Episode guide
The Untouchables: Season 4
30 episodes · premiered Sep 25, 1962
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- Episode 1: The Night They Shot Santa Claus Sep 25, 1962 · 1h December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa brings toys and ice cream to all the waifs. He walks outside, waves…
- Episode 2: The Cooker in the Sky Oct 2, 1962 · 1h Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his sidekick, Nick Karabinos, have just arrived in Chicago by train; Lassiter traveled 1,000 miles because of a…
- Episode 3: The Chess Game Oct 9, 1962 · 1h By mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had uncovered and shut down every champagne-producing operation in the city. 4 months later, however, champagne appears again in the…
- Episode 4: The Economist Oct 16, 1962 · 1h Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with less money to spend, the price of booze goes down. The whiskey Syndicate is meeting; the chairman is the…
- Episode 5: The Pea Oct 23, 1962 · 1h Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing 8-ball for 50 cents a game, in a dilapidated pool joint. Herbie, not being much of a pool player, gets…
- Episode 6: Bird in the Hand Oct 30, 1962 · 1h December 12, 1929. That night, gangster Arnie Kurtz is in a car, watching a hit he ordered. Another car, speeding along and with a chopper blasting, guns down a pedestrian; but the victim…
- Episode 7: The Eddie O'Gara Story Nov 13, 1962 · 1h Chicago. Right after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ness and his men are scouring Chicago, looking for Bugs Moran. Ness says there used to be 2 gangs in town, now…
- Episode 8: Elegy Nov 20, 1962 · 1h 1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be no mourning for him, the other overlords will be vying for his throne. All Radick wants to do is see his…
- Episode 9: Come and Kill Me Nov 27, 1962 · 1h July 4, 1930. 40,000 horse racing fans fill Arlington Park. Ness and his men have Arnold ""Spats"" Vincent under surveillance; they will close in on him as soon as he gets a piece of…
- Episode 10: A Fist of Five Dec 4, 1962 · 1h Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspended for hospitalizing ""one of Tony Lamberto's dope-pushing punks."" Mike thinks Captain Bellows is corrupt…
- Episode 11: The Floyd Gibbons Story Dec 11, 1962 · 1h Chicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globe's top reporter Carlton Edmunds was shot, Eliot Ness and his men are on the scene. Ostensibly it appears a stray bullet in a…
- Episode 12: Double Cross Dec 18, 1962 · 1h June 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business because Guzik couldn't supply him with hooch for that last 3 weeks-- buys his booze from another supplier. Akers…
- Episode 13: Search for a Dead Man Jan 1, 1963 · 1h June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's fished out 3-4 weeks later, on July 10, the Bureau of Missing Persons has a John Doe on its hands. And so, Lt. Agatha Stewart and…
- Episode 14: The Speculator Jan 8, 1963 · 1h 1929. Eliot Ness gets another anonymous phone tip: a big meet at a warehouse on Grover Street, Nitti and all the boys will be there. At the warehouse, about 20 hoods are putting their…
- Episode 15: Snowball Jan 15, 1963 · 1h October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchman Benny deliver bottles of booze to places on a college campus: student unions, fraternity houses. Parker is…
- Episode 16: Jake Dance Jan 22, 1963 · 1h Late Summer 1930. It started in Wichita, Kansas: a staggering gait called the Jake Dance. (we see a man staggering along using a cane in each hand.) There are many different kinds of…
- Episode 17: Blues for a Gone Goose Jan 29, 1963 · 1h Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coast there's a nightspot called ""Goose Gander's Golden Egg"" jazz club. Blues player Eddie Moon is blowing his…
- Episode 18: Globe of Death Feb 5, 1963 · 1h 1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesn't mean the war on crime is over for Eliot Ness and his Untouchables. The syndicate has already moved on to a more profitable-- and more deadly…
- Episode 19: An Eye for an Eye Feb 19, 1963 · 1h Chicago, Spring 1931. That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80 mph chase to catch a guy running whiskey for Solly Girsch. The 19-year-old driver has a high-speed accident…
- Episode 20: Junk Man Jan 26, 1963 · 1h Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a front for a narcotics empire, run by gangster Victor Salazar. Ness and his men are on the…
- Episode 21: The Man in the Cooler Mar 5, 1963 · 1h January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's done 3 years and is up for parole next week, but it seems he won't get it. The guards put him in solitary…
- Episode 22: The Butcher's Boy Mar 12, 1963 · 1h Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards him, Ducek's boys fire back with machine guns, turning the tables; one hitman dies, Boley…
- Episode 23: The Spoiler Mar 26, 1963 · 1h New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the American crime cartel; he had fled to Brazil. Now, he has returned to America to get the $200,000 he had hastily…
- Episode 24: One Last Killing Apr 2, 1963 · 1h February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer for Jules Flack (boss of the Westside combine), stood in the back alley behind the Lido Burlesque house, by…
- Episode 25: The Giant Killer Apr 9, 1963 · 1h April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-day bicycle race. But Ed ""Duke"" Monte is there to make a drop-off. Ness and Lee Hobson catch him, with a…
- Episode 26: The Charlie Argos Story Apr 16, 1963 · 1h June 25, 1933. Ness and Lee Hobson are called to the Castle, a baronial estate just outside of Chicago, which is both the headquarters and home of the underworld's notorious ""King"" Frank…
- Episode 27: The Jazz Man Apr 30, 1963 · 1h During the blistering summer of 1931, Ness and his men are working tirelessly against both the illicit whiskey and the narcotics that are flooding the city. One morning, a despondent Capt…
- Episode 28: The Torpedo May 7, 1963 · 1h April 3, 1931. Vic's Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no different than a hundred other diners. The blue plate special is 35 cents; a nickel would buy either a…
- Episode 29: Line of Fire May 14, 1963 · 1h Chicago, January 1933. Danceland has a big sign, ""30 girls, open until 2 a.m."" Inside, customers mingle with the dime-a-dance girls. Hoofer Ellie Haskell says goodnight to the owner…
- Episode 30: A Taste for Pineapple May 21, 1963 · 1h May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti has gone to Atlantic City; Bugs Moran and Jack Diamond have left, too. As Ness puts it…