do you think "Hill Street Blues" can top "The Untouchables" from Desilu studio's? it was also in B&W, like Twilight Zone it would never have worked in color. i haven't seen re-runs of The Untouchables since the 60's.
I have seen the "Untouchables" many times since the 60s...and I really think that is wasn't as great as we remember, and it got worse as it ran.....especially after whatever Italian-American group it was that started all that dramatic nonsense about the show showing Italian-Americans in less than a favorable light started...and it really hit the skids...
Robert Stack did his share though.....his acting portrayed the "gamut of human emotions from A to B"- and wasn't Stack of Italian heritage anyways?
Don't get me wrong- I am a huge "Untouchable" fan, and always will be. Great show for its time...it just really do all that well in the "test of time"...and, for my money, it would have been "the pits" in color...
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Untouchables was one of those shows I liked as a young kid, but was a major disappointment when I saw it again as a young adult - it was repeated on a local Bay Area station in the mid 70s, and I had a roommate who watched it religiously every night.
It was cheaply produced with a lot of stock shots...I remember seeing the same 20s era truck blow up about a half dozen times in different episodes. The villains were always cliche cardboard cut-outs.
Walter Winchell's intros were great, though. While Stack's portrayl was wooden, it worked for the Ness character. Did you ever see Dan Aykroyd do his impression of Stack/Ness on the original SNL? Hysterical...
like i say i haven't seen it for a long time and i may or may not say the same thing if and when i see it again. by the way the theme music for the show was excellent, and yes Walter Winchell made the show.
