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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...
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Network:NBC
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Season 1

  • The Nick Joseph Story
    6.6/1024 votes
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    The Nick Joseph Story

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Jo Eisinger

  • The Immigrant
    6.9/1022 votes
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    The Immigrant

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Jo Eisinger

  • The Jane Cooper Story
    6.6/1019 votes
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    The Jane Cooper Story

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Story Of Cutie Jaffe
    6.9/1028 votes
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    The Story Of Cutie Jaffe

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/7/1959

    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?

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dutch Schultz Story
    6.6/1025 votes
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    The Dutch Schultz Story

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Jo Eisinger

  • The Lion And The Mouse
    6.4/1015 votes
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    The Lion And The Mouse

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/21/1959

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

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • No Fare
    6.8/1013 votes
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    No Fare

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/28/1959

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

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Payoff
    6.1/1018 votes
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    The Payoff

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/11/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Marie Walters Story
    6.7/1011 votes
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    The Marie Walters Story

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/18/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Jo Eisinger

  • The Maxey Gorman Story
    7.3/1010 votes
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    The Maxey Gorman Story

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/25/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Jo Eisinger

  • The Muddy Kasoff Story
    6.8/1014 votes
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    The Muddy Kasoff Story

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/2/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Jo Eisinger

  • Framed
    7.3/1016 votes
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    Framed

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/16/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • Four the Hard Way
    6.9/1011 votes
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    Four the Hard Way

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/23/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tony Morelli Story
    6.4/1010 votes
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    The Tony Morelli Story

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/30/1959

    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

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Charles Larson

  • The Ray Baker Story
    6.2/1011 votes
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    The Ray Baker Story

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/6/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Charles Larson

  • The Story of Lucky Silva
    7.1/1021 votes
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    The Story of Lucky Silva

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 8/13/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Morrison Story
    6.0/1014 votes
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    The Morrison Story

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/20/1959

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

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: Jo Eisinger

  • The Poison Ivy Story
    6.5/1014 votes
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    The Poison Ivy Story

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/27/1959

    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.

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Prantera Story
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    The Prantera Story

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/3/1959

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    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A