Seasons & Episodes
The Empty Chair
"Chicago, May 5, 1932. After 7 months of legal delays, Al Capone... was on his way to federal prison, to serve 11 years
Ma Barker and Her Boys
January 16, 1935. Oklawaha, Florida. Eliot Ness, along with Bill Youngfellow and Martin Flaherty, are closing in on Ma B
The Jake Lingle Killing
Gangs have divided Chicago in 2-- the northside is run by the Bertshce mob, the southside by the Viale brothers, Augie &
The George Bugs Moran Story
March 2, 1932. Gangster Joe Carroll, sidekick of George "Bugs" Moran, kidnaps 9-year-old Larry Halloran, Jr.-- the son o
Ain't We Got Fun?
Summer 1933, Chicago. The mobsters were branching out from liquor, going into the numbers racket, call girls, gambling a
The Vincent Mad Dog Coll Story
February 1931. In Churchill Downs, the entries for the Kentucky Derby are closed. Tight-fisted Dutch Schultz, beer baron
Mexican Stake-Out
Eliot Ness is lured south of the border to retrieve a witness who will help his case. Only it's a set-up...once there, t
The Artichoke King
April 19, 1931. New York City. Every 48 hours, more than 25 million pounds of fruits and vegetables stream into the city
The Tri-State Gang
In the latter part of 1933, there was an epidemic of truck hijackings in the states of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvan
The Dutch Schultz Story
March 1935. One of the toughest mobsters in New York City is Dutch Schultz. He and his mob were responsible for over 100
You Can't Pick the Number
Chicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The only chance some pe
The Underground Railway
The night of August 3, 1933, outside the Louisburg Federal Prison in Pennsylvania. After serving 2 years of a life sent
Syndicate Sanctuary
30 miles from Chicago, the (fictitious) Calum City; population: 10,000. Judge Leon Zabo is running for mayor, to clean
The Noise of Death
Chicago, March 31, 1933. Giuseppe ""Joe"" Bucco is at home when he gets a visit from his wife's cousin, Barbara Vittori
Star Witness
1934. The Depression was over 4 years old, and Al Capone was in Alcatraz. Many of the rackets had seemingly legit fron
The St. Louis Story
Spring 1931. Gangland warfare had broken out again with sudden violence in the streets of St. Louis. Tim Harrington, w
One-Armed Bandits
Chicago, February 1932. Crime has been spreading all over, from the dark alleys of Cicero to the social atmosphere of t
Little Egypt
Little Egypt (not the Belly Dancer) was the city of Morraine, the heart of the gangster-infected area in downstate Illin
The Big Squeeze
Chicago. Prior to May 1934, robbing state banks was not a federal offense. Bandits only had local police to contend wi
The Unhired Assassin (1)
Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara"" Chicago. November 9, 1932. FDR has just been elected president, and the repeal of Prohi
The Unhired Assassin (2)
Movie: ""The Gun of Zangara"" (continued) Nitti's plenty sore! Mayor Cermak's stepped-up law enforcement has cut deepl
The White Slavers
March 31, 1934; Prohibition is over. Al Capone is still running things from Alcatraz, his new money-maker is ""white sl
Three Thousand Suspects
September 1932. The Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, 430 miles west-southwest of Chicago, houses some of th
The Doreen Maney Story
New York City: Yankee Stadium, the Bronx. On the evening of June 8, 1933, Max Baer knocked out Max Schmeling in the 10t
Portrait of a Thief
Chicago, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men had cracked the bootleg empire of Al Capone, by smashing his breweries and speake
Underworld Bank
New York City. Saturday, September 23, 1933. Top rackets boss Milo Sullivan is the head of ""Crime, Inc."" He has a
Head of Fire - Feet of Clay
Chicago. (year?)* The jury had been out for 12 hours, on the case Ness had worked so hard on, trying to get a convict
The Frank Nitti Story
1934. Prohibition had been repealed (the Volstead Act ran from January 17, 1920 - April 7, 1933). The syndicate was lo
The Rusty Heller Story
Chicago, March 1931. Eliot Ness and his men were doing raid after raid on Capone's speakeasies and breweries; his empir
The Jack Legs Diamond Story
New York, 1931. While many people were unemployed and poor during the Depression, gangster-owned speakeasies and nightc
Nicky
Chicago. By the middle of 1933, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had almost checked the manufacture and sale of whiskey
The Waxey Gordon Story
New Jersey, the night of April 16, 1931. Waxey Gordon, the undisputed beer baron of New York, is muscling in on New Jer
The Mark of Cain
Chicago, late Spring 1932. There is public protest about the increase in drug addiction. Charlie Sebastino has amalgam
A Seat on the Fence
Chicago, late Summer 1932. Eliot Ness and his men had stemmed the supply of narcotics coming into the Windy City from
The Purple Gang
Detroit, August 1932. The notorious Purple Gang-- long synonymous with terror in beer, booze, labor and prostitution--
Kiss of Death Girl
Chicago, September 8, 1932. That night, a convoy of 4 trucks, which had crossed the Canadian border, are driving toward
The Larry Fay Story
New York, April 1931. Gangster Larry Fay, a former student of Al Capone, has his greasy fists firmly in the milk racket
The Otto Frick Story
The night of May 3rd, 1934. A traveling carnival is at the Midway, 35 miles outside of Cleveland. There are half a doz
The Tommy Karpeles Story
May 8, 1931. The special U.S. mail train, coming from Rock Island, is stopped by emergency flares on the tracks in Hill
The Big Train (1)
Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (Disclaimer shown on screen) ""The events portrayed in this film are fictitious. The F
The Big Train (2)
Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (continued) Sunday, August 19, 1934. At 2:30 a.m., the Big Train is backed into the p
The Masterpiece
Chicago, December 1931. With Al Capone in prison, the bootlegging part of his empire was split in 2. One of Capone's l
The Organization
Chicago. November 9, 1932. Al Capone was in prison, and Frank Nitti was running his Organization. But other crime
The Jamaica Ginger Story
On the night of May 25, 1931, 2 trucks are rolling into K.C., carrying $1-million worth of Jamaica Ginger rotgut, also k
Augie The Banker Ciamino
Summer 1931, Chicago. Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had smashed most of the big breweries owned by the mobsters. B
The Underground Court
September 8, 1934. A cruise ship from Cuba to New Jersey has caught fire. There are over 300 passengers on board; some
The Nick Moses Story
1932. Just 3 weeks after Al Capone was convicted on the ironic charge of income tax evasion, the Justice Department in
The Antidote
Mid-October 1932. The nation's attention is on the election campaign between incumbent president Herbert Hoover and his
The Lily Dallas Story
April 11, 1932. Millionaire building contractor Thomas B. Randall is the target of a kidnapping; he is throwing a party
Murder Under Glass
November 1932. FDR was moving to end Prohibition, and the crime syndicate was already shifting away from booze to narco
Testimony of Evil
October 11, 1932. Chicago. Less than one month before the elections, David Mantley, running for State's Attorney on
Ring of Terror
Ring of Terror-- Boxing ring, that is. July 1931, the Chicago Sports Arena was like a hundred other boxing rings across
Mr. Moon
Autumn 1934. An armored truck, loaded with the special paper used in printing U.S. currency, is headed for the Bureau o
Death for Sale
Chicago, last week of April 1933. Frank Nitti is offered a huge quantity of Chinese opium. Ever since the government h
Stranglehold
New York, 1933. Racketeers are poking their greasy fists into every corner of the nation's business. The Fulton fish m
The Nero Rankin Story
September 16, 1933. Although Eliot Ness had successfully destroyed The Underground Court (episode # 46), he had not sma
The Seventh Vote
Chicago, April 25, 1932. With Capone in prison doing his rap for income tax evasion, his 8 lieutenants are running thin
The King of Champagne
Chicago, the 3rd week of November 1932. Working on an anonymous tip, Eliot Ness and his men raid a warehouse; all the c
The Nick Acropolis Story
Chicago, Summer 1931. Nick Acropolis is the new bookmaker in town, his territory is Illinois and the 6 surrounding stat
90-Proof Dame
Chicago, April 1932. The city is ruled by underworld czars, one of the toughest of which is Nate Kester, former henchma
The Troubleshooter
In the summer of 1934, a new gambling device was sweeping the nation: the punchboards. Even though they were nickel-and
Power Play
By the Summer of 1933, a new wave of crime has engulfed Chicago. Due to a public outcry for action, Willard Thornton i
Tunnel of Horrors
August 28, 1933. That night, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables, and some undercover plainclothes police, are staking out
The Genna Brothers
In the years following WWI, there was a flood of European immigrants into the USA. In the early 1920s, the 6 Genna brot
The Matt Bass Scheme
In mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness, having compiled a list of Frank Nitti's breweries & distilleries, began a series of ra
Loophole
Chicago, January 1933. Ness and his men raid a speakeasy owned by gangster Mikhail ""Red Mike"" Probich, and run by Con
Jigsaw
September 14, 1932. At 11:30 p.m., Eliot Ness goes to the Odeon movie theatre (not the Odeon Burlesque theatre used in
Man Killer
Chicago, July 1934. Anonymous phone calls have been tipping off Ness and his men to narcotics activities; they do a bun
City Without a Name
1933. Violence and corruption were at an all-time high in Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City-- virtuall
Hammerlock
New York, middle of 1932. The Syndicate-- headed by Joe Kulak, Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter and Dutch Schultz-- has the ci
Canada Run
November 1932. Big-time gangster Joe Palakopolous is playing a dangerous game-- he just had his hitman rub out Danny Ku
Fall Guy
October 1932, Chicago. With Capone in the slammer, other bosses are biting off chunks of Capone's empire. One boss i
The Gang War
1932. Chicago is a thirsty town, consuming 86,000 gallons of booze a day; that's 32-million gallons a year. Almost all
The Silent Partner
Chicago, March 2, 1932. The hottest nightspot in town is the Club Tunisian, owned by gangster Pete Kalik, who built it
The Whitey Steele Story
New York City. July 23, 1934. The Underworld, which had long made big money by covering bets on horse races, wants to
The Death Tree
Early November 1931. On West Madison Street, there is a wonderfully diverse neighborhood made up of gypsies of Romanian
Takeover
Chicago, October 1932. The only ""beer"" allowed to be served during Prohibition is ""near-beer"" or ""Near-O""-- which
The Stryker Brothers
March 3, 1932. It's the great train robbery, on the southbound express headed for Chicago. The Stryker brothers steal
Element of Danger
Chicago, August 29, 1934. That night, in the Haymarket district, special agent Daniel Gosden, a policeman on loan to th
The Maggie Storm Story
Chicago, after the Repeal of Prohibition; (so this would be around 1934). With booze legal, the racket czars step up th
Man in the Middle
November 7, 1933. Slot machines are big business; 2,000 of the one-armed bandits rake in $100,000 per week; ($50 per m
Downfall
Chicago. Pete ""The Persuader"" Kalmisky, former bodyguard of Al Capone, accompanied by Syndicate business manager Alan
The Case Against Eliot Ness
March 4, 1933. The Windy City is getting ready for the Chicago World's Fair, also known as the ""Century of Progress""
The Ginnie Littlesmith Story
May 17, 1932. There are many free soup kitchens in Chicago, but one of them in the skid row section is really a front;
The Contract
New York City; February 4, 1934. 3 months of intensive investigation is paying off for Ness and his Untouchables; they
Pressure
Chicago, April 16, 1934. Prohibition is over, the main racket is now narcotics. The New York Syndicate, the ""Big 6""
Arsenal
January 1929. Gangster Matt Malloy walks into a sporting goods store; he can't buy an automatic pistol without a police
The Monkey Wrench
March 2, 1933. The remote section of the northern Michigan Lake front, 180 miles northeast of Chicago. The Chicago Syn
The Night They Shot Santa Claus
December 24, 1930. That evening, small-time mug Hap Levinson is playing Santa Claus at the Sackman Orphan Home. Santa
The Cooker in the Sky
Joe Lassiter is the greatest inside man in the bootlegging racket. He and his sidekick, Nick Karabinos, have just arriv
The Chess Game
By mid-June 1932, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had uncovered and shut down every champagne-producing operation in the
The Economist
Chicago, the Summer of 1932. There are 12-million unemployed in the U.S.; with less money to spend, the price of booze
The Pea
Chicago, December 18, 1930. On the southside of town, Herbie Catcher is playing 8-ball for 50 cents a game, in a dilapi
Bird in the Hand
December 12, 1929. That night, gangster Arnie Kurtz is in a car, watching a hit he ordered. Another car, speeding alon
The Eddie O'Gara Story
Chicago. Right after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (February 14, 1929.) Ness and his men are scouring Chicago, loo
Elegy
1929.* Notorious gangster boss Charlie Radick is dying of leukemia; there'll be no mourning for him, the other overlord
Come and Kill Me
July 4, 1930. 40,000 horse racing fans fill Arlington Park. Ness and his men have Arnold ""Spats"" Vincent under sur
A Fist of Five
Chicago, 1929. Mike Brannon's been a cop for 15 years, but now he's being suspended for hospitalizing ""one of Tony Lam
The Floyd Gibbons Story
Chicago, October 1932. Within minutes of the time the Globe's top reporter Carlton Edmunds was shot, Eliot Ness and his
Double Cross
June 1930. Speak owner Louie Akers-- about to go dry and out of business because Guzik couldn't supply him with hooch f
Search for a Dead Man
June 1929.* A body is dumped into Lake Michigan; when it's fished out 3-4 weeks later, on July 10, the Bureau of Missin
The Speculator
1929. Eliot Ness gets another anonymous phone tip: a big meet at a warehouse on Grover Street, Nitti and all the boys w
Snowball
October 16, 1930. Jackson Parker is a small-time bootlegger, he has his henchman Benny deliver bottles of booze to plac
Jake Dance
Late Summer 1930. It started in Wichita, Kansas: a staggering gait called the Jake Dance. (we see a man staggering alo
Blues for a Gone Goose
Jazz was born in the Roaring Twenties. It's now 1930, and on Chicago's Gold Coast there's a nightspot called ""Goose Ga
Globe of Death
1933. Prohibition ends. But that doesn't mean the war on crime is over for Eliot Ness and his Untouchables. The syndi
An Eye for an Eye
Chicago, Spring 1931. That night, Ness and his men are in their car; it's an 80 mph chase to catch a guy running whisk
Junk Man
Chicago, 1931. On the Southside, on a dead end street, there is a junkyard-- but it's really a front for a narcotics em
The Man in the Cooler
January 1932. Smalltime bootlegger Al Remp is serving 3-5 years in prison; he's done 3 years and is up for parole next
The Butcher's Boy
Racketeer Gus Ducek is fingered to be knocked off. But when the car with the hitmen drives towards him, Ducek's boys fi
The Spoiler
New Jersey waterfront, 1933. Johnny Mizo had been marked for death by the American crime cartel; he had fled to Brazil.
One Last Killing
February 1, 1933. Late that night, John ""The Cropper"" Cropsie, the Enforcer for Jules Flack (boss of the Westside com
The Giant Killer
April 28, 1932. Chicago. 3,500 fans are at the arena, watching the end of a 7-day bicycle race. But Ed ""Duke"" Monte
The Charlie Argos Story
June 25, 1933. Ness and Lee Hobson are called to the Castle, a baronial estate just outside of Chicago, which is both t
The Jazz Man
During the blistering summer of 1931, Ness and his men are working tirelessly against both the illicit whiskey and the n
The Torpedo
April 3, 1931. Vic's Diner, near the Chicago railroad yards; on the surface, no different than a hundred other diners.
Line of Fire
Chicago, January 1933. Danceland has a big sign, ""30 girls, open until 2 a.m."" Inside, customers mingle with the dim
A Taste for Pineapple
May 14, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti has gone to Atlantic C
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