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The Untouchables (1959)
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1 :01x01 - The Empty Chair (Oct/15/1959)
After Al Capone is sent to prison to serve an eleven year sentence for income tax evasion, the heirs to his criminal empire begin feuding amongst themselves to takeover Capone's empty chair. Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti kills two pretenders to the throne but Mob bookkeeper Jake Guzik calms Nitti down by urging conciliation and diversification. Meanwhile, Ness uses Guzik's niece, Brandy La France, to try to locate the whereabouts of Capone's hidden cash reserves, the location of which are known only by her uncle.
Special Guest Stars: Nehemiah Persoff as Jake Guzik, | Guest Stars: Richard Benedict as James "Fur" Sammons, Herman Rudin as Tony "Mops" Volpe, Peter Mamakos as Gus Raddi, Wally Cassell (1) as Phil D'Andrea, Bruce Gordon (1) as Frank Nitti, Betty Garde as Norma Guzik, Barbara Nichols (2) as Brandy LaFrance, Frank Wilcox as Beecher Asbury, | Uncredited: Neville Brand as Al Capone, Norman Alden as Nitti's Hood, Lou Krugman as D'Andrea's Attorney, Carl Milletaire as Julius Scalmone
Director: John Peyser
Writer: David Karp
Story: Ernest Kinoy
 
2 :01x02 - Ma Barker and Her Boys (Oct/22/1959)
January 16, 1935. Oklawaha, Florida. Eliot Ness and his men are in a vicious gun battle with Arizona Kate "Ma" Barker and her murderous brood. As the battle rages, flashbacks reveal how the Barker boys got involved in lives of crime and how Ma nurtured and encouraged their criminal ways.
Special Guest Stars: Claire Trevor as Arizona Kate "Ma" Barker, | Guest Stars: Robert Ivers as Herman Barker, Louise Fletcher as Eloise, Joe Di Reda (1) as Fred Barker, Adam Williams as Lloyd Barker, Peter Baldwin (1) as Arthur "Doc" Barker, Vaughn Taylor as George Elias "Pa" Barker, | Uncredited: Allyn Ann McLerie as Neighbor
Director: Joe Parker
Writer: Jerome Ross
 
3 :01x03 - The Jake Lingle Killing (Oct/29/1959)
When newsman Jake Lingle is murdered his publisher offers a $10,000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest of his killer. Ex-convict Bill Hagen is determined to claim this reward but he needs the help of Eliot Ness and his squad in order to do so.
Special Guest Stars: Jack Lord (1) as Bill Hagen, | Guest Stars: Frank Wilcox as Beecher Asbury, H. M. Wynant as Joe Aiello, John Beradino as Augie Viale, Phillip Pine as Jack Zuta, Charles McGraw as Barney Bertsche, Herb Vigran as Jake Lingle
Director: Tay Garnett
Story: Saul Levitt | Teleplay: Robert C. Dennis (1)
 
4 :01x04 - The George "Bugs" Moran Story (Nov/05/1959)
Greedy gang boss George "Bugs" Moran seeks to expand his operations by taking over a trucker's union. Union president Larry Halloran seeks the aid of the Untouchables in order to prevent this from coming to fruition.
Guest Stars: Miriam Nelson as Grace Halloran, Bob Hastings as Frank Patterson, Peter Baldwin (1) as Tom Patterson, Harry Shannon as Joe Patterson, Robin Warga as Larry Halloran, Jr., Fredd Wayne (1) as Joe Carroll, Barbara Stuart as Thelma Devore, Lloyd Nolan as George "Bugs" Moran, Kem Debbs as George "Blackie"Anderson, Jack Warden as Lawrence "Larry" Halloran, | Uncredited: Jack Kruschen as Union Official
Director: Joe Parker
Writer: David Karp
 
