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1.27 [--] Naked City: FALLEN STAR (30 min)
31Mar59
Directed by Sam Ross
Starring:
John McIntire as (Det. Lt. Muldoon), James Franciscus (as Det. Halloran), Horace McMahon (as Lt. Mike Parker)
Robert Alda
Bruno Damon
Rocky Graziano
Arnold Merritt
Albert Morgenstern
Guy Sorel
Synopsis:
An alcoholic former All-American star who’s become a hustler for two card sharks is befriended by a boy who’s long worshiped him. When a man is killed in a fight over a card game, all clues point to the former star.
Episode Guide Courtesy:
ctva.biz/US/Crime/NakedCity.htm
Synopsis:
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).[3] 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.
Series Information Courtesy:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_City_(TV_series)
31Mar59
Directed by Sam Ross
Starring:
John McIntire as (Det. Lt. Muldoon), James Franciscus (as Det. Halloran), Horace McMahon (as Lt. Mike Parker)
Robert Alda
Bruno Damon
Rocky Graziano
Arnold Merritt
Albert Morgenstern
Guy Sorel
Synopsis:
An alcoholic former All-American star who’s become a hustler for two card sharks is befriended by a boy who’s long worshiped him. When a man is killed in a fight over a card game, all clues point to the former star.
Episode Guide Courtesy:
ctva.biz/US/Crime/NakedCity.htm
Synopsis:
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).[3] 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.
Series Information Courtesy:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_City_(TV_series)