Naked City
(1958)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 4
Barefoot on a Bed of Coals
Episode 34 - 5-29-1963
1h 0m
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.
8.5/10Where to watch
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Golden Lads and Girls
Episode 33 - 5-22-1963
1h 0m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski
Episode 32 - 5-15-1963
1h 0m
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.
5.3/10Where to watch
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The S.S. American Dream
Episode 31 - 5-08-1963
1h 0m
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.
8.3/10Where to watch
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Color Schemes Like Never Before
Episode 30 - 5-01-1963
1h 0m
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?
7.8/10Where to watch
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Carrier
Episode 29 - 4-24-1963
1h 0m
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.
8.4/10Where to watch
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No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!
Episode 28 - 4-17-1963
1h 0m
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.
5.7/10Where to watch
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Howard Running Bear Is a Turtle
Episode 27 - 4-03-1963
1h 0m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important
Episode 26 - 3-27-1963
1h 0m
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.
8/10Where to watch
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Stop the Parade, a Baby Is Crying!
Episode 25 - 3-20-1963
1h 0m
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?
7.6/10Where to watch
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Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant
Episode 24 - 3-06-1963
1h 0m
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.
8/10Where to watch
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The Highest of Prizes
Episode 23 - 2-27-1963
1h 0m
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.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Bringing Far Places Together
Episode 22 - 2-20-1963
1h 0m
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.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Prime of Life
Episode 21 - 2-13-1963
1h 0m
Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.
8.7/10Where to watch
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A Man Without a Skin
Episode 20 - 2-06-1963
1h 0m
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".
8.1/10Where to watch
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Beyond This Place There Be Dragons
Episode 19 - 1-30-1963
1h 0m
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.
8.4/10Where to watch
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The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree
Episode 18 - 1-23-1963
1h 0m
A group of rich young men burglarize apartments in their own building, and to cover their tracks, escalate to violence.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow
Episode 17 - 1-09-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.4/10Where to watch
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Her Life in Moving Pictures
Episode 16 - 1-02-1963
1h 0m
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.
7.7/10Where to watch
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Don't Knock It Till You've Tried It
Episode 15 - 12-26-1962
1h 0m
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.
6/10Where to watch
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Spectre of the Rose Street Gang
Episode 14 - 12-19-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.3/10Where to watch
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King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Table
Episode 13 - 12-12-1962
1h 0m
Two longtime Polish friends in the meat business have some bad blood between them and fight to resolve their issues.
7.6/10Where to watch
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The Virtues of Madame Douvay
Episode 12 - 12-05-1962
1h 0m
Dishwasher carved to death, while Adam & Libby slurp wine in a French bistro.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
Episode 11 - 11-28-1962
1h 0m
An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.
7.6/10Where to watch
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A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!
Episode 10 - 11-21-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.7/10Where to watch
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Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona
Episode 9 - 11-14-1962
1h 0m
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".
7.7/10Where to watch
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Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long
Episode 8 - 11-07-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Go Fight City Hall
Episode 7 - 10-31-1962
1h 0m
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.
6.2/10Where to watch
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Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring
Episode 6 - 10-24-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy
Episode 5 - 10-17-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.3/10Where to watch
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And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
Episode 4 - 10-10-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.6/10Where to watch
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Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?
Episode 3 - 10-03-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Idylls of a Running Back
Episode 2 - 9-26-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.6/10Where to watch
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Hold for Gloria Christmas
Episode 1 - 9-19-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Season 3
Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud
Episode 33 - 6-20-1962
1h 0m
Chauffeur snuffs his employer with roses, by forcing them in her face as the allergic dowager lies ill. Her agoraphobic daughter is ecstatic that now she'll never have to leave the mansion she loves, but torn over losing her harsh mother. Lt. Parker, a family friend, comforts the young heiress, but she immediately finds more succor in the arms of Harry, the handsome devil in the driver's seat. Flint pushes an objective view of the case on Lt. Parker.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Memory of a Red Trolley Car
Episode 32 - 6-13-1962
1h 0m
A chemistry professor develops mental confusion symptoms after being exposed to a dangerous chemical spill, and the detectives race against the clock to find him before his condition deteriorates fatally.
