- 5.2/1051 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.7/1054 votesLoading...
#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
- 5.9/1050 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.0/1068 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.2/1047 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.4/1062 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.5/1049 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.7/1064 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/1052 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/1051 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/1050 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/1063 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/1070 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.8/1053 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.9/1061 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.9/1061 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.9/1071 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.9/1049 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.0/1058 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.0/1079 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.1/1080 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.1/1066 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.2/1088 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.2/1065 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.2/1070 votesLoading...
#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
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...
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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!".