"Eliot Ness was a real guy during a time when the mobs had taken over Chicago. And he was a man who was untouchable by the Mobs. He had refused to be bribed, he was pristine" -Alan Armer, Executive Producer of the Untouchables - EmmyTVLegends, 2013
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The Untouchables title sequence. (YouTube, 2014)
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"Based on the 1947 novel by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, The Untouchables was the first dramatic series created at Desilu Productions...Airing on ABC from 1959-63, the series was panned for what critics at the time deemed 'excessive and senseless violence.' But it was enormously popular with audiences and made names for producer Quinn Martin and actor Robert Stack. The series centered on a greatly embellished version of the real life Eliot Ness, played by Robert Stack, and his incorruptible treasury agents whom Chicago newspapers had dubbed 'The Untouchables.' Their battles against organized crime served as the source material for the television series." EmmyTVLegends, 2013
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