The Lawless Years

Season 1

19 episodes · Apr 16, 1959

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  • S1E1

    The Nick Joseph Story

    Apr 16, 195930m

    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.

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  • S1E2

    The Immigrant

    Apr 23, 195930m

    An immigrant woman tries to get Ruditsky to set her son on the straight and narrow. It seems as though he's been hanging around with a gang of hoodlums. Ruditsky gives it his best effort but it could be a tough sell.

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  • S1E3

    The Jane Cooper Story

    Apr 30, 195926m

    Jane Cooper, recently paroled from prison, proves that she hasn't learned anything when she once again begins hanging around with underworld characters. Only this time it seems as though her mobster boyfriends keep dying off.

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  • S1E4

    The Story Of Cutie Jaffe

    May 7, 195930m

    Cutie Jaffe, a small-time hood with big time ambitions, begins knocking over some of his brother-in-law's bootlegging trucks. Will Cutie rise in the underworld hierarchy or is he headed for a hard fall?

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  • S1E5

    The Dutch Schultz Story

    May 14, 195930m

    Dutch Schultz wants to bump off special prosecutor Thomas Dewey who has been after him. The syndicate bigwigs deny him permission to make the hit but the Dutchman proceeds with his plans anyway.

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  • S1E6

    The Lion And The Mouse

    May 21, 1959

    Small time racketeer Eddie Safronek plots revenge against the hoods who beat him up and left him for dead.

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  • S1E7

    No Fare

    May 28, 1959

    The underworld bribes police detective Harry Kramer in order to get him to withhold information in a case.

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  • S1E8

    The Payoff

    Jun 11, 1959

    After a moll is found murdered, flashbacks tell her story and those of mobsters Tony Sappio and Big Ed Harper, who both loved not wisely but too well.

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  • S1E9

    The Marie Walters Story

    Jun 18, 1959

    The body of a murdered young woman is dragged from the Harlem River and the police ascertain that she was killed because she knew too much regarding the activities of a bootlegging gang. Ruditsky then becomes puzzled when the attorney of the chief suspect insists on going to trial as quickly as possible.

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  • S1E10

    The Maxey Gorman Story

    Jun 25, 1959

    Ex-convict Maxey Gorman gets a Machiavellian character named A.J. to finance his entry into the bootlegging business. The two men become partners but when the dough starts pouring in Maxie looks for a way to rid himself of A. J.

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  • S1E11

    The Muddy Kasoff Story

    Jul 2, 1959

    Muddy Kasoff has been renting automobiles for gangsters to use but he has been secretly tippin the cops. When the hoods discover that Muddy has been informing they have him killed. Ruditsky investigates and discovers that a cigar band might be an important clue.

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  • S1E12

    Framed

    Jul 16, 1959

    When Ruditsky can't be bribed by a waterfront crime gang they attempt to frame him by making it look like he's on the take.

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  • S1E13

    Four the Hard Way

    Jul 23, 1959

    Ruditsky warns visiting high roller Big Ziggy to get out of town but before he can hit the road he get roped into a crooked poker game with three cardsharps.

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  • S1E14

    The Tony Morelli Story

    Jul 30, 195925m

    Dick Wilson (2) as Game Boy Miles | Harry Arnie as Benny | Brad Trumbull (2) as O'Neill | Lou Herbert as Titanic Thompson | Jack Kruschen as Laughing Boy | John Vivyan as Big Ziggy

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  • S1E15

    The Ray Baker Story

    Aug 6, 1959

    At a wild gangland party a young girl falls out of a window and is killed. When evidence shows that the girl was pushed, visiting Chicago mobster Ray Baker is arrested and charged with the crime. But Ruditsky has his doubts and thinks that the real culprit might be another mobster.

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  • S1E16

    The Story of Lucky Silva

    Aug 13, 1959

    ucky Silva is a small-time hood who by a combination of circumstance, ambition, and drive rises quickly to a position of prominence in New York's Mafia.

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  • S1E17

    The Morrison Story

    Aug 20, 1959

    A judge is murdered right before a state crime commission is scheduled to take a look into his activities.

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  • S1E18

    The Poison Ivy Story

    Aug 27, 1959

    Ruditsky is temporarily assigned to duty in a Brooklyn precinct and must get the goods on a gang of hooligans who are pulling off a series of drug store robberies.

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  • S1E19

    The Prantera Story

    Sep 3, 1959
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