The Untouchables
The Monkey Wrench
TV Flash files “The Monkey Wrench” as the last listed hour of season 3 — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 3, episode 28, aired 1962-07-05, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E28: listed hour 88 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, last listed hour of season 3. It aired 1962-07-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Arsenal” (S03E27). Next is “The Night They Shot Santa Claus” (S04E01).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The mobsters are fighting among themselves for greater control of the beer market and Frank Nitti thinks he has the perfect solution. He is smuggling German brew masters into the United States and as a result, is making a far superior product than his competitors. This doesn't sit well with the New York mob, particularly Joe Kulic who decides to do something about it. He hires enforcer Karl Hansa, a bit of a madman, to infiltrate Nitti's operation and shut it down.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Monkey Wrench sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S03E28 is listed hour 88 of 118 — last listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 28.
When did The Untouchables S03E28 air?
The Monkey Wrench aired 1962-07-05 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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