6.8/10Where to watch
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The Rydecker Case
Episode 31 - 6-06-1962
1h 0m
Adam and an inexperienced D.A. attempt to prosecute the well-connected fiancé of a wealthy New York scion. Adam wonders just who is on trial and gets an education in Justice.
8.3/10Where to watch
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The King of Venus Will Take Care of You
Episode 30 - 5-20-1962
1h 0m
A man wanted by the police for robbery and murder is trapped in a tenement neighborhood.He crosses from building to building via rooftops and eventually hides in a water tank enclosure.The "king" of the neighborhood,a young fatherless boy,may or may not help him to escape from the police dragnet.
8.6/10Where to watch
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The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish
Episode 29 - 5-23-1962
1h 0m
Mild-mannered Herbert Konish is living multiple simultaneous and separate lives, stumping the detectives who are trying to figure out exactly who he is and what crimes he may have committed.
8.7/10Where to watch
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Strike a Statue
Episode 28 - 5-16-1962
1h 0m
A renowned sculptor "immortalizing a moment in time" of a reviled European dictator is warned to stop working on the project. The men warning him, formerly supporters of the dictator but presently seeking his overthrow, are violent. The sculptor refuses to cease working as to him Art is not involved in politics.
7/10Where to watch
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...And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them...
Episode 27 - 5-09-1962
1h 0m
Detective Flint strives to stop his aging Romanian friend from using his big wedding party as cover for a bank robbery.
6/10Where to watch
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The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth
Episode 26 - 4-25-1962
1h 0m
A Broadway agent dies in an actress' apartment and the detectives must discern who among those present is telling the truth: the actress, the married actor with whom she is having an affair, or the actor's chauffeur.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Lament for a Dead Indian
Episode 25 - 4-11-1962
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.
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Without Stick or Sword
Episode 24 - 3-28-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.4/10Where to watch
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The One Marked Hot Gives Cold
Episode 23 - 3-21-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.4/10Where to watch
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A Run for the Money
Episode 22 - 3-14-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming
Episode 21 - 3-07-1962
1h 0m
A mentally-stressed police officer suffers a debilitating breakdown over his family's poor financial condition, catalyzed by missing button on his uniform.
8.5/10Where to watch
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To Walk Like a Lion
Episode 20 - 2-28-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Let Me Die Before I Wake
Episode 19 - 2-14-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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A Case Study of Two Savages
Episode 18 - 2-07-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.2/10Where to watch
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One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World
Episode 17 - 1-31-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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The Contract
Episode 16 - 1-24-1962
1h 0m
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.
6.6/10Where to watch
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The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos
Episode 15 - 1-17-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Portrait of a Painter
Episode 14 - 1-10-1962
1h 0m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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The Face of the Enemy
Episode 13 - 1-03-1962
1h 0m
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.
8.4/10Where to watch
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Bridge Party
Episode 12 - 12-27-1961
1h 0m
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.
8.5/10Where to watch
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Ooftus Goofus
Episode 11 - 12-13-1961
1h 0m
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"
8.4/10Where to watch
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Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon
Episode 10 - 12-06-1961
1h 0m
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.
7.1/10Where to watch
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The Hot Minerva
Episode 9 - 11-29-1961
1h 0m
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.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Show Me the Way to Go Home
Episode 8 - 11-22-1961
1h 0m
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.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Which Is Joseph Creeley?
Episode 7 - 11-15-1961
1h 0m
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?
8.2/10Where to watch
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The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff
Episode 6 - 11-08-1961
1h 0m
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.
8/10Where to watch
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A Wednesday Night Story
Episode 5 - 11-01-1961
1h 0m
An unhappy couple involve their Swedish nanny in their marital discord.
8.2/10Where to watch
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The Fingers of Henri Tourelle
Episode 4 - 10-18-1961
1h 0m
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.