5 :01x05 - Ain't We Got Fun? (Nov/12/1959)
Comic Johnny Paycheck makes a deal with mobster Jim Harrington in order to advance his career. But Johnny soon discovers that the price he might have to pay is way too steep.
Special Guest Stars: Cameron Mitchell as Johnny Paycheck, | Guest Stars: Harry Bartell as Schlessinger, Joseph Buloff as Benny Hoff, Ted de Corsia as Big Jim Harrington, Phyllis Coates as Renee Sullivan, | Uncredited: Timothy Carey as Loxie the Torch, Gene Coogan as Harrington's Hood
Director: Roger Kay
Story: Abram S. Ginnes | Teleplay: Abram S. Ginnes, Robert C. Dennis (1)
 
6 :01x06 - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (Nov/19/1959)
Desperado Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll is involved in a nasty feud with ganglord Dutch Schultz. First he kidnaps and murders one of Schultz's lieutenants and then he kidnaps a prized racehorse on which the Dutchman has bet a huge sum to win the Kentucky Derby.
Guest Stars: Ronald Anton as Tommy Clover, Dick Miller (1) as Benny Bristow, Suzanne Storrs as Diana Carten, Bern Hoffman as Fats Finney, Richard Karlan as Needles Bledsoe, Richard Carlyle as Lefty Gallagher, Lawrence Dobkin as Dutch Schultz, Clu Gulager as Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll
Director: Andrew McCullough (3)
Story: Charles Marion | Teleplay: Palmer Thompson
 
7 :01x07 - Mexican Stake-Out (Nov/26/1959)
Eliot Ness and Nick Delgado travel to Mexico to try and hunt down Julius Embry, a missing witness who is scheduled to testify against racketeer Ted Newberry. Unbeknownst to Ness, he's walking straight into a trap.
Guest Stars: Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. as Achilles Guzman, Frank Wilcox as Beecher Asbury, Barbara Luna as Lucita, Ken Lynch (1) as Ted Newberry, Byron Foulger as Julius Embry, Martin Landau as Jerry Fanning, Vince Edwards as Nick Delgado, Alex Montoya as Max Charcas, | Uncredited: Bud Osborne as Commissioner, Stafford Repp as LaMarr, Joseph Ruskin as Fred Metcalfe
Director: Tay Garnett
Story: Alvin Sapinsley | Teleplay: Robert C. Dennis (1), Alvin Sapinsley
 
8 :01x08 - The Artichoke King (Dec/03/1959)
Ness and the Untouchables travel to New York City to try and take down Ciro Terranova, a racketeer who's cornered the artichoke market in the New York produce district.
Guest Stars: Selette Cole as Mrs. Stearns, Argentina Brunetti as Mrs. Cestari, Eugene Iglesias as Tony Cestari, Meg Wyllie as Mrs. Terranova, Mike Mazurki as Frankie Marlowe, Al Ruscio as Frankie Yale, Robert Ellenstein as Felix Burke, Jack Weston as Ciro Terranova
Director: Roger Kay
Writer: Harry Essex
 
9 :01x09 - The Tri-State Gang (Dec/10/1959)
Ness and the Untouchables are assigned to track down a band of hijackers known as the Tri-State Gang. The gang is led by the vicious and brutal Wally Legenza whose specialty is chaining truck drivers to trees and shooting them down in cold blood. Things get even more urgent and more personal for Ness when he loses one of his agents in a gun battle with the gang.
Special Guest Stars: William Bendix as Wally Legenza, | Guest Stars: Peggy Maley as Amy Randall, Jay Adler as Georgie Kaufman, Roxane Berard as Little Lizzie Dauphine, John Ward as Bobby Mais, Joseph Mell as Sidney Weinberg, Stanley Adams as Willie Weinberg, Florence Halop as Flora Weinberg, Alan Hale, Jr. (2) as Big Bill Phillips, Gavin MacLeod as Artie MacLeod, | Uncredited: Dick Wilson (2) as Sheriff
Director: Allen H. Miner (1)
Writer: Joseph Petracca
 
10 :01x10 - The Dutch Schultz Story (Dec/17/1959)
In 1935, Ness and the Untouchables turn their big guns onto Dutch Schultz, the toughest mobster in New York City. Ness succeeds in getting Schultz indicted for income tax evasion but the Dutchman beats the rap with the aid of a change of trial venue and some jury tampering. Schultz then returns to New York City to resume his rightful place in the rackets only to discover that things have changed since he was away.
Guest Stars: Richard Reeves as Abe Landau, Johnny Seven as Canello, David White (1) as W. S. Andrews, Mort Mills as Lulu Rosenkrantz, Maggie Mahoney as Marsha Harper, Robert Carricart as Lucky Luciano, Lawrence Dobkin as Dutch Schultz, Marion Ross as Vera Schultz, | Uncredited: Frank Puglia as Joe Flores
Director: Jerry Hopper
Story: Jerome Ross | Teleplay: Robert C. Dennis (1), Jerome Ross
 
11 :01x11 - You Can't Pick the Number (Dec/24/1959)
The Untouchables move against Chicago's numbers racket when Agent Flaherty tries to talk old friend Al Morrissey, a distict captain, into providing information. Morrissey refuses but a subsequent beating by syndicate hoods might cause him to change his mind.
Guest Stars: Whit Bissell as Danning, King Calder as Sampson, Jay C. Flippen as Al Morrissey, Darryl Hickman as Phil Morrisey, | Uncredited: John Duke as Frankie, Betty Lou Gerson as Mrs. Pollack, Lou Herbert as Larrry Bayliss
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: Henry Greenberg
 
12 :01x12 - The Underground Railway (Dec/31/1959)
Bank robber Frank Halloway escapes from Lewisburg Federal Prison and begins a cross country journey with a naive but earnest young woman named Mona. Object: $500,000.00 in loot from the robbery of a Federal Reserve Bank being held in Los Angeles by Ed Johnson, Halloway's partner who was never apprehended. Ness sets out in pursuit of Halloway because he has a special interest in the case--Halloway once killed one of his agents.
Special Guest Stars: Cliff Robertson as Frank Halloway, | Guest Stars: Frank Ferguson (1) as Dentist, Linda Wong as Tuki, Ernest Sarracino as Tomasso Fellini, Joe De Santis as Daniel Oates, Virginia Vincent as Mona, | Uncredited: John Harmon (1) as Ed Johnson, Bob Hopkins (2) as Charlie Brandt, Ford Rainey as Prisoner Run Over by Halloway
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Leonard Kantor
 
13 :01x13 - Syndicate Sanctuary (Jan/07/1960)
The syndicate moves in and takes over the town of Calum City, IL. When a reform candidate for mayor is murdered, Ness and the Untouchables arrive on the scene to try and restore some semblance of law and order to the town.
Guest Stars: Douglas Dumbrille as Coroner, Lewis Charles as Joe Donato, Anthony Caruso as Guido Morelli, Frank Wolff as Tony Rio, Jack Elam as Nick Bravo, Gail Kobe as Rosetta Zabo, Robert F. Simon (3) as Police Chief Towers, | Uncredited: Don Diamond as Manager of Chuck-a-Luck Club, Mike Lane (1) as James Stenbeck
Director: Paul Harrison (2)
Writer: George F. Slavin
 
14 :01x14 - The Noise of Death (Jan/14/1960)
An aging Mafia don is ordered by his higher-ups to retire. Ness then tries to get the man to provide him with information against the Mafia but it could be a hard sell.
Guest Stars: Joi Lansing as Georgina Jones, Robert Ellenstein as Kallinak, Rita Lynn as Mrs. Bucco, Mike Kellin as Abe Garfinkel, Norma Crane as Mrs. Vittorini, Henry Silva as Little Charlie Sebastino, J. Carrol Naish as Joe Bucco, | Uncredited: Harry Dean Stanton as "Blind" Newspaper Vendor
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Ben Maddow
 
