The Untouchables (1959 TV series)

The Untouchables
GenreCrime drama
StarringRobert Stack
Abel Fernandez
Nicholas Georgiade
Paul Picerni
Steve London
Bruce Gordon
Neville Brand
Narrated byWalter Winchell
Theme music composerNelson Riddle
ComposersBill Loose
Jack Cookerly
Nelson Riddle
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes118 and two-part pilot (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersAlan A. Armer
Desi Arnaz
Leonard Freeman
Quinn Martin
Jerry Thorpe
ProducersAlan A. Armer
Alvin Cooperman
Walter Grauman
Bert Granet
Paul Harrison
Herman Hoffman
Sidney Marshall
Vincent McEveety
Del Reisman
Norman Retchin
Lloyd Richards
Stuart Rosenberg
Charles Russell
Josef Shaftel
CinematographyRobert B. Hauser
Glen MacWilliams
Charles Straumer
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time50 minutes
Production companiesDesilu Productions
Langford Productions
(1962–1963)
(season 4)
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseOctober 15, 1959 (1959-10-15) –
May 21, 1963 (1963-05-21)
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC television network. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalizes the experiences of Ness as a Prohibition agent fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. The book was later made into a celebrated film in 1987 and a second, less-successful TV series in 1993.

A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama and a landmark television crime series, The Untouchables won series star Robert Stack the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960.[1]

  1. ^ "Robert Stack". Movies.yahoo.com. April 20, 2011. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-12.