# The Untouchables (1959)

> Special Agent Eliot Ness and his team of incorruptible agents wage a relentless campaign against organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 4
- Episodes: 118
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Quinn Martin
- Network: ABC
- Cast: Robert Stack, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Abel Fernandez, Walter Winchell, Steve London, Alex Montoya, Vince Edwards
- TMDB rating: 8.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052522/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: crusading, sincere, nostalgic, cheerful, tense

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series positively, praising its tense, true-crime-inspired take on Prohibition-era Chicago and its consistently strong episodes.

## Synopsis

The Untouchables (1959-1963) is a United States period crime drama series created by Quinn Martin for ABC. Robert Stack stars as Special Agent Eliot Ness, who leads an elite squad of incorruptible agents, including Nicholas Georgiade as Enrico Rossi, Paul Picerni as Lee Hobson, and Abel Fernandez as William Youngfellow. Across four seasons and 118 episodes, the series follows the team as they wage a relentless campaign against the criminal syndicates that Al Capone left behind in Chicago. Each episode is built around a self-contained case, with agents tracking bootleggers, racketeers and hired killers through the back rooms of speakeasies and city streets, while the team's refusal to take bribes sets them apart from the corruption around them. Narrated by Walter Winchell, the show frames its dramatizations as the true story of a federal war on organized crime. Set in 1930s Chicago during the Prohibition era, it has a hard-edged, procedural feel, with a crusading and sincere tone and a sense of nostalgic, cheerful heroism. Fans of Boardwalk Empire, Dragnet and the classic network crime drama The FBI will find much to enjoy in its mix of period grit and lawman idealism.

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