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Release Date:
15 October 1959 (USA) more
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Plot:
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. full summary
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Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 7 nominations more
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Cast

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Robert Stack ... Eliot Ness (118 episodes, 1959-1963)
Walter Winchell ... Narrator (118 episodes, 1959-1963)
Nicholas Georgiade ... Agent Enrico Rossi / ... (105 episodes, 1959-1963)
Paul Picerni ... Agent Lee Hobson / ... (83 episodes, 1960-1963)
Abel Fernandez ... Agent William Youngfellow / ... (76 episodes, 1959-1963)

Steve London ... Agent Jack Rossman / ... (64 episodes, 1959-1963)
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60 min (118 episodes)
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The only actors to reprise their roles as members of The Untouchables from the series pilot, the Desilu Playhouse movie "The Scarface Mob" are: Robert Stack as Eliot Ness and 'Abel Fernández' as William Youngfellow. All of the other team members were recast for the series. more
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Police Officer: There is nothing in that area... except an old abandoned warehouse. more
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6 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Characters frozen in time., 25 February 2002
Author: JBall75487 from Lincolnshire, England

Seeing an excerpt from 'Untouchables' on satellite TV recently brought back some memories of forty years ago, when I looked forward in eager anticipation to seeing the weekly appearance of Eliot Ness and his associates. To see them again was to see characters apparently frozen in time, operating in a mythical world where the differences between good and evil were clearly delineated and the 'bad guys' got their just deserts. Notwithstanding the fact that Capone and Ness never met, that Ness had little, if anything, to do with putting Capone behind bars, the programmes were quite well directed and acted, even though some of the supporting characters had little,if anything, to say - I can remember often waiting for some considerable time for 'Rico' (Georgiade)to say his only line ! Enjoyable,nevertheless, as cinematic curiosities, well crafted, but so far removed from historical reality as to be a rather threadbare tapestry of the events which the series purported to represent.

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