The Untouchables

The Untouchables is the name of a television series that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. It was remade into a 1987 film by Brian De Palma also called The Untouchables, with a script by David Mamet.

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• Desilu

[paleblue498]

I watched this with my uncles when I was a kid. It had a gritty look to it in black & white and Winchell's narration gave it an authentic feel; and Robert Stack will alway be THE definitive Eliot Ness for me...

[45sGuy]

Was this particular ORIGINAL opening with the voiceover saying, "A Desliu Production" on DVD?

If so let me know because the Paramount DVD series have deleted the Desilu announcement which is not cool.

[johnnynoirman]

Hehehe,,,,Here's ugly character actors list..John Larch, Victor Buono, Milton Seltzer,

Bruce Gordon, Martin Balsam, Frank Sutton, Edward Asner, Karl Malden, Martin Landeu

Simon Oakland, John McIntire, Nehemiah Persoff, Rod Steiger, Edward G.Robindon

Jack Klugman, Donald Sutherland, Gavin McLeod..But beauty is in the eye of the beholder Spacepatrolman.

[spacepatrolman]

@johnnynoirman they used to get actors that were ugly looking for villains those actors you mentioned were too good looking some one did a statistical analysis of jail sentences and it was determined that peple that are convicted of crimes that are quote unquote ugly get longer jail sentances nobody is going to put cladine longet in the electric chair[ she is too beautiful ] you know what i mean

[johnnynoirman]

I wish David Janssen, John Cassavetes, Stuart Whitman, John Saxon

Lon Chanery Jr., Broderick Crawford, Ben Gazzarra, Peter Mark Richman

Lee J. Cobb, John Russell, Clint Walker, Dennis Hopper, Stephen McNally

had be on the show.....I would have like to have been the casting director

for this the one of the all time great t.v. series of all time!!!...

[ISAIAHJRDN]

I can't find the original opening ,where Robert Stack loaded a .38 revolver with cartridges he removed from a box in his desk drawer, there was also a live crowd scene which was in the opening. what happen to it?

[williamg2552]

@jka12002redux It wouldn't have worked...He would have UPSTAGED Costner in only one scene !!

[WSenator1]

This was one VIOLENT show. It seemed like every scene was a threat to have someone shot from head to toe. All the critics hated it, because it was detrimental to the well-being of children, so they said. Boy, what would they say about kids TODAY? TU would probably look like Mr. Rogers' Neighorhood to them!

[jka12002redux]

Robert Stack should have had a cameo in the Kevin Costner movie.

[pawt1963]

The series was produced for Desilu by Quinn Martin, who later formed his own highly successful production company. Writer John Mantley was the producer of Gunsmoke in its later years and director Paul Wendkos also helmed the pilot episode of Hawaii 5-0.