The Untouchables
Jack "Legs" Diamond
TV Flash files “Jack "Legs" Diamond” as a desk essential hour — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 2, episode 2, aired 1960-10-20, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 30 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 2 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1960-10-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Rusty Heller Story” (S02E01). Next is “Nicky” (S02E03).
Essential hour: “Jack "Legs" Diamond”. Jack "Legs" Diamond: titled outlaw hour, sharp-suit crime still selling raids as the living room's forbidden western.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Working in the New York area, Eliot Ness and his men are trying to trace an incoming shipment of narcotics. Some years before, mobster and nightclub owner Jack "Legs" Diamond spent time in Europe and he made a deal with a Greek crime family to buy $5 million worth of narcotics. Diamond is flamboyant and loves publicity but his partners, Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, want him to lay low for a while and they send him off to his cabin in the Catskills.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Jack "Legs" Diamond sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 30 of 118 — hour 2 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did The Untouchables S02E02 air?
Jack "Legs" Diamond aired 1960-10-20 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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