The Untouchables
Pressure
TV Flash files “Pressure” as hour 86 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 3, episode 26, aired 1962-06-14, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E26: listed hour 86 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 26 of 28 in season 3. It aired 1962-06-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Contract” (S03E25). Next is “Arsenal” (S03E27).
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With the end of Prohibition, gangsters have now focused on the drug trade. A New York-based syndicate known as the Big Six, long established in the illegal drug business, visit drug distributor Louis 'The Bear' Madikoff in Chicago who has had his recent shipments to Lucky Luciano in New York picked off by Eliot Ness and his agents. Madikoff is convinced that fellow Chicago drug dealer Mike Pavanos is responsible for feeding Ness with information so he sets out to even the score. It turns out however that Madikoff's son Danny is dating Pavano's daughter Francie.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pressure sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S03E26 is listed hour 86 of 118 — hour 26 of 28 in season 3, season 3 episode 26.
When did The Untouchables S03E26 air?
Pressure aired 1962-06-14 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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