The Untouchables
Line of Fire
TV Flash files “Line of Fire” as hour 117 of 118 in the TV Flash guide — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 4, episode 29, aired 1963-05-14, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E29: listed hour 117 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, hour 29 of 30 in season 4. It aired 1963-05-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Torpedo” (S04E28). Next is “A Taste for Pineapple” (S04E30).
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When one of Marty Pulaski's dance hall girls is shot by a sniper just outside his nightclub, he automatically assumes that his main rival, Vince Bogan, is responsible. Bogan controls most of the 10 cent dance halls in Chicago, but there has been peace between the two, mostly because of mobster Janos 'Jake' Szabo. Marty loses his temper and kills Bogan which Szabo is willing to forgive, if Bogan really ordered the killing. When a second girl is killed, it becomes obvious that someone else is behind the killing and Marty tries to protect himself and his brother Herbie.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Line of Fire sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S04E29 is listed hour 117 of 118 — hour 29 of 30 in season 4, season 4 episode 29.
When did The Untouchables S04E29 air?
Line of Fire aired 1963-05-14 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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