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The Empty Chair
1959-10-15
The Empty Chair
1959-10-15
Narrator: Chicago, May 5, 1932. After 7 months of legal delays, Al Capone... was on his way to federal prison, to serve 11 years for income tax evasion.* Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had spent 18 months to get Capone behind bars-- but now who would try to take over the throne, the Empty Chair?...
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Ma Barker and Her Boys
1959-10-22
Ma Barker and Her...
1959-10-22
January 16, 1935. Oklawaha, Florida. Eliot Ness, along with Bill Youngfellow and Martin Flaherty, are closing in on Ma Barker, who is holed up in a house along with 2 of her sons, Lloyd and Fred. Ness says they are wanted for everything from bank robbery, kidnapping, to first-degree murder. Now...
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The Jake Lingle Killing
1959-10-29
The Jake Lingle...
1959-10-29
Gangs have divided Chicago in 2-- the northside is run by the Bertshce mob, the southside by the Viale brothers, Augie & Vito. The line of demarcation being Madison Street. At the news office, Jake Lingle phones in a story to the front desk: gang war has erupted on the near northside, 2 hoods with...
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The George Bugs Moran Story
1959-11-05
The George Bugs...
1959-11-05
March 2, 1932. Gangster Joe Carroll, sidekick of George Bugs Moran, kidnaps 9-year-old Larry Halloran, Jr.-- the son of Lawrence Halloran, president of the United Truckers Union. It just so happens that at this very moment, Ness and his Untouchables are trying to nail Bugs Moran-- who is now the...
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Ain't We Got Fun?
1959-11-12
Ain't We Got Fun?
1959-11-12
Summer 1933, Chicago. The mobsters were branching out from liquor, going into the numbers racket, call girls, gambling and dope. One of the most successful gangsters is Big Jim Harrington; right now he and his gang are in back of Benny Hoffs Blue Poodle nightclub, and they smash a truckload of...
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The Vincent Mad Dog Coll Story
1959-11-19
The Vincent Mad Dog...
1959-11-19
February 1931. In Churchill Downs, the entries for the Kentucky Derby are closed. Tight-fisted Dutch Schultz, beer baron of the Bronx, places a bet with the Syndicate: 100-grand in the Winter-book on Enchantment to win the Kentucky Derby. Trying to get the most for his money, Dutch knows he will...
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Mexican Stake-Out
1959-11-26
Mexican Stake-Out
1959-11-26
Chicago. October 1, 1932.* In 32 hours, Judge McGinnis will consider evidence against racketeer Theodore Newberry-- owner of gambling parlors, speakeasies and houses of prostitution. Ness and his men had been working on the case for a year. The key witness in the case against Newberry is a...
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The Artichoke King
1959-12-03
The Artichoke King
1959-12-03
April 19, 1931. New York City. Every 48 hours, more than 25 million pounds of fruits and vegetables stream into the city; this multi-million dollar business is the target of gangsters. Eliot Ness and his Untouchables have recently been brought to New York on special assignment to investigate the...
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The Tri-State Gang
1959-12-10
The Tri-State Gang
1959-12-10
In the latter part of 1933, there was an epidemic of truck hijackings in the states of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania; this was the work of 6 gangsters: the Tri-State Gang. Tonight, in Richmond, Virginia, theyre hijacking a truckload of radios. As usual Big Bill Phillips, a 64 ox of a man,...
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The Dutch Schultz Story
1959-12-17
The Dutch Schultz...
1959-12-17
March 1935. One of the toughest mobsters in New York City is Dutch Schultz. He and his mob were responsible for over 100 murders. Dutch is into every racket: liquor, narcotics, labor shakedowns, the numbers, selling protection. But Lucky Luciano is muscling in on his territory; to try to keep his...
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You Can't Pick the Number
1959-12-24
You Can't Pick the...
1959-12-24
Chicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The only chance some people felt they had to rise out of poverty, if only for a short time, was to win the lottery or at the punch-boards. The mob saw this as an opportunity, by coming up with a...
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The Underground Railway
1959-12-31
The Underground...
1959-12-31
The night of August 3, 1933, outside the Louisburg Federal Prison in Pennsylvania. After serving 2 years of a life sentence for his part in the holdup of a Federal Reserve bank shipment, Frank Halloway is busting out, climbing over the wall. When a fellow inmate breaks his leg from the jump from...
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Syndicate Sanctuary
1960-01-07
Syndicate Sanctuary
1960-01-07
(No date given, but probably 1932 which was a presidential election year.) 30 miles from Chicago, the (fictitious) Calum City; population: 10,000. Judge Leon Zabo is running for mayor, to clean up the town. Working hard in his campaign headquarters is his lovely daughter, Rosetta Zabo. Judge...
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The Noise of Death
1960-01-14
The Noise of Death
1960-01-14
Chicago, March 31, 1933. Giuseppe Joe Bucco is at home when he gets a visit from his wifes cousin, Barbara Vittorini-- she says her husband Arturo has been missing for 3 days, and accuses Bucco of killing him. Bucco has his flunkie Abe Garfinkel take her home. Bucco knows about rub-out attempts,...
