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COLLECTION · Series · 1959

The Lawless Years

The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months. The series stars James Gregory and Robert Karnes.

Source: TMDB
* 7.0 (2)CrimeDramaUnited States
Countries
United States
Studios
NBC · Jack Chertok Television Productions · California National Productions
Runtime
25–30 min/ep
Age rating
NR
Release
16/04/1959
Score
7.0 / 10 (2)
Where to watch
With ads
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
19 episodes · 1959
Episode 1. The Nick Joseph Story
1959-04-16 · 30 min

Detective Ruditsky relates the story of Nick Joseph, a small-time hood from Manhattan's Lower East Side, who rises from petty theft to become an ace contract killer for the syndicate's notorious Murder, Inc.

Episode 2. The Immigrant
1959-04-23 · 30 min

An immigrant woman tries to get Ruditsky to set her son on the straight and narrow. It seems as though he's been hanging around with a gang of hoodlums. Ruditsky gives it his best effort but it could be a tough sell.

Episode 3. The Jane Cooper Story
1959-04-30 · 26 min

Jane Cooper, recently paroled from prison, proves that she hasn't learned anything when she once again begins hanging around with underworld characters. Only this time it seems as though her mobster boyfriends keep dying off.

Episode 4. The Story Of Cutie Jaffe
1959-05-07 · 30 min

Cutie Jaffe, a small-time hood with big time ambitions, begins knocking over some of his brother-in-law's bootlegging trucks. Will Cutie rise in the underworld hierarchy or is he headed for a hard fall?

Episode 5. The Dutch Schultz Story
1959-05-14 · 30 min

Dutch Schultz wants to bump off special prosecutor Thomas Dewey who has been after him. The syndicate bigwigs deny him permission to make the hit but the Dutchman proceeds with his plans anyway.

Episode 6. The Lion And The Mouse
1959-05-21

Small time racketeer Eddie Safronek plots revenge against the hoods who beat him up and left him for dead.

Episode 7. No Fare
1959-05-28

The underworld bribes police detective Harry Kramer in order to get him to withhold information in a case.

Episode 8. The Payoff
1959-06-11

After a moll is found murdered, flashbacks tell her story and those of mobsters Tony Sappio and Big Ed Harper, who both loved not wisely but too well.

Episode 9. The Marie Walters Story
1959-06-18

The body of a murdered young woman is dragged from the Harlem River and the police ascertain that she was killed because she knew too much regarding the activities of a bootlegging gang. Ruditsky then becomes puzzled when the attorney of…

Episode 10. The Maxey Gorman Story
1959-06-25

Ex-convict Maxey Gorman gets a Machiavellian character named A.J. to finance his entry into the bootlegging business. The two men become partners but when the dough starts pouring in Maxie looks for a way to rid himself of A. J.

Episode 11. The Muddy Kasoff Story
1959-07-02

Muddy Kasoff has been renting automobiles for gangsters to use but he has been secretly tippin the cops. When the hoods discover that Muddy has been informing they have him killed. Ruditsky investigates and discovers that a cigar band…

Episode 12. Framed
1959-07-16

When Ruditsky can't be bribed by a waterfront crime gang they attempt to frame him by making it look like he's on the take.

Episode 13. Four the Hard Way
1959-07-23

Ruditsky warns visiting high roller Big Ziggy to get out of town but before he can hit the road he get roped into a crooked poker game with three cardsharps.

Episode 14. The Tony Morelli Story
1959-07-30 · 25 min

Dick Wilson (2) as Game Boy Miles | Harry Arnie as Benny | Brad Trumbull (2) as O'Neill | Lou Herbert as Titanic Thompson | Jack Kruschen as Laughing Boy | John Vivyan as Big Ziggy

Episode 15. The Ray Baker Story
1959-08-06

At a wild gangland party a young girl falls out of a window and is killed. When evidence shows that the girl was pushed, visiting Chicago mobster Ray Baker is arrested and charged with the crime. But Ruditsky has his doubts and thinks…

Episode 16. The Story of Lucky Silva
1959-08-13

ucky Silva is a small-time hood who by a combination of circumstance, ambition, and drive rises quickly to a position of prominence in New York's Mafia.

