The Untouchables
The Otto Frick Story
TV Flash files “The Otto Frick Story” as hour 38 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 2, episode 10, aired 1960-12-22, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E10: listed hour 38 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 10 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1960-12-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Larry Fay Story” (S02E09). Next is “The Tommy Karpeles Story” (S02E11).
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Otto Frick is a drug dealer with a traveling group of distributors. Ness and his men trace his supply chain to a book shop whose owner regularly visits the German Consulate in New York. Ness soon realizes that the Nazis are supplying Frick and that one of its agents, Walter Messlinger, is the point of contact. What Ness doesn't yet realize is that Messlinger wants Frick's experience as a hood to start using Nazi strong-arm tactics against local citizens.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Otto Frick Story sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S02E10 is listed hour 38 of 118 — hour 10 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 10.
When did The Untouchables S02E10 air?
The Otto Frick Story aired 1960-12-22 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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