The Untouchables

1. S01E01The Empty ChairOctober 15, 1959—"Chicago, May 5, 1932. After 7 months of legal delays, Al Capone... was on his way to federal prison, to serve 11 years for income tax evasi
2. S01E02Ma Barker and Her BoysOctober 22, 1959 7.0January 16, 1935. Oklawaha, Florida. Eliot Ness, along with Bill Youngfellow and Martin Flaherty, are closing in on Ma Barker, who is holed
3. S01E03The Jake Lingle KillingOctober 29, 1959—Gangs have divided Chicago in 2-- the northside is run by the Bertshce mob, the southside by the Viale brothers, Augie & Vito. The line
4. S01E04The George Bugs Moran StoryNovember 5, 1959—March 2, 1932. Gangster Joe Carroll, sidekick of George "Bugs" Moran, kidnaps 9-year-old Larry Halloran, Jr.-- the son of Lawrence Halloran,
5. S01E05Ain't We Got Fun?November 12, 1959—Summer 1933, Chicago. The mobsters were branching out from liquor, going into the numbers racket, call girls, gambling and dope. One of the
6. S01E06The Vincent Mad Dog Coll StoryNovember 19, 1959—February 1931. In Churchill Downs, the entries for the Kentucky Derby are closed. Tight-fisted Dutch Schultz, beer baron of the Bronx, place
7. S01E07Mexican Stake-OutNovember 26, 1959—Eliot Ness is lured south of the border to retrieve a witness who will help his case. Only it's a set-up...once there, the mobster on trial
8. S01E08The Artichoke KingDecember 3, 1959—April 19, 1931. New York City. Every 48 hours, more than 25 million pounds of fruits and vegetables stream into the city; this multi-million
9. S01E09The Tri-State GangDecember 10, 1959—In the latter part of 1933, there was an epidemic of truck hijackings in the states of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania; this was the wor
10. S01E10The Dutch Schultz StoryDecember 17, 1959—March 1935. One of the toughest mobsters in New York City is Dutch Schultz. He and his mob were responsible for over 100 murders. Dutch is i
11. S01E11Season's bestYou Can't Pick the NumberDecember 24, 1959 10.0Chicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The only chance some people felt they had t
12. S01E12The Underground RailwayDecember 31, 1959—The night of August 3, 1933, outside the Louisburg Federal Prison in Pennsylvania. After serving 2 years of a life sentence for his part in
13. S01E13Syndicate SanctuaryJanuary 7, 1960—30 miles from Chicago, the (fictitious) Calum City; population: 10,000.  Judge Leon Zabo is running for mayor, to clean up the town.  Workin
14. S01E14The Noise of DeathJanuary 14, 1960—Chicago, March 31, 1933. Giuseppe ""Joe"" Bucco is at home when he gets a visit from his wife's cousin, Barbara Vittorini-- she says her hu
15. S01E15Star WitnessJanuary 14, 1960—1934. The Depression was over 4 years old, and Al Capone was in Alcatraz. Many of the rackets had seemingly legit fronts, such as Midwest
16. S01E16The St. Louis StoryJanuary 28, 1960—Spring 1931. Gangland warfare had broken out again with sudden violence in the streets of St. Louis. Tim Harrington, who was long entrench
17. S01E17One-Armed BanditsFebruary 4, 1960—Chicago, February 1932. Crime has been spreading all over, from the dark alleys of Cicero to the social atmosphere of the Gold Coast. Croo
18. S01E18Little EgyptFebruary 11, 1960—Little Egypt (not the Belly Dancer) was the city of Morraine, the heart of the gangster-infected area in downstate Illinois known as ""Littl
19. S01E19The Big SqueezeFebruary 18, 1960—Chicago. Prior to May 1934, robbing state banks was not a federal offense. Bandits only had local police to contend with, and they were of
20. S01E20The Unhired Assassin (1)February 25, 1960 7.0Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara"" Chicago. November 9, 1932. FDR has just been elected president, and the repeal of Prohibition is inevitable
21. S01E21The Unhired Assassin (2)March 3, 1960 7.0Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara"" (continued) Nitti's plenty sore! Mayor Cermak's stepped-up law enforcement has cut deeply into Nitti's opera
22. S01E22The White SlaversMarch 10, 1960—March 31, 1934; Prohibition is over. Al Capone is still running things from Alcatraz, his new money-maker is ""white slavery"" which refers
23. S01E23Three Thousand SuspectsMarch 24, 1960—September 1932. The Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, 430 miles west-southwest of Chicago, houses some of the nation's worst cri
