Naked City (TV series)
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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 iconic line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."
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Created by | Stirling Silliphant |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 138 |
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Executive producer | Herbert B. Leonard (1962–1963) |
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Network | ABC |
Release | September 30, 1958 (1958-09-30) – May 29, 1963 (1963-05-29) |
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.[1] In 1997, the episode "Sweet Prince of Delancey Street" (1961) was ranked number 93 on TV Guide's "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" list.[2]