Robert Karnes
Max Fields
The Lawless Years (1959)
Season 1
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.
Released April 16, 1959
Episode 25 min
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Keywords: tmdb.new-york-city, tmdb.organized-crime, tmdb.police-detective, tmdb.1920s, imdb.police, imdb.new-york-city, awards.emmy-award-nominated
Production Companies: Jack Chertok Television Productions, California National Productions, NBC
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Nick Joseph Story
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.
April 16, 1959, midnight
S1E2 - The Immigrant
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.
April 23, 1959, midnight
S1E3 - The Jane Cooper Story
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.
April 30, 1959, midnight
S1E4 - The Story Of Cutie Jaffe
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?
May 7, 1959, midnight
S1E5 - The Dutch Schultz Story
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.
May 14, 1959, midnight
S1E6 - The Lion And The Mouse
Small time racketeer Eddie Safronek plots revenge against the hoods who beat him up and left him for dead.
May 21, 1959, midnight
S1E7 - No Fare
The underworld bribes police detective Harry Kramer in order to get him to withhold information in a case.
May 28, 1959, midnight
S1E8 - The Payoff
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.
June 11, 1959, midnight
S1E9 - The Marie Walters Story
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 the chief suspect insists on going to trial as quickly as possible.
June 18, 1959, midnight
S1E10 - The Maxey Gorman Story
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.
June 25, 1959, midnight
S1E11 - The Muddy Kasoff Story
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 might be an important clue.
July 2, 1959, midnight
S1E12 - Framed
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.
July 16, 1959, midnight
S1E13 - Four the Hard Way
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.
July 23, 1959, midnight
S1E14 - The Tony Morelli Story
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
July 30, 1959, midnight
S1E15 - The Ray Baker Story
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 that the real culprit might be another mobster.
Aug. 6, 1959, midnight
S1E16 - The Story of Lucky Silva
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.
Aug. 13, 1959, midnight
S1E17 - The Morrison Story
A judge is murdered right before a state crime commission is scheduled to take a look into his activities.
Aug. 20, 1959, midnight
S1E18 - The Poison Ivy Story
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.
Aug. 27, 1959, midnight
S1E19 - The Prantera Story
Sept. 3, 1959, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 25 min.
Season Runtime: 25 min.
Released: April 16, 1959
Last Air Date: Sept. 22, 1961, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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