[knarf]

The Naked City IS great !

(watching re-runs all last week)

The technique is fantastic ...

They film real actors, doing a script/role ... in real NYC

Granted ... a lot is done in vacant areas (ala West Side Story), but a fascinating look at 50's/'60's NYC

[Political Junkie Too]

The style of Naked City was to let the guest star shine each week, and let the regulars act as supporting characters. It was always about the stories, not the characters or actors.

-PJ

[greene66]

I’m always amazed at how NON-liberal “The Naked City” was considering its locale and its slew of East Coast crewmembers from the NY-Broadway crowd. There were only two examples I recall of liberalism creeping in... one an episdoe with Lee J. Cobb which was analogous to McCarthy-era “naming names,” and one other episode which briefly had a line by Horace MacMahon in which he spoke harshly to some family members, expressing some misplaced sympathy towards a WW2 vet who went crazy and started on a killing spree.

Indeed, this and Herbert Leonard’s other series, “Route 66” seemed to be astonishingly adept at avoiding even the slightest hint of liberal messaging in his shows. Both series also were very, very PRO-religion.