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Star Witness
1960-01-14
Star Witness
1960-01-14
1934. The Depression was over 4 years old, and Al Capone was in Alcatraz. Many of the rackets had seemingly legit fronts, such as Midwest Enterprises, Inc. -- the president is Luigi Renaldo, former lieutenant for Capone. Renaldo is going to Florida on business, and leaving his 2nd-in-command in...
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The St. Louis Story
1960-01-28
The St. Louis Story
1960-01-28
Spring 1931. Gangland warfare had broken out again with sudden violence in the streets of St. Louis. Tim Harrington, who was long entrenched as the undisputed boss of the city, was fighting off the challenge to his leadership from Joe Courtney, an upstart hoodlum. The elder Dink Conway calls for...
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One-Armed Bandits
1960-02-04
One-Armed Bandits
1960-02-04
Chicago, February 1932. Crime has been spreading all over, from the dark alleys of Cicero to the social atmosphere of the Gold Coast. Crooked attorney Paul Curtiz is attending a party being hosted by gangster overlord Augie Viale, king of the southside of Chicago. At the affair, Viale is openly...
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Little Egypt
1960-02-11
Little Egypt
1960-02-11
Little Egypt (not the Belly Dancer) was the city of Morraine, the heart of the gangster-infected area in downstate Illinois known as Little Egypt. Election night, 1931. New mayor Marcus Stone is giving a speech on the radio-- he meant what he said about reform, and promises to rid the town of...
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The Big Squeeze
1960-02-18
The Big Squeeze
1960-02-18
Chicago. Prior to May 1934, robbing state banks was not a federal offense. Bandits only had local police to contend with, and they were often understaffed, inefficient or corrupt. This led to a rash of successful, though clumsily executed, bank robberies. In this city alone, there were 422...
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The Unhired Assassin (1)
1960-02-25
The Unhired...
1960-02-25
Movie: The Gun of Zangara
Chicago. November 9, 1932. FDR has just been elected president, and the repeal of Prohibition is inevitable. But later that night, Ness and his men smash another of Capones breweries. Agent Youngfellow asks Eliot, Are we going to be out of work? But Ness tells him...
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The Unhired Assassin (2)
1960-03-03
The Unhired...
1960-03-03
Movie: The Gun of Zangara (continued)
Nittis plenty sore! Mayor Cermaks stepped-up law enforcement has cut deeply into Nittis operations. In the Montmartre club, Nitti takes a newspaper with a big photo of Cermak on the front page, and tacks it to the wall-- then Nitti takes out his 6-shooter and...
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The White Slavers
1960-03-10
The White Slavers
1960-03-10
March 31, 1934; Prohibition is over. Al Capone is still running things from Alcatraz, his new money-maker is white slavery which refers to prostitution; his main operation is run by a mean gangster named Mig Torrance. Right now, Eliot Ness is conducting his 7th raid since being assigned to...
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Three Thousand Suspects
1960-03-24
Three Thousand...
1960-03-24
September 1932. The Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, 430 miles west-southwest of Chicago, houses some of the nations worst criminals. One of them is Nick Segal, who murdered 6 people, but only got convicted for violation of the Volstead Act; he got sentenced to 3 years, and is...
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The Doreen Maney Story
1960-03-31
The Doreen Maney...
1960-03-31
New York City: Yankee Stadium, the Bronx. On the evening of June 8, 1933, Max Baer knocked out Max Schmeling in the 10th round of their scheduled 15-round championship boxing match.* The gate was $240,000. (Since 60,000 fans were there, that means the average ticket price was $4.00) An hour...
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Portrait of a Thief
1960-04-07
Portrait of a Thief
1960-04-07
Chicago, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men had cracked the bootleg empire of Al Capone, by smashing his breweries and speakeasies.* But now, thousands of gallons of alcohol were coming into the city from an outside source. Ness meets with D.A. Beecher Asbury; it doesnt take Sherlock Holmes to figure...
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Underworld Bank
1960-04-14
Underworld Bank
1960-04-14
New York City. Saturday, September 23, 1933. Top rackets boss Milo Sullivan is the head of Crime, Inc. He has a meet with 5 other crime lords: Augie Epstein (gambling, Miami); Harold Bishman (political power in Louisiana); Ralph Lucci (rumrunner, Detroit Purple Gang); Dino Monteiro (slots,...
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Head of Fire - Feet of Clay
1960-04-21
Head of Fire - Feet...
1960-04-21
Chicago. (year?)* The jury had been out for 12 hours, on the case Ness had worked so hard on, trying to get a conviction for top mobster Johnny Fortunato. Now the newspaper reads: Fortunato got off, the chief witness was a suicide. At 9 p.m., Ness decides to get some spaghetti at Socrates...
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The Frank Nitti Story
1960-04-28
The Frank Nitti...
1960-04-28
1934. Prohibition had been repealed (the Volstead Act ran from January 17, 1920 - April 7, 1933). The syndicate was looking for new sources of revenue. Frank Nitti expands his empire, and goes after small theatres-- with his extortion racket. Late one night, after theatre owner Harold Coldman...
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