Naked City (1958)
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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2x01 A Death of Princes
13 October, 1960 6:00 am
A crooked detective masterminds a box office robbery during a charity boxing event by forcing a prizefighter, a playboy, and the cashier to cooperate with him under threat of arresting them for previous crimes.
2x02 The Pedigree Sheet
20 October, 1960 6:00 am
The only survivor survivor of a car wreck, Nora Condon, is brought in by the police. The driver was shot just before the crash and the other passenger was known as a gunman.
2x03 A Succession of Heartbeats
27 October, 1960 6:00 am
When a wealthy playboy and his girlfriend are found murdered in his apartment, police suspect the woman's husband of the crime. But he proves he was out of town at the time, and a discarded girlfriend of the playboy comes forward to confess.
2x04 Down the Long Night
03 November, 1960 6:00 am
The owner of a printing plant that burned down, killing his neighbor's wife and daughter, begs police for protection from the man, who, certain that he set the fire himself, is threatening to kill him.
2x05 To Walk In Silence
10 November, 1960 6:00 am
A Wall Street financial expert who plays the horses is accidentally shot in the bookie joint. Afraid of jeopardizing his position, he refuses to allow police to extract the bullet and testify against the culprit. Then his daughter is kidnapped by thugs who want him to testify.
2x06 Killer with A Kiss
17 November, 1960 6:00 am
Trying to track down a psychopathic killer who's been stabbing patrolmen, police get a lead when they find a surgical knife along with a toy colonel figure with its head twisted off.
2x07 Debt of Honor
24 November, 1960 6:00 am
A gambler, indebted to a man in Italy who saved his life, marries the man's daughter so that se can enter America. Upon her arrival she finds him in big trouble with the underworld and she runs away.
2x08 The Human Trap
01 December, 1960 6:00 am
After accidentally killing her playboy lover after finding he's dating her daughter, a divorcee persuades the girl to go along with her story that she was protecting her daughter from the drunken man's advances.
2x09 The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half
15 December, 1960 6:00 am
Police are baffled when jewel thieves kill a night watchman and steal a plastic replica of a diamond. The gang's using it so that their diamond cutter can practice to be ready when they steal the real thing.
2x10 Bullets Cost Too Much
05 January, 1961 6:00 am
Three hoods hold up a bar where Flint is making a routine check. Keeping his gun hidden to avoid injuries, he's branded a coward by newspapers after a protesting customer is killed by one of the thugs.
2x11 Murder Is a Face I Know
12 January, 1961 6:00 am
A loving, law-abiding family man is arrested one day after he massacres the crew of a cabin cruiser on the Hudson River. His wife and son must face the fact that he's secretly been a hitman for a gang lord.
2x12 Landscape with Dead Figures
19 January, 1961 6:00 am
A half-crazed artist, institutionalized by his cousin who arranged for a false death certificate, escapes during a period of lucidity and finds his uncompleted paintings have been finished by another artist and are about to make a fortune for his cousin in an art gallery.
2x13 A Hole in the City
02 February, 1961 6:00 am
Three men hold up an armored car and escape into the Bronx, followed by police. They take refuge with the aunt of the gangleader, whose personality starts to disintegrate as he relives his unfortunate past.
2x14 The Well-Dressed Termite
09 February, 1961 6:00 am
When a man electrocutes his partner as they're wiretapping the phone of a member of a financial combine, his bail is arranged by a senior partner in the firm, whose actions lead to death for his partners.
2x15 The Day It Rained Mink
16 February, 1961 6:00 am
After meeting a model, a man decides he needs some quick money to divorce his wife. Learning of a fur coat exhibit in a local hotel, he maps out a robbery plan which should net him $250,000.
2x16 Button in the Haystack
23 February, 1961 6:00 am
When a parolee discovers a corpse in a parked car in his service station, he panics and throws the gun he bought for protection into a passing truck. When he's later suspected of the crime, that gun is the only evidence that can prove his innocence.
