The Untouchables (1959 TV series)

The Untouchables
Genre	Crime drama
Starring	Robert Stack Abel Fernandez Nicholas Georgiade Paul Picerni Steve London Bruce Gordon Neville Brand
Narrated by	Walter Winchell
Theme music composer	Nelson Riddle
Composers	Bill Loose Jack Cookerly Nelson Riddle
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	118 and two-part pilot (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Alan A. Armer Desi Arnaz Leonard Freeman Quinn Martin Jerry Thorpe
Producers	Alan A. Armer Alvin Cooperman Walter Grauman Bert Granet Paul Harrison Herman Hoffman Sidney Marshall Vincent McEveety Del Reisman Norman Retchin Lloyd Richards Stuart Rosenberg Charles Russell Josef Shaftel
Cinematography	Robert B. Hauser Glen MacWilliams Charles Straumer
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	50 minutes
Production companies	Desilu Productions Langford Productions (1962–1963) (season 4)
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	October 15, 1959 (1959-10-15) – May 21, 1963 (1963-05-21)
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 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 1930s 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 1987 and a second, less-successful TV series in 1993.

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 1960.^[1]