Naked City Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1958 - May 1963
Sep 1958 - May 1963
5.6
Browse episode ratings trends for Naked City. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Naked City's 138 episodes.
S4 Ep13
10.0
12th Dec 1962
Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.
S2 Ep27
9.0
17th May 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.
S3 Ep4
8.5
18th Oct 1961
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.
S3 Ep31
8.0
6th Jun 1962
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.
S2 Ep32
8.0
21st Jun 1961
A once wealthy family is now penniless. To "keep up appearances" and somewhat live as they became accustomed to,they invent a rather novel solution. They rob their friends,pawn the items, use the cash to buy and sell stocks (that their unerring housekeeper selects), redeem the stolen items and return them to their owners.
S2 Ep31
8.0
14th Jun 1961
The NYPD is shorthanded, overworked and sleep deprived due to various conventions being held at the same time in Manhattan. When a visiting conventioneer is found brutally murdered Lt. Parker has no choice but to send an exhausted Sgt. Arcaro out to investigate.An unlikely person emerges as a prime suspect.
S2 Ep29
8.0
31st May 1961
A well organized team of extortionists kidnap a group of businessmen on a chartered fishing boat. Ransom amounts and instructions are phoned to the victims' wives. The NYPD becomes involved in the case when the charter boat captain is found tied up and drugged-but alive. Meanwhile, the businessmen plan a revolt.
S2 Ep28
8.0
24th May 1961
A lonely woman falls in love with a man she meets through an escort service. Assuming they will marry, she becomes hysterical and accidentally stabs him upon finding out that he is already married. Desperate and in a panic, she tries to figure out what to do while at the same time the NYPD tracks her down.
S2 Ep26
8.0
10th May 1961
After quarreling with his wife Martha, chemistry professor James Fallon goes out and drowns his troubles in drink.
S2 Ep25
8.0
3rd May 1961
An old couple are swindled and lied to by a fellow Hungarian refugee who claimed to have contact with their granddaughter behind the Iron Curtain. After being exposed, the man names a community activist now living in NYC who committed a worse crime-a crime which led to the death of 100 families in 1956 Hungary.
S2 Ep24
8.0
26th Apr 1961
A gangland syndicate headed by lawyer Roy Baxter has been collecting protection money from Joe and Mama Ganoulian, owners of a local restaurant. The Ganoulians hire protection called Lee Staunton to free them from the extortionists.
S2 Ep22
8.0
12th Apr 1961
A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.
S2 Ep21
8.0
5th Apr 1961
Four young men decide to make known their concern about the problems of the world. They use a unique method to get everyone's attention - they randomly murder derelicts and leave clues that will lead back to themselves. The four believe strongly in their cause and will sacrifice their lives. Are they sane or hopelessly mad?
S2 Ep16
8.0
22nd Feb 1961
Ex-con panics when his own loan shark gets killed at his gas station. He tosses his own gun onto a passing truck, doubting the police will buy his story. Idealistic young Det. Adam Flint believes he's chasing justice for a reformed businessman, but everyone one else in the bureau feels he's chasing a phantom.
S2 Ep12
8.0
18th Jan 1961
A talented artist who does not know his identity is a prisoner in a sanitarium. His long-term captivity ends due to the mention of an artist's name in the newspaper and a fluke opportunity to escape.He makes his way to Manhattan to see an auction of work by the man named in the paper-a man who died 20 years ago.
S2 Ep9
8.0
14th Dec 1960
Dying crook Wicklow heists a museum's entire diamond exhibit. A gemologist sneers that the rocks are well-known to be plastic duplicates. Why pull an elaborate Rififi and kill a guard for such paste, the detectives wonder
S1 Ep15
7.7
6th Jan 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.
S1 Ep12
7.7
16th Dec 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.
S3 Ep3
7.5
11th Oct 1961
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.
S2 Ep20
7.5
22nd Mar 1961
An actor, down on his luck, resorts to murder in order to raise the cash needed to pay his rent.
S1 Ep4
7.5
21st Oct 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.
S3 Ep12
7.3
27th Dec 1961
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.
S2 Ep1
7.3
12th Oct 1960
Detective walks from icing surrendering shooter Gimpy, so his commander asks Adam to volunteer to spy him. Adam struggles with taking the assignment on gun-happy comrade Bane, whose jacket includes 2 other recent kills, but many medals.
S4 Ep10
7.0
21st Nov 1962
An almost-blind young man roams the streets of New York after separating from his class, while his teacher (Diahann Carroll) attempts to convince his parents that the boy can learn to ably use his limited sight and not become completely blind.
S4 Ep3
7.0
3rd Oct 1962
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.
S4 Ep2
7.0
26th Sep 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.
S3 Ep32
7.0
13th Jun 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.
S3 Ep28
7.0
16th May 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.
S4 Ep1
5.0
19th Sep 1962
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.
S2 Ep8
5.5
30th Nov 1960
A wealthy playboy is dead from an icepick wound. He died in the upscale apartment of a woman whose ex-husband is a notorious gambling czar. The lady freely admits she killed the playboy - in defending her daughter from his advances. Lt. Parker and Det. Flint have the same feeling - "something about her story stinks"
S1 Ep19
6.0
3rd Feb 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.
S1 Ep26
6.0
24th Mar 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.