2x17 Shoes for Vinnie Winford
02 March, 1961 6:00 am
When a hostess at the Tango Dance Palace reports a co-worker has been missing for three days, the owner tells police he’s never heard of the girl. After investigating the man’s past, Flint finds that the girl is in a private hospital after being beaten up by the psychotic man.
2x18 The Deadly Guinea Pig
09 March, 1961 6:00 am
After a gun battle leaves the corpses of a policeman and an unidentified man, police find that the policeman was actually a woman in disguise, and the man an ex-Nazi SS officer.
2x19 Vengeance Is a Wheel
16 March, 1961 6:00 am
When an old night watchman, patriarch of an Italian family, is killed during a waterfront robbery, his family swears vengeance on the killers, refusing to cooperate with police.
2x20 The Fault in Our Stars
23 March, 1961 6:00 am
An unemployed actor, behind in his rent and locked out of his room, robs and strangles three cab drivers, leaving behind a script which Flint’s girlfriend recognizes is from an off-Broadway play.
2x21 Tombstone for a Derelict
06 April, 1961 7:00 am
Four young men are stabbing vagrants to death and leaving swastikas nearby, a clue to their identities which goes unnoticed by police until the men, dressed as Nazis, stage a parade behind a tenement house.
2x22 A Memory of Crying
13 April, 1961 7:00 am
After four bad marriages, a machine-like man finally weds a woman for whom he feels real affection. When she dies in childbirth, his mind snaps and he uses a gun to get the $3,000 he feels he owes the doctor.
2x23 New York to L.A.
20 April, 1961 7:00 am
Flint and another detective are sent to L.A. to extradite two brothers wanted for murder in New York. The psychiatrist from the orphanage where they were raised vainly tries to fight the extradition. Upon leaving the court, one of the men kills a guard and escapes.
2x24 A Very Cautious Boy
27 April, 1961 7:00 am
A gangland syndicate headed by a lawyer has been collecting protection money from a couple who own a restaurant. They decide to fight back by hiring a strongarm man to free them from the extortion ring.
2x25 An Economy of Death
04 May, 1961 6:00 am
Separated from their granddaughter during the Revolution, a Hungarian couple hire a man to find her, and they learn that an honored member of the community gave information to the enemy that led to the massacre in which their son was killed.
2x26 C3H5(NO3)3
11 May, 1961 6:00 am
After quarrelling with his wife, a chemistry professor goes out and gets drunk. He fills an empty whisky bottle with nitroglycerin, planning to blow up his wife and his home, then loses the bottle. When he sobers up, he goes to the police, who begin a frantic search for the bottle.
2x27 Make-Believe Man
18 May, 1961 6:00 am
A South American revolutionary, seeing that a Bowery bum is a dead ringer for his country’s legendary hero, whisks the derelict away to sober him up and use him to get backing for his planned coup.
2x28 To Dream Without Sleep
25 May, 1961 6:00 am
A lonely young woman joins an escort service and meets a man who leads her to believe he wants to marry her. Horror-stricken when she learns he’s already married, she stabs him and then wanders around the city.
2x29 A Kettle of Precious Fish
01 June, 1961 6:00 am
Seven business executives, holding a conference aboard a fishing ship, are overtaken by a gangster and his mob, who demand their wives pay a ransom for their safe return.
2x30 Sweet Prince of Delancey Street
08 June, 1961 6:00 am
When a plant guard is killed, a recently fired man and his son each claim they accidentally killed him. Police don’t know who’s covering for whom, but the guilt shifts when they find some industrial diamonds have been missing since the murder took place.
2x31 The Day the Island Almost Sank
15 June, 1961 6:00 am
With several conventions in the city, all the hotels are occupied, and a visitor who’s had too much to drink collapses on the train steps, where he was told he could sleep. A private policeman hired by the city beats him to death and steals his money.
2x32 Take and Put
22 June, 1961 6:00 am
When a wealthy couple uses up their money, they make a plan with their maid: she “borrows” jewelry from their party guests, they pawn it and invest the money in quick-profit stocks, then return the jewelry before police are called in.
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