The Best Episodes of Naked City Season 4

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.5/10(92 votes)

   #1 - Hold for Gloria Christmas

   S4:E19/19/1962

   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.

   Director:Walter Grauman

   Writer:Unknown

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2. 

   8.6/10(75 votes)

   #2 - Idylls of a Running Back

   S4:E29/26/1962

   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.

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3. 

   8.0/10(82 votes)

   #3 - Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?

   S4:E310/3/1962

   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.

   Director:David Lowell Rich

   Writer:Unknown

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4. 

   8.5/10(79 votes)

   #4 - And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...

   S4:E410/10/1962

   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.

   Director:Irvin Kershner

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Irvin Kershner

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5. 

   8.3/10(67 votes)

   #5 - Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy

   S4:E510/17/1962

   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.

   Director:Denis Sanders

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Denis Sanders

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   7.5/10(65 votes)

   #6 - Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring

   S4:E610/24/1962

   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.

   Director:Paul Stanley

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.1/10(48 votes)

   #7 - Go Fight City Hall

   S4:E710/31/1962

   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.

   Director:David Lowell Rich

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.8/10(65 votes)

   #8 - Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long

   S4:E811/7/1962

   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.

   Director:Robert Gist

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9. 

   7.7/10(50 votes)

   #9 - Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona

   S4:E911/14/1962

   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".

   Director:George Sherman

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:George Sherman

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10. 

    8.7/10(99 votes)

    #10 - A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!

    S4:E1011/21/1962

    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.

    Director:Denis Sanders

    Writer:Unknown

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11. 

    7.4/10(64 votes)

    #11 - Dust Devil on a Quiet Street

    S4:E1111/28/1962

    An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.

    Director:George Sherman

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Sherman

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12. 

    7.1/10(54 votes)

    #12 - The Virtues of Madame Douvay

    S4:E1212/5/1962

    Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro.

    Director:Robert Gist

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13. 

    7.5/10(52 votes)

    #13 - King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Table

    S4:E1312/12/1962

    Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.

    Director:Unknown

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14. 

    8.2/10(67 votes)

    #14 - Spectre of the Rose Street Gang

    S4:E1412/19/1962

    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.

    Director:Unknown

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15. 

    5.9/10(69 votes)

    #15 - Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It

    S4:E1512/26/1962

    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.

    Director:Alex March

    Writer:Unknown

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16. 

    7.7/10(54 votes)

    #16 - Her Life in Moving Pictures

    S4:E161/2/1963

    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.

    Director:George Sherman

    Writer:Unknown

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    8.3/10(66 votes)

    #17 - Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow

    S4:E171/9/1962

    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.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer:Unknown

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18. 

    7.7/10(61 votes)

    #18 - The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree

    S4:E181/23/1963

    A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.

    Director:William A. Graham

    Writer:Unknown

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19. 

    8.3/10(64 votes)

    #19 - Beyond This Place There Be Dragons

    S4:E191/30/1963

    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.

    Director:George Sherman

    Writer:Unknown

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20. 

    8.1/10(56 votes)

    #20 - A Man Without a Skin

    S4:E202/6/1963

    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".

    Director:George Sherman

    Writer:Unknown

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    8.6/10(87 votes)

    #21 - Prime of Life

    S4:E212/13/1963

    Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.

    Director:Walter Grauman

    Writer:Unknown

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22. 

    8.1/10(91 votes)

    #22 - Bringing Far Places Together

    S4:E222/20/1963

    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.

    Director:Irvin Kershner

    Writer:Unknown

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23. 

    8.0/10(64 votes)

    #23 - The Highest of Prizes

    S4:E232/27/1963

    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.

    Director:Unknown

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    8.0/10(63 votes)

    #24 - Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant

    S4:E243/6/1963

    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.

    Director:Ralph Senensky

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Ralph Senensky

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    7.4/10(52 votes)

    #25 - Stop the Parade, a Baby Is Crying!

    S4:E253/20/1963

    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?

    Director:William A. Graham

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:William A. Graham

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