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Naked City

THERE ARE EIGHT MILLION STORIES IN THE NAKED CITY... One of the most innovative police shows in television history, and hailed by Time magazine as "not just another cop show," NAKED CITY puts a human face on crime, going beyond a simplistic portrayal of good vs. evil to delve into the complex personal dramas of the people involved.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Meridian
    September 29, 1958
    26min
    7+
    Shortly after being assigned to work together, Muldoon and Halloran are called to the lavish New York Coliseum, where two young thugs who've just shot a policeman during a robbery have taken two sporting-goods clerks as hostages. With Eli Wallach.
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  2. S1 E2 - Nickel Ride
    October 6, 1958
    26min
    7+
    Muldoon and Halloran board the Staten Island Ferry to persuade an old friend , the ferryboat captain, to retire. A gang holds up an armored car carrying bank deposits, and the mob's leader shoots a fireman in the engine room, where the two policemen are stopped at gunpoint.
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  3. S1 E3 - Line of Duty
    October 13, 1958
    26min
    7+
    After killing his first man in the line of duty, Halloran is overcome with remorse, made worse when his victim's mother hysterically calls him a murderer.
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  4. S1 E4 - Sidewalk Fisherman
    October 20, 1958
    26min
    7+
    An elderly friend of Muldoon's ekes out his living by retrieving coins dropped through subway gratings, and has saved enough to adopt an eight -year-old orphan, but he's turned down because he has no permanent residence.
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  5. S1 E5 - Violent Circle
    October 27, 1958
    26min
    7+
    After witnessing a man murdered by a gangster, a man is so shocked chat he's committed to a mental hospital. When he's murdered to ensure that he won't testify in the case, Halloran is admitted to the hospital as a patient in an effort to find the murderer.
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  6. S1 E6 - Stakeout
    November 3, 1958
    26min
    7+
    When a detective friend of Muldoon's is killed on duty, his partner reports that he was shot while running away. Not believing his friend to be a coward, Muldoon gets the partner assigned to him during a stakeout designed to trap the killers, and finds out who the real coward was.
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  7. S1 E7 - No More Rumbles
    November 10, 1958
    26min
    7+
    When a teenage gang member is killed during a street war, the detectives go to the dress factory where one of the members works to persuade him to identify the killer.
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  8. S1 E8 - Belvedere Tower
    November 17, 1958
    26min
    7+
    A robber attacks milkmen and dons their uniforms to gain entry to the homes of wealthy people away for the summer. After killing a policeman who's discovered him, he takes refuge in a weather station in Central Park, armed with a shotgun.
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  9. S1 E9 - The Bird Guard
    November 24, 1958
    26min
    7+
    After a man is murdered by gangsters, Halloran tries to protect the victim's girlfriend who's the next target. He and the girl end up surrounded by four mobsters in a lighthouse on a small island.
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  10. S1 E10 - The Other Face of Goodness
    December 1, 1958
    26min
    7+
    A college student on the brink of insanity, after reading accounts of a frantic search for the killer of several young pregnant women, confesses to the murders. Released after police conclude his innocence, his mind cracks when he hears that the real killer has been found, and he tries to strangle a pregnant neighbor.
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  11. S1 E11 - Lady Bug, Lady Bug
    December 8, 1958
    26min
    7+
    An extortionist forces a man to collect $250,000 from residents of fashionable Sutton Place, but the man decides to go to the police, though in doing so, he puts his son's life on the line.
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  12. S1 E12 - Suquehanna 4-7568
    December 15, 1958
    26min
    7+
    Police are skeptical of a woman's story that she answered her phone and heard a lady being murdered. A reporter prints her story and she's contacted by a young man whom she begins to date. When Muldoon learns some information that makes him believe the woman, he trails his lead to her suitor's place of work, where he's about to kill her after confessing to the murder she heard on the phone.
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  13. S1 E13 - And a Merry Christmas to the Force on Patrol
    December 22, 1958
    26min
    7+
    An officer is stabbed in a Christmas Eve liquor store stakeout with Muldoon, and Halloran is called in to hunt for one of the robbers who escaped.
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  14. S1 E14 - The Explosive Heart
    December 29, 1958
    26min
    7+
    Waking up in a hospital after almost being killed by her husband's beating, a woman tells police that he has planted a bomb on her father's yacht.
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  15. S1 E15 - The Manhole
    January 5, 1959
    26min
    7+
    When an elderly sewer worker learns that his son is the leader of a street gang, he begs him to reform, and then tells police about his association.
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  16. S1 E16 - Even Crows Sing Good
    January 12, 1959
    26min
    7+
    A woman who's been kept from marrying her boyfriend because they're poor wins $1600 in the numbers game and tells her fiance she inherited the money. But when she goes to collect it, she's badly beaten by a racketeer, and her fiance goes after him with a gun.
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  17. S1 E17 - Burst of Passion
    January 19, 1959
    26min
    7+
    One of the most respectable people in Halloran's neighborhood suddenly goes berserk and starts shooting shopkeepers and their customers. Halloran remembers that the man has taken some children on a picnic to Coney Island and and tails him there to beg him to surrender.
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  18. S1 E18 - Goodbye My Lady Love
    January 26, 1959
    26min
    7+
    Matty, a derelict who dreams of returning to his hometown on a white stallion, buys a horse after some $100 bills land in his lap. The money had blown away from a hood who had just murdered a man, and Matty is arrested for the crime, as his Bowery friends search for the killer.
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  19. S1 E19 - The Shield
    February 2, 1959
    26min
    7+
    When a patrolman is stabbed by a suspected murderer, his son, consumed with desire to be a policeman, unofficially takes over his father's beat against the pleas of Muldoon. With Jack Klugman.
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  20. S1 E20 - One to Get Lost
    February 9, 1959
    26min
    7+
    A man is sought by police after his wife's murder because his cigarette case was found in her apartment, but he believes the real murderer is an elevator operator whom he sets out with a gun to find.
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  21. S1 E21 - Hey, Teach!
    February 16, 1959
    26min
    7+
    When a teacher is found dead on the sidewalk below his third story classroom, Halloran poses as his replacement in the delinquent-ridden school, hoping to crack the case.
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  22. S1 E22 - Ticker Tape
    February 23, 1959
    26min
    7+
    Police receive a phone call from a psychotic man announcing he's going to plant a bomb during a parade honoring an Olympic hero.
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  23. S1 E23 - Fire Island
    March 2, 1959
    26min
    7+
    A bootlegger operating an illicit still on Fire Island in the dead of winter hires a killer to protect the operation.
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  24. S1 E24 - Ten Cent Dreams
    March 9, 1959
    26min
    7+
    A poor Puerto Rican couple finds $10 and bets it on the numbers, winning $6,000. Upon depositing it at the bank, they find the cash is counterfeit , and the scared husband flees.
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  25. S1 E25 - The Bumper
    March 16, 1959
    26min
    7+
    When Muldoon and Arcaro transport a material witness to jail, a hitman known as "The Bumper" forces the detective's car to crash into an oil truck.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
John BrahmStuart RosenbergWilliam BeaudineDouglas HeyesPaul Wendkos
Producers
RLJ Entertainment
Starring
Harry BellaverHorace McMahonPaul Burke
Studio
ABC
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