The Untouchables
- TV Series
- 1959–1963
- 50m
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
- Won 2 Primetime Emmys
- 4 wins & 7 nominations total
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- TriviaAccording to testimony from Aladena Fratianno, (Jimmy the Weasel), a Mafia boss-turned-FBI informant, the Chicago family of the Mafia ordered the assassination of producer Desi Arnaz, because they didn't like (a) the fact that the success of the show was focusing attention on the Mafia and (b) the show's portrayal of Italians. Fratianno said that two hitmen hid themselves near Arnaz's house one night waiting for him to show up, but he never did. Shortly afterwards, the assassination order was rescinded when it was realized that Arnaz's murder would cause the Mafia more trouble than it was worth.
- GoofsThe opening credits for the fourth season show a book open to a page that reads "The Untouchables, 1929--1933". This contradicts the chronology of several episodes set in 1934 or 1935.
- Quotes
Police Officer: There is nothing in that area... except an old abandoned warehouse.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Scarface Mob (1959)
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A web of mysterious gangland horror
I had never heard of "The Untouchables" TV show until one morning
my 8th grade English teacher, Mr. Schmidt started ranting about the
graphic violence depicted in movies and on television shows such as
"The Untouchables" and what was he world coming to? From the next
broadcast, I was an avid fan. Much as in the style of the James Cagney
classic of 1933, "Public Enemy," "The Untouchables" wove a web of
mysterious gangland horror by NOT showing the graphic violence but by
instead keeping the killing in the shadows. The creators of the series
never forgot that there is nothing you can show in theater that can
measure up to the imagination of the audience. Another mysterious dimension to the series is, like "The Alfred
Hitchcock Show", "The Untouchables" had an uncanny knack of featuring
actors who would later become stars or at least very well known faces
in movies and on television. After 4 years in the air force including
a year in Vietnam, I watched the series as daily re-runs during the
summer of 1971 just before going to university in Tokyo. One episode
had Telly Savalas as an up and coming bookkeeper with The Mob run by
Frank Nitty while Al Capone was in prison. That evening other business
pulled me away from the television set and I figured I'd see the second
half of the show some other time. Because I have been in Japan ever
since, I never did find out whatever happened to the character played
by Telly Savalas. Less than two years later, however, Telly Savalas
finally made it big in television as Kojak.
my 8th grade English teacher, Mr. Schmidt started ranting about the
graphic violence depicted in movies and on television shows such as
"The Untouchables" and what was he world coming to? From the next
broadcast, I was an avid fan. Much as in the style of the James Cagney
classic of 1933, "Public Enemy," "The Untouchables" wove a web of
mysterious gangland horror by NOT showing the graphic violence but by
instead keeping the killing in the shadows. The creators of the series
never forgot that there is nothing you can show in theater that can
measure up to the imagination of the audience. Another mysterious dimension to the series is, like "The Alfred
Hitchcock Show", "The Untouchables" had an uncanny knack of featuring
actors who would later become stars or at least very well known faces
in movies and on television. After 4 years in the air force including
a year in Vietnam, I watched the series as daily re-runs during the
summer of 1971 just before going to university in Tokyo. One episode
had Telly Savalas as an up and coming bookkeeper with The Mob run by
Frank Nitty while Al Capone was in prison. That evening other business
pulled me away from the television set and I figured I'd see the second
half of the show some other time. Because I have been in Japan ever
since, I never did find out whatever happened to the character played
by Telly Savalas. Less than two years later, however, Telly Savalas
finally made it big in television as Kojak.
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- Color
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- 4:3
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