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Naked City

There are eight million stories in the Naked City.

  • 1958 – 1963
  • Ended
  • Drama · Crime · Action & Adventure
  • 4 seasons
  • 5.7/10

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”.

Latest: Season 4 · 1962

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  1. E1. Hold for Gloria Christmas

    Sep 19, 1962 · 60m

    Poet Duncan Kleist breaks out of a hospital alcholic ward to retrieve some verses he traded for drinks. But Stanley, the bartender who now has the poems, tells Duncan he will have to buy them back.

  2. E2. Idylls of a Running Back

    Sep 26, 1962

    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.

  3. E3. Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?

    Oct 3, 1962 · 60m

    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.

  4. E4. And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...

    Oct 10, 1962

    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.

  5. E5. Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy

    Oct 17, 1962 · 60m

    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.

  6. E6. Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring

    Oct 24, 1962

    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.

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