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15 October 1959 (USA)
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Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. full summary
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Won 2 Primetime Emmys.
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7 nominations
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Hollywood Producer Eckstein Dies
(From WENN. 15 September 2009, 9:06 AM, PDT)
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 9 September 2009, 12:07 AM, PDT)
(From WENN. 15 September 2009, 9:06 AM, PDT)
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
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One of the greatest television series ever
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 6 of 299) | 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 / ... (77 episodes, 1959-1963) |
 | Steve London | ... | Agent Jack Rossman / ... (65 episodes, 1959-1963) |
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60 min (118 episodes)
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Among the concessions made to Italian-American groups, the network and producers were allowed to use Italians and Italian names for criminals based upon real persons but agreed that fictional criminal characters would be non-Italians.
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Police Officer:
There is nothing in that area... except an old abandoned warehouse.
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Spoofed in "Goof Troop: The Ungoofables (#1.25)" (1992)
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I must differ only slightly from the praise of one who precedes me, but yes, it was a cracking good show! When a local station ran the series in syndication at midnight in 1967, I turned into an insomniac.
Part of it was my youth; part was/is the b&w presentation giving it a brooding, "gritty" (pardon the cliche) flavour; part was the musical score. Frankly, I found it much superior to the colour and more mature (?) series recently under the same title. Possibly the early '60s series had the elements of a morality play that move some part of me that the more ambiguous -- and in places historically accurate -- new UNTOUCHABLES can not.
One thing bothers me, however, although I fully understand that in the television productions of forty years ago one had to be discrete. It concerns the depictions of violence. I do not object (within reason) to violence per se, but THE UNTOUCHABLES showed a lot of it without the horror. With a more jaundiced eye of the 1990s, when on very rare occasions I have been able to see an old time episode, I am struck by the trivialisation of violent scenes. Even the point-blank firearms shots are comically muted, and there is never a hint of flying blood.
That said, however, I consider the advent of THE UNTOUCHABLES and BONANZA in the 1959-60 season as the beginning of the REAL "golden age of television" in the United States.
Post scriptum: I am sure there were a couple of spin-off "made for TV" movies in the 1960s from the series. Of that I know nothing more save the title of one of them: THE GUN OF ZANGARA.