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oa © - » sev. 1-28-59) Crime Series. Starts Fast By CYNTHIA LOWRY . Associated Press TV-Radio Critts ; NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (AP) — INostalgie, being a popular ztheme, “The Untouchables,” an i hour-long crime-fighter series which started on ABC last night’ pis a good, commercial premise -for a show. The idea of the series is to take a band of Federal agents and turn them to cleaning up just about all the prohibition era crime. The opening show concerned itself—more or less factually—with the struggle to fill Al Capone’s chair when the big man went to prison for in- come tax evasion. In the course _of it, real names of dead hoods jwere dropped in among the fictitious ones. a It was a smooth, fast-paced show with considerable vio- . . Tolson a Belmont - DeLoac pw McGuire Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter W.C. Sullivan — Tele. Room Holloman Gandy N lence. There was some fjusti- _ ‘N ,{fication for the violence be-. N ‘cause the Chicago of the prohi-! ‘ ‘bition ear was frequently the \ scene of machine gun and pistol — play . Nehemiah Persoff, as the ‘. ~ ba) gang bookkeeper, turned in an u ‘\ tespecially effective perform- ance. : Robert Stack played Eliot: The Washington Post and Ness, fictional leader of—z) Times Herald quote from a network publicity release—"a band of incorru- The Washington Datly News —_ -tible (“amtouchable”) Federal The Evening Star 42°. : By the tans we are at mid- Now York Herald Tribune season with the show, I sus- New York Journal-American pect it will begin to strain our M credulity that one Federal man New York Mirror gets all the meaty assignments. 7 New York Daily News we Putt ae are phate show biz: a New York Post a te: ‘you've go’ ave something} = -— si - _— to tle a series together. Next ‘The Now York Times . . week, they'll bring te Barker ' ‘The Worker vs , and her bad boys to justice. ; : One drawback to the show |The New Leader we dis its enormous number. of Cayce i fe, aw ghhe Wall Street Journal * ° “el Psponsors.*< ‘The ‘commercials 2. rn ‘Date — emer turned up 80 often they in- terfered with the continuity’. : _ | FES 2st . S vo j ON -