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American TV series

The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from to 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 s 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 and a second, less-successful TV series in

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 ^[1]

Series overview

The series originally focused on the efforts of a real-life squad of Prohibition agents employed by the United States Department of Justice and led by Eliot Ness (Stack) who helped bring down the boot The Untouchables - Poor Boy Needs A Preacher - YouTube ROCA