The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 3

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(74 votes)

   #1 - Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes

   S3:E19/27/1961

   After a military style armored car robbery has left six people dead, including two NYPD cops, the gang's leader is identified. Lt. Parker insists that a reluctant Det. Flint seek leads to the ringleader's whereabouts from a troubled ex-partner of the criminal. The ex-partner is consumed with guilt over having been an informant once before.

   Director:Jules Munshin

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Jules Munshin

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2. 

   7.9/10(67 votes)

   #2 - Dead on the Field of Honor

   S3:E210/4/1961

   A 35 year old man, raised by his cultured Southern grandmother to be a "man of honor", has not had fortune shine upon him. He becomes unbalanced and begins to use a dueling pistol to right wrongs in his "field of honor" - Central Park. The bizarre shootings are thoroughly looked into by the NYPD as the man's mental state worsens.

   Director:Jack Smight

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Jack Smight

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   8.0/10(71 votes)

   #3 - The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street

   S3:E310/11/1961

   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.

   Director:Alex March

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Alex March

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   8.2/10(74 votes)

   #4 - The Fingers of Henri Tourelle

   S3:E410/18/1961

   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.

   Director:Arthur Hiller

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Arthur Hiller

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.2/10(82 votes)

   #5 - A Wednesday Night Story

   S3:E511/1/1961

   An unhappy couple involve their Swedish nanny in their marital discord.

   Director:Arthur Hiller

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Arthur Hiller

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.9/10(84 votes)

   #6 - The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff

   S3:E611/8/1961

   Kidnappers target a millionaire to pay the ransom for their victim, a young girl from a poor family. The criminals are a husband who's failed at everything he's tried and a still-ambitious wife who'll leave him if he won't go along with her scheme. The child's mother is afraid to go to the police, but a nosy neighbor pieces together the story for the detectives. The husband is torn about the crime, because he loves children, but his wife is bitter from having to parent her younger siblings.

   Director:Alex March

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Alex March

   Writer:Unknown
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   8.1/10(96 votes)

   #7 - Which Is Joseph Creeley?

   S3:E711/15/1961

   A man sentenced to die for the coldblooded murder of another man, is given an operation to remove a tumor from his brain. When the tumor is removed, he becomes a docile individual with no memory of the murder he committed. He is retried. Will he be found not guilty this time?

   Director:Arthur Hiller

   Writer:Gilbert Ralston

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   Director:Arthur Hiller

   Writer:Gilbert Ralston
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   7.1/10(75 votes)

   #8 - Show Me the Way to Go Home

   S3:E811/22/1961

   A young man with emotional problems becomes violent when his mother wants him to be mentally evaluated at Bellevue. After assaulting her boyfriend, the NYPD attempts to find him - and his missing knife. Meanwhile, he is attracted to a charitable girl who is trying to help a confused old woman to find her way home.

   Director:William A. Graham

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:William A. Graham

   Writer:Unknown
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   6.8/10(76 votes)

   #9 - The Hot Minerva

   S3:E911/29/1961

   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.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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10. 

    6.9/10(83 votes)

    #10 - Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon

    S3:E1012/6/1961

    Shoemaker Anthony Scarzi, the much older husband of Josephine Ametto Scarzi, his wife of two years, struggles with her unfaithfulness and her desire to annul their marriage.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    8.3/10(110 votes)

    #11 - Ooftus Goofus

    S3:E1112/13/1961

    George Bick is a 40 year old who never grew up. Fed up with his anonymous life and his henpecking wife, he decides to make the world notice him. He becomes the prankster known as "Ooftus Doofus"

    Director:Arthur Hiller

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Arthur Hiller

    Writer:Unknown
12. 

    8.5/10(74 votes)

    #12 - Bridge Party

    S3:E1212/27/1961

    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.

    Director:William Conrad

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:William Conrad

    Writer:Unknown
13. 

    8.4/10(105 votes)

    #13 - The Face of the Enemy

    S3:E131/3/1962

    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.

