The Untouchables
Murder Under Glass
TV Flash files “Murder Under Glass” as hour 50 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 2, episode 22, aired 1961-03-23, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E22: listed hour 50 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 22 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1961-03-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Lily Dallas Story” (S02E21). Next is “Testimony of Evil” (S02E23).
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With the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the end in sight for prohibition, Frank Nitti and the Chicago mob have been shifting from alcohol to narcotics as their primary source of income. When their supply dries up, Nitti travels to New Orleans to meet with their supplier, Emile Bouchard, whose original shipment of drugs was hijacked but is expecting another any day. Nitti warns him that there better not be any foul-ups with this shipment but it soon becomes clear that Bouchard has plans of his own and is out to get a percentage of the mob's total income.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Murder Under Glass sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S02E22 is listed hour 50 of 118 — hour 22 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 22.
When did The Untouchables S02E22 air?
Murder Under Glass aired 1961-03-23 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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