Naked City (TV series)

Naked City
Genre	Police procedural Crime drama
Created by	Stirling Silliphant
Starring	John McIntire James Franciscus Harry Bellaver Horace McMahon Paul Burke
Narrated by	Herbert B. Leonard (1958–1959) Lawrence Dobkin (1960–1963)
Opening theme	"This Is the Naked City" by George Duning (1958–1959) "Somewhere in the Night" by Billy May (1960–1962) "The (New) Naked City Theme" by Nelson Riddle (1962–1963)
Composers	George Duning (1958–59) Billy May (1960–63) Nelson Riddle (1960–63; incidental music)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	138
Production
Executive producer	Herbert B. Leonard (1962–1963)
Producers	Herbert B. Leonard Leo Davis (1962–1963) Charles Russell (1962–1963)
Running time	30 minutes (1958–1959) 60 minutes (1960–1963)
Production companies	Shelle Productions Screen Gems
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	September 30, 1958 (1958-09-30) – May 29, 1963 (1963-05-29)
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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."

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]