This episode is a kind of mile stone in the series, so far it is a pure family entertainment job, if you except the missing girl line; after all, this is a crime, detective series. But for the rest, you are miles away from the usual scheme that you see in the rest in the series. At least so far in the first season. I will see in further seasons. The previous episodes were rather dark and depressing.
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How can bloodhounds get lost? Their supposed to find people
kapelusznik1831 December 2013
***SPOILERS*** The NYPD are on the lookout for a pair of blue blood or pure bread bloodhound who escaped from a van that was involved in a car accident. With NYPD police detectives James Hollaran & Frank Arcaro, James Franciscus & Harry Bellaver, on the case they track down the two lost mutts in midtown Manhattan sniffing for their next meal. As we soon find out the two dogs were hired, from their master in far off Colorado, to track down this missing 5 year old girl Lynn Whitmore, Janice Manzo, who disappeared from her 5th Av penthouse apartment.
Det. Arcaro knowing a thing or two about bloodhounds, a friend of his raised them in upstate New York, soon realizes what the bloodhounds were here in the city for. That's when through the dogs keeper, who was injured in the car crash, told them that he was supposed to find the Whitmore's Charles & Jane, Byron Sanders & Phyllis Hill, missing daughter Lynn. Going against his bosses Let. Mike Parker's, Horace Mcmahon, orders both defectives Arcaro & Halloran let the dogs loose and with only the scent of Lynn's rag doll they eventually tracked the little girl down in the wilds of New York's Central Park thus accomplishing in less then two hours what the entire 30,000 members of the NYPD couldn't do in six since they were put on the case.
What the two bloodhounds accomplished so impressed Let. Mike Parker who at first wanted to have nothing to do with the mutts that by the time the "Naked City" episode ended he suggested to his boss the NYC Police Commissioner to have a bloodhound assigned to every police prescient in the entire city! That in him realizing that the nose of a bloodhound is far more effective in finding missing persons than all the members of the police missing person department combined!
Det. Arcaro knowing a thing or two about bloodhounds, a friend of his raised them in upstate New York, soon realizes what the bloodhounds were here in the city for. That's when through the dogs keeper, who was injured in the car crash, told them that he was supposed to find the Whitmore's Charles & Jane, Byron Sanders & Phyllis Hill, missing daughter Lynn. Going against his bosses Let. Mike Parker's, Horace Mcmahon, orders both defectives Arcaro & Halloran let the dogs loose and with only the scent of Lynn's rag doll they eventually tracked the little girl down in the wilds of New York's Central Park thus accomplishing in less then two hours what the entire 30,000 members of the NYPD couldn't do in six since they were put on the case.
What the two bloodhounds accomplished so impressed Let. Mike Parker who at first wanted to have nothing to do with the mutts that by the time the "Naked City" episode ended he suggested to his boss the NYC Police Commissioner to have a bloodhound assigned to every police prescient in the entire city! That in him realizing that the nose of a bloodhound is far more effective in finding missing persons than all the members of the police missing person department combined!
Comedy is a relief
lor_13 January 2024
Time for a comical, human-interest episode after so many gritty and downbeat stories of downtrodden residents of the Naked City. This little fable features plenty of local color in Manhattan, climaxing in Central Park.
It opens with a car accident victim, whose two bloodhounds escape and are on the loose. With McMahon most definitely not a dog lover, our heroes Harry & Jim have their hands full hunting for the dog hounds, neatly dovetailing in the second half of the show with a missing persons case, dealing with a lost 6-year old girl, whose squabbling parents also present a domestic conflict issue.
The cutesy comedy of the lovable pair of bloodhounds turns to drama and sentimentality when they save the day and even, improbably, soften the heart of tough cop McMahon. It's a fun respite from the weekly serious crime aspect of the show.
It opens with a car accident victim, whose two bloodhounds escape and are on the loose. With McMahon most definitely not a dog lover, our heroes Harry & Jim have their hands full hunting for the dog hounds, neatly dovetailing in the second half of the show with a missing persons case, dealing with a lost 6-year old girl, whose squabbling parents also present a domestic conflict issue.
The cutesy comedy of the lovable pair of bloodhounds turns to drama and sentimentality when they save the day and even, improbably, soften the heart of tough cop McMahon. It's a fun respite from the weekly serious crime aspect of the show.
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