Talk:Naked City (TV series)

Irvin Kershner

A very large chart appears at the bottom of this article, listing the credits of director Irvin Kershner, of which this program is one of many. While it is true that Kershner directed one (according to IMDB) of the 100-plus episodes of Naked City, this large chart is wildly disproportionate to his contribution and I have removed it. I note that it is in other articles in which Kershner was merely an episode director in TV series that had many directors for many episodes.--Silverscreen 15:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Revival?

Since I am not particularly knowledgeable about this series, I'll post this germ and let others deal with it. In 1998, two television movies, Naked City: Justice with a Bullet and Naked City: A Killer Christmas aired on American television. Both were set in the then-present-day and starred Scott Glenn as Dan Muldoon and Courtney B. Vance as James Halloran. I have seen most of the former and part of the latter film. Obviously, these films were meant as some kind of revival, but I have no details about this and cannot comment on their quality (or lack thereof) relative to that of the original film noir and subsequent TV series. IMDB lists both films, but has no other information beside cast and crew lists. Peter Bogdanovich is credited as the director of the second film. Someone has seen fit to create an article for the first film (such as it is; it's a very poorly written stub) but makes no mention of the previous iterations of Naked City. Does any of this deserve mention here? Or should it be relegated to the disambig? Or not mentioned at all? 71.200.140.35 (talk) 02:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Joseph Creeley's Defense

The defense used by Joseph Creeley's attorney, although called insanity in the episode, is actually called non-insane automatism. In other words, he's trying to show that at the time of the crime, Creeley's mind was affected by his brain tumour in such a way as to render him unable to form any mens rea - "guilty mind" - for the crime and that Creeley's ability to judge right from wrong was impaired by said tumour. The defense would have worked better onscreen if Creeley had been depicted as having a rare "adrenalin pumping" tumour instead of a brain tumour. as required by the censor at that time. Glammazon (talk) 15:06, 9 October 2016 (UTC)