Untouchables Theme Music

[MBW4449]

yeah! Love it.

[jb5532]

great show and great version of the theme from the Dan Band- they played in it Nashville too. I hope someone has i decent video of it they can post..

[oluham]

yo, you are dead right. He was a treasury agent and he never fired a a shot. by contrast the desilu production was ultra violent.

[wwwlegozone]

well since noone here seems to be able to leave a decent comment awesome song! can anyone show how to play this on piano?

[dtstrain]

Enthusiasms.

[williambrighenticpa]

Never missed an episode with my dad:  Cops and WOPS. (I'm a WOP, so take not offense, Paisons!

[rocksmeller99]

another great Nelson Riddle theme

[bugsbunnybuddy]

was this show based off of the book "the untouchables" written by Elliot ness himself?

[rkogeneral]

Old enough...(54). I was 13 when the show was played on WXIA  in 1971

[kgrueschowjr2010]

RIP Paul Picerni [aka Lee Hobson]

[bobszvetics1]

WHAT A GREAT THEME BUT THE SHOW WAS 99 PERCENT BULLSHIT

[kallemick]

@bobszvetics1 whats wrong with it?

[bobszvetics1]

@kallemick THE SHOW IS FULL OF LIES JUST LIKE THE FILM

[kallemick]

@bobszvetics1 i get your point i think its annoying that its called "the untouchables" when its about the criminals themself..... but its still kinda good it should just have been called "public enemies" or something like that the pilot "the scarface mob" was really good though

[bobszvetics1]

@kallemick look dont get me wrong i loved the robert stack series but it is fiction its a shame that elliot ness wasnt realy like this if you want the truth pick up the dvd the real untouchables hosted by james woods

[kallemick]

@bobszvetics1 i will check it out

[bobszvetics1]

@kallemick ok i think its at amazon.com

[hurricanesofhell]

@bobszvetics1 so eliot ness never pushed frank nitti off of a building? XD and frank nitti never assassinated 2 untouchables wearing a white trench coat and fedora??

[bobszvetics1]

@hurricanesofhell thats right frank nitti died in jail look it up

[hurricanesofhell]

@bobszvetics1 does any one know how eliot ness was? O_o i mean like ..does anyone know how his personality was or how he acted?..

[bobszvetics1]

@hurricanesofhell pick up the dvd the real untouchables hosted by james woods ness was a good man but not the superman like he is in the book tv series and film dont get me wrong i loved the robert stack series and the film but its pure fiction

[hurricanesofhell]

@bobszvetics1 But if he wasn't very superman like.. O_o then why was he nicknamed a (untouchable) and the rest of his team?.. o_o and just by curiosity... O_o did ness ever run after suspects get into shoot outs between criminals and bank robbers??.. O_o that sort of sounds like something a guy like him would do.. but i guess its because i played a lot of L.A. Noire. >_>

[bobszvetics1]

@hurricanesofhell I TOLD YOU TO BUY THE DVD AND HE NEVER EVER FIRED A GUN

[GypsyFairy85]

@bobszvetics1

I thought he shot himself in the head down by some railroad tracks.

[bobszvetics1]

@GypsyFairy85 you thought wrong learn your history

[GypsyFairy85]

@bobszvetics1 Go learn yours, I just saw photos of his body and he certainly was not in prison. This happened right out in the open.

[bobszvetics1]

@GypsyFairy85  hey go FUCK YOURSELF ASSHOLE AND DONT FUCKING ANSWER ME YOU FUCK HEADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD­DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[GypsyFairy85]

@bobszvetics1 What a charming troll! Incapable of intelligent conversation. 58 years old with a boob fetish.

[rkogeneral]

WXIA 11 Alive in Atlanta used to show this every evening at 11:30 right after the news in the mid 1970's...preempting the Dick Cavett Show!

[25mfd]

@rkogeneral The DICK CAVETT SHOW???

I remember that but haven't heard that name in YEARS.

How old are you for christ sakes??? LOL!!!

[jsbach15]

TV soundtracks back then easily identified the program to viewers; they're still stuck in my music memory.

[drcoxcentral]

The theme song is as great as the Dragnet theme song.

[spacepatrolman]

@drcoxcentral the guy that wrote dragnet was sued for ripping off the melody of the killers by miklos rosza the detectives theme sounds like dragnet backwards

[ftsjr]

This is from TV's first 20 years. A time when great theme songs were as important as the content of the shows themselves.

[GaussTruth]

Nelson Riddle, Henry Mancini & John Williams were (are) all geniuses.

[Greatest1981]

Man , I used to love watching this show on Sky Channel back in the late 80's. I must go and see if it's available on dvd. If not it absolutely should be. Class stuff!

[tbear4pa]

I remember seeing the closing of the Untouchables(from 1960) that was followed by: "This has been an ABC Television Network Presentation" with the Big "A" logo of that time.

[VoiceGawd]

Nelson Riddle wrote GREAT theme music as did Henry Mancini.

[ISAIAHJRDN]

I remember this show opening with elliot ness pulling a box of cartridges form a desk drawer and loading a revolver and the crowd at the opening was live that switched to silloette ,can't find it anywhere.

[Marauder0090]

@Isaiah

I remember that opening too, notice that the guys in the picture above are all about draw thier weapons, very dynamic picture

[Marauder0090]

mean story..mean acting ...mean theme song...i was scared silly of this theme song as a young boy when this show was on..despite all the meaness it was American TV at its finest.

[spacepatrolman]

@Marauder0090 it has a slow tempo like a funeral dirge thats what makes it so scary nobody wants to be killed with a machine gun

[Marauder0090]

@spacepatrolman

well said..your right the slow tempo is like a funreal march.

you couldnt do a show this violent today..not like this anyway.

very dark and hardbitten

[spacepatrolman]

@Marauder0090 the untouchables was supposed to be the first violent cop show but dick tracy came before that with people being shot at point blank range they actually have worse today someone had his leg blown off in jag in color and a handicapped person was knocked out of his wheel chair in some made for tv movie its supposed to be ilegal to depict that .

[spacepatrolman]

@Marauder0090 the theme from damnation alley is slow and scary good for an end of the world movie

[hoosierhobbies]

I sure am glad you posted this, this tune had been boucing around in my head and I just couldn't recall the source. Then I searched QM Productions and then it hit me...The Untouchables! So finding this post helped me more than you know! Thanks again!

[maureencora1]

I want the Poster of this picture...I Love Chicago,IL