

    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.

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    Director:John Newland
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  21. 7.0/10(58 votes)

    #20 - Ten Cent Dreams

    S1:E24

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

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    Director:John Brahm
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  22. 7.1/10(82 votes)

    #21 - Stakeout

    S1:E6

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

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  23. 7.1/10(68 votes)

    #22 - Make-Believe Man

    S2:E27

    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.

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  24. 7.2/10(108 votes)

    #23 - Line of Duty

    S1:E3

    Det. Halloran easily kills a fleeing robber who's about to shoot him, but Halloran's lingering feelings of guilt make getting through the aftermath with the man's family anguish. Halloran's wife and Lieutenant support him throughout his search for meaning.

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  25. 7.2/10(90 votes)

    #24 - The Violent Circle

    S1:E5

    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.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
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  26. 7.2/10(68 votes)

    #25 - The Explosive Heart

    S1:E14

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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski" is the worst rated episode of "Naked City". It scored 5.2/10 based on 52 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!".