The Lawless Years

- Season 1

(1959)

Story of an ex con who makes a deal with police for a reduced sentence for a crime he committed.

Ruditzky helps an immigrant working with the mob to get rid of an illegal gun.

Jane Cooper may be on parole, but she intends to improve her status by ditching her nobody boyfriend for a wealthier gangster. As she moves up the food chain, she plays one man off another. Strangely, each of her ex-beaus meets a tragic end. This doesn't go unnoticed by Ruditsky or the mob. She picks up the nickname "Jane the Jinx."

A bootlegger gets in trouble when he begins to hijack shipments.

When New York Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey declares war on Dutch Schultz, describing the gangster as an "evil force that has to be destroyed," the Dutchman plots a hit on Dewey.

After surviving a beating by crime boss Johnny Lucky, small time hood Eddie Safranik starts his own shakedown racket using Lucky's name and calling card--a lead pipe.

Underworld bribes police detective to hide info.

Girlfriend is murdered when she dumps bootlegger.

A gangster kills a rival crime boss for his employer and has plans that will gets his double crossing killed.

Two men join forces to get into the bootlegging business. As the money rolls in, one of the men decides he doesn't want to split the profits anymore.

Muddy rents cars for racketeers and also tips off the police.

When Ruditsky won't take a bribe, gang tries to frame him.

Gambler wanred to leave town, but he gets into rigged card game.

The mob leans on a hardworking family man. He tries to rebuff them, but then they use his wife and son as leverage. When he succumbs to the pressure, it's up to Ruditsky to set things right and keep the family together--and safe.

Racketeer accused of killing young girl during wild party.

Small-time hood Rico Silva, dubbed 'Lucky' by Barney Ruditsky after he survived having his handsome face slashed to ribbons by Legs Diamond's mob, attracts attention by promoting an ambitious plan to unite all the mobs.

Ruditsky investigates a crooked judge.

In Brooklyn, the Poison Ivy Gang is robbing drugstores. Barney Ruditsky is determined to stop them.