8.2/10Where to watch
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The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street
Episode 3 - 10-11-1961
1h 0m
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.
8/10Where to watch
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Dead on the Field of Honor
Episode 2 - 10-04-1961
1h 0m
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.
8/10Where to watch
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Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes
Episode 1 - 9-27-1961
1h 0m
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.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Season 2
Take and Put
Episode 32 - 6-21-1961
1h 0m
A once wealthy family is now penniless. To "keep up appearances" and somewhat live as they became accustomed to,they invent a rather novel solution. They rob their friends,pawn the items, use the cash to buy and sell stocks (that their unerring housekeeper selects), redeem the stolen items and return them to their owners.
7.5/10Where to watch
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The Day the Island Almost Sank
Episode 31 - 6-14-1961
1h 0m
The NYPD is shorthanded, overworked and sleep deprived due to various conventions being held at the same time in Manhattan. When a visiting conventioneer is found brutally murdered Lt. Parker has no choice but to send an exhausted Sgt. Arcaro out to investigate.An unlikely person emerges as a prime suspect.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Sweet Prince of Delancey Street
Episode 30 - 6-07-1961
1h 0m
Factory worker Peter Wilkins is fired from his job. In a moment of drunken anger, he threatens reprisal on the company.
8.1/10Where to watch
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A Kettle of Precious Fish
Episode 29 - 5-31-1961
1h 0m
A well organized team of extortionists kidnap a group of businessmen on a chartered fishing boat. Ransom amounts and instructions are phoned to the victims' wives. The NYPD becomes involved in the case when the charter boat captain is found tied up and drugged-but alive. Meanwhile, the businessmen plan a revolt.
8.3/10Where to watch
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To Dream Without Sleep
Episode 28 - 5-24-1961
1h 0m
A lonely woman falls in love with a man she meets through an escort service. Assuming they will marry, she becomes hysterical and accidentally stabs him upon finding out that he is already married. Desperate and in a panic, she tries to figure out what to do while at the same time the NYPD tracks her down.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Make-Believe Man
Episode 27 - 5-17-1961
1h 0m
Officer Gode informs the detectives that one of his homeless men, a Frank Manfred, has disappeared and that some of the other Bowery citizens say he was kidnapped. The detectives are skeptical but follow up. Manfred has become the pawn in a South American Revolution. He is being used by Carlos Ruldan to impersonate a revolutionary leader named Colonel Bryar whom the people loved. When men with South American ties begin turning up dead the detectives believe there may be something to this kidnapping story.
7.2/10Where to watch
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C3H5(NO3)3
Episode 26 - 5-10-1961
1h 0m
After quarreling with his wife Martha, chemistry professor James Fallon goes out and drowns his troubles in drink.
8.3/10Where to watch
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An Economy of Death
Episode 25 - 5-03-1961
1h 0m
An old couple are swindled and lied to by a fellow Hungarian refugee who claimed to have contact with their granddaughter behind the Iron Curtain. After being exposed, the man names a community activist now living in NYC who committed a worse crime-a crime which led to the death of 100 families in 1956 Hungary.
7.9/10Where to watch
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A Very Cautious Boy
Episode 24 - 4-26-1961
1h 0m
A gangland syndicate headed by lawyer Roy Baxter has been collecting protection money from Joe and Mama Ganoulian, owners of a local restaurant. The Ganoulians hire protection called Lee Staunton to free them from the extortionists.
7.7/10Where to watch
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New York to L.A.
Episode 23 - 4-19-1961
1h 0m
Det. Flint and Lt. Busti head to Los Angeles to extradite two sociopath brothers to face robbery and murder charges back in New York.
8.3/10Where to watch
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A Memory of Crying
Episode 22 - 4-12-1961
1h 0m
A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.
8/10Where to watch
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Tombstone for a Derelict
Episode 21 - 4-05-1961
1h 0m
Four young men decide to make known their concern about the problems of the world. They use a unique method to get everyone's attention - they randomly murder derelicts and leave clues that will lead back to themselves. The four believe strongly in their cause and will sacrifice their lives. Are they sane or hopelessly mad?
