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The Lawless Years(1959)

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First Air Date: 1959-04-16
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 48

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.

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new york cityorganized crimepolice detective1920s

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 19
E01
The Nick Joseph Story

Air Date: 1959-04-16

30m

Detective Ruditsky relates the story of Nick Joseph, a small-time hood from Manhattan's Lower East Side, who rises fr...

E02
The Immigrant

Air Date: 1959-04-23

30m

An immigrant woman tries to get Ruditsky to set her son on the straight and narrow. It seems as though he's been hang...

E03
The Jane Cooper Story

Air Date: 1959-04-30

26m

Jane Cooper, recently paroled from prison, proves that she hasn't learned anything when she once again begins hanging...

E04
The Story Of Cutie Jaffe

Air Date: 1959-05-07

30m

Cutie Jaffe, a small-time hood with big time ambitions, begins knocking over some of his brother-in-law's bootlegging...

E05
The Dutch Schultz Story

Air Date: 1959-05-14

30m

Dutch Schultz wants to bump off special prosecutor Thomas Dewey who has been after him. The syndicate bigwigs deny hi...

E06
The Lion And The Mouse

Air Date: 1959-05-21

N/A

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

E07
No Fare

Air Date: 1959-05-28

N/A

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

E08
The Payoff

Air Date: 1959-06-11

N/A

After a moll is found murdered, flashbacks tell her story and those of mobsters Tony Sappio and Big Ed Harper, who bo...

E09
The Marie Walters Story

Air Date: 1959-06-18

N/A

The body of a murdered young woman is dragged from the Harlem River and the police ascertain that she was killed beca...

E10
The Maxey Gorman Story

Air Date: 1959-06-25

N/A

Ex-convict Maxey Gorman gets a Machiavellian character named A.J. to finance his entry into the bootlegging business....

E11
The Muddy Kasoff Story

Air Date: 1959-07-02

N/A

Muddy Kasoff has been renting automobiles for gangsters to use but he has been secretly tippin the cops. When the hoo...

E12
Framed

Air Date: 1959-07-16

N/A

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...

E13
Four the Hard Way

Air Date: 1959-07-23

N/A

Ruditsky warns visiting high roller Big Ziggy to get out of town but before he can hit the road he get roped into a c...

E14
The Tony Morelli Story

Air Date: 1959-07-30

25m

Dick Wilson (2) as Game Boy Miles | Harry Arnie as Benny | Brad Trumbull (2) as O'Neill | Lou Herbert as Titanic Thom...

E15
The Ray Baker Story

Air Date: 1959-08-06

N/A

At a wild gangland party a young girl falls out of a window and is killed. When evidence shows that the girl was push...

E16
The Story of Lucky Silva

Air Date: 1959-08-13

N/A

ucky Silva is a small-time hood who by a combination of circumstance, ambition, and drive rises quickly to a position...

E17
The Morrison Story

Air Date: 1959-08-20

N/A

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

E18
The Poison Ivy Story

Air Date: 1959-08-27

N/A

Ruditsky is temporarily assigned to duty in a Brooklyn precinct and must get the goods on a gang of hooligans who are...

E19
The Prantera Story

Air Date: 1959-09-03

N/A

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Top Cast

Robert Karnes
Robert Karnes
Max Fields
James Gregory
James Gregory
Barney Ruditsky