The BEST episodes of The Untouchables (1993) season 1

Every episode of The Untouchables (1993) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Untouchables (1993) season 1!

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.

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#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.

Writer: Jack Thibeau
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#2 - 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.

Directors: John McPherson
Writer: Steve Bello
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#3 - 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.

Directors: Vern Gillum
Writer: Jack Thibeau
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#4 - 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.

Directors: John Nicolella
Writer: Jack Thibeau
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#5 - 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.

Directors: Mario DiLeo
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#6 - 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.

Directors: John McPherson
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#7 - 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.

Directors: Colin Bucksey
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#8 - 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.

Directors: John Nicolella
Writer: Jack Thibeau
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#9 - 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.

Directors: Colin Bucksey
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#10 - 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.

Directors: Steve De Jarnatt
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#11 - 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.

Directors: Steve De Jarnatt
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#12 - Murder Ink (2)

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1993

Lingle, the sleazy journalist Ness used to feed Capone with false information about Ness' operations, is found dead. Ness is adamant to find the perpetrators. What he uncovers is a web of corruption.

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#13 - 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.

Directors: Eric Laneuville
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#14 - Murder Ink (1)

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1993

Ness uses a sleazy journalist to feed Capone with false information about his team's actions.

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#15 - 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.

Directors: Aaron Lipstadt
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#16 - 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.

Directors: Eric Laneuville
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#17 - Chinatown

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/21/1993

Capone's unwilling Chinese mistress, whom he bought for himself from her father, witnesses Capone committing a murder. Now all Chicago is after her and Ness must find her first.

Directors: John Nicolella
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#18 - Framed

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/2/1993

One of Ness' men, agent Michael Malone, is found drunk with a gun used to kill a mobster. Ness doesn't believe that Malone is guilty of this murder, but Capone wants him dead anyway.

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