TV Series · 1959 · TV Series · 1950s
The Untouchables
Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 1950s (36 peers).
Summary
Robert Stack plays Eliot Ness, the Prohibition Bureau agent who hand-picks a squad of officers too honest to be bought — the Untouchables — and sets them against the bootlegging syndicates of 1930s Chicago. Each black-and-white hour pits Ness and men such as Enrico Rossi and Lee Hobson against a racketeer lifted from the era's headlines, among them Frank Nitti, Ma Barker, Dutch Schultz and Bugs Moran, while columnist Walter Winchell narrates in clipped newsreel bulletins. Adapted from Ness's memoir with Oscar Fraley and produced by Desilu for ABC, the crime series ran four seasons from 1959 and drew organised complaints over its violence and its use of Italian-American gangster names.
The Untouchables (1959) is a television series IMDb files under the action, crime and drama genres. A typical episode runs 60 minutes. It was made in the United States.
Only 34 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 34 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s television series — 36 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Untouchables lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 1950s (36 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 34.
Cohort: TV Series · 1950s
