The Untouchables

4,3

1959

7.8 / 10

Episodes

EP 1: The Night They Shot Santa Claus

December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa brings toy...

EP 2: The Cooker in the Sky

Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his sidekick, Nick Karabinos, have just arrived in Chic...

EP 4: The Economist

Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with less money to spend, the price of booze goes down....

EP 5: The Pea

Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing 8-ball for 50 cents a game, in a dilapidated pool...

EP 6: Bird in the Hand

December 12, 1929. That night, gangster Arnie Kurtz is in a car, watching a hit he ordered. Another car, speeding along and with...

EP 7: The Eddie O'Gara Story

Chicago. Right after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ness and his men are scouring Chicago, looking for B...

EP 8: Elegy

1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be no mourning for him, the other overlords will be ...

EP 9: Come and Kill Me

July 4, 1930.  40,000 horse racing fans fill Arlington Park.  Ness and his men have Arnold ""Spats"" Vincent under surveillance; t...

EP 10: A Fist of Five

Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspended for hospitalizing ""one of Tony Lamberto's do...

EP 11: The Floyd Gibbons Story

Chicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globe's top reporter Carlton Edmunds was shot, Eliot Ness and his men are on...

EP 12: Double Cross

June 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business because Guzik couldn't supply him with hooch for that la...

EP 13: Search for a Dead Man

June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's fished out 3-4 weeks later, on July 10, the Bureau of Missing Persons ...

EP 14: The Speculator

1929. Eliot Ness gets another anonymous phone tip: a big meet at a warehouse on Grover Street, Nitti and all the boys will be the...

EP 15: Snowball

October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchman Benny deliver bottles of booze to places on a co...

EP 16: Jake Dance

Late Summer 1930. It started in Wichita, Kansas: a staggering gait called the Jake Dance. (we see a man staggering along using a...

EP 17: Blues for a Gone Goose

Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coast there's a nightspot called ""Goose Gander's Gol...

EP 18: Globe of Death

1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesn't mean the war on crime is over for Eliot Ness and his Untouchables. The syndicate has a...

EP 19: An Eye for an Eye

Chicago, Spring 1931.  That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80 mph chase to catch a guy running whiskey for Soll...

EP 20: Junk Man

Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a front for a narcotics empire, run ...

EP 21: The Man in the Cooler

January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's done 3 years and is up for parole next week, but ...

EP 22: The Butcher's Boy

Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards him, Ducek's boys fire back wi...

EP 23: The Spoiler

New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the American crime cartel; he had fled to Brazil. Now, he ...

EP 24: One Last Killing

February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer for Jules Flack (boss of the Westside combine), sto...

EP 25: The Giant Killer

April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-day bicycle race. But Ed ""Duke"" Monte is there ...

EP 26: The Charlie Argos Story

June 25, 1933. Ness and Lee Hobson are called to the Castle, a baronial estate just outside of Chicago, which is both the headqua...

EP 27: The Jazz Man

During the blistering summer of 1931, Ness and his men are working tirelessly against both the illicit whiskey and the narcotics t...

EP 28: The Torpedo

April 3, 1931. Vic's Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no different than a hundred other diners. The blue ...

EP 29: Line of Fire

Chicago, January 1933. Danceland has a big sign, ""30 girls, open until 2 a.m."" Inside, customers mingle with the dime-a-dance ...

EP 30: A Taste for Pineapple

May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti has gone to Atlantic City; Bugs ...

Overview

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

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Episodes >>

The Night They Shot Santa Claus

Episode 1

December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa C...

The Cooker in the Sky

Episode 2

Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his s...

The Chess Game

Episode 3

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The Economist

Episode 4

Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with ...

The Pea

Episode 5

Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing...

Bird in the Hand

Episode 6

December 12, 1929. That night, gangster Arnie Kurtz is in a car, watching a hit...

The Eddie O'Gara Story

Episode 7

Chicago. Right after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ne...

Elegy

Episode 8

1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be...

Come and Kill Me

Episode 9

July 4, 1930.  40,000 horse racing fans fill Arlington Park.  Ness and his men h...

A Fist of Five

Episode 10

Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspe...

The Floyd Gibbons Story

Episode 11

Chicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globe's top reporter Carlt...

Double Cross

Episode 12

June 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business becaus...

Search for a Dead Man

Episode 13

June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's fished out 3-4 weeks...

The Speculator

Episode 14

1929. Eliot Ness gets another anonymous phone tip: a big meet at a warehouse on...

Snowball

Episode 15

October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchma...

Jake Dance

Episode 16

Late Summer 1930. It started in Wichita, Kansas: a staggering gait called the J...

Blues for a Gone Goose

Episode 17

Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coa...

Globe of Death

Episode 18

1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesn't mean the war on crime is over for Eli...

An Eye for an Eye

Episode 19

Chicago, Spring 1931.  That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80...

Junk Man

Episode 20

Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- bu...

The Man in the Cooler

Episode 21

January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's...

The Butcher's Boy

Episode 22

Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hi...

The Spoiler

Episode 23

New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the Ameri...

One Last Killing

Episode 24

February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer f...

The Giant Killer

Episode 25

April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-...

The Charlie Argos Story

Episode 26

June 25, 1933. Ness and Lee Hobson are called to the Castle, a baronial estate ...

The Jazz Man

Episode 27

During the blistering summer of 1931, Ness and his men are working tirelessly ag...

The Torpedo

Episode 28

April 3, 1931. Vic's Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no...

Line of Fire

Episode 29

Chicago, January 1933. Danceland has a big sign, ""30 girls, open until 2 a.m."...

A Taste for Pineapple

Episode 30

May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chi...