NYPD Blue
The Naked are the Dead
TV Flash files “The Naked are the Dead” as hour 136 of 261 in the TV Flash guide — NYPD Blue (1993–2005) on ABC, season 7, episode 4, aired 2000-02-01, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E04: listed hour 136 of 261 in the NYPD Blue guide, hour 4 of 22 in season 7. It aired 2000-02-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Man with Two Right Shoes” (S07E03). Next is “These Shoots are Made for Joaquin” (S07E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the aftermath of a particularly horrific crime — even by NYPD standards — seven young men are found naked and murdered in one room, and a profiler is sent to the precinct to help with the investigation. Sipowicz struggles not to let his contempt for the profiler get in the way of their job and has to deal with an incompetent younger cop, but the explanation for the mass murder turns out to be pathetic and pedestrian. Meanwhile, Don makes a stupid mistake that could threaten Jill's career, and Lt. Fancy convinces the idiot that he either plays ball and stops threatening Jill's career or he spends 20 years in prison no matter what he says, and Greg and James investigate a warehouse theft that ended with a kid dead from a broken neck and leads to his dumber-than-Don brother.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Naked are the Dead sit in the NYPD Blue guide?
S07E04 is listed hour 136 of 261 — hour 4 of 22 in season 7, season 7 episode 4.
When did NYPD Blue S07E04 air?
The Naked are the Dead aired 2000-02-01 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Why was it controversial?
It pushed mid-1990s network limits on profanity, partial nudity, and adult subject matter — the standards-and-practices war was weekly news.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Butts, badges, and Sipowicz — Bochco and Milch teaching broadcast how to be adult out loud. Dennis Franz's alcoholic detective is the decade's great network antihero badge: bigoted, broken, still the moral furnace. Twelve seasons of language fights, cast shakeups, and precinct grit that primed living rooms for flawed cops before cable took the patent.
Flash: September 21, 1993, ABC, Manhattan South. Butts, badges, and a language fight already in the EPK. Steven Bochco and David Milch did not ask the museum guard whether broadcast was allowed to be adult out loud. They put detectives on a shift where alcoholism, divorce, and precinct politics bleed into the case. Dennis Franz's Andy Sipowicz is the decade's great network antihero badge — bigoted, broken, still the moral furnace. Sources close to Standards & Practices were *unavailable for comment*. They were…
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