The Untouchables (1993 TV series)

The Untouchables
Genre	Crime drama
Starring	Tom Amandes William Forsythe
Composer(s)	Joel Goldsmith
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	42 (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Tim Iacofano Frederick J. Lyle
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	45–48 minutes
Production company(s)	Paramount Television
Distributor	Paramount Television CBS Paramount Domestic Television
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndication
Original run	January 11, 1993 (1993-01-11) – May 22, 1994 (1994-05-22)

The Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the market in bootleg liquor.

The series features Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness and William Forsythe as Al Capone, and was based on the 1987 film of the same name.

Synopsis

As in the 1987 film version, Ness is depicted as an agent of the US Treasury Department, though, in real life, at the time of the Capone investigation, the Bureau of Prohibition, Ness' employer, was part of the Department of Justice.

Not as successful as the original 1959 series starring Robert Stack, this series only lasted two seasons.

Cast and characters

Actor	Character
Tom Amandes	Agent Eliot Ness
William Forsythe	Al Capone
John Rhys-Davies	Agent Michael Malone
Paul Regina	Frank Nitti
David James Elliott	Agent Paul Robbins
John Haymes Newton	Agent Tony Pagano
Michael Horse	Agent George Steelman

Episodes

Main article: List of The Untouchables (1993 TV series) episodes

Further reading

• Tucker, Kenneth. Eliot Ness and the Untouchables: The Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-7864-0772-7

External links

• The Untouchables at the Internet Movie Database
• The Untouchables at TV.com
• The Untouchables at epguides.com