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UNTOUCHABLES, THE: THE EMPTY CHAIR {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The premiere of this series of dramas based on the cases of federal agent Eliot Ness and his team of investigators as they battle corruption during the Prohibition era. This program deals with the weeks immediately following the imprisonment of Al Capone in May of 1932. Enrico Rossi turns state's witness, and he is protected by the Untouchables in order to apprehend Capone's would-be successor, Jake Guzik. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: October 15, 1959 Thursday 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:54
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T77:0127
- GENRE: Drama, police
- SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Drama
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1959-1963
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Carnation dry milk
- TV - Commercials - Chesterfield cigarettes
- TV - Commercials - Dial soap
CREDITS
- Quinn Martin … Executive Producer
- Charles Russell … Producer
- John Peyser … Director
- Ernest Kinoy … Writer
- David Karp … Writer
- Eliot Ness … Based on the novel by
- Oscar Fraley … Based on the novel by
- Nelson Riddle … Theme Music by
- Walter Winchell … Narrator
- Robert Stack … Cast, Eliot Ness
- Barbara Nichols … Cast, Brandy La France
- Bruce Gordon … Cast, Frank Nitti
- Betty Garde … Cast, Norma Guzik
- Jerry Paris … Cast, Martin Flaherty
- Nicholas Georgiade … Cast, Enrico Rossi
- Abel Fernandez … Cast, William Youngfellow
- Nehemiah Persoff … Cast, Jake Guzik
- Peter Mamakos … Cast, Gus Raddi
- Herman Rudin … Cast, Tony Volpe
- Richard Benedict … Cast, "Fur" Sammons
- Wally Cassell … Cast, Phil D'Andrea
- Frank Wilcox … Cast, Beecher Asbury