24. S01E24The Doreen Maney StoryMarch 31, 1960—New York City: Yankee Stadium, the Bronx. On the evening of June 8, 1933, Max Baer knocked out Max Schmeling in the 10th round of their sch
25. S01E25Portrait of a ThiefApril 7, 1960—Chicago, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men had cracked the bootleg empire of Al Capone, by smashing his breweries and speakeasies.* But now, th
26. S01E26Underworld BankApril 14, 1960—New York City. Saturday, September 23, 1933. Top rackets boss Milo Sullivan is the head of ""Crime, Inc.""  He has a meet with 5 other cri
27. S01E27Head of Fire - Feet of ClayApril 21, 1960—Chicago.  (year?)* The jury had been out for 12 hours, on the case Ness had worked so hard on, trying to get a conviction for top mobster J
28. S01E28The Frank Nitti StoryApril 28, 1960—1934. Prohibition had been repealed (the Volstead Act ran from January 17, 1920 - April 7, 1933). The syndicate was looking for new source

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01The Rusty Heller StoryOctober 13, 1960—Chicago, March 1931. Eliot Ness and his men were doing raid after raid on Capone's speakeasies and breweries; his empire was tottering. Wh
2. S02E02The Jack Legs Diamond StoryOctober 20, 1960—New York, 1931. While many people were unemployed and poor during the Depression, gangster-owned speakeasies and nightclubs created a new m
3. S02E03NickyNovember 3, 1960—Chicago. By the middle of 1933, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had almost checked the manufacture and sale of whiskey in Chicago. But the
4. S02E04The Waxey Gordon StoryNovember 10, 1960—New Jersey, the night of April 16, 1931. Waxey Gordon, the undisputed beer baron of New York, is muscling in on New Jersey, which is run by
5. S02E05The Mark of CainNovember 17, 1960—Chicago, late Spring 1932. There is public protest about the increase in drug addiction. Charlie Sebastino has amalgamated all the small d
6. S02E06A Seat on the FenceNovember 24, 1960—Chicago, late Summer 1932.  Eliot Ness and his men had stemmed the supply of narcotics coming into the Windy City from Asia and southern Eur
7. S02E07The Purple GangDecember 1, 1960—Detroit, August 1932. The notorious Purple Gang-- long synonymous with terror in beer, booze, labor and prostitution-- gets into a new rack
8. S02E08Kiss of Death GirlDecember 8, 1960—Chicago, September 8, 1932. That night, a convoy of 4 trucks, which had crossed the Canadian border, are driving towards Chicago; they are
9. S02E09The Larry Fay StoryDecember 15, 1960—New York, April 1931. Gangster Larry Fay, a former student of Al Capone, has his greasy fists firmly in the milk racket: he's organized mil
10. S02E10The Otto Frick StoryDecember 22, 1960—The night of May 3rd, 1934. A traveling carnival is at the Midway, 35 miles outside of Cleveland. There are half a dozen bellydancers on s
11. S02E11The Tommy Karpeles StoryDecember 29, 1960—May 8, 1931. The special U.S. mail train, coming from Rock Island, is stopped by emergency flares on the tracks in Hillsdale, Illinois. Ga
12. S02E12The Big Train (1)January 5, 1961—Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (Disclaimer shown on screen) ""The events portrayed in this film are fictitious. The Federal Prison guards
13. S02E13The Big Train (2)January 12, 1961—Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (continued) Sunday, August 19, 1934. At 2:30 a.m., the Big Train is backed into the prison yard of the St
14. S02E14The MasterpieceJanuary 19, 1961—Chicago, December 1931. With Al Capone in prison, the bootlegging part of his empire was split in 2. One of Capone's lieutenants, Mayer Wa
15. S02E15The OrganizationJanuary 26, 1961—Chicago.  November 9, 1932.  Al Capone was in prison, and Frank Nitti was running his Organization.  But other crime overlords were ready to
16. S02E16The Jamaica Ginger StoryFebruary 2, 1961—On the night of May 25, 1931, 2 trucks are rolling into K.C., carrying $1-million worth of Jamaica Ginger rotgut, also known as ""Ginger Jak
17. S02E17Augie The Banker CiaminoFebruary 9, 1961—Summer 1931, Chicago.  Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had smashed most of the big breweries owned by the mobsters.  But racketeers, taking
18. S02E18The Underground CourtFebruary 16, 1961—September 8, 1934. A cruise ship from Cuba to New Jersey has caught fire. There are over 300 passengers on board; some of the passengers a
19. S02E19The Nick Moses StoryFebruary 23, 1961—1932. Just 3 weeks after Al Capone was convicted on the ironic charge of income tax evasion, the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. was
20. S02E20The AntidoteMarch 9, 1961—Mid-October 1932. The nation's attention is on the election campaign between incumbent president Herbert Hoover and his opponent Franklin D
21. S02E21The Lily Dallas StoryMarch 16, 1961—April 11, 1932. Millionaire building contractor Thomas B. Randall is the target of a kidnapping; he is throwing a party right now. Intrudi
22. S02E22Murder Under GlassMarch 23, 1961—November 1932. FDR was moving to end Prohibition, and the crime syndicate was already shifting away from booze to narcotics. In the next f
23. S02E23Testimony of EvilMarch 30, 1961—October 11, 1932.  Chicago.  Less than one month before the elections, David Mantley, running for State's Attorney on the Reform ticket, is
24. S02E24Ring of TerrorApril 13, 1961—Ring of Terror-- Boxing ring, that is. July 1931, the Chicago Sports Arena was like a hundred other boxing rings across America-- a place w
25. S02E25Mr. MoonApril 20, 1961—Autumn 1934. An armored truck, loaded with the special paper used in printing U.S. currency, is headed for the Bureau of Engraving in Washi
26. S02E26Death for SaleApril 27, 1961—Chicago, last week of April 1933. Frank Nitti is offered a huge quantity of Chinese opium. Ever since the government had established the B
27. S02E27StrangleholdMay 4, 1961—New York, 1933. Racketeers are poking their greasy fists into every corner of the nation's business. The Fulton fish market in New York su
28. S02E28The Nero Rankin StoryMay 11, 1961—September 16, 1933. Although Eliot Ness had successfully destroyed The Underground Court (episode # 46), he had not smashed its parent orga
29. S02E29The Seventh VoteMay 18, 1961—Chicago, April 25, 1932. With Capone in prison doing his rap for income tax evasion, his 8 lieutenants are running things; their HQ is the
30. S02E30The King of ChampagneMay 25, 1961—Chicago, the 3rd week of November 1932. Working on an anonymous tip, Eliot Ness and his men raid a warehouse; all the crates are filled wit
31. S02E31The Nick Acropolis StoryJune 1, 1961—Chicago, Summer 1931. Nick Acropolis is the new bookmaker in town, his territory is Illinois and the 6 surrounding states; he covers bets o
32. S02E3290-Proof DameJune 8, 1961—Chicago, April 1932. The city is ruled by underworld czars, one of the toughest of which is Nate Kester, former henchman for the Capone mob

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01The TroubleshooterOctober 12, 1961—In the summer of 1934, a new gambling device was sweeping the nation: the punchboards. Even though they were nickel-and-dime games, it adde
2. S03E02Power PlayOctober 19, 1961—By the Summer of 1933, a new wave of crime has engulfed Chicago.  Due to a public outcry for action, Willard Thornton is appointed as a new
3. S03E03Tunnel of HorrorsOctober 26, 1961—August 28, 1933. That night, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables, and some undercover plainclothes police, are staking out an amusement pier on
4. S03E04The Genna BrothersNovember 2, 1961—In the years following WWI, there was a flood of European immigrants into the USA. In the early 1920s, the 6 Genna brothers, place of origi
5. S03E05The Matt Bass SchemeNovember 9, 1961—In mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness, having compiled a list of Frank Nitti's breweries & distilleries, began a series of raids designed to brea
6. S03E06LoopholeNovember 16, 1961—Chicago, January 1933. Ness and his men raid a speakeasy owned by gangster Mikhail ""Red Mike"" Probich, and run by Connie LaVerne. At the
7. S03E07JigsawNovember 23, 1961—September 14, 1932. At 11:30 p.m., Eliot Ness goes to the Odeon movie theatre (not the Odeon Burlesque theatre used in several episodes); h
8. S03E08Man KillerDecember 7, 1961—Chicago, July 1934. Anonymous phone calls have been tipping off Ness and his men to narcotics activities; they do a bunch of raids. On Aug
9. S03E09City Without a NameDecember 14, 1961—1933. Violence and corruption were at an all-time high in Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City-- virtually every city in the
10. S03E10HammerlockDecember 21, 1961—New York, middle of 1932. The Syndicate-- headed by Joe Kulak, Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter and Dutch Schultz-- has the city's huge garment in
11. S03E11Canada RunJanuary 4, 1962—November 1932. Big-time gangster Joe Palakopolous is playing a dangerous game-- he just had his hitman rub out Danny Kugan, the biggest sup
12. S03E12Fall GuyJanuary 11, 1962—October 1932, Chicago.  With Capone in the slammer, other bosses are biting off chunks of Capone's empire.  One boss is Frankie Gruder, head
13. S03E13The Gang WarJanuary 18, 1962—1932. Chicago is a thirsty town, consuming 86,000 gallons of booze a day; that's 32-million gallons a year. Almost all this booze is beer
14. S03E14The Silent PartnerFebruary 1, 1962—Chicago, March 2, 1932. The hottest nightspot in town is the Club Tunisian, owned by gangster Pete Kalik, who built it up from a small spea
15. S03E15The Whitey Steele StoryFebruary 8, 1962—New York City. July 23, 1934. The Underworld, which had long made big money by covering bets on horse races, wants to get their hands on a
16. S03E16The Death TreeFebruary 15, 1962—Early November 1931. On West Madison Street, there is a wonderfully diverse neighborhood made up of gypsies of Romanian, Hungarian and Czec
17. S03E17TakeoverMarch 1, 1962—Chicago, October 1932. The only ""beer"" allowed to be served during Prohibition is ""near-beer"" or ""Near-O""-- which is 0.5% alcohol, as
18. S03E18The Stryker BrothersMarch 8, 1962—March 3, 1932. It's the great train robbery, on the southbound express headed for Chicago. The Stryker brothers steal mail sacks containin
19. S03E19Element of DangerMarch 22, 1962—Chicago, August 29, 1934. That night, in the Haymarket district, special agent Daniel Gosden, a policeman on loan to the Untouchables, goes
20. S03E20The Maggie Storm StoryMarch 29, 1962—Chicago, after the Repeal of Prohibition; (so this would be around 1934). With booze legal, the racket czars step up their dealings in narc
21. S03E21Man in the MiddleApril 5, 1962—November 7, 1933.  Slot machines are big business; 2,000 of the one-armed bandits rake in $100,000 per week; ($50 per machine).  One night,
22. S03E22DownfallMay 3, 1962—Chicago. Pete ""The Persuader"" Kalmisky, former bodyguard of Al Capone, accompanied by Syndicate business manager Alan Sitkin, have a meet
23. S03E23The Case Against Eliot NessMay 10, 1962—March 4, 1933. The Windy City is getting ready for the Chicago World's Fair, also known as the ""Century of Progress"" Exposition. The 3 w
24. S03E24The Ginnie Littlesmith StoryMay 17, 1962—May 17, 1932. There are many free soup kitchens in Chicago, but one of them in the skid row section is really a front; upstairs, gangster C
25. S03E25The ContractMay 31, 1962—New York City; February 4, 1934.  3 months of intensive investigation is paying off for Ness and his Untouchables; they have ""Smiley"" Barr
26. S03E26PressureJune 14, 1962—Chicago, April 16, 1934. Prohibition is over, the main racket is now narcotics. The New York Syndicate, the ""Big 6"" send their represent
27. S03E27ArsenalJune 28, 1962 7.0January 1929. Gangster Matt Malloy walks into a sporting goods store; he can't buy an automatic pistol without a police permit, however any
28. S03E28The Monkey WrenchJuly 5, 1962 7.0March 2, 1933. The remote section of the northern Michigan Lake front, 180 miles northeast of Chicago. The Chicago Syndicate, to improve t

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

1. S04E01The Night They Shot Santa ClausSeptember 25, 1962—December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa brings toys and ice
2. S04E02The Cooker in the SkyOctober 2, 1962—Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his sidekick, Nick Karabinos, have just arrived in Chicago by tra
3. S04E03The Chess GameOctober 9, 1962—By mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had uncovered and shut down every champagne-producing operation in the city. 4 months lat
4. S04E04The EconomistOctober 16, 1962—Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with less money to spend, the price of booze goes down. The whis
5. S04E05The PeaOctober 23, 1962—Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing 8-ball for 50 cents a game, in a dilapidated pool joint. H
6. S04E06Bird in the HandOctober 30, 1962—December 12, 1929. That night, gangster Arnie Kurtz is in a car, watching a hit he ordered. Another car, speeding along and with a chopper
7. S04E07The Eddie O'Gara StoryNovember 13, 1962—Chicago. Right after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ness and his men are scouring Chicago, looking for Bugs Moran.
8. S04E08ElegyNovember 20, 1962—1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be no mourning for him, the other overlords will be vying for
9. S04E09Come and Kill MeNovember 27, 1962—July 4, 1930.  40,000 horse racing fans fill Arlington Park.  Ness and his men have Arnold ""Spats"" Vincent under surveillance; they will c
10. S04E10A Fist of FiveDecember 4, 1962—Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspended for hospitalizing ""one of Tony Lamberto's dope-pushing
11. S04E11The Floyd Gibbons StoryDecember 11, 1962—Chicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globe's top reporter Carlton Edmunds was shot, Eliot Ness and his men are on the scene
12. S04E12Double CrossDecember 18, 1962—June 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business because Guzik couldn't supply him with hooch for that last 3 weeks
13. S04E13Search for a Dead ManJanuary 1, 1963—June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's fished out 3-4 weeks later, on July 10, the Bureau of Missing Persons has a John
14. S04E14The SpeculatorJanuary 8, 1963—1929. Eliot Ness gets another anonymous phone tip: a big meet at a warehouse on Grover Street, Nitti and all the boys will be there. At th
15. S04E15SnowballJanuary 15, 1963 8.0October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchman Benny deliver bottles of booze to places on a college camp
16. S04E16Jake DanceJanuary 22, 1963—Late Summer 1930. It started in Wichita, Kansas: a staggering gait called the Jake Dance. (we see a man staggering along using a cane in e
17. S04E17Blues for a Gone GooseJanuary 29, 1963—Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coast there's a nightspot called ""Goose Gander's Golden Egg""
18. S04E18Globe of DeathFebruary 5, 1963—1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesn't mean the war on crime is over for Eliot Ness and his Untouchables. The syndicate has already mov
19. S04E19An Eye for an EyeFebruary 19, 1963—Chicago, Spring 1931.  That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80 mph chase to catch a guy running whiskey for Solly Girsch. 
20. S04E20Junk ManJanuary 26, 1963—Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a front for a narcotics empire, run by gangste
21. S04E21The Man in the CoolerMarch 5, 1963—January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's done 3 years and is up for parole next week, but it seems h
22. S04E22The Butcher's BoyMarch 12, 1963—Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards him, Ducek's boys fire back with machine
23. S04E23The SpoilerMarch 26, 1963—New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the American crime cartel; he had fled to Brazil. Now, he has return
24. S04E24One Last KillingApril 2, 1963—February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer for Jules Flack (boss of the Westside combine), stood in the
25. S04E25The Giant KillerApril 9, 1963—April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-day bicycle race. But Ed ""Duke"" Monte is there to make a
26. S04E26The Charlie Argos StoryApril 16, 1963—June 25, 1933. Ness and Lee Hobson are called to the Castle, a baronial estate just outside of Chicago, which is both the headquarters and
27. S04E27The Jazz ManApril 30, 1963—During the blistering summer of 1931, Ness and his men are working tirelessly against both the illicit whiskey and the narcotics that are fl
28. S04E28The TorpedoMay 7, 1963—April 3, 1931. Vic's Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no different than a hundred other diners. The blue plate spec
29. S04E29Line of FireMay 14, 1963—Chicago, January 1933. Danceland has a big sign, ""30 girls, open until 2 a.m."" Inside, customers mingle with the dime-a-dance girls. Ho
30. S04E30A Taste for PineappleMay 21, 1963—May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti has gone to Atlantic City; Bugs Moran and

Season 4 ranked & reviewed