Naked City: Season 04 (1962)

Back on the job during the fourth and final season of the gritty New York-filmed cop drama Naked City are series regulars Horace McMahon as Lt. Mike Parker, Paul Burke as Detective Adam Flint, Harry Bellaver as Sgt. Frank Arcaro, and, from time to time, Nancy Malone as Adam's girlfriend, Libby. Of course, the location-filmed episodes are fully stocked with familiar supporting actors: this year's crop includes Diahann Carroll (who earned an Emmy nomination for her performance), Burgess Meredith, Aldo Ray, Robert Duvall, Ed Begley, Jack Klugman, Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Walter Matthau, George Segal, Piper Laurie, Steven Hill, and in their first major TV roles, Sandy Dennis and Alex Cord, the latter billed under his real name, Alex Viespi. More so than any other dramatic series of the period, Naked City capitalized on a then-popular trend, that of bestowing long, lyrical and somewhat pretentious titles on its individual episodes. Prime examples during the series' terminal season include "Idylls of a Running Back," "Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy," "Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long," "Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out With Bow and Arrow," "Beyond This Place There Be Dragons," and the delectable "No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi