The Lawless Years

The Lawless Years

1959 3 Seasons 48 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 Crime Drama

The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months. The series stars James Gregory and Robert Karnes.

The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months. The series stars James Gregory and Robert Karnes.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Nick Joseph Story

Detective Ruditsky relates the story of Nick Joseph, a small-time hood from Manhattan's Lower East Side, who rises from

EP 2

The Immigrant

An immigrant woman tries to get Ruditsky to set her son on the straight and narrow. It seems as though he's been hanging

EP 3

The Jane Cooper Story

Jane Cooper, recently paroled from prison, proves that she hasn't learned anything when she once again begins hanging ar

EP 4

The Story Of Cutie Jaffe

Cutie Jaffe, a small-time hood with big time ambitions, begins knocking over some of his brother-in-law's bootlegging tr

EP 5

The Dutch Schultz Story

Dutch Schultz wants to bump off special prosecutor Thomas Dewey who has been after him. The syndicate bigwigs deny him p

EP 6

The Lion And The Mouse

Small time racketeer Eddie Safronek plots revenge against the hoods who beat him up and left him for dead.

EP 7

No Fare

The underworld bribes police detective Harry Kramer in order to get him to withhold information in a case.

EP 8

The Payoff

After a moll is found murdered, flashbacks tell her story and those of mobsters Tony Sappio and Big Ed Harper, who both

EP 9

The Marie Walters Story

The body of a murdered young woman is dragged from the Harlem River and the police ascertain that she was killed because

EP 10

The Maxey Gorman Story

Ex-convict Maxey Gorman gets a Machiavellian character named A.J. to finance his entry into the bootlegging business. Th

EP 11

The Muddy Kasoff Story

Muddy Kasoff has been renting automobiles for gangsters to use but he has been secretly tippin the cops. When the hoods

EP 12

Framed

When Ruditsky can't be bribed by a waterfront crime gang they attempt to frame him by making it look like he's on the ta

EP 13

Four the Hard Way

Ruditsky warns visiting high roller Big Ziggy to get out of town but before he can hit the road he get roped into a croo

EP 14

The Tony Morelli Story

Dick Wilson (2) as Game Boy Miles | Harry Arnie as Benny | Brad Trumbull (2) as O'Neill | Lou Herbert as Titanic Thompso

EP 15

The Ray Baker Story

At a wild gangland party a young girl falls out of a window and is killed. When evidence shows that the girl was pushed,

EP 16

The Story of Lucky Silva

ucky Silva is a small-time hood who by a combination of circumstance, ambition, and drive rises quickly to a position of

EP 17

The Morrison Story

A judge is murdered right before a state crime commission is scheduled to take a look into his activities.

EP 18

The Poison Ivy Story

Ruditsky is temporarily assigned to duty in a Brooklyn precinct and must get the goods on a gang of hooligans who are pu

EP 19

The Prantera Story

EP 1

The Al Brown Story

When a young hoodlum named Al Brown destroys a blind man's shop it puts Ruditsky on his trail. But it will be under anot

EP 2

The Big Greeny Story

When the trail of a murdered garment factor owner leads back to the notorious Lepke Buchalter he sends the htman respons

EP 3

The Art Harris Story

Ruditsky goes after Art Harris, a racketeer who's muscled his way into the political scene in order to protect his organ

EP 4

The Billy Boy 'Rockabye' Creel Story

Mob boss Bobo Konig puts a bounty of $50,000 on psychotic gunman Billy Boy Creel who immediately goes underground. Rudit

EP 5

The Big Man

Gangster Louis Otto was once a childhood friend of Ruditsky's. Now he's wanted for the murder of an underling.

EP 6

The Joe Angelo Story

A former union trucker who now owns a candy store is pressured by the Mob to leave New York City because he knows too mu

EP 7

The Billy Grimes Story

Shortly after busting up a numbers racket, Ruditsky finds himself the target of a person or persons unknown.

EP 8

The Sonny Rosen Story

The Mob kidnaps the son of a millionaire and holds him for a ransom of $100,000. Or did they?

EP 9

The Pantera Story

EP 1

The Jack 'Legs' Diamond Story

EP 2

The Sonny Rosen Story II

EP 3

Louy K: Part 1

EP 4

Louy K: Part 2 Sing Sing

EP 5

Louy K: Part 3 Birth of the Organization

EP 6

Louy K: Part 4 Heydays of the Organization

EP 7

Louy K: Part 5 the Disintegration

EP 8

The Miles Miller Story

EP 9

The Kid Dropper Story

EP 10

Ginny

EP 11

Little Augie

EP 12

The Mad Dog Coll Story (1)

EP 13

The Mad Dog Coll Story (2)

EP 14

Blood Brothers

EP 15

The Vincent Gordia Story

EP 16

Artie Moon

EP 17

Triple Cross

EP 18

The Jonathan Wills Story

EP 19

Romeo and Rose

EP 20

Ike, the Novelty King

Popular Cast

Robert Karnes
Robert Karnes
Max Fields
James Gregory
James Gregory
Barney Ruditsky