The BEST episodes of The Untouchables (1993)
Every episode of The Untouchables (1993) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Untouchables (1993)!
Eliot Ness, disgusted with the widespread criminality that Al Capone has brought to his home town, Chicago, and inspired by the example of his brother-in-law, Alexander Jamie, a federal law enforcement officer, becomes a government investigator himself, and puts together a special squad specifically dedicated to putting Capone behind bars.
#1 - Deal with the Devil
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1993
The head of a local worker's union that's on strike is approached by Capone, who offers him help in the battle for his union members' rights. Ness warns the man that offers from scheming Capone always come at a heavy price.
#6 - Capone's Return
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1993
Ness sees a chance in Capone's release to influence Nitti and take down the corrupt mayor.
#7 - Atlantic City
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/13/1993
Ness finds out that Capone is trying to form an alliance with the heads of the New York mafia, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky. He must do whatever it takes to stop this and some bad publicity in the press might help.
#8 - Halstead Holler
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/6/1993
There's a new player in town - the moonshiners. When they cut into Capone's profits, he has no intention of tolerating competition, but they won't back down either. Instead, they propose a one-on-one showdown at sunrise.
#9 - A Man's Home Is His Castle
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/23/1993
Capone breaks off with an unstable actress. Hurt and jaded, she begins to stalk him and his family.
#10 - Betrayal in Black and Tan
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/9/1993
When Capone tries to expand and take over the numbers racket (a form of illegal lottery) in Chicago's South Side, Ness has no choice but to make a temporary alliance with the current numbers kingpin there in order to stop Capone.
#11 - Pagano's Folly
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/25/1993
Ness helps one of his men, agent Tony Pagano, find his missing sister, who's been kidnapped by the Capone organization and forced into prostitution.
#12 - Pretty Boy Tommy Irish
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/1993
Capone orders Frank Nitti to sponsor a nice low-tier Irish boxer and family man Tommy Dolan. Dolan starts winning fight after fight, not realizing they're all fixed. The public loves him but Capone plans to cash in on him.
#13 - The Seduction of Eliot Ness
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/14/1993
Ness agrees to send one of his agents undercover to infiltrate the Capone organization. He realizes too late how dangerous the mission actually is.
#14 - A Tale of Two Fathers (2)
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/1993
In an effort to catch the child-killer as soon as possible, Ness agrees to a temporary alliance with Capone. However, Capone has no intentions of giving the killer up to the police. If he catches him first, he will kill him.
#15 - A Tale of Two Fathers (1)
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1993
The hunt for a serial killer who preys on children becomes Ness' priority for the time being. Ironically, Capone is also after him for his own reasons.
#16 - One Way Street
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/16/1993
Poor newsboy witness a mob hit, so Capone offers him money and a place in his crew to keep him quiet. He accepts, but things don't go so well for him.
#17 - pilot (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/1993
Capone and his allies start running the show and earning top dollar from booze smuggling. Ness becomes the head of the newly-formed Untouchables and he and his law-enforcement agents start working on Capone's downfall.
#19 - First Blood
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1993
Ness' team hits Capone's operations hard. One of the raids ends in a shootout and two civilians are killed in crossfire. This leaves Eliot worried that things might escalate out of control if the raids continue to be violent.
#20 - Railroaded
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1993
Nitti continues Capone's bootlegging operation. Meanwhile, Ness and Capone agree to a box match against each other.
#21 - pilot (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/1993
Childhoods of Al Capone, the future ambitious gangster who'll try to become the crime boss of the prohibition era Chicago, and Eliot Ness, the future head of "The Untouchables", a team of incorruptible agents formed to stop Capone.
#24 - Bury My Heart at Starved Rock
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1994
Capone has his hold over the businesses of a Native Americans tribe, but one of their younger members decides to rebel and hits one of Capone's banks. Ness' team tries to track the kid down first.