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Naked City Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Hold for Gloria Christmas
Wed, Sep 19, 196260 mins
The detectives investigate the murder of an alcoholic Greenwich Village poet, reconstructing his final hours in their search for the killer.
Episode 2
Idylls of a Running Back
Wed, Sep 26, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Oct 3, 196260 mins
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...
Wed, Oct 10, 196260 mins
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!
Wed, Oct 17, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Oct 24, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Oct 31, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Nov 7, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Nov 14, 196260 mins
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!
Wed, Nov 21, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Nov 28, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Dec 5, 196260 mins
Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro. The restaurateur accused the kitchen helper of amouring his wife, so Lt. Parker targets him, not knowing the Frenchwoman totally entrances the mysterious real killer. Libby's acting career bellies out faster than a soufflé, so she presses Adam to romp off to Paris together, instead of him pursuing other murder suspects.
Episode 13
King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Stable
Wed, Dec 12, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Dec 19, 196260 mins
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
Wed, Dec 26, 196260 mins
Two showgirls come to town and kidnap a Park Avenue psychiatrist from his office. They keep him in their hotel room at gunpoint, determined that he should pay off debts incurred in Las Vegas, including that he promised to marry one of them, though he's already married.
Episode 16
Her Life in Moving Pictures
Wed, Jan 2, 196360 mins
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
Wed, Jan 9, 196360 mins
A liquor store proprietor, still grieving over his wife's passing, must also deal with the savage murder of his friend and fellow store owner during a holdup. Scorned by his fellow businessmen, Mr. Johannis feels compelled to exact a measure of retribution on his own.
Episode 18
The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree
Wed, Jan 23, 196360 mins
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
Wed, Jan 30, 196360 mins
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
Man Without a Skin
Wed, Feb 6, 196360 mins
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
Wed, Feb 13, 196360 mins
Flint is summoned by the warden of Sing Sing to witness the execution of a prisoner, whom he took part in the capture of. He's against going, but he's ordered to. He joins a group of other men, mostly cops and reporters at the death house, as flashbacks tell the story of the crime and Adam's involvement.
Episode 22
Bringing Far Places Together
Wed, Feb 20, 196360 mins
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
Wed, Feb 27, 196360 mins
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
Wed, Mar 6, 196360 mins
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!
Sat, Apr 20, 196360 mins
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 Battle Front: Every Minute Is Important
Wed, Mar 27, 196360 mins
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
Wed, Apr 3, 196360 mins
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!
Wed, Apr 17, 196360 mins
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
Wed, Apr 24, 196360 mins
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
Wed, May 1, 196360 mins
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
Wed, May 8, 196360 mins
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
Wed, May 15, 196360 mins
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
Wed, May 22, 196360 mins
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
Wed, May 29, 196360 mins
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.
