The Untouchables
A Taste for Pineapple
TV Flash files “A Taste for Pineapple” as a desk essential hour — The Untouchables (1959–1963) on ABC, season 4, episode 30, aired 1963-05-21, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E30: listed hour 118 of 118 in the The Untouchables guide, last listed hour of season 4. It aired 1963-05-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Line of Fire” (S04E29). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “A Taste for Pineapple”. A Taste for Pineapple closes 1963: last named Ness hour, granite and newsreel packed away after four seasons of raid-as-prestige.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When racketeer Danny Mundt decides the time has come to get rid of Eliot Ness, he hires hit man Elroy Daldran. During World War I, Elroy had developed a taste for killing and he saw no reason to stop doing what he liked just because the war was over. His first attempt to get Ness - he tosses a grenade into his passing car - isn't entirely successful. Ness manages to jump out of the car before the grenade explodes but when he regains consciousness, he finds that he is blind.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Taste for Pineapple sit in the The Untouchables guide?
S04E30 is listed hour 118 of 118 — last listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 30.
When did The Untouchables S04E30 air?
A Taste for Pineapple aired 1963-05-21 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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