The Untouchables
The White Slavers
TV Flash files “The White Slavers” as hour 22 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 1, episode 22, aired 1960-03-10, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E22: listed hour 22 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 22 of 28 in season 1. It aired 1960-03-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Unhired Assassin (2)” (S01E21). Next is “Three Thousand Suspects” (S01E23).
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The sadistic head of a prostitution ring tries to get a former madam to help him with his operation. Only she decides to work with Eliot Ness instead
Viewer FAQ
Where does The White Slavers sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S01E22 is listed hour 22 of 118 — hour 22 of 28 in season 1, season 1 episode 22.
When did The Untouchables S01E22 air?
The White Slavers aired 1960-03-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Stack's Ness and Winchell's newsreel bark in early Chicago-raid form. The granite stare and the tommy-gun morality are the brief.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Untouchables is Eliot Ness versus Capone's Chicago: Robert Stack's granite stare, Walter Winchell's newsreel bark, Desilu muscle, machine-gun morality in sharp suits. Watch it in 2026 as violent prestige crime that pushed 1950s network boundaries — raids as spectacle, and a national argument about blood and stereotype.
The work is a raid with newsreel grammar. ABC's *The Untouchables* (1959–1963) makes Robert Stack's granite stare into crime-drama law: 118 episodes, four seasons, Eliot Ness and an incorruptible squad, Walter Winchell's rat-a-tat narration, Desilu production gloss, machine-gun morality in sharp suits. Loosely inspired by Ness's Prohibition-era memoir. Quinn Martin's later crime empire would refine the procedural; this was the loud opening statement. Justice came in fedoras and final shootouts.
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