Episode guide
The Untouchables: Season 3
28 episodes · premiered Oct 12, 1961
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- Episode 1: The Troubleshooter Oct 12, 1961 · 1h In the summer of 1934, a new gambling device was sweeping the nation: the punchboards. Even though they were nickel-and-dime games, it added up-- they made more money for the mob than the…
- Episode 2: Power Play Oct 19, 1961 · 1h By the Summer of 1933, a new wave of crime has engulfed Chicago. Due to a public outcry for action, Willard Thornton is appointed as a new commissioner to clean up the town. At a press…
- Episode 3: Tunnel of Horrors Oct 26, 1961 · 1h August 28, 1933. That night, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables, and some undercover plainclothes police, are staking out an amusement pier on the Chicago lakefront; they are tailing…
- Episode 4: The Genna Brothers Nov 2, 1961 · 1h In the years following WWI, there was a flood of European immigrants into the USA. In the early 1920s, the 6 Genna brothers, place of origin Sicily, were headed to Chicago. The Genna…
- Episode 5: The Matt Bass Scheme Nov 9, 1961 · 1h In mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness, having compiled a list of Frank Nitti's breweries & distilleries, began a series of raids designed to break the back of the Capone empire. This puts the…
- Episode 6: Loophole Nov 16, 1961 · 1h Chicago, January 1933. Ness and his men raid a speakeasy owned by gangster Mikhail ""Red Mike"" Probich, and run by Connie LaVerne. At the trial, Probich is represented by his crooked…
- Episode 7: Jigsaw Nov 23, 1961 · 1h September 14, 1932. At 11:30 p.m., Eliot Ness goes to the Odeon movie theatre (not the Odeon Burlesque theatre used in several episodes); he gives stoolie Marty Wilger an envelope with…
- Episode 8: Man Killer Dec 7, 1961 · 1h Chicago, July 1934. Anonymous phone calls have been tipping off Ness and his men to narcotics activities; they do a bunch of raids. On August 4, even though sales have fallen off, Frank…
- Episode 9: City Without a Name Dec 14, 1961 · 1h 1933. Violence and corruption were at an all-time high in Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City-- virtually every city in the U.S. The lone exception is an Eastern seaboard…
- Episode 10: Hammerlock Dec 21, 1961 · 1h New York, middle of 1932. The Syndicate-- headed by Joe Kulak, Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter and Dutch Schultz-- has the city's huge garment industry organized and under control. Now they are…
- Episode 11: Canada Run Jan 4, 1962 · 1h November 1932. Big-time gangster Joe Palakopolous is playing a dangerous game-- he just had his hitman rub out Danny Kugan, the biggest supplier of Canadian whiskey that Frank Nitti had…
- Episode 12: Fall Guy Jan 11, 1962 · 1h October 1932, Chicago. With Capone in the slammer, other bosses are biting off chunks of Capone's empire. One boss is Frankie Gruder, head of a group that is the forerunner of Murder…
- Episode 13: The Gang War Jan 18, 1962 · 1h 1932. Chicago is a thirsty town, consuming 86,000 gallons of booze a day; that's 32-million gallons a year. Almost all this booze is beer and rotgut, but 1% is the finest Canadian scotch…
- Episode 14: The Silent Partner Feb 1, 1962 · 1h Chicago, March 2, 1932. The hottest nightspot in town is the Club Tunisian, owned by gangster Pete Kalik, who built it up from a small speak. Ness and Lee Hobson show up, but not to see…
- Episode 15: The Whitey Steele Story Feb 8, 1962 · 1h New York City. July 23, 1934. The Underworld, which had long made big money by covering bets on horse races, wants to get their hands on a new invention-- the racewire, which can speed the…
- Episode 16: The Death Tree Feb 15, 1962 · 1h Early November 1931. On West Madison Street, there is a wonderfully diverse neighborhood made up of gypsies of Romanian, Hungarian and Czech descent. The area is flooded with Capone's…
- Episode 17: Takeover Mar 1, 1962 · 1h Chicago, October 1932. The only ""beer"" allowed to be served during Prohibition is ""near-beer"" or ""Near-O""-- which is 0.5% alcohol, as opposed to real beer which is 4.0% alcohol. And…
- Episode 18: The Stryker Brothers Mar 8, 1962 · 1h March 3, 1932. It's the great train robbery, on the southbound express headed for Chicago. The Stryker brothers steal mail sacks containing 750 grand in payroll money. During the robbery…
- Episode 19: Element of Danger Mar 22, 1962 · 1h Chicago, August 29, 1934. That night, in the Haymarket district, special agent Daniel Gosden, a policeman on loan to the Untouchables, goes through a skylight and finds an opium laboratory…
- Episode 20: The Maggie Storm Story Mar 29, 1962 · 1h Chicago, after the Repeal of Prohibition; (so this would be around 1934). With booze legal, the racket czars step up their dealings in narcotics. Ness and Lee Hobson are chasing 2…
- Episode 21: Man in the Middle Apr 5, 1962 · 1h November 7, 1933. Slot machines are big business; 2,000 of the one-armed bandits rake in $100,000 per week; ($50 per machine). One night, ""Moose"" Tobin and 3 other Bomer hoods drop in on…
- Episode 22: Downfall May 3, 1962 · 1h Chicago. Pete ""The Persuader"" Kalmisky, former bodyguard of Al Capone, accompanied by Syndicate business manager Alan Sitkin, have a meeting with Joey December, president of the…
- Episode 23: The Case Against Eliot Ness May 10, 1962 · 1h March 4, 1933. The Windy City is getting ready for the Chicago World's Fair, also known as the ""Century of Progress"" Exposition. The 3 wealthy Endicott brothers, who jointly owned…
- Episode 24: The Ginnie Littlesmith Story May 17, 1962 · 1h May 17, 1932. There are many free soup kitchens in Chicago, but one of them in the skid row section is really a front; upstairs, gangster Chiz Gosher, twice convicted of white slavery, has…
- Episode 25: The Contract May 31, 1962 · 1h New York City; February 4, 1934. 3 months of intensive investigation is paying off for Ness and his Untouchables; they have ""Smiley"" Barris cornered in an upper floor of an Eastside…
- Episode 26: Pressure Jun 14, 1962 · 1h Chicago, April 16, 1934. Prohibition is over, the main racket is now narcotics. The New York Syndicate, the ""Big 6"" send their representative Wally Corbin to Chicago, to pick up a…
- Episode 27: Arsenal Jun 28, 1962 · 1h January 1929. Gangster Matt Malloy walks into a sporting goods store; he can't buy an automatic pistol without a police permit, however anyone with $150 can buy a machine-gun. Later, at…
- Episode 28: The Monkey Wrench Jul 5, 1962 · 1h March 2, 1933. The remote section of the northern Michigan Lake front, 180 miles northeast of Chicago. The Chicago Syndicate, to improve the quality of their booze, is now smuggling in…