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 Shortly afterwards, the assassination order was rescinded when it was realized that Arnaz's murder would cause the Mafia more trouble than it was worth.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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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.
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- Feb 24, 2002
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