Naked City (TV series)
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| Created by | Stirling Silliphant |
| Starring |
Paul Burke (1960–63) Horace McMahon (1959, 1960–63) Harry Bellaver (1958–59, 1960–63) James Franciscus (1958–59) John McIntire (1958–59) |
| Narrated by | Herbert B. Leonard (1958-59) Lawrence Dobkin (1960-63) |
| Opening theme | "This is the Naked City" by George Duning (1958-59) "Somewhere in the Night" by Billy May (1960-62) "The {New} Naked City Theme" by Nelson Riddle (1962-63) |
| Composer(s) |
George Duning (1958–59) Billy May (1960–63) Nelson Riddle (1960–63) (incidental music) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 138 (39 episodes, 30 minutes; 99 episodes, 60 minutes.) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Herbert B. Leonard (1962-63) |
| Producer(s) |
Herbert B. Leonard Leo Davis (1962-63) Charles Russell (1962-63) |
| Running time | 30 minutes, 1958–59; 60 minutes, 1960–63. |
| Production company(s) | Shelle Productions Screen Gems |
| Distributor |
Colex Enterprises LBS Communications Columbia Pictures Television Columbia Tristar Television Distribution Sony Pictures Television |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 30, 1958 - June 23, 1959 (30 minutes) and October 12, 1960 – May 29, 1963 (60 minutes) |
Naked City is a police drama series from Screen Gems which aired from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963 on the ABC television network. 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 iconic line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
The Naked City episode "Four Sweet Corners" (1959) served as a backdoor pilot of sorts for the series Route 66, created by Stirling Silliphant. Route 66 ran on CBS from 1960 to 1964, and, like Naked City, followed the "semi-anthology" format of building the stories around the guest stars, rather than the regular cast. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” (1961) was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
Filmed on location in New York City, the series centered on the detectives of NYPD’s 65th Precinct, although episode plots usually focused more on the criminals and victims portrayed by guest stars, characteristic of the "semi-anthology" narrative format common in early 1960s TV (so called by the trade paper Variety). For the first season, the primary writer was Stirling Silliphant, who wrote 32 of the season's 39 episodes. Silliphant nurtured a focus on intelligent drama with elements of comedy and pathos, leading to significant critical acclaim for the series and attracting film and television actors of the time to seek out guest-starring roles.
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