S02 E02:    Jack 'Legs' Diamond - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝗼𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘀𝘀 "𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸". Working in the New York area, Eliot Ness and his men are trying to trace an incoming shipment of narcotics. Some years before, mobster and nightclub owner Jack "Legs" Diamond spent time in Europe and he made a deal with a Greek crime family to buy $5 million worth of narcotics. Diamond is flamboyant and loves publicity but his partners, Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, want him to lay low for a while and they send him off to his cabin in the Catskills. When Diamond learns that they have gone ahead with the drug deal without informing him, he assumes they're trying to .. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.   The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network.   Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized experiences of Eliot Ness as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables.   The book was later made into a celebrated film in 1987 by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet, and a second, less-successful TV series in 1993.    A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a landmark television crime series, The Untouchables won series star Robert Stack the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960.   Chicago, 1930, time of the prohibition.  And it is the great time for the organized crime, the so called Mafia.   One of the big bosses is Al Capone.   He is the best know but at least, he was only one in a dirty game of sex, crime and corruption.    People are willing to pay any price to drink alcohol, and sometimes it is their life they have to pay with.   Special agent Eliot Ness and his team are trying to defeat the alcohol Mafia, but in this job, you don't have any friends.    Stars Robert Stack, Walter Winchell, Nicholas Georgiade and many other fine actors.   Trivia:  Walter Winchell received a reported $25,000 per episode for his narration on this series. With his signature machine gun dialogue delivery, he could apparently rack up almost 200 words per minute.   According to testimony from Aladena Fratianno, (Jimmy the Weasel), a Mafia boss-turned-FBI informant, the Chicago family of the Mafia ordered the assassination of producer Desi Arnaz, because they didn't like (a) the fact that the success of the show was focusing attention on the Mafia and the show's portrayal of Italians. Fratianno said that two hitmen hid themselves near Arnaz's house one night waiting for him to show up, but he never did. Shortly afterwards, the assassination order was rescinded when it was realized that Arnaz's murder would cause the Mafia more trouble than it was worth.   Robert Stack (Eliot Ness) and Walter Winchell (Narrator) are the only actors to appear in all 119 episodes of the series. In the early 1950s, "Desilu Productions" was prohibited from using the word "pregnant" on network television.    At the end of the decade, when this series was produced, although euphemisms were often used, the word "prostitution" was used numerous times in the series.   In the series, Eliot Ness was portrayed as an FBI. Special Agent, but, in reality, was a Treasury Department Agent.