"The Untouchables" (1959) TV series 1959-1963

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

15 October 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Organized Crime | Mafia | Federal Agent | Cult Favorite | Cult TV

Awards:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 7 nominations

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 6 of 300)

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)

Runtime:

60 min (118 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Backlot, Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Desilu Productions

Trivia:

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.

Quotes:

Police Officer: There is nothing in that area... except an old abandoned warehouse.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Like Oh, Brother (#3.22)" (1962)

Characters frozen in time.

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.