    Director:William A. Graham

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:William A. Graham

    Writer:Unknown
14. 

    7.9/10(97 votes)

    #14 - Portrait of a Painter

    S3:E141/10/1962

    A mentally-disturbed young painter confesses to murdering his wife, who was found on the floor of his studio. But the detectives seek to establish, with the help of the painter's psychiatrist, the full set of details that the painter cannot seem to recollect, which could prove either his guilt or innocence.

    Director:David Lowell Rich

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:David Lowell Rich

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15. 

    7.5/10(73 votes)

    #15 - The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos

    S3:E151/17/1962

    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.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Elliot Silverstein

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    6.6/10(65 votes)

    #16 - The Contract

    S3:E161/24/1962

    Both the fiancé and the guardian of a beautiful dead young woman claim to have murdered her, and it's up to the detectives to discover who's telling the truth.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Norman Lessing

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    Writer:Norman Lessing
17. 

    7.7/10(61 votes)

    #17 - One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World

    S3:E171/31/1962

    A widowed gangster is being challenged for custody of his son by his sister in-law. To show the court that he is a positive influence the gangster needs to convince his son's teacher to change a failing grade to an "A". The teacher is stubborn and the gangster offers the tempting bribe of a chorus girl.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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18. 

    8.1/10(107 votes)

    #18 - A Case Study of Two Savages

    S3:E182/7/1962

    Two newlyweds from Arkansas, honeymoon in New York City. Their happy time is interrupted by the husband's continual penchant for murder and robbery as a means of getting what he wants for himself and his bride.

    Director:William A. Graham

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:William A. Graham

    Writer:Unknown
19. 

    7.6/10(79 votes)

    #19 - Let Me Die Before I Wake

    S3:E192/14/1962

    A psychologically-troubled moving company owner discovers some troubling truths about his family after a young girl is injured by a hit-and-run truck driver who was really targeting him.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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20. 

    7.2/10(76 votes)

    #20 - To Walk Like a Lion

    S3:E202/28/1962

    An embezzler who stole to finance his mother's medical care runs into trouble while trying to end his scheme and return the leftover money.

    Director:Robert Gist

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Robert Gist

    Writer:Unknown
21. 

    8.4/10(79 votes)

    #21 - Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming

    S3:E213/7/1962

    A mentally-stressed police officer suffers a debilitating breakdown over his family's poor financial condition, catalyzed by missing button on his uniform.

    Director:Robert Gist

    Writer:Howard Rodman

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    Director:Robert Gist

    Writer:Howard Rodman
22. 

    7.2/10(58 votes)

    #22 - A Run for the Money

    S3:E223/14/1962

    A middle aged hired killer, who committed his first murder for pay at age 14,is hunted both by organized crime which has put out a contract on his life and the police. Needing a bankroll for leaving the country, the killer hires an "arm". The expert craps player he has chosen to win him money is as unpredictable as the roll of the dice.

    Director:David Lowell Rich

    Writer:Howard Rodman

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    Director:David Lowell Rich

    Writer:Howard Rodman
23. 

    8.3/10(99 votes)

    #23 - The One Marked Hot Gives Cold

    S3:E233/21/1962

    A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.

    Director:David Lowell Rich

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:David Lowell Rich

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    7.3/10(69 votes)

    #24 - Without Stick or Sword

    S3:E243/28/1962

    A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.

    Director:Paul Stanley

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Paul Stanley

    Writer:Unknown
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    7.8/10(64 votes)

    #25 - Lament for a Dead Indian

    S3:E254/11/1962

    A man recently released from prison comes to NYC to get his friend to join him in running a farm. He is warned that his "partner" is bad news by Flint and Arcaro. The friend is not interested in leaving NYC and is heavily involved in the rackets-including murder. The man tragically tries to help his friend.

    Director:Robert Gist

    Writer:Arnold Manoff

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    Director:Robert Gist

    Writer:Arnold Manoff