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Boxcars711 Saturday Matinee - The Untouchables "The Empty Chair" (10-15-59)
Boxcars711 Old Time Radio
English - August 12, 2007 00:33 - 49 minutes - 11.3 MB - ★★★★ - 74 ratingsKids & Family Comedy westerns adventure comedy detective drama otr radio suspense theater western Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This show was based on the life of real treasury dept. gangbuster Eliot Ness, who had in fact played an important part in stopping the power of the notorious Al Capone in 1931 Chicago. The Ness autobiography served as the basis of a two-part semidocumentary dramatization of the Capone affair, presented on a 1959 Desilu Playhouse. It was a huge hit that turned into a regular series the next fall. It followed Ness and his small band of incorruptible agents (called the "Untouchables" by a Chicago newspaper) as they battled the worst people in organized crime. (Ness had in real life disbanded the Untouchables after cracking the Capone case, and had nothing to do with most of the cases dramatized on TV.) The Untouchables went after hoods like Bugs Moran, in whose garage the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place.