Episode 17. The Morrison Story
1959-08-20

A judge is murdered right before a state crime commission is scheduled to take a look into his activities.

Episode 18. The Poison Ivy Story
1959-08-27

Ruditsky is temporarily assigned to duty in a Brooklyn precinct and must get the goods on a gang of hooligans who are pulling off a series of drug store robberies.

Episode 19. The Prantera Story
1959-09-03

No synopsis

Season 2
9 episodes · 1959
Episode 1. The Al Brown Story
1959-10-01

When a young hoodlum named Al Brown destroys a blind man's shop it puts Ruditsky on his trail. But it will be under another name in another city that Brown becomes notorious.

Episode 2. The Big Greeny Story
1959-10-08 · 25 min

When the trail of a murdered garment factor owner leads back to the notorious Lepke Buchalter he sends the htman responsible, Big Greeny, to stay in Los Angeles under the auspices of the equally notorious Bugsy Siegal.

Episode 3. The Art Harris Story
1959-10-15 · 30 min

Ruditsky goes after Art Harris, a racketeer who's muscled his way into the political scene in order to protect his organized crime interests.

Episode 4. The Billy Boy 'Rockabye' Creel Story
1959-11-05

Mob boss Bobo Konig puts a bounty of $50,000 on psychotic gunman Billy Boy Creel who immediately goes underground. Ruditsky then tries to find Billy Boy before Konig's killers do.

Episode 5. The Big Man
1959-11-12 · 25 min

Gangster Louis Otto was once a childhood friend of Ruditsky's. Now he's wanted for the murder of an underling.

Episode 6. The Joe Angelo Story
1959-11-19 · 30 min

A former union trucker who now owns a candy store is pressured by the Mob to leave New York City because he knows too much about their past labor racketeering activities. When he refuses to leave the city, the Mob bumps him off. The man's…

Episode 7. The Billy Grimes Story
1959-12-03 · 30 min

Shortly after busting up a numbers racket, Ruditsky finds himself the target of a person or persons unknown.

Episode 8. The Sonny Rosen Story
1959-12-17 · 25 min

The Mob kidnaps the son of a millionaire and holds him for a ransom of $100,000. Or did they?

Episode 9. The Pantera Story

No synopsis

Season 3
20 episodes · 1961
Episode 1. The Jack 'Legs' Diamond Story
1961-05-12

No synopsis

Episode 2. The Sonny Rosen Story II
1961-05-19

No synopsis

Episode 3. Louy K: Part 1
1961-05-26

No synopsis

Episode 4. Louy K: Part 2 Sing Sing
1961-06-02

No synopsis

Episode 5. Louy K: Part 3 Birth of the Organization
1961-06-09

No synopsis

Episode 6. Louy K: Part 4 Heydays of the Organization
1961-06-16

No synopsis

Episode 7. Louy K: Part 5 the Disintegration
1961-06-23

No synopsis

Episode 8. The Miles Miller Story
1961-06-30

No synopsis

Episode 9. The Kid Dropper Story
1961-07-07

No synopsis

Episode 10. Ginny
1961-07-14

No synopsis

Episode 11. Little Augie
1961-07-21

No synopsis

Episode 12. The Mad Dog Coll Story (1)
1961-07-28

No synopsis

Episode 13. The Mad Dog Coll Story (2)
1961-08-04

No synopsis

Episode 14. Blood Brothers
1961-08-11

No synopsis

Episode 15. The Vincent Gordia Story
1961-08-18

No synopsis

Episode 16. Artie Moon
1961-08-25

No synopsis

Episode 17. Triple Cross
1961-09-01

No synopsis

Episode 18. The Jonathan Wills Story
1961-09-08

No synopsis

Episode 19. Romeo and Rose
1961-09-15

No synopsis

Episode 20. Ike, the Novelty King
1961-09-22

No synopsis

Cast by season
Robert Karnes
Robert Karnes
Max Fields
James Gregory
James Gregory
Barney Ruditsky
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