There are eight million stories in the 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 picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
Season 3 episodes
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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.
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Directed by Jules MunshinWritten by Howard RodmanGuest stars Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Campanella, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Tommy Norden, Alfred Ryder
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.
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Directed by Jack SmightGuest stars Arlene Golonka, Logan Ramsey, Jeremy Slate, Joseph Campanella, Ruth Volner
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.
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Directed by Alex MarchGuest stars Joe De Santis, Sorrell Booke, Nehemiah Persoff
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.
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Directed by Arthur HillerGuest stars Jerome Cowan, Nina Foch, Robert Loggia, Louis Sorin, Michael Tolan, Richard Ward, Luther Adler
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.
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Directed by Alex MarchWritten by Howard RodmanGuest stars Jan Sterling, Jack Klugman, Ruth White
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?
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Directed by Arthur HillerWritten by Gilbert RalstonGuest stars Jack Kruschen, Audra Lindley, Martin Balsam, Woodrow Parfrey, Murray Hamilton
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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Directed by William A. GrahamGuest stars Celia Adler, Lois Nettleton, Burt Brinckerhoff, Charles Dierkop
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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Guest stars Glynis Johns, Kurt Kasznar, Mitchell Ryan, Johnny Seven, Sorrell Booke, Brandon Maggart, Gerald Hiken, Sharon Farrell
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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Written by Howard RodmanGuest stars Marisa Pavan, Burt Reynolds, Jay Novello
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"
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Directed by Arthur HillerWritten by Howard RodmanGuest stars Maureen Stapleton, Graham Jarvis, Mickey Rooney, Louis Sorin
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.
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Directed by William ConradGuest stars Dan Tobin, Ruth McDevitt, Fred Clark, James Barton, Albert Dekker
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.
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Directed by William A. GrahamGuest stars Eileen Fulton, Jack Warden, Kim Hunter, Sylvia Miles, Sorrell Booke
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.
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Directed by David Lowell RichWritten by Howard RodmanGuest stars William Shatner, Edward McNally, Lou Antonio, Barry Morse, Theodore Bikel, Joe Silver, Doris Rich
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.
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Directed by Elliot SilversteinGuest stars Martin Sheen, Jo Van Fleet, Peter Fonda, Eli Mintz, George Voskovec
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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Written by Norman Lessing, Howard RodmanGuest stars Abraham Sofaer, James Shigeta, Conrad Yama, Robert Allen, Robert Weil
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.
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Written by Howard RodmanGuest stars Richard Conte, Anne Seymour, Eugene Roche, William Traylor
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.
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Directed by William A. GrahamGuest stars Charles Dierkop, Tuesday Weld, Rip Torn, Audra Lindley
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.
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Guest stars James Farentino, Joanne Linville, Arnold Soboloff, Michael Constantine, Louis Guss, Jack Klugman, Sorrell Booke
A mentally-stressed police officer suffers a debilitating breakdown over his family's poor financial condition, catalyzed by missing button on his uniform.
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Directed by Robert GistWritten by Howard RodmanGuest stars Milt Kamen, John Larch, Godfrey Cambridge, Roger C. Carmel, Geraldine Fitzgerald, James Greene
A middle aged hired killer, who committed his first murder for pay at age 14,is hunted both by organized crime which has put out a contract on his life and the police. Needing a bankroll for leaving the country, the killer hires an "arm". The expert craps player he has chosen to win him money is as unpredictable as the roll of the dice.
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Directed by David Lowell RichWritten by Howard RodmanGuest stars Lois Nettleton, Eli Wallach, Keenan Wynn
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.
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Directed by David Lowell RichGuest stars Madeleine Sherwood, Stuart Damon, Edward Andrews, Robert Duvall, Doris Rich, Jean Muir
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.
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Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars William Shatner, Martin Balsam
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.
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Directed by Robert GistWritten by Arnold ManoffGuest stars Peter Falk, Neville Brand, Mitchell Ryan
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.
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Guest stars Lincoln Kilpatrick, Patrick O'Neal, Mel Ruick, Nina Foch, Ruth Volner
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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Directed by John NewlandWritten by Howard RodmanGuest stars Lois Smith, George C. Scott, Rosemary Murphy, Paul Richards
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.
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Directed by David Lowell RichGuest stars Jean Stapleton, David Wayne, Nancy Marchand
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.
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Directed by David Lowell RichGuest stars Barbara Baxley, Michael McGreevey, Jack Warden
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.
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Directed by John BrahmGuest stars Kathryn Hays, Ruth Ford, Carol Eve Rossen, Michael Tolan
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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Directed by Lawrence DohenyGuest stars Sid Raymond, Gladys Cooper, Beatrice Straight, Barry Morse, Joseph Campanella
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.
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Directed by Robert GistGuest stars Carroll O'Connor, James Coburn, Salome Jens, Irene Dailey
