The Lawless Years

The Lawless Years

1959
★★★★☆ 7.0/10
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 48 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
CrimeDrama
The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months. The series stars James Gregory and Robert Karnes.

Seasons

Season 1
1959 • 19 Episodes
Detective Ruditsky relates the story of Nick Joseph, a small-time hood from Manhattan's Lower East Side, who rises from petty theft to become an ace contract killer for the syndicate's notorious Murder, Inc.
Season 2
1959 • 9 Episodes
When a young hoodlum named Al Brown destroys a blind man's shop it puts Ruditsky on his trail. But it will be under another name in another city that Brown becomes notorious.
Season 3
1961 • 20 Episodes

Crew

Producer
Jack Chertok

Network

NBC

Production

Jack Chertok Television Productions, California National Productions, NBC

Keywords

new york cityorganized crimepolice detective1920s