Season 1 (1959)

The Nick Joseph Story
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April 16, 1959 • 30m

Detective Ruditsky relates the story of Nick Joseph, a small-time hood from Manhattan's Lower East Side, who rises from petty thef...Read more

The Immigrant
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April 23, 1959 • 30m

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 wi...Read more

The Jane Cooper Story
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April 30, 1959 • 26m

Jane Cooper, recently paroled from prison, proves that she hasn't learned anything when she once again begins hanging around with ...Read more

The Story Of Cutie Jaffe
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May 7, 1959 • 30m

Cutie Jaffe, a small-time hood with big time ambitions, begins knocking over some of his brother-in-law's bootlegging trucks. Will...Read more

The Dutch Schultz Story
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May 14, 1959 • 30m

Dutch Schultz wants to bump off special prosecutor Thomas Dewey who has been after him. The syndicate bigwigs deny him permission ...Read more

The Lion And The Mouse
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May 21, 1959

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

No Fare
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May 28, 1959

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

The Payoff
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June 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.

The Marie Walters Story
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June 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 ...Read more

The Maxey Gorman Story
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June 25, 1959

Ex-convict Maxey Gorman gets a Machiavellian character named A.J. to finance his entry into the bootlegging business. The two men ...Read more

The Muddy Kasoff Story
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July 2, 1959

Muddy Kasoff has been renting automobiles for gangsters to use but he has been secretly tippin the cops. When the hoods discover t...Read more

Framed
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July 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.

Four the Hard Way
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July 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 ...Read more

The Tony Morelli Story
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July 30, 1959 • 25m

Dick Wilson (2) as Game Boy Miles | Harry Arnie as Benny | Brad Trumbull (2) as O'Neill | Lou Herbert as Titanic Thompson | Jack K...Read more

The Ray Baker Story
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August 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 ...Read more

The Story of Lucky Silva
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August 13, 1959

ucky Silva is a small-time hood who by a combination of circumstance, ambition, and drive rises quickly to a position of prominenc...Read more

The Morrison Story
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August 20, 1959

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

The Poison Ivy Story
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August 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 ...Read more

The Prantera Story
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September 3, 1959

Episode 19 of Season 1 premiered on September 3, 1959