Naked City (ABC crime drama) - end title (12-19-62)

End credits of ABC's "Naked City" episode "Spectre of The Rose Street Gang." Seen in the final scene is Bethel Leslie. Lawrence Dobkin is heard delivering the celebrated two-line summation that ends each show.

This theme, by Nelson Riddle, was used in "Naked City's" final season. I like it slightly better than Billy May's more well-known theme for the show, "Somewhere in the Night." All copyrights acknowledged. For research and educational purposes only.

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Entertainment

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• ABC
• NakedCity
• riddle
• vintage
• television
• 1962

[Cantabrigidian]

I'm pretty sure that's Paul Frees saying "There are 8 million stories" at the end, not Lawrence Dobkin.

[byrd59]

No, that's Dobkin.

[KCO1960]

I like the "Somewhere In The Night" theme a lot better.

[byrd59]

Ah. Well, "Somewhere In the Night," certainly became a well-known standard, played by lots of jazz musicians and others. Someone will probably post that version of the end credits at some point.

[GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Naked City Should Have Stayed Two More Years And on ABC And would have gone to color in september 1963 and off the air in september 1965 and would have moved to friday nights they should of had the color by pathe in the closing credits they should of had brought back Westrex Recording System for the fifth season in 1963 they should of had the NAB Seal of good practice code affiliate,Westrex recording system,this picture made under the jurresdiction of IATSEIA affilliated with AFL-CIO,

[rickhatch1]

I know, I wish someone would play it in it's entirety on here.

[melbz1266]

i enjoy watching the show for the simple reason is i s i can see new york city in the early days.

[oluham]

This was a GrREAT theme song on TV.

[HarpoMarx22]

@KennyMorse That's cool to have a family connection with this great series.

[HarpoMarx22]

@JubalCalif Yes, it was a great show, groundbreaking in its on location shooting on the streets of NYC. Many of the episodes are available on DVD, but many are not. I wish they'd release the rest of them.

[JubalCalif]

What a cool clip! I've neen the original crime drama "The Naked City" many times on TV but this is the first time I've seen any footage from the 60's TV show. I'm too young to remember it during it's original network run (I'm 54) but I've read about the show. It seem to have a good overall reputation: well written, good casts, fabulous on location New York filming, etc. THANK YOU for posting this! :-)

[JubalCalif]

@byrd59

I totally agree...I've heard a lot of Paul Frees' voice over work & Dobkin here sounds nothing like Paul (at least to me). THANKS for your clarifying comment! :-)

[KennyMorse]

What is so fun for ME is that the thumbnail of this video, is my father's screen credit (he was the Production Coordinator of Naked City). THANKS.

[44032]

@tbear4pa There was no 1959-60 season. it was a half hour show in 1958-59 and returned as an hour show for the 1960-61 season.

[tbear4pa]

@44032

That means the unmentioned season of 1959-60 must of been the George Dowling version as well, then Billy May's started in the 1960-61 season.