15 :01x15 - Star Witness (Jan/14/1960)
Former mob accountant William Norbert is slated to testify against mobster Luigi Renaldo. Due to delays and postponements, Ness and his men are forced to shuttle Norbert across the country in order to protect him from Renaldo's gunmen who are out to silence him at any cost.
Special Guest Stars: Jim Backus as William Norbert, | Guest Stars: Jay Warren as Paolo Rienzi, Antony Carbone (2) as Forenzi, William Justine as Ralph McNeill, Tom Reese as George Summers, Bart Burns as Floyd Wheaton, Marc Lawrence (1) as Luigi Renaldo, Dorothy Morris as Mildred Norbert, Sal Armetta as Tommy Fiducci, | Uncredited: Mack Williams (1) as Judge
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: Charles O'Neal
 
16 :01x16 - The St. Louis Story (Jan/28/1960)
Ness and rookie agent Cam Allison head to St. Louis to try and crack a mail truck robbery and get caught up in mobster Dink Conway's plans to consolidate all the gangs of St. Louis under his leadership.
Special Guest Stars: David Brian (1) as Dink Conway, | Guest Stars: Rita Duncan as Rita Rocco, Danny Meehan as Eddie Runkel, Lillian Bronson as Mrs. Lindsay, Percy Helton as Meyer, Bernard Fein as Big Tim Harrington, Frank Wilcox as Beecher Asbury, George N. Neise as William Neuhauser, Richard Bakalyan as Joe Courtney, Leo Gordon as Whitey Deering
Director: Howard W. Koch
Writer: Joseph Petracca
 
17 :01x17 - One-Armed Bandits (Feb/04/1960)
Mob kingpin Augie Viale blackmails recent parolee Frank O'Dean into working in his slot machine racket. Ness, an old acquaintance of O'Dean's, tries to set him straight and bring down Viale as well.
Special Guest Stars: Harry Guardino as Frank O'Dean, | Guest Stars: Theona Bryant as Nurse, Paul Comi as George Colleone, Kenneth Becker as Al Barberry, Penny Santon as Emily Brodowski, Wolfe Barzell (1) as Jake Bradowski, Theodore Marcuse as Jack Curtiz, John Beradino as Augie Viale, Larry Gates as Julian Glass
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: E. Jack Neuman
 
18 :01x18 - Little Egypt (Feb/11/1960)
The downstate area of Illinois known as LIttle Egypt is riddled with vice, corruption, and gang violence. In the city of Morrain, a reform ticket is elected to public office but the newly elected mayor and sheriff are assassinated on election eve. At the special request of the governor of Illinois, Ness sends rookie agent Cam Allison undercover to Morrain to bring down Major Charlie Byron--the man responsible for the murders.
Special Guest Stars: Fred Clark (1) as Major Charlie Byron, | Guest Stars: Frank Bella as Ray Williams, Miriam Goldina as Mrs. Laszlo, James McCallion as Shorty Checkers, Bartlett Robinson as Mayor Marcus Stone, Sam Gilman as Sheriff Lenny Parker, John Marley as Ed Stanley, Susan Cummings as Hazel Stanley, Norman Alden as Barry Carlton, | Uncredited: Majel Barrett as Waitress
Director: John Peyser
Writer: Joseph Petracca
 
19 :01x19 - The Big Squeeze (Feb/18/1960)
After bank robber Larry "Ace" Banner makes that one big score he plans on retiring. But when Banner's new wife runs through a bunch of his money and Ness discovers his hidden cash reserves, he is forced to go back to work. Ness then tries to use Banner's own methods to catch him in the act.
Special Guest Stars: Dan O'Herlihy as Larry "Ace" Banner, | Guest Stars: James Mageean as Jamie "the Knife" Hennigan, Ed Hashim (1) as Matty Church, Dodie Heath as Chickie Purcell, William A. Forester as Stu, Jeanne Vaughn as Miss Downes, John Hoyt as James Havens, Stephen Coit as Art Lynch, Pitt Herbert as Cashier, Frank Wilcox as Beecher Asbury, | Uncredited: Kenneth R. MacDonald (4) as Senator
Director: Roger Kay
Story: William Riley Burnett (1) | Teleplay: Robert C. Dennis (1), William Riley Burnett (1)
 
