The Untouchables (1959)

Directed by

Walter Grauman

Genre

drama television series, crime television series

Country

United States

Length

4 seasons, 118 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 135 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A federal agent leads a handpicked team to fight organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. The show follows their efforts to bring down gangsters.

fast-pacedgrittytensedramaticaction-packedold-fashionedheroicdark

What happens

The Untouchables is an American crime drama television series produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC television network. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalizes the experiences of Ness as a Prohibition agent fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. The book was later made into a celebrated film in 1987 and a second, less-successful TV series in 1993. A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama and a landmark television crime series, The Untouchables won series star Robert Stack the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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