"Naked City" was first broadcast during the 1958–59 season, with the title "The Naked City", as a half-hour series featuring James Franciscus and John McIntire playing Detective Jimmy Halloran and Lt. Dan Muldoon – the same characters as in the 1948 film (although in the film the duo was played by Don Taylor and Barry Fitzgerald).Harry Bellaver played the older, mellow Sgt.