The Lawless Years
The Lawless Years: Season 2

Air Date

October 1, 1959

Episodes

9 episodes

The Lawless Years

Season 2

Episodes

1. The Al Brown Story

October 1, 1959

When a young hoodlum named Al Brown destroys a blind man's shop it puts Ruditsky on his trail. But it will be under another name in another city that Brown becomes notorious.

2. The Big Greeny Story

October 8, 1959
25 min

When the trail of a murdered garment factor owner leads back to the notorious Lepke Buchalter he sends the htman responsible, Big Greeny, to stay in Los Angeles under the auspices of the equally notorious Bugsy Siegal.

3. The Art Harris Story

October 15, 1959
30 min

Ruditsky goes after Art Harris, a racketeer who's muscled his way into the political scene in order to protect his organized crime interests.

4. The Billy Boy 'Rockabye' Creel Story

November 5, 1959

Mob boss Bobo Konig puts a bounty of $50,000 on psychotic gunman Billy Boy Creel who immediately goes underground. Ruditsky then tries to find Billy Boy before Konig's killers do.

5. The Big Man

November 12, 1959
25 min

Gangster Louis Otto was once a childhood friend of Ruditsky's. Now he's wanted for the murder of an underling.

6. The Joe Angelo Story

November 19, 1959
30 min

A former union trucker who now owns a candy store is pressured by the Mob to leave New York City because he knows too much about their past labor racketeering activities. When he refuses to leave the city, the Mob bumps him off. The man's crippled son is the only witness to his father's killing.

7. The Billy Grimes Story

December 3, 1959
30 min

Shortly after busting up a numbers racket, Ruditsky finds himself the target of a person or persons unknown.

8. The Sonny Rosen Story

December 17, 1959
25 min

The Mob kidnaps the son of a millionaire and holds him for a ransom of $100,000. Or did they?

9. The Pantera Story