The Untouchables
The Nick Acropolis Story
TV Flash files “The Nick Acropolis Story” as hour 59 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 2, episode 31, aired 1961-06-01, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E31: listed hour 59 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 31 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1961-06-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The King of Champagne” (S02E30). Next is “90-Proof Dame” (S02E32).
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Nick Acropolis has created a vast network of bookies and is the king of the numbers racket in the greater Chicago area. His problems start when he discovers that Louis Manzak, his wife's brother and the manager of one his betting parlors, has skimmed $200,000 of the proceeds. Were it not for the family relationship, Nick would have had him killed but rather he gives Louis 48 hours to come with $50,000 as a down payment on what he owes. His sister lends him half of that amount but his attempt to borrow the rest from someone else leads to disaster.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Nick Acropolis Story sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S02E31 is listed hour 59 of 118 — hour 31 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 31.
When did The Untouchables S02E31 air?
The Nick Acropolis Story aired 1961-06-01 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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