The Untouchables · SEASON 1
You Can't Pick the Number
Episode 11 · 1959-12-24
- Drama
- Crime
Episode overview
Chicago, October 1932. The depths of the Great Depression, marked by unemployment and poverty. The only chance some people felt they had to rise out of poverty, if only for a short time, was to win the lottery or at the punch-boards. The mob saw this as an opportunity, by coming up with a numbers game. People picked a number from 0-999; their odds of winning were 1-in-a-1,000-- the payoff was 600-to-1. The thousands of losers, pouring money into the mob, were never mentioned.
60 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. The Empty Chair1959-10-15
2. Ma Barker and Her Boys1959-10-22
3. The Jake Lingle Killing1959-10-29
4. The George Bugs Moran Story1959-11-05
5. Ain't We Got Fun?1959-11-12
6. The Vincent Mad Dog Coll Story1959-11-19
7. Mexican Stake-Out1959-11-26
8. The Artichoke King1959-12-03
9. The Tri-State Gang1959-12-10
10. The Dutch Schultz Story1959-12-17
11. You Can't Pick the Number1959-12-24
12. The Underground Railway1959-12-31
13. Syndicate Sanctuary1960-01-07
14. The Noise of Death1960-01-14
15. Star Witness1960-01-14
16. The St. Louis Story1960-01-28
17. One-Armed Bandits1960-02-04
18. Little Egypt1960-02-11
19. The Big Squeeze1960-02-18
20. The Unhired Assassin (1)1960-02-25
21. The Unhired Assassin (2)1960-03-03
22. The White Slavers1960-03-10
23. Three Thousand Suspects1960-03-24
24. The Doreen Maney Story1960-03-31
25. Portrait of a Thief1960-04-07
26. Underworld Bank1960-04-14
27. Head of Fire - Feet of Clay1960-04-21
28. The Frank Nitti Story1960-04-28
