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More gripping tales from the crime series that pulls no punches! THE VIRTUES OF MADAME DOUVAY: A woman plans to blame her husband for a murder and run off with his stepbrother until Adam Flint investigates.
KING STANISLAUS & THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE: Longtime friends Pete (Jack Klugman) and Steve follow an old Polish custom to resolve a bitter argument.
HER LIFE IN MOVING PICTURES: After a wealthy man's home is robbed, police find important clues in a diary belonging to the maid, Virginia Cort (Eileen Heckart).
ROBIN HOOD AND CLARENCE DARROW, WENT OUT WITH A BOW AND ARROW: Recent widower Earl Johannis (Eddie Albert) faces a gang of thieves when he tries to reach out to his sons, Jack and Chris (Christopher Walken).
THE APPLE FALLS NOT FAR FROM THE TREE: Walter Gerrick would do anything to keep his cherished son, Les (Keir Dullea), out of jail, even if he must risk arrest himself.
THE HIGHEST OF PRIZES: Richard Calder (Robert Culp) is gleeful after being found not guilty of murdering his wife but might be celebrating too soon.
ON THE BATTLEFRONT EVERY MINUTE IS IMPORTANT: Korsica (Kurt Kasznar) bungles a major robbery, which erupts into violence. Meanwhile, Detective Adam Flint gets a lucrative job offer.
NO NAKED LADIES IN FRONT OF GIOVANNI'S HOUSE: Hanging out in a college town, Ben Giovanni is enjoying an extended adolescence and will do anything to avoid marriage, even socking his tenant (Al Lewis) in the eye.
THE S.S. AMERICAN DREAM: George Paraskis feels he can make his lifelong dreams come true by restoring an old cargo ship, but when things go horribly wrong, he robs a loan shark (Roger C. Carmel). ONE, TWO, THREE, RITA RAKAHOWSKI: Stock boy Gorilla (Tony Franciosa) sets off a riot after vying with the business owner for the affection of Rita Rakahowski.
GOLDEN LADS AND GIRLS: After two men are arrested for wife-beating, the judge (Tom Bosley) orders them to get much-needed therapy, which they continue to resist.
BAREFOOT ON A BED OF COALS: Barber Stanley Walenty desperately wants to be a cop, donning a patrolman's uniform to wound a holdup man and facing off against a killer.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
The Last Episodes of the Last Season:
The 138 episodes (all in B&W) of the police drama "Naked City" were originally broadcast on ABC from 1958-1963. The series started in a 30-minute format (39 episodes), took a year long break and return in a 60-minute format. The series was filmed in the old Biograph Studios in the Bronx, famous as the studio where D.W. Griffith got his start. Image Entertainment's 3 DVD release "Naked City - Set 3" contains an assortment of twelve of the hour-long episodes from the last part of season 4. The titles,...
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1960's Black & White Crime Drama TV Show:
The shows on this DVD box set were good. The old scenes of New York looked great. Reminded me of times when I was a lot younger and first saw Naked City on the small screen (a very small screen).
JES
Very Good, But......: 
After purchasing two other sets of Naked City DVDs, I have to say that this #3 was NOT Naked City's "finest hours."
It seems to me that by the time the Naked City writers got to the year 1963 (the show's last season), they must have started to get burnt out on story lines. With the other disks, I found myself watching the whole four one-hour episodes in one sitting, but these disks (it's a three-disk set) I found myself stopping mid-way to go to bed.
The investigation plot was somewhat confusing,...more info
David Janssen as a dying executive: 
David Janssen is the star of "On the Battlefront Every Moment is Important". The co-writer of that episode is series story editor Howard Rodman, who would create Janssen's "Harry O" a decade later. Janssen would start playing "The Fugitive" the year after this episode aired.
Janssen plays the owner of an advertising agency who is dying of leukemia. Janssen decides intelligent, creative, focused Detective Adam Flint (Paul Burke) is the right man to take over his company. Flint, who is investigating a...more info
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