The Untouchables
The Underground Court
TV Flash files “The Underground Court” as hour 46 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 2, episode 18, aired 1961-02-16, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E18: listed hour 46 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 18 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1961-02-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Augie "the Banker" Ciamino” (S02E17). Next is “The Nick Moses Story” (S02E19).
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Mobster Valentine Ferrar thinks he has the perfect way to steal $1,000,000 of the syndicate's money. When a passenger liner returning from Cuba catches fire off the New Jersey coast, he fakes his death and sends his underling to the Underground Court, the mob's court of law, to tell them he drowned. They are soon on his trail however so when he meets up with a kooky widow, Hannah Wagnall, they set off on what she calls a second honeymoon. What he doesn't realize is that Wagnall has her own plans and that she's gone on these second honeymoons before.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Underground Court sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S02E18 is listed hour 46 of 118 — hour 18 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 18.
When did The Untouchables S02E18 air?
The Underground Court aired 1961-02-16 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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