The Untouchables: The Matt Bass Scheme (1961)
Season 3, Episode 5
6/10
Pipe Dream
26 November 2013
Newly released from prison at the same time a city engineer who took some bribes played by Milton Seltzer is, Telly Savalas cooks up a scheme that will supply unlimited booze for Frank Nitti and the speakeasies that he takes care of.

Engineer Seltzer's plan calls for a pipeline to be laid in the Chicago sewers next to all the other pipes that will run Bruce Gordon's booze from the suburbs. Of course that also requires Savalas ratting out Gordon's current delivery system to Robert Stack and The Untouchables.

Savalas is one ruthless customer who is matching Gordon kill for kill in this episode. Stack has to be on his toes to shut down this operation.

An interesting scenario that may very well have been tried in Chicago and other cities. Those bootleggers were quite ingenious in their methods of avoiding Prohibition.

Alas as Walter Winchell narrates it turns out to be just a pipe dream.
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