UNTOUCHABLES, THE (1959-63) TV photo archive

The Untouchables. 1959-1963. Photos. [Los Angeles]: ABC-TV / Desilu Productions, 1959-1963. Set of 29 vintage original black-and-white photos, of which one is 5 5/8 x 7 7/8″, seventeen are 7 x 9″ (18 x 23 cm), and eleven are 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm). Five have date stamps on verso, and eighteen have printed promotional text affixed. Old photo agency stickers on verso, overall near fine or better.

The Untouchables is a crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC television network. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalizes the experiences of Ness as a Prohibition agent fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables.

A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama and a landmark television crime series, The Untouchables won series star Robert Stack the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960. The Untouchables has spawned numerous imitators over the decades. (Wikipedia)