THE UNTOUCHABLES. THE NICK ACROPOLIS STORY

An episode of the television series.

“In 1960 a television monitoring group based in Los Angeles reported on the large amount of violence shown on television. The most notorious offender was Quinn Martin’s THE UNTOUCHABLES. With an eye on the competition, Martin had told his writers, “More action or we are going to get clobbered.”

“The series was based on the autobiography of Eliot Ness, a Treasury Department crimebuster based in Chicago in Prohibition days. The action focused on the battle between two gangsters, Jake ‘Greasy Thumb’ Guzik and Frank ‘The Enforcer’ Netti, and Ness’ attempts to bring them to justice.
“The show’s success was short-lived and production ended in 1963 after 114 episodes. Organised crime did not feature again on television until J. Edgar Hoover granted permission for FBI, another Quinn Martin production, in 1965.” - from “CULT TV. The Essential Critical Guide” by Jon E. Lewis, Penny Stempel, 1993.