This "Naked City" is the first episode that is strictly a police procedural, but Silliphant's great writing lifts it way above the now overly familiar format (after seeing so many NCIS, CSI and other shows).
After a shock opening of the murders (with very loud music a new feature of the hour-versions of the series), the unfolding of suspects, clues and revelations is terrific -easy to follow but still quite stimulating. Felicia Farr (Jack Lemmon's wife whose career was overshadowed by his) is spellbinding as a strange suspect/heroine who holds the whole story together, and Burke proves to be ingenious in solving the case as well as risking his life in an extremely exciting finale chase and finish atop a scary construction site.
Other than the too-loud/emphatic music, the overwrought narration written by Silliphant is poor, and I can't get used to having a new narrator (actor Larry Dobkin) seeming to do a vocal imitation of the initial narrator, producer Bert Leonard.
After a shock opening of the murders (with very loud music a new feature of the hour-versions of the series), the unfolding of suspects, clues and revelations is terrific -easy to follow but still quite stimulating. Felicia Farr (Jack Lemmon's wife whose career was overshadowed by his) is spellbinding as a strange suspect/heroine who holds the whole story together, and Burke proves to be ingenious in solving the case as well as risking his life in an extremely exciting finale chase and finish atop a scary construction site.
Other than the too-loud/emphatic music, the overwrought narration written by Silliphant is poor, and I can't get used to having a new narrator (actor Larry Dobkin) seeming to do a vocal imitation of the initial narrator, producer Bert Leonard.