The Lawless Years

*The Lawless Years*
The Lawless Years
Genre	Crime drama
Directed by	Allen H. Miner; James Neilson
Starring	James Gregory; Robert Karnes; John Vivyan
Theme music composer	Raoul Kraushaar; William Loose
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	47
Production
Producer	Jack Chertok
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	25 mins.
Production companies	Jack Chertok Television Productions; California National Productions
Distributor	NBC Films
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	April 16, 1959 –; September 22, 1961

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 during the Roaring 20s, having antedated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables by six months

Cast

Main

James Gregory as Barney Ruditsky
Robert Karnes as Max Fields
John Dennis as Dutch Schultz
Norman Alden as Lulu
Brad Trumbull as Brody
John Vivyan as Louis Buchalter
Stanley Adams as Gurrah
Carol Eve Rossen as Anna
Paul Richards as Louis 'Louy' Kassoff
Robert Ellenstein as Legs Diamond
Henry Corden as Wavey Gordon
Robert Sampson as Mad Dog Coll

Guest stars

Episodes

Season 1: Spring/Summer 1959

Nº	Ep	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"The Nick Joseph Story (pilot)"	Allen H. Miner	Jo Eisinger	April 16, 1959 (1959-04-16)
2	2	"The Immigrant"	Allen H. Miner	Jo Eisinger	April 23, 1959 (1959-04-23)
3	3	"The Jane Cooper Story"	Allen H. Miner	Peggy O'Shea & Lou Shaw	April 30, 1959 (1959-04-30)
4	4	"The Cutie Jaffe Story"	Allen H. Miner	Allen H. Miner Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	May 7, 1959 (1959-05-07)
5	5	"The Dutch Schultz Story"	Allen H. Miner	Jo Eisinger Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	May 14, 1959 (1959-05-14)
6	6	"The Lion and the Mouse"	Allen H. Miner	Allen H. Miner & Arthur E. Orloff	May 21, 1959 (1959-05-21)
7	7	"No Fare"	Allen H. Miner	John Meredyth Lucas	May 28, 1959 (1959-05-28)
8	8	"The Payoff"	Allen H. Miner	John Meredyth Lucas Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	June 11, 1959 (1959-06-11)
9	9	"The Marie Walters Story"	Allen H. Miner	Jo Eisinger	June 18, 1959 (1959-06-18)
10	10	"The Maxie Gorman Story"	Allen H. Miner	Jo Eisinger	June 25, 1959 (1959-06-25)
11	11	"The Muddy Kasoff Story"	Allen H. Miner	Jo Eisinger	July 2, 1959 (1959-07-02)
12	12	"Framed"	Allen H. Miner	Allen H. Miner Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	July 16, 1959 (1959-07-16)
13	13	"Four the Hard Way"	Allen H. Miner	Allen H. Miner	July 23, 1959 (1959-07-23)
14	14	"The Tony Morelli Story"	Allen H. Miner	Peggy O'Shea & Lou Shaw	July 30, 1959 (1959-07-30)
15	15	"The Ray Baker Story"	Allen H. Miner	Charles Larson	August 6, 1959 (1959-08-06)
16	16	"Lucky Silva"	Allen H. Miner	John Meredyth Lucas & Allen H. Miner Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	August 13, 1959 (1959-08-13)
17	17	"The Morrison Story"	Allen H. Miner	Jo Eisinger Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	August 20, 1959 (1959-08-20)
18	18	"The Poison Ivy Story"	Allen H. Miner	Allen H. Miner Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	August 27, 1959 (1959-08-27)
19	19	"The Prantera Story"	Allen H. Miner	Charles Larson Based on the Memoirs of: Barney Ruditsky	September 3, 1959 (1959-09-03)

Season 2: Fall 1959

Nº	Ep	Title	Original air date
20	1	"The Al Brown Story"	October 1, 1959 (1959-10-01)
21	2	"The Big Greeny Story"	October 8, 1959 (1959-10-08)
22	3	"The Art Harris Story"	October 15, 1959 (1959-10-15)
23	4	"The Billy Boy 'Rockabye' Creel Story"	November 5, 1959 (1959-11-05)
24	5	"The Big Man"	November 12, 1959 (1959-11-12)
25	6	"The Joe Angelo Story"	November 19, 1959 (1959-11-19)
26	7	"The Billy Grimes Story"	December 3, 1959 (1959-12-03)
27	8	"The Sonny Rosen Story"	December 17, 1959 (1959-12-17)

Season 3: Spring/Summer 1961

Nº	Ep	Title	Original air date
28	1	"The Jack 'Legs' Diamond Story"	May 12, 1961 (1961-05-12)
29	2	"The Sonny Rosen Story II"	May 19, 1961 (1961-05-19)
30	3	"Louy K, part one"	May 26, 1961 (1961-05-26)
31	4	"Louy K, part two: 'Sing Sing'"	June 2, 1961 (1961-06-02)
32	5	"Louy K, part three: 'Birth of the Organization'"	June 9, 1961 (1961-06-09)
33	6	"Louy K, part four: 'Heyday of the Organization'"	June 16, 1961 (1961-06-16)
34	7	"Louy K, part five: 'The Disintegration'"	June 23, 1961 (1961-06-23)
35	8	"The Miles Miller Story"	June 30, 1961 (1961-06-30)
36	9	"The Kid Dropper Story"	July 7, 1961 (1961-07-07)
37	10	"Ginny"	July 14, 1961 (1961-07-14)
38	11	"Little Augie"	July 21, 1961 (1961-07-21)
39	12	"The 'Mad Dog' Coll Story, part one"	July 28, 1961 (1961-07-28)
40	13	"The 'Mad Dog' Coll Story, part two"	August 4, 1961 (1961-08-04)
41	14	"Blood Brothers"	August 11, 1961 (1961-08-11)
42	15	"The Vincent Gorida Story"	August 18, 1961 (1961-08-18)
43	16	"Artie Moon"	August 25, 1961 (1961-08-25)
44	17	"Triple Cross"	September 1, 1961 (1961-09-01)
45	18	"The Jonathan Wills Story"	September 8, 1961 (1961-09-08)
46	19	"Romeo and Rose"	September 15, 1961 (1961-09-15)
47	20	"Ike, the Novelty King"	September 22, 1961 (1961-09-22)

References

External links

The Lawless Years at IMDb

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