Binge-Watching "Naked City".

With the coronavirus wreaking its havoc wake, and our all being in the house, you might be looking for something to binge-watch.
I have a recommendation for you:
Amazon Prime is streaming all four seasons of "Naked City" of the great police drama of the early 1960s.
It captures New York in a way that no other show did.
Mostly on location, with about half the locations no longer there.
I grew up in New York, at the time.  And I remember all of them.
Ignore the first season, which was a routine, half-hour, run of the mill detective series.
And they lost the two leads, James Franciscus, and John McIntyre.
And it was no loss.
They were both killed off.
After that season, it became an hour series, with the most exceptional writing and acting performances, with many actors going on to have major careers.
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, at their youngest, just getting started.
The cop leads were Paul Burke and Horace McMahon.  Who were both great.
Particularly Horace McMahon.  Perhaps the hammiest actor who ever worked regularly on a series.
No one could over-play a scene the way Horace could.
And it was glorious to watch.
Paul Burke and Nancy Malone, his ongoing love interest were perhaps the most appealing romantic
couple ever on television.  As a young adolescent, I found her especially appealing.
It was the days when it was easy to find parking spaces in Manhattan, and most cars had enormous
tail fins.  It was beautifully gaudy.
"Naked City", now unlike then, was anything but naked.
And we now have IMDB, so you can track down whatever actor you are interested in.
Most of them are dead now, which is sad.
But most things in life these days are sad.
So if you're looking for great television, that is easy to access, you can't do better than "Naked City".

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