7.3/10Where to watch
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The Fault in Our Stars
Episode 20 - 3-22-1961
1h 0m
An actor, down on his luck, resorts to murder in order to raise the cash needed to pay his rent.
8.4/10Where to watch
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Vengeance Is a Wheel
Episode 19 - 3-15-1961
1h 0m
Security guard's murder during a burglary mobilizes his huge, close-knit Sicilian family. One of the watchman's sons wants the 65th Precinct's detectives to track the dockside killers who stole a rare oil used for perfume, all other kin vote to take revenge by themselves. They start with the French perfumer, who lost his whole season's rose oil supply.
8.2/10Where to watch
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The Deadly Guinea Pig
Episode 18 - 3-08-1961
1h 0m
An investigation into the shooting deaths of an NYPD uniformed patrolman and a citizen leads to a tangled web of ex-Nazi's and concentration camp survivors.
8.2/10Where to watch
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Shoes for Vinnie Winford
Episode 17 - 3-01-1961
1h 0m
A rich-kid,Mama's boy is ignored by the Board of Directors when made President of his deceased father's corporation. The young "Napoleon" however already has a business where he is paid strict attention to. He secretly owns a Burlesque house and physically abuses the women at his whim-until the NYPD seeks to find a missing "dancer".
7.9/10Where to watch
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Button in the Haystack
Episode 16 - 2-22-1961
1h 0m
Ex-con panics when his own loan shark gets killed at his gas station. He tosses his own gun onto a passing truck, doubting the police will buy his story. Idealistic young Det. Adam Flint believes he's chasing justice for a reformed businessman, but everyone one else in the bureau feels he's chasing a phantom.
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The Day It Rained Mink
Episode 15 - 2-15-1961
30m
Four people, involved in the Manhattan fur trade, join together to steal fur coats valued at over $1,000,000 from a fashion show held at the Governor Clinton Hotel. The thieves have various motives for committing the crime. The ringleader's plan to leave his long-time wife for a tempestuous model complicates matters.
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The Well-Dressed Termite
Episode 14 - 2-08-1961
1h 0m
A shady businessman's junior partner takes it upon himself to order the death of a blackmailer. The junior partner has also schemed to reunite his boss and estranged wife. These "favors" lead to a fatal chain of events which no one, including the junior partner, could possibly have predicted.
7.2/10Where to watch
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A Hole in the City
Episode 13 - 2-01-1961
1h 0m
Armored car robbers vanish across from Yankee Stadium, so Lt. Busti dragnets the neighborhood, house-to-house. Brutal gang mastermind Nunda has much more to worry about, because he's barged into his aunt's flat, and she brings back all his hideous Bronx past which kept him away so long.
8.7/10Where to watch
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Landscape with Dead Figures
Episode 12 - 1-18-1961
1h 0m
A talented artist who does not know his identity is a prisoner in a sanitarium. His long-term captivity ends due to the mention of an artist's name in the newspaper and a fluke opportunity to escape.He makes his way to Manhattan to see an auction of work by the man named in the paper-a man who died 20 years ago.
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Murder Is a Face I Know
Episode 11 - 1-11-1961
1h 0m
Hitman's arrest destroys his double life as a small businessman who earned his new community's respect. Hurting the most is his son, a university basketball ace who worships his father, and can't believe that he's such a stony, experienced assassin.
