The Untouchables (1959)

02x20 The Antidote

Mid-October 1932. The nation's attention is on the election campaign between incumbent president Herbert Hoover and his opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is crippled by polio.  With Prohibition still the law of the land, the government is looking for ways to denature alcohol, which legitimate manufactures need for industrial purposes (making perfumes, etc).  Should the alcohol fall into the wrong hands, if it was denatured, it would be useless to bootleggers. Eliot Ness and his Untouchables, along with top Federal agents from all over the country, attend an important meeting in Washington, DC.  The Speaker says that since the beginning of Prohibition, all alcohol produced under government license has had one of various denaturants added to it: pyridine, methanol, etc.  But the Underworld has always found a way to renature the alcohol. The Speaker is happy to announce that the government chemists in his Department have finally come up with a denaturant for which there is no Antidot

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Robert Stack Robert Stack As: Eliot Ness
Paul Picerni Paul Picerni As: Lee Hobson
Steve London Steve London As: Jack Rossman
Walter Winchell Walter Winchell As: Narrator
Abel Fernandez Abel Fernandez As: William Youngfellow
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Mid-October 1932. The nation's attention is on the election campaign between incumbent president Herbert Hoover and his opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is crippled by polio.  With Prohibition still the law of the land, the government is looking for ways to denature alcohol, which legitimate manufactures need for industrial purposes (making perfumes, etc).  Should the alcohol fall into the wrong hands, if it was denatured, it would be useless to bootleggers. Eliot Ness and his Untouchables, along with top Federal agents from all over the country, attend an important meeting in Washington, DC.  The Speaker says that since the beginning of Prohibition, all alcohol produced under government license has had one of various denaturants added to it: pyridine, methanol, etc.  But the Underworld has always found a way to renature the alcohol. The Speaker is happy to announce that the government chemists in his Department have finally come up with a denaturant for which there is no Antidot


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Aired: 09 March, 1961 at 8:00 am

Language: English

Country: United States

Runtime: 50m

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Robert Stack

Robert Stack

Eliot Ness

Paul Picerni

Paul Picerni

Lee Hobson

Steve London

Steve London

Jack Rossman

Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell

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Abel Fernandez

Abel Fernandez

William Youngfellow

Nicholas Georgiade

Nicholas Georgiade

Enrico Rossi

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