The Untouchables
Portrait of a Thief
TV Flash files “Portrait of a Thief” as hour 25 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 1, episode 25, aired 1960-04-07, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E25: listed hour 25 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 25 of 28 in season 1. It aired 1960-04-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Doreen Maney Story” (S01E24). Next is “Underworld Bank” (S01E26).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The president of a firm that distributes alcohol is connected to the mob and has been swindling his company for years. But then the mob turns on him
Viewer FAQ
Where does Portrait of a Thief sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S01E25 is listed hour 25 of 118 — hour 25 of 28 in season 1, season 1 episode 25.
When did The Untouchables S01E25 air?
Portrait of a Thief aired 1960-04-07 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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