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Bullets Cost Too Much
Episode 10 - 1-04-1961
1h 0m
A series of armed robberies made by four masked men eventually lead to a bar killing and public "second guessing" of Adam's handling of the situation. At the same time a resident doctor has his brother pressure him to help treat one of the hold-up men who has been shot. Adam and the NYPD doggedly pursue the case
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The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half
Episode 9 - 12-14-1960
1h 0m
Dying crook Wicklow heists a museum's entire diamond exhibit. A gemologist sneers that the rocks are well-known to be plastic duplicates. Why pull an elaborate Rififi and kill a guard for such paste, the detectives wonder
7.7/10Where to watch
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The Human Trap
Episode 8 - 11-30-1960
1h 0m
A wealthy playboy is dead from an icepick wound. He died in the upscale apartment of a woman whose ex-husband is a notorious gambling czar. The lady freely admits she killed the playboy - in defending her daughter from his advances. Lt. Parker and Det. Flint have the same feeling - "something about her story stinks"
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Debt of Honor
Episode 7 - 11-23-1960
1h 0m
Murder during a poker game heist, doesn't faze the second biggest loser at the table. It's just hours before his betrothed arrives from Sicily via arranged marriage, but slick gambler Mori is blasé about that too. Detective Flint takes his actress girlfriend Libby dancing in the streets at Mori's wedding party, to find out who the robbers are, before they get killed the old way.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Killer with A Kiss
Episode 6 - 11-16-1960
1h 0m
A young man working at Bellevue Hospital, at the Mental Ward, has a neurosis himself. He harbors a deep seated hatred of his deceased military hero father, whom he blames for his mother's death. This has culminated in a twisted pattern of revenge. He lures uniformed policemen by faking emergencies and then murders them.
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To Walk In Silence
Episode 5 - 11-09-1960
1h 0m
A blue blood Wall Street investment manager witnesses a shooting. Afraid for his reputation,he stubbornly refuses to aid the NYPD in their investigation. After other possible witnesses have been killed and his daughter is kidnapped a difficult decision awaits him - shall he cooperate even with his daughter's life at risk?
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Down the Long Night
Episode 4 - 11-02-1960
1h 0m
Norman Garry is harassed by former neighbor Max Evar. Evar,an "expert on horror", lost his family due to a fire he holds Garry responsible for. Garry asks the NYPD for help and Det. Flint becomes interested in the case. The discovery that Evar was recently released from a mental hospital heightens the drama.
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A Succession of Heartbeats
Episode 3 - 10-26-1960
1h 0m
A millionaire playboy is murdered in his luxury apartment-along with a married woman. A "black book" filled with ladies telephone numbers doesn't include all of his conquests, including a woman who later confesses to the murders.
7.8/10Where to watch
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The Pedigree Sheet
Episode 2 - 10-19-1960
1h 0m
The investigation of a car wreck reveals two dead men (one killed by a bullet) and a survivor - a petulant, uncooperative young girl.
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A Death of Princes
Episode 1 - 10-12-1960
1h 0m
Detective walks from icing surrendering shooter Gimpy, so his commander asks Adam to volunteer to spy him. Adam struggles with taking the assignment on gun-happy comrade Bane, whose jacket includes 2 other recent kills, but many medals.
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Season 1
A Wood of Thorns
Episode 39 - 6-23-1959
30m
To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution.
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The Canvas Bullet
Episode 38 - 6-16-1959
30m
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.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Saw My Baby There
Episode 37 - 6-09-1959
30m
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.
6.8/10Where to watch
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The Scorpion Sting
Episode 36 - 6-02-1959
30m
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.
6.5/10Where to watch
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The Bloodhounds
Episode 35 - 5-26-1959
30m
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.
6.8/10Where to watch
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A Little Piece of the Action
Episode 34 - 5-19-1959
30m
A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.
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Turn of Events
Episode 33 - 5-12-1959
30m
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.
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The Sandman
Episode 32 - 5-05-1959
30m
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.
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Four Sweet Corners
Episode 31 - 4-28-1959
30m
A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.
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The Rebirth
Episode 30 - 4-21-1959
30m
A cleaning woman, tired of her hardscrabble life, robs a bank in an attempt to buy happiness.
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Baker's Dozen
Episode 29 - 4-14-1959
30m
A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.
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Beyond Truth
Episode 28 - 4-07-1959
30m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Fallen Star
Episode 27 - 3-31-1959
30m
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.
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A Running of Bulls
Episode 26 - 3-24-1959
30m
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.
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The Bumper
Episode 25 - 3-17-1959
30m
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.
