The Untouchables
Takeover
TV Flash files “Takeover” as hour 77 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 3, episode 17, aired 1962-03-01, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E17: listed hour 77 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 17 of 28 in season 3. It aired 1962-03-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Death Tree” (S03E16). Next is “The Stryker Brothers” (S03E18).
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The demand for real beer goes unabated and Charlie Zenko tries to consolidate his control of the North side of Chicago. He arranges for brew master Franz Koenig to get a visit from Eliot Ness. At his trial however, Koenig is saved when a stranger, Leo Mencken, provides him with the alibi he needs. Soon Koenig and Mencken are partners and are using Mencken's unique way of temporarily masking the re-alcoholization of the beer they produce.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Takeover sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S03E17 is listed hour 77 of 118 — hour 17 of 28 in season 3, season 3 episode 17.
When did The Untouchables S03E17 air?
Takeover aired 1962-03-01 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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- Paul Picerni as Agent Youngfellow
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- Bruce Gordon as Frank Nitti
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