Underplayed Gems

Naked City (1958)

Naked City poster
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Length
4 seasons, 138 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a police procedural set in New York City. Each episode follows detectives solving a different crime, focusing on the victims and suspects involved. The show uses a documentary style and ends with a narrator reminding viewers that every person has a story.

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What happens

Naked City is an American police procedural television series from Screen Gems that aired on ABC from 1958 to 1963. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture The Naked City and mimics its dramatic semi-documentary format. As in the film, each episode concluded with a narrator intoning the line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." The Naked City episode "Four Sweet Corners" (1959) inspired the series Route 66, created by Stirling Silliphant. Route 66 was broadcast by CBS from 1960 to 1964, and, like Naked City, followed the "semi-anthology" format of building the stories around the guest actors, rather than the regular cast. In 1997, the June 7, 1961 episode "Sweet Prince of Delancey Street" was ranked number 93 on TV Guide's "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" list. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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