Just being curious: have you watched the 1959 series “The Untouchables”: It’s great fun to watch, but from the “realism” point of view it’s a complete joke: the “good guys” spend the whole time smashing illegal distilleries’ doors with their car and breaking alcohol-producing equipment: the bootleggers always shoot at them and heroically die, when they could just get off with a fine for prohibition offenses. WItnesses die one after another and nobody bothers to protect them, and all this is for putting somebody in prison for 1-2 years for prohibition offenses or other minor crimes.

And the villains…. Even in Disney cartoons they look more serious and threatening than in this series. Remember Al Capone in the pilot episode?

I am the great Al Capone! I whacked Colosimo, Genna, Drucci, O’Banion!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Outfit leadership at the table: MWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Al Capone (suddenly changing face expression): EH!!!!!
The Outfit leadership suddenly stops laughing and changes their face expressions to that of fear.

And the "Artichoke king" episode: after that, I can't take Ciro Terranova's character seriously anymore, they painted him like almost a good guy abused by underlings; he whacks them and then is abused in the same manner by the hitman he used to whack the previous blackmailer.

That scene with the hired robbers stealing back the contract: take your jackets and the trousers off!

Terranova: I won't take the trousers off.
Leading robber: for you, we will make an exception then.
Felix Burke, target of the robbery: TWO exceptions then!
(why Felix and not Fred, I wonder?)

They even had an episode on the Detroit Purple gang.

The producers of that show were I love Lucy's Lucy and Desi a Desilu production.

I think Robert Stack was on the US Olympic team for shooting.

Love the music and all the tommy gun action.

I saw most of those episodes.

I kept hoping Capone will kill Ness.

Could somebody please post a link to the correct order of the episodes (if such a list exists)? Because the order they aired which is present on wikipedia and the DVDs is obviously different from the chronological sequence of events: for example, at the end of the first season Frank Nitti dies, but in later seasons he is alive in some episodes, which therefore must be placed before the end of the first season.

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