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Ten Cent Dreams
Episode 24 - 3-10-1959
30m
A young immigrant hits a big score playing the numbers racket, but runs into complications collecting his winnings.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Fire Island
Episode 23 - 3-03-1959
30m
The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.
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Ticker Tape
Episode 22 - 2-24-1959
30m
The detectives work to stymie a bomb threat during a ticker-tape parade for an Olympic champion.
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Hey, Teach!
Episode 21 - 2-17-1959
30m
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.
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One to Get Lost
Episode 20 - 2-10-1959
30m
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.
7.2/10Where to watch
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The Shield
Episode 19 - 2-03-1959
30m
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.
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Goodbye, My Lady Love
Episode 18 - 1-27-1959
30m
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.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Burst of Passion
Episode 17 - 1-20-1959
30m
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.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Even Crows Sing Good
Episode 16 - 1-13-1959
30m
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.
7.8/10Where to watch
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The Manhole
Episode 15 - 1-06-1959
30m
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.
7.3/10Where to watch
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The Explosive Heart
Episode 14 - 12-30-1958
30m
The detectives fight against time to unravel a plan to murder a Commander aboard his yacht.
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And a Merry Christmas to the Force on Patrol
Episode 13 - 12-23-1958
30m
The precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Susquehanna 4-7598
Episode 12 - 12-16-1958
30m
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.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Lady Bug, Lady Bug
Episode 11 - 12-09-1958
30m
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.
7.3/10Where to watch
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The Other Face of Goodness
Episode 10 - 12-02-1958
30m
New York City detectives frantically hunt a killer who strangles married disabled women with a coat hanger, in their own homes.
7.5/10Where to watch
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The Bird Guard
Episode 9 - 11-25-1958
30m
A tiny island in Long Island Sound, ""Execution Rock,"" becomes a refuge for a frightened girl hiding from criminals.
7.7/10Where to watch
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Belvedere Tower
Episode 8 - 11-18-1958
30m
A thief assaults milkmen and steals their uniforms in order to gain access to and rob from wealthy people's apartment buildings.
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No More Rumbles
Episode 7 - 11-11-1958
30m
A young gang member is assigned to perform a revenge shooting after a member of his own gang is killed.
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Stakeout
Episode 6 - 11-04-1958
30m
A young detective works to redeem himself after lying about the circumstances of his partner's shooting death during a stakeout.
7.1/10Where to watch
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The Violent Circle
Episode 5 - 10-28-1958
30m
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.
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Sidewalk Fisherman
Episode 4 - 10-21-1958
30m
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.
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Line of Duty
Episode 3 - 10-14-1958
30m
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.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Nickel Ride
Episode 2 - 10-07-1958
30m
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.
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Meridian
Episode 1 - 9-30-1958
30m
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..
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A Hole in the City
Episode 13 - 2-01-1961
1h 0m
Armored car robbers vanish across from Yankee Stadium, so Lt. Busti dragnets the neighborhood, house-to-house. Brutal gang mastermind Nunda has much more to worry about, because he's barged into his aunt's flat, and she brings back all his hideous Bronx past which kept him away so long.
8.7/10Where to watch
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The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish
Episode 29 - 5-23-1962
1h 0m
Mild-mannered Herbert Konish is living multiple simultaneous and separate lives, stumping the detectives who are trying to figure out exactly who he is and what crimes he may have committed.
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A Horse Has a Big Head -- Let Him Worry!
Episode 10 - 11-21-1962
1h 0m
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.
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Prime of Life
Episode 21 - 2-13-1963
1h 0m
Flint is ordered to prison to witness the execution of a murderer he helped capture.
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The King of Venus Will Take Care of You
Episode 30 - 5-20-1962
1h 0m
A man wanted by the police for robbery and murder is trapped in a tenement neighborhood.He crosses from building to building via rooftops and eventually hides in a water tank enclosure.The "king" of the neighborhood,a young fatherless boy,may or may not help him to escape from the police dragnet.
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