Naked City
Season 4
196234 episodes
Episode 1
Hold for Gloria Christmas
Sep 19, 19621h
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.
Episode 2
Idylls of a Running Back
Sep 26, 196240m
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.
Episode 3
Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?
Oct 3, 19621h
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.
Episode 4
And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
Oct 10, 196240m
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.
Episode 5
Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy
Oct 17, 19621h
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.
Episode 6
Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring
Oct 24, 196240m
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.
Episode 7
Go Fight City Hall
Oct 31, 19621h
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.
Episode 8
Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long
Nov 7, 196240m
To remain straight, an ex-con informs on the would-be robbers of a bar where he works, instead of helping the stickup men, his former pals. But the hoods' connection to Link Toland, a seemingly respectable businessman with serious political juice, cranks the heat way up on the young informant, his family, the investigating detectives, and even the tavern owner.
Episode 9
Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona
Nov 14, 196240m
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".
Episode 10
A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!
Nov 21, 196240m
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.
Episode 11
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
Nov 28, 196240m
An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.
Episode 12
The Virtues of Madame Douvay
Dec 5, 196240m
Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro.
Episode 13
King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Table
Dec 12, 196240m
Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.
Episode 14
Spectre of the Rose Street Gang
Dec 19, 196240m
Construction workers unearth the skeleton of a 14-year old boy, dead and buried for about 25 years. The only clue to his identity -- and fate -- is a cigarette lighter with the monogram JLY. Learning of this from the morning paper, perpetual ne'er-do-well Sam Langan recognizes both the dead boy and a chance to advance himself.
Episode 15
Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It
Dec 26, 196240m
Two Las Vegas showgirls travel to New York for the purpose of abducting a married psychiatrist with whom one of the women had an affair. The apparent motivation is to force the man to leave his wife for the Las Vegas dancer.
Episode 16
Her Life in Moving Pictures
Jan 2, 196340m
The detectives try to build a case against a womanizing con man who manipulates lonely maids in order to gain their confidence and burglarize the homes of their wealthy employers. Flint is bothered by having used one woman's private diary in order to locate the man, and she is more bitter with the police for this than she is with the suspect for using her.
Episode 17
Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow
Jan 9, 196240m
After a string of liquor store robberies and murders, a liquor store owner plans for retribution when his store is robbed and his friend, the clerk, is killed.
Episode 18
The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree
Jan 23, 196340m
A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.
Episode 19
Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
Jan 30, 19631h
An ex-con, hustling a living by being part fence, sports bettor and police informant among other things,has a contract out on his life. He scrambles to get enough money together to leave for Oklahoma and a reunion with his wife and son. Lt. Parker is sympathetic and tries to help his "stoolie" friend safely leave NYC.
Episode 20
A Man Without a Skin
Feb 6, 196340m
A hot dog, newspaper headline-grabbing detective has himself assigned to the 65th Precinct to find the killer of his partner. Both Lt. Parker and Det. Flint soon find that this brash and rash detective gets under their skin. He challenges their bravery and considers them to be safety first "parade cops".
Episode 21
Prime of Life
Feb 13, 196340m
Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.
Episode 22
Bringing Far Places Together
Feb 20, 196340m
An immigrant from Puerto Rico finds that things are not better and in many ways worse since moving to NYC. The inability to speak English has lead to confusion, not being able to find a job, contempt for being an alien and misunderstanding by the police. Betrayal by one of his own people only makes it even worse.
Episode 23
The Highest of Prizes
Feb 27, 196340m
A jury that seems hopelessly deadlocked debates the case of a man who murdered his wife in order to be with another woman, but there might not be enough physical evidence to sway all of the jurors.
Episode 24
Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant
Mar 6, 196340m
A corporate man who accidentally killed a man in a fight over a parking space mentally and physically tortures himself while the detectives search for the killer.
Episode 25
Stop the Parade, a Baby Is Crying!
Mar 20, 196340m
The reporting of a car theft by a good looking blonde seems odd for some reason to Detectives Flint and Arcaro. Later they and Lt. Parker are told she actually lent the car after a casual pickup. As more is learned about this woman her mental state becomes a concern. Is she a possible suicide case or a danger to others?
Episode 26
On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important
Mar 27, 196340m
A psychotic who leads a burglary ring has an unfortunate habit of bursting into a murderous rage when things go wrong. When Adam investigates the scene of of the bloody break-ins, the head of an advertising agency offers him a lucrative position.
Episode 27
Howard Running Bear Is a Turtle
Apr 3, 19631h
American Indians employed in NYC as "high floor construction workers" are a close knit group that follow tribal customs. A loveless arranged marriage that has not worked out eventually leads to a fatal fight between a husband and the tribesman she really loves. Rather than telling the NYPD the truth, the tribe "honors" the dead man by saying nothing.
Episode 28
No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!
Apr 17, 196340m
An immature man is the landlord of a house who is given to act irrationally because of the memory of his overbearing, deceased father. When his fiancée is visiting from Italy, he panics at the thought of marrying her, and stages stunts like trying to set the house on fire and refusing his tenants' rent money.
Episode 29
Carrier
Apr 24, 196340m
A young woman, a carrier of a deadly infectious disease, leaves a self-imposed exile of 14 years on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island) for Manhattan and a "normal" life. The NYPD is notified and seeks to find her before the "Van Nortons Sawyers Fever" infects the populace and causes multiple deaths.
Episode 30
Color Schemes Like Never Before
May 1, 19631h
A man with no "point of view" is strongly attracted to an opinionated woman. After he witnesses the accidental death of a "client" of his brother and his business associates he is told to leave NYC. He resists due to his newly found love and is a danger to them. Will he tell the NYPD the true story or be killed first?
Episode 31
The S.S. American Dream
May 8, 196340m
An emotional scrap dealer wants to purchase a ship bound for salvage, but he needs at least $3000. When his business partner refuses to help, the scrapper flies into a rage and murders him at a construction site. He then turns to an unscrupulous loan shark, but can only get some of the money and the deal runs out as his conscience bears down on him.
Episode 32
One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski
May 15, 196340m
The tension between a stock worker and his boss in a cardboard packaging plant, over a co-worker they both are in love with, escalates into a major fight. The police are called, but then the boss refuses to press charges against the employee. But the situation only gets worse.
Episode 33
Golden Lads and Girls
May 22, 196340m
A pair of married couples from different social and economic backgrounds find they do have something in common. The couples both are involved in physically abusive relationships and must go through the same legal system. The realization that they have similar problems despite their different stations in life is quite an eye opener.
Episode 34
Barefoot on a Bed of Coals
May 29, 196340m
A man who failed to qualify for the NYPD takes to impersonating a uniformed patrolman.His motives have to do with wanting to serve the public and also wanting to attract more desirable women. When he becomes involved in stopping a robbery and uses his non-regulation firearm the real NYPD searches him out.