The Untouchables
The Seventh Vote
TV Flash files “The Seventh Vote” as hour 57 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 2, episode 29, aired 1961-05-18, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E29: listed hour 57 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 29 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1961-05-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Nero Rankin Story” (S02E28). Next is “The King of Champagne” (S02E30).
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After Al Capone is imprisoned for tax evasion, he leaves his Chicago operation in the hands of a governing council. There are two factions however, one headed by Frank Nitti and the other by Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik, and they can't agree on anything. To resolve the deadlock, Capone asks his mentor, known only as Kafka, to return to the U.S.A. and take over the management of his organization. Kafka was deported 11 years previously and now lives in the Orient and Nitti and Guzik hire Alexander Stavro to ensure that Kafka entry is uneventful.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Seventh Vote sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S02E29 is listed hour 57 of 118 — hour 29 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 29.
When did The Untouchables S02E29 air?
The Seventh Vote aired 1961-05-18 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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- Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti
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