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The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
The Untouchables
is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the
ABC
Television Network, produced by
Desilu Productions
. Based on the
memoir of the same name
by
Eliot Ness
and
Oscar Fraley
, it fictionalized Ness' experiences as a
Prohibition agent
, fighting crime in
Chicago
in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility, nicknamed
the Untouchables
. The book was later made into a film in 1987 (also called
The Untouchables
) by
Brian De Palma
, with a script by
David Mamet
, and a
second less-successful TV series
in 1993.
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