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- The cases of the N.Y.P.D.'s 65th Precinct.
- Detective Flint strives to stop his aging Romanian friend from using his big wedding party as cover for a bank robbery.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Soon, the Shakespeare-quoting detective holds a clandestine meet with a playboy, a boxer, and a terrified woman: each fears Bane will reveal their separate crimes. Is Bane a rogue cop or is he pursuing bigger fish ?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A payroll robbery gang hires a washed-up wheel man for a job that goes bad.
- A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Adam finds holes in her story and eventually plays a hunch which causes a suspects alibi to fail.
- 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.
- An unhappy couple involve their Swedish nanny in their marital discord.
- To spare a condemned killer, Halloran forces his way into a kept woman's apartment the night of the execution. Ravishing Lois Heller is anesthetizing herself with expensive champagne and romantic music, while the idealistic young detective battles to shatter the redhead's mask of cynicism. Lois is protecting the real murderer, her lover Nicky who she alibied. As Halloran desperately struggles to convince her to call New York's governor, he learns why a woman could become so hardened.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958–196330mTV-147.9 (108)TV EpisodeThe precinct investigates a brazen Christmas Eve robbery and shooting by the notorious Marco Butcher and his brother.
- A former top mob assassin is lured out of retirement by the opportunity to kill a kingpin for his 13th hit.
- 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.
- A thief assaults milkmen and steals their uniforms in order to gain access to and rob from wealthy people's apartment buildings.
- 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.
- 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. Det. Halloran becomes intrigued, especially when he uncovers crucial evidence that the wrong man was actually convicted. But the released killer Fleischman strongly maintains that he's definitely guilty. Why ?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. After all, how many thousands of trucks passed through the Naked City that day ?
- A high school Chemistry teacher has an argument with his wife, gets drunk, decides to "blow her up" and in the school lab makes a nitroglycerin "bomb". After he has been missing for two days and sobers up he realizes something-he doesn't remember where he left the nitro! With the NYPD's help a desperate search begins.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An acting class prank gone tragically awry leads the detectives to look closely at a talented but emotionally-tortured student.
- 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. The poor couple need cash to remove their main barrier to marriage. Hilda tells fiancé Larry she's inherited money, but actually she won a bet with small-time local bookie Happy. The bookmaker sends her to his backer Dasher, who refuses to pay Hilda off.
- 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.
- The detectives hunt down bootleggers on Fire Island after they shoot a revenue agent.
- 1958–19631h7.5 (60)TV EpisodeFormer 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.
- A soldier returns home to find that his baby sister has become part of a shoplifting ring that has attracted the detectives' attention.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.