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UNTOUCHABLES, THE: A FIST OF FIVE (TV)

Summary

One in 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. In this program, suspended Chicago policeman Mike Brannon and his brothers pledge a personal vendetta against crime leader Tony Lamberto and threaten to kill him unless his syndicate pays them $150,000. The program includes James Caan in his first major television role. Includes commercials.

Details

  • NETWORK: ABC
  • DATE: December 4, 1962 Tuesday 9:30 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:58:37
  • COLOR/B&W: B&W
  • CATALOG ID: T78:0567
  • GENRE: Drama, police
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police; She Made It Collection (Ida Lupino)
  • SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1959-1963
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Leonard Freeman … Executive Producer
  • Alvin Cooperman … Producer
  • Del Reisman … Associate Producer
  • Ida Lupino … Director
  • Herman Groves … Writer
  • Eliot Ness … Based on the book by
  • Oscar Fraley … Based on the book by
  • Nelson Riddle … Theme Music by
  • Walter Winchell … Narrator
  • Robert Stack … Cast, Eliot Ness
  • Frank De Kova … Cast, Tony Lamberto
  • Phyllis Coates … Cast, Angela Lamberto
  • Lee Marvin … Cast, Mike Brannon
  • Paul Picerini … Cast, Lee Hobson
  • Nicholas Georgiade … Cast, Enrico Rossi
  • Abel Fernandez … Cast, William Youngfellow
  • Ric Roman … Cast, Augie Relyea
  • Tom Brown … Cast, Captain Bellows
  • Roy Thinnes … Cast, Denny Brannon
  • James Caan … Cast, Keir Brannon
  • Whitney Armstrong … Cast, Sean Brannon
  • Mark Allen … Cast, Clarence Brannon
  • Mary Adams … Cast, Kate Brannon
  • Marianna Hill … Cast, Laurie Reagen
  • Frank Wilcox … Cast, Beecher Asbury