Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
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Robert Stack
Eliot Ness
Nicholas Georgiade
Enrico Rossi
Steve London
Jack Rossman
Paul Picerni
Lee Hobson
Abel Fernandez
William Youngfellow
Walter Winchell
Narrator
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28 episodes • 1959Avg: 7.8
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Empty Chair | Oct 15, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Ma Barker and Her Boys | Oct 22, 1959 | 7.0 |
| 3 | The Jake Lingle Killing | Oct 29, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The George Bugs Moran Story | Nov 5, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Ain't We Got Fun? | Nov 12, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 6 | The Vincent Mad Dog Coll Story | Nov 19, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Mexican Stake-Out | Nov 26, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 8 | The Artichoke King | Dec 3, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Tri-State Gang | Dec 10, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Dutch Schultz Story | Dec 17, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 11 | You Can't Pick the Number | Dec 24, 1959 | 10.0 |
| 12 | The Underground Railway | Dec 31, 1959 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Syndicate Sanctuary | Jan 7, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Noise of Death | Jan 14, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Star Witness | Jan 14, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 16 | The St. Louis Story | Jan 28, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 17 | One-Armed Bandits | Feb 4, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Little Egypt | Feb 11, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 19 | The Big Squeeze | Feb 18, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 20 | The Unhired Assassin (1) | Feb 25, 1960 | 7.0 |
| 21 | The Unhired Assassin (2) | Mar 3, 1960 | 7.0 |
| 22 | The White Slavers | Mar 10, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Three Thousand Suspects | Mar 24, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 24 | The Doreen Maney Story | Mar 31, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Portrait of a Thief | Apr 7, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Underworld Bank | Apr 14, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Head of Fire - Feet of Clay | Apr 21, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 28 | The Frank Nitti Story | Apr 28, 1960 | 0.0 |
32 episodes • 1960
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Rusty Heller Story | Oct 13, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The Jack Legs Diamond Story | Oct 20, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Nicky | Nov 3, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Waxey Gordon Story | Nov 10, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Mark of Cain | Nov 17, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 6 | A Seat on the Fence | Nov 24, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Purple Gang | Dec 1, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Kiss of Death Girl | Dec 8, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Larry Fay Story | Dec 15, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Otto Frick Story | Dec 22, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Tommy Karpeles Story | Dec 29, 1960 | 0.0 |
| 12 | The Big Train (1) | Jan 5, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The Big Train (2) | Jan 12, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Masterpiece | Jan 19, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 15 | The Organization | Jan 26, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 16 | The Jamaica Ginger Story | Feb 2, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Augie The Banker Ciamino | Feb 9, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 18 | The Underground Court | Feb 16, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 19 | The Nick Moses Story | Feb 23, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 20 | The Antidote | Mar 9, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 21 | The Lily Dallas Story | Mar 16, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Murder Under Glass | Mar 23, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 23 | Testimony of Evil | Mar 30, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 24 | Ring of Terror | Apr 13, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 25 | Mr. Moon | Apr 20, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Death for Sale | Apr 27, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Stranglehold | May 4, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 28 | The Nero Rankin Story | May 11, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 29 | The Seventh Vote | May 18, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 30 | The King of Champagne | May 25, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 31 | The Nick Acropolis Story | Jun 1, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 32 | 90-Proof Dame | Jun 8, 1961 | 0.0 |
28 episodes • 1961Avg: 7.0Valley of Despair
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Troubleshooter | Oct 12, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Power Play | Oct 19, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Tunnel of Horrors | Oct 26, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Genna Brothers | Nov 2, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Matt Bass Scheme | Nov 9, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Loophole | Nov 16, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Jigsaw | Nov 23, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Man Killer | Dec 7, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 9 | City Without a Name | Dec 14, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Hammerlock | Dec 21, 1961 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Canada Run | Jan 4, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Fall Guy | Jan 11, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The Gang War | Jan 18, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Silent Partner | Feb 1, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 15 | The Whitey Steele Story | Feb 8, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 16 | The Death Tree | Feb 15, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Takeover | Mar 1, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 18 | The Stryker Brothers | Mar 8, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 19 | Element of Danger | Mar 22, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 20 | The Maggie Storm Story | Mar 29, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 21 | Man in the Middle | Apr 5, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 22 | Downfall | May 3, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 23 | The Case Against Eliot Ness | May 10, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 24 | The Ginnie Littlesmith Story | May 17, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 25 | The Contract | May 31, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 26 | Pressure | Jun 14, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 27 | Arsenal | Jun 28, 1962 | 7.0 |
| 28 | The Monkey Wrench | Jul 5, 1962 | 7.0 |
30 episodes • 1962Avg: 8.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Night They Shot Santa Claus | Sep 25, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The Cooker in the Sky | Oct 2, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Chess Game | Oct 9, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Economist | Oct 16, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Pea | Oct 23, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Bird in the Hand | Oct 30, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Eddie O'Gara Story | Nov 13, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Elegy | Nov 20, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Come and Kill Me | Nov 27, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 10 | A Fist of Five | Dec 4, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Floyd Gibbons Story | Dec 11, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Double Cross | Dec 18, 1962 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Search for a Dead Man | Jan 1, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 14 | The Speculator | Jan 8, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Snowball | Jan 15, 1963 | 8.0 |
| 16 | Jake Dance | Jan 22, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 17 | Blues for a Gone Goose | Jan 29, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 18 | Globe of Death | Feb 5, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 19 | An Eye for an Eye | Feb 19, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 20 | Junk Man | Jan 26, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 21 | The Man in the Cooler | Mar 5, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 22 | The Butcher's Boy | Mar 12, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 23 | The Spoiler | Mar 26, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 24 | One Last Killing | Apr 2, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 25 | The Giant Killer | Apr 9, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 26 | The Charlie Argos Story | Apr 16, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 27 | The Jazz Man | Apr 30, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 28 | The Torpedo | May 7, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 29 | Line of Fire | May 14, 1963 | 0.0 |
| 30 | A Taste for Pineapple | May 21, 1963 | 0.0 |
