The Untouchables - Season 1 - Eps 11: You Can't Pick the Number
Chicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The only chance some people felt they had to rise out of poverty, if only for a short time, was to win the lottery or at the punch-boards. The mob saw this as an opportunity, by coming up with a numbers game. People picked a number from 0-999; their odds of winning were 1-in-a-1,000-- the payoff was 600-to-1. The thousands of losers, pouring money into the mob, were never mentioned.
About The Untouchables
Title: The Untouchables
First Air Date: 1959-10-15
Last Air Date: 1963-05-21
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.861/10 (from 119 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 118
Network: ABC
Genres: Drama, Crime
Production Companies: Desilu Productions, Langford Productions
Synopsis
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Cast
Robert Stack
Eliot Ness
Nicholas Georgiade
Enrico Rossi
Steve London
Jack Rossman
Paul Picerni
Lee Hobson
Abel Fernandez
William Youngfellow
Walter Winchell
Narrator
