Naked City — Season 1

Aired 30 September 1958

Detective Halloran's first day as a detective brings him face-to-face with a cop killer and his accomplice who're holding hostages at the New York Coliseum..

Aired 7 October 1958 • 30 min

The detectives visit the aging captain of the Staten Island Ferry at the same time that armed robbers are executing a daring heist of an armored car traveling on the ferry.

Aired 14 October 1958

Det. Halloran easily kills a fleeing robber who's about to shoot him, but Halloran's lingering feelings of guilt make getting through the aftermath with the man's family anguish. Halloran's wife and Lieutenant support him throughout his search for meaning.

Aired 21 October 1958 • 30 min

Gio, who lives by fishing coins out of sidewalk grates, longs to adopt an orphaned boy who he spins yarns for, as if Gio actually was a courageous deep-sea fisherman. By working 16 hours a day, old Gio saves money to adopt the boy, but in doing so violates the territorial rights of a local gang, who try to kill Gio.

Aired 28 October 1958 • 30 min

Detective Halloran goes undercover as a patient in a hospital mental ward in an attempt to identify the murderer of patient who was a witness in a gang killing.

Aired 4 November 1958

A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.

Aired 11 November 1958 • 30 min

A young gang member is assigned to perform a revenge shooting after a member of his own gang is killed.

Aired 18 November 1958

A thief assaults milkmen and steals their uniforms in order to gain access to and rob from wealthy people's apartment buildings.

Aired 25 November 1958 • 30 min

A tiny island in Long Island Sound, ""Execution Rock,"" becomes a refuge for a frightened girl hiding from criminals.

Aired 2 December 1958 • 30 min

New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes.

Aired 9 December 1958 • 30 min

A wealthy industrialist refuses to give in to an extortionist's demands even after the extortionist brutally assaults a neighbor girl and threatens the life of the man's alienated son.

Aired 16 December 1958 • 30 min

A naïve young woman, Carol Thomas, fresh to New York, gets a mysterious phone call on her new line from a woman who sounds to be in the process of being murdered. Carol is unable to get prompt action from the police, so she ill-advisedly decides to play detective herself.

Aired 23 December 1958 • 30 min

The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.

Aired 30 December 1958 • 30 min

The detectives fight against time to unravel a plan to murder a Commander aboard his yacht.

Aired 6 January 1959

When an elderly sewer worker learns that his son is the leader of a street gang, he begs him vainly to reform, and then tells police about his association. When the gang uses the sewers to escape after a jewel robbery, the old man follows them into the underground passages.

Aired 13 January 1959 • 30 min

In a vicious downpour, a killer prods a terrified man forward using a huge spear-gun. The man with the spear-gun is a meek New Yorker living with his mother, who disapproves of her son's fiancée.

Aired 20 January 1959 • 30 min

Detective Halloran helps hunt down a man whom he knows, and who has always been a well-liked solid citizen before suddenly snapping and going on a killing spree throughout the city.

Aired 27 January 1959 • 30 min

Matty, a down-and-out alcoholic in the Bowery, is accused of robbing and murdering a man, then using the stolen money to buy a horse-drawn cart.

Aired 3 February 1959

Lt. Muldoon counsels the son of a patrolman who is trying to join the force, despite his mother's wishes that he not follow in his father's footsteps.

Aired 10 February 1959 • 30 min

George Blake regrets having strayed from his wife, and terminates the affair just moments before the woman is murdered by another jealous man. Blake is the prime suspect, and works to clear his name and find the killer.

Aired 17 February 1959 • 30 min

Halloran goes undercover as the home room teacher for a "modified-curriculum" high school class after their previous home room teacher fell out of the window to his death.

Aired 24 February 1959 • 30 min

The detectives work to stymie a bomb threat during a ticker-tape parade for an Olympic champion.

Aired 3 March 1959 • 30 min

The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.

Aired 10 March 1959 • 30 min

A young immigrant hits a big score playing the numbers racket, but runs into complications collecting his winnings.

Aired 17 March 1959

After Lt. Muldoon is killed in a car wreck deliberately caused by a mob hit man, the detectives pull out all the stops in their search for the killer.

Aired 24 March 1959

The detectives are assigned to protect visiting Latin Americans dignitaries, including the adolescent son of a dictator and his bodyguard, a former bullfighter who is involved in a plot to kill the young man.

Aired 31 March 1959

A young hotel bellhop is mixed up with a gang of card sharps preying upon the convention crowd, and who are responsible for the killing of one of their victims.

Aired 7 April 1959

A recurring nightmare haunts a murderer - that he's been framed. But when his loving wife begs the 65th Precinct's skeptical detectives to re-investigate, Arnold Fleischman refuses to co-operate with the police.

Aired 14 April 1959

A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.

Aired 21 April 1959

A cleaning woman, tired of her hardscrabble life, robs a bank in an attempt to buy happiness.

Aired 28 April 1959

A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.

Aired 5 May 1959

Halloran goes undercover at a construction yard to see if he can find a connection between a mob-hit victim and the mobster who likely ordered the hit.

Aired 12 May 1959 • 30 min

A sleazy private detective, well known to Detective Parker, is murdered while on a case to find a mysterious young lady who worked in a dance club.

Aired 19 May 1959

A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.

Aired 26 May 1959

The detectives babysit a couple of bloodhounds belonging to a man involved in an auto accident, putting the dogs to good use while searching for a missing girl.

Aired 2 June 1959

The detectives investigate the source of numerous death threats that have been sent to a high-powered Madison Avenue agent having many real and perceived enemies.

Aired 9 June 1959

A pregnant woman's father is trying to kill her husband in order to cover up a stolen goods racket in which the two have been involved.

Aired 16 June 1959

A washed-up boxer needs fast money and desperately wants to get back into the ring to earn it despite knowing his health is at risk.

Aired 23 June 1959

To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution.