The Lawless Years

1. S01E01The Nick Joseph StoryApril 16, 1959—Detective Ruditsky relates the story of Nick Joseph, a small-time hood from Manhattan's Lower East Side, who rises from petty theft to becom
2. S01E02The ImmigrantApril 23, 1959—An immigrant woman tries to get Ruditsky to set her son on the straight and narrow. It seems as though he's been hanging around with a gang
3. S01E03The Jane Cooper StoryApril 30, 1959—Jane Cooper, recently paroled from prison, proves that she hasn't learned anything when she once again begins hanging around with underworld
4. S01E04The Story Of Cutie JaffeMay 7, 1959—Cutie Jaffe, a small-time hood with big time ambitions, begins knocking over some of his brother-in-law's bootlegging trucks. Will Cutie ris
5. S01E05The Dutch Schultz StoryMay 14, 1959—Dutch Schultz wants to bump off special prosecutor Thomas Dewey who has been after him. The syndicate bigwigs deny him permission to make th
6. S01E06The Lion And The MouseMay 21, 1959—Small time racketeer Eddie Safronek plots revenge against the hoods who beat him up and left him for dead.
7. S01E07No FareMay 28, 1959—The underworld bribes police detective Harry Kramer in order to get him to withhold information in a case.
8. S01E08The PayoffJune 11, 1959—After a moll is found murdered, flashbacks tell her story and those of mobsters Tony Sappio and Big Ed Harper, who both loved not wisely but
9. S01E09The Marie Walters StoryJune 18, 1959—The body of a murdered young woman is dragged from the Harlem River and the police ascertain that she was killed because she knew too much r
10. S01E10The Maxey Gorman StoryJune 25, 1959—Ex-convict Maxey Gorman gets a Machiavellian character named A.J. to finance his entry into the bootlegging business. The two men become par
11. S01E11The Muddy Kasoff StoryJuly 2, 1959—Muddy Kasoff has been renting automobiles for gangsters to use but he has been secretly tippin the cops. When the hoods discover that Muddy
12. S01E12FramedJuly 16, 1959—When Ruditsky can't be bribed by a waterfront crime gang they attempt to frame him by making it look like he's on the take.
13. S01E13Four the Hard WayJuly 23, 1959—Ruditsky warns visiting high roller Big Ziggy to get out of town but before he can hit the road he get roped into a crooked poker game with
14. S01E14The Tony Morelli StoryJuly 30, 1959—Dick Wilson (2) as Game Boy Miles | Harry Arnie as Benny | Brad Trumbull (2) as O'Neill | Lou Herbert as Titanic Thompson | Jack Kruschen as
15. S01E15The Ray Baker StoryAugust 6, 1959—At a wild gangland party a young girl falls out of a window and is killed. When evidence shows that the girl was pushed, visiting Chicago mo
16. S01E16The Story of Lucky SilvaAugust 13, 1959—ucky Silva is a small-time hood who by a combination of circumstance, ambition, and drive rises quickly to a position of prominence in New Y
17. S01E17The Morrison StoryAugust 20, 1959—A judge is murdered right before a state crime commission is scheduled to take a look into his activities.
18. S01E18The Poison Ivy StoryAugust 27, 1959—Ruditsky is temporarily assigned to duty in a Brooklyn precinct and must get the goods on a gang of hooligans who are pulling off a series o
19. S01E19The Prantera StorySeptember 3, 1959—

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01The Al Brown StoryOctober 1, 1959—When a young hoodlum named Al Brown destroys a blind man's shop it puts Ruditsky on his trail. But it will be under another name in another
2. S02E02The Big Greeny StoryOctober 8, 1959—When the trail of a murdered garment factor owner leads back to the notorious Lepke Buchalter he sends the htman responsible, Big Greeny, to
3. S02E03The Art Harris StoryOctober 15, 1959—Ruditsky goes after Art Harris, a racketeer who's muscled his way into the political scene in order to protect his organized crime interests
4. S02E04The Billy Boy 'Rockabye' Creel StoryNovember 5, 1959—Mob boss Bobo Konig puts a bounty of $50,000 on psychotic gunman Billy Boy Creel who immediately goes underground. Ruditsky then tries to fi
5. S02E05The Big ManNovember 12, 1959—Gangster Louis Otto was once a childhood friend of Ruditsky's. Now he's wanted for the murder of an underling.
6. S02E06The Joe Angelo StoryNovember 19, 1959—A former union trucker who now owns a candy store is pressured by the Mob to leave New York City because he knows too much about their past
7. S02E07The Billy Grimes StoryDecember 3, 1959—Shortly after busting up a numbers racket, Ruditsky finds himself the target of a person or persons unknown.
8. S02E08The Sonny Rosen StoryDecember 17, 1959—The Mob kidnaps the son of a millionaire and holds him for a ransom of $100,000. Or did they?
9. S02E09The Pantera Story—

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01The Jack 'Legs' Diamond StoryMay 12, 1961—
2. S03E02The Sonny Rosen Story IIMay 19, 1961—
3. S03E03Louy K: Part 1May 26, 1961—
4. S03E04Louy K: Part 2 Sing SingJune 2, 1961—
5. S03E05Louy K: Part 3 Birth of the OrganizationJune 9, 1961—
6. S03E06Louy K: Part 4 Heydays of the OrganizationJune 16, 1961—
7. S03E07Louy K: Part 5 the DisintegrationJune 23, 1961—
8. S03E08The Miles Miller StoryJune 30, 1961—
9. S03E09The Kid Dropper StoryJuly 7, 1961—
10. S03E10GinnyJuly 14, 1961—
11. S03E11Little AugieJuly 21, 1961—
12. S03E12The Mad Dog Coll Story (1)July 28, 1961—
13. S03E13The Mad Dog Coll Story (2)August 4, 1961—
14. S03E14Blood BrothersAugust 11, 1961—
15. S03E15The Vincent Gordia StoryAugust 18, 1961—
16. S03E16Artie MoonAugust 25, 1961—
17. S03E17Triple CrossSeptember 1, 1961—
18. S03E18The Jonathan Wills StorySeptember 8, 1961—
19. S03E19Romeo and RoseSeptember 15, 1961—
20. S03E20Ike, the Novelty KingSeptember 22, 1961—

Season 3 ranked & reviewed