20 :01x20 - The Unhired Assassin (1) (Feb/25/1960)
When Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak begins cracking down on gangsters activities in the city, the Capone Mob, now led by Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti, decides that he must die. Ness and the Untouchables are assigned to protect Mayor Cermak from any potential assassin's bullet. Meanwhile, in Miami, a man named Giuseppe Zangara begins getting homicidal urges to kill an important man.
Special Guest Stars: Robert Middleton (3) as Mayor Anton Cermak, | Guest Stars: Argentina Brunetti as Mrs. Swoboda, George N. Neise as Ira Peterson, John Daheim as Tom Jansen, Ted Berger as Roley Sutton, Sallie Todd as Sally Jansen, Frankie Darro as Newspaper Vendor, John Duke as Milwaukee Minnelli, Joe Mantell as Giuseppe Zangara, Richard Deacon as Bill Skidmore, Frank DeKova as Louis "Little New York" Campagna, Claude Akins as Jake "Dodo" Ryan, Bruce Gordon (1) as Frank Nitti, Lee Van Cleef as Frank Diamond
Director: Howard W. Koch
Writer: William Speir
 
21 :01x21 - The Unhired Assassin (2) (Mar/03/1960)
After one attempt on the life of Chicago Mayor Cermak fails, the Capone Mob has an assassin waiting for him on his vacation trip to Miami. Ness and the Untouchables discover the existence of this hit man and rush to save the day. But there is another man waiting in Miami, an unhired assassin named Giuseppe Zangara. The mentally unbalanced Zangara has the psychotic urge to kill an important leader. Will the two forces of assassination converge with one another?
Special Guest Stars: Robert Middleton (3) as Mayor Anton Cermak, | Guest Stars: Percy Helton as Jocko, Sterling Holloway as Horace DeVilbiss, Joe Mantell as Giuseppe Zangara, Robert Gist as Fred "Caddy" Croner, Frank DeKova as Louis "Little New York" Campagna, Lee Van Cleef as Frank Diamond, Bruce Gordon (1) as Frank Nitti
Director: Howard W. Koch
Writer: William Speir
 
22 :01x22 - The White Slavers (Mar/10/1960)
Ness tries to bring down white slaver Mig Torrance but faces a great deal of apathy from both the newspapers and the public. But when nine Mexican prostitutes are brutally murdered near the United States border on the orders of Torrance, the public is finally aroused and the girls working for Torrance organize against him.
Special Guest Stars: Betty Field as Mrs. Buchanan, | Guest Stars: Mona Knox as Edna, Theona Bryant as Lucille, James Anderson (1) as Nick Flannigan, Paul Langton as Bob Wheaton, Jeremy Slate as Red Foran, Frank London as Goldie Gold, Nita Talbot as Alice, Mike Kellin as Mig Torrance, Dick York as Ernie Torrance
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Leonard Kantor
 
23 :01x23 - Three Thousand Suspects (Mar/24/1960)
Leavenworth inmate Nick Segal wants to rat out his heretofore unknown partner to Ness but is killed inside the prison before he can talk. Seeking information about Segal's mysterious partner and death, Ness gets convicted smuggler Tom Sebring to be his "investigator" inside the prison in return for a shot at early parole.
Special Guest Stars: Leslie Nielsen as Tom Sebring, | Guest Stars: Howard Storm as Phil Thorne, Francis DeSales as Captain Troy, James Flavin as Warden, Ned Glass as Ed Keiffer, Peter Leeds as Nick Segal, Bert Freed as Gus Casserta, Mary Sinclair as Mrs. Sebring, Bruce Gordon (1) as Frank Nitti, | Uncredited: Dan Seymour as Sam
Director: John Peyser
Writer: Robert C. Dennis (1)
 
