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Naked City Season 1

September. 30,1958

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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”.

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1958 / TV-MA

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Cast

Harry Bellaver, Paul Burke

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Screen Gems Television

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Drama Crime

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Naked City Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 39 - A Wood of Thorns

First Aired: June. 23,1959

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

Episode 38 - The Canvas Bullet

First Aired: June. 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.

Episode 37 - Saw My Baby There

First Aired: June. 09,1959

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.

Episode 36 - The Scorpion Sting

First Aired: June. 02,1959

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.

Episode 35 - The Bloodhounds

First Aired: May. 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.

Episode 34 - A Little Piece of the Action

First Aired: May. 19,1959

A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.

Episode 33 - Turn of Events

First Aired: May. 12,1959

A sleazy private detective, well known to Detective Parker, is murdered while on a case to find a mysterious young lady who worked in a dance club.

Episode 32 - The Sandman

First Aired: May. 05,1959

Halloran goes undercover at a construction yard to see if he can find a connection between a mob-hit victim and the mobster who likely ordered the hit.

Episode 31 - Four Sweet Corners

First Aired: April. 28,1959

A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.

Episode 30 - The Rebirth

First Aired: April. 21,1959

A cleaning woman, tired of her hardscrabble life, robs a bank in an attempt to buy happiness.

Episode 29 - Baker's Dozen

First Aired: April. 14,1959

A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.

Episode 28 - Beyond Truth

First Aired: April. 07,1959

A recurring nightmare haunts a murderer - that he's been framed. But when his loving wife begs the 65th Precinct's skeptical detectives to re-investigate, Arnold Fleischman refuses to co-operate with the police.

Episode 27 - Fallen Star

First Aired: March. 31,1959

A young hotel bellhop is mixed up with a gang of card sharps preying upon the convention crowd, and who are responsible for the killing of one of their victims.

Episode 26 - A Running of Bulls

First Aired: March. 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.

Episode 25 - The Bumper

First Aired: March. 17,1959

After Lt. Muldoon is killed in a car wreck deliberately caused by a mob hit man, the detectives pull out all the stops in their search for the killer.

Episode 24 - Ten Cent Dreams

First Aired: March. 10,1959

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

Episode 23 - Fire Island

First Aired: March. 03,1959

The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.

Episode 22 - Ticker Tape

First Aired: February. 24,1959

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

Episode 21 - Hey, Teach!

First Aired: February. 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.

Episode 20 - One to Get Lost

First Aired: February. 10,1959

George Blake regrets having strayed from his wife, and terminates the affair just moments before the woman is murdered by another jealous man. Blake is the prime suspect, and works to clear his name and find the killer.

Episode 19 - The Shield

First Aired: February. 03,1959

Lt. Muldoon counsels the son of a patrolman who is trying to join the force, despite his mother's wishes that he not follow in his father's footsteps.

Episode 18 - Goodbye, My Lady Love

First Aired: January. 27,1959

Matty, a down-and-out alcoholic in the Bowery, is accused of robbing and murdering a man, then using the stolen money to buy a horse-drawn cart.

Episode 17 - Burst of Passion

First Aired: January. 20,1959

Detective Halloran helps hunt down a man whom he knows, and who has always been a well-liked solid citizen before suddenly snapping and going on a killing spree throughout the city.

Episode 16 - Even Crows Sing Good

First Aired: January. 13,1959

In a vicious downpour, a killer prods a terrified man forward using a huge spear-gun. The man with the spear-gun is a meek New Yorker living with his mother, who disapproves of her son's fiancée.

Episode 15 - The Manhole

First Aired: January. 06,1959

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.

Episode 14 - The Explosive Heart

First Aired: December. 30,1958

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

Episode 13 - And a Merry Christmas to the Force on Patrol

First Aired: December. 23,1958

The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.

Episode 12 - Susquehanna 4-7598

First Aired: December. 16,1958

A naïve young woman, Carol Thomas, fresh to New York, gets a mysterious phone call on her new line from a woman who sounds to be in the process of being murdered. Carol is unable to get prompt action from the police, so she ill-advisedly decides to play detective herself.

Episode 11 - Lady Bug, Lady Bug

First Aired: December. 09,1958

A wealthy industrialist refuses to give in to an extortionist's demands even after the extortionist brutally assaults a neighbor girl and threatens the life of the man's alienated son.

Episode 10 - The Other Face of Goodness

First Aired: December. 02,1958

New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes.

Episode 9 - The Bird Guard

First Aired: November. 25,1958

A tiny island in Long Island Sound, ""Execution Rock,"" becomes a refuge for a frightened girl hiding from criminals.

Episode 8 - Belvedere Tower

First Aired: November. 18,1958

A thief assaults milkmen and steals their uniforms in order to gain access to and rob from wealthy people's apartment buildings.

Episode 7 - No More Rumbles

First Aired: November. 11,1958

A young gang member is assigned to perform a revenge shooting after a member of his own gang is killed.

Episode 6 - Stakeout

First Aired: November. 04,1958

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

Episode 5 - The Violent Circle

First Aired: October. 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.

Episode 4 - Sidewalk Fisherman

First Aired: October. 21,1958

Gio, who lives by fishing coins out of sidewalk grates, longs to adopt an orphaned boy who he spins yarns for, as if Gio actually was a courageous deep-sea fisherman. By working 16 hours a day, old Gio saves money to adopt the boy, but in doing so violates the territorial rights of a local gang, who try to kill Gio.

Episode 3 - Line of Duty

First Aired: October. 14,1958

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.

Episode 2 - Nickel Ride

First Aired: October. 07,1958

The detectives visit the aging captain of the Staten Island Ferry at the same time that armed robbers are executing a daring heist of an armored car traveling on the ferry.

Episode 1 - Meridian

First Aired: September. 30,1958

Detective Halloran's first day as a detective brings him face-to-face with a cop killer and his accomplice who're holding hostages at the New York Coliseum..