The Lawless Years Season 1

April. 16,1959      NR
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis

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.

Episode 19 : The Prantera Story
September. 03,1959
Episode 18 : The Poison Ivy Story
August. 27,1959
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.
Episode 17 : The Morrison Story
August. 20,1959
A judge is murdered right before a state crime commission is scheduled to take a look into his activities.
Episode 16 : The Story of Lucky Silva
August. 13,1959
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.
Episode 15 : The Ray Baker Story
August. 06,1959
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.
Episode 14 : The Tony Morelli Story
July. 30,1959
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
Episode 13 : Four the Hard Way
July. 23,1959
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.
Episode 12 : Framed
July. 16,1959
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.
Episode 11 : The Muddy Kasoff Story
July. 02,1959
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.
Episode 10 : The Maxey Gorman Story
June. 25,1959
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.
Episode 9 : The Marie Walters Story
June. 18,1959
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.
Episode 8 : The Payoff
June. 11,1959
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.
Episode 7 : No Fare
May. 28,1959
The underworld bribes police detective Harry Kramer in order to get him to withhold information in a case.
Episode 6 : The Lion And The Mouse
May. 21,1959
Small time racketeer Eddie Safronek plots revenge against the hoods who beat him up and left him for dead.
Episode 5 : The Dutch Schultz Story
May. 14,1959
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.
Episode 4 : The Story Of Cutie Jaffe
May. 07,1959
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?
Episode 3 : The Jane Cooper Story
April. 30,1959
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.
Episode 2 : The Immigrant
April. 23,1959
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.
Episode 1 : The Nick Joseph Story
April. 16,1959
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.

Seasons

Season 3
Season 3 1961
Season 2
Season 2 1959
Season 1
Season 1 1959

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