24 :01x24 - The Doreen Maney Story (Mar/31/1960)
The Untouchables do battle with the armed robbery couple of Doreen Maney and Sheik Humphries. Ness manages to capture Doreen in her Tennessee hometown. He decides to transport her back to New York by automobile in hopes that he can bait Sheik into making a rescue attempt thus capturing him too.
Special Guest Stars: Anne Francis (1) as Doreen Maney, | Guest Stars: Lovyss Bradley as Matron, Jim Hayward as Sheriff, Robert J. Stevenson (4) as Jake Logan, Richard Rust as Len Carson, George Mitchell as Pop Maney, Connie Hines as Maybelle Maney, Christopher Dark as Sheik Humphries
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Jerome Ross
 
25 :01x25 - Portrait of a Thief (Apr/07/1960)
Thousands and thousands of gallons of illegal alchohol are flowing into Chicago. Ness traces the source of the alcohol to Brawley Mills, an upstate New York manufacturer of legal alcohol headed by two men who may not be who or what they seem.
Guest Stars: Harlan Warde as Policeman, Harry Landers as Phil Martin, Alan Dexter as Vince Farrell, Frank Wilcox as Beecher Asbury, Raymond Bailey as John Carvel, Henry Jones (1) as Brooks Wells/Demos Britttano, Edward Andrews as Carlton Duncan/Aristede Brittano, Charles McGraw as Johnny Torrio, J. Pat O'Malley as Warden Carroll
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Herbert Abbott Spiro
 
26 :01x26 - Underworld Bank (Apr/14/1960)
Mob financier Milo Sullivan forms an underworld bank which provides financial backing to criminal enterprises. Milo's undoing comes when he shortchanges robber Duke Mullen who has just pulled a million dollar fur heist.
Special Guest Stars: Thomas Mitchell (1) as Milo Sullivan, | Guest Stars: Leonard Bremen as Police Sergeant, Vincent Barbi as Augie Epstein, Bernard Kates as Davie, Penny Santon as Mrs. Sarracino, Ernest Sarracino as Tony Zagano, Raymond Bailey as John Carvel, Val Avery as Johnny, Virginia Vincent as Louise O'Hara, Peter Falk as Duke Mullen, | Uncredited: Allen Jaffe as Third Hood in Lineup, John Davis Chandler (1) as Sullivan's Hood
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Aben Kandel
 
27 :01x27 - Head of Fire - Feet of Clay (Apr/21/1960)
Ness goes after racketeer Johnny Fortunato who has been fixing prizefights. Ness's old high school chum, Frankie Barber, who now owns a sports arena, offers to lend a hand but he might have ulterior motives.
Special Guest Stars: Jack Warden as Frank Barber, | Guest Stars: Patsy Kelley (1) as Slapsie Sadie, Adrienne Marden as Nurse, Norman Alden as John Henry Whitmore, Leo Gordon as Pops Gantry, Virginia Christine as Stella Eden, Madlyn Rhue as Chickie Bernstein, Nehemiah Persoff as Johnny Fortunato
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Ben Maddow
 
28 :01x28 - The Frank Nitti Story (Apr/28/1960)
1934. With Prohibition having been repealed the Mobs were in need of new sources of income. One they knew best was extortion. Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti is assigned to bring the small and large theater owners into a protective "association." When brutal beatings and destruction begin occurring with regularity in the theaters, Ness and the Untouchables are assigned to the case. This time, Ness hopes he can force a final showdown with his greatest nemesis Frank Nitti.
Special Guest Stars: Bruce Gordon (1) as Frank Nitti, | Guest Stars: Frank Albertson as Jason McIntyre, Alex Gerry as J. N. Miller, Frank Wilcox as Beecher Asbury, Frank DeKova as Lous Campagna, Dick Foran as Jerry Dockstone, Myron McCormick as Ramsey Lennox, Richard Anderson (3) as Sidney Rogers, Phyllis Coates as Ellie Morley, Harry Harvey, Jr. as Harold Coldman
Director: Howard W. Koch
Story: Harry Essex | Teleplay: Lee Blair Scott
 
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