S3 Ep13
6.0
3rd Jan 1962
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.
S3 Ep15
6.0
17th Jan 1962
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.
S3 Ep26
6.0
25th Apr 1962
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.
S3 Ep33
6.0
20th Jun 1962
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.
S4 Ep7
6.0
31st Oct 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.
S4 Ep9
6.0
14th Nov 1962
An old, but vibrant, man is shuffled off to an "Elderly Citizen's" home by his wealthy son. Both to get his son's attention and amuse himself, the man begins to make threatening crank telephone calls. A fellow resident, a retired cop, overhears him doing this and begins to blackmail his "friend".
S4 Ep11
6.0
28th Nov 1962
An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.
S1 Ep13
6.2
23rd Dec 1958
The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.
S1 Ep6
6.3
4th Nov 1958
A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.
S2 Ep15
6.3
15th Feb 1961
Four people, involved in the Manhattan fur trade, join together to steal fur coats valued at over $1,000,000 from a fashion show held at the Governor Clinton Hotel. The thieves have various motives for committing the crime. The ringleader's plan to leave his long-time wife for a tempestuous model complicates matters.
S1 Ep1
6.4
30th Sep 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..
S1 Ep16
6.5
13th Jan 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.
S1 Ep18
6.5
27th Jan 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.
S1 Ep28
6.5
7th Apr 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.
S1 Ep29
6.5
14th Apr 1959
A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.
S1 Ep32
6.5
5th May 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.
S1 Ep33
6.5
12th May 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.
S2 Ep10
6.5
4th Jan 1961
A series of armed robberies made by four masked men eventually lead to a bar killing and public "second guessing" of Adam's handling of the situation. At the same time a resident doctor has his brother pressure him to help treat one of the hold-up men who has been shot. Adam and the NYPD doggedly pursue the case
S2 Ep18
6.5
8th Mar 1961
An investigation into the shooting deaths of an NYPD uniformed patrolman and a citizen leads to a tangled web of ex-Nazi's and concentration camp survivors.
S3 Ep9
6.5
29th Nov 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.
S4 Ep6
6.5
24th Oct 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.
S1 Ep7
6.6
11th Nov 1958
A young gang member is assigned to perform a revenge shooting after a member of his own gang is killed.
S1 Ep10
6.7
2nd Dec 1958
New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes.
S1 Ep17
6.7
20th Jan 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.
S1 Ep1
6.4
30th Sep 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..
S1 Ep2
6.7
7th Oct 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.
S1 Ep3
7.0
14th Oct 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.
S1 Ep4
7.5
21st Oct 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.
S1 Ep5
7.0
28th Oct 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.
S1 Ep6
6.3
4th Nov 1958
A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.
S1 Ep7
6.6
11th Nov 1958
A young gang member is assigned to perform a revenge shooting after a member of his own gang is killed.
S1 Ep8
7.0
18th Nov 1958
A thief assaults milkmen and steals their uniforms in order to gain access to and rob from wealthy people's apartment buildings.
S1 Ep9
7.0
25th Nov 1958
A tiny island in Long Island Sound, ""Execution Rock,"" becomes a refuge for a frightened girl hiding from criminals.
S1 Ep10
6.7
2nd Dec 1958
New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes.
S1 Ep11
7.0
9th Dec 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.
S1 Ep12
7.7
16th Dec 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.
S1 Ep13
6.2
23rd Dec 1958
The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.
S1 Ep14
6.8
30th Dec 1958
The detectives fight against time to unravel a plan to murder a Commander aboard his yacht.
S1 Ep15
7.7
6th Jan 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.
S1 Ep16
6.5
13th Jan 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.
S1 Ep17
6.7
20th Jan 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.
S1 Ep18
6.5
27th Jan 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.
S1 Ep19
6.0
3rd Feb 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.
S1 Ep20
10th Feb 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.
S1 Ep21
17th Feb 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.
S1 Ep22
24th Feb 1959
The detectives work to stymie a bomb threat during a ticker-tape parade for an Olympic champion.
S1 Ep23
3rd Mar 1959
The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.
S1 Ep24
7.0
10th Mar 1959
A young immigrant hits a big score playing the numbers racket, but runs into complications collecting his winnings.
S1 Ep25
7.0
17th Mar 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.
S1 Ep26
6.0
24th Mar 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.
S1 Ep27
31st Mar 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.
S1 Ep28
6.5
7th Apr 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.
S1 Ep29
6.5
14th Apr 1959
A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.
S1 Ep30
21st Apr 1959
A cleaning woman, tired of her hardscrabble life, robs a bank in an attempt to buy happiness.
S1 Ep31
7.0
28th Apr 1959
A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.
S1 Ep32
6.5
5th May 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.
S1 Ep33
6.5
12th May 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.
S1 Ep34
7.0
19th May 1959
A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.
S1 Ep35
7.0
26th May 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.
S1 Ep36
7.0
2nd Jun 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.
S1 Ep37
7.0
9th Jun 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.
S1 Ep38
7.0
16th Jun 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.
S1 Ep39
7.0
23rd Jun 1959
To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution.
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The first episode of Naked City aired on September 30, 1958.
The last episode of Naked City aired on May 29, 1963.
There are 138 episodes of Naked City.
There are 4 seasons of Naked City.
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Naked City has ended.