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- When Ruditsky won't take a bribe, gang tries to frame him.
- 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.
- A bootlegger gets in trouble when he begins to hijack shipments.
- Crooked lawyer plans to control rackets with former czar.
- Gambler wanred to leave town, but he gets into rigged card game.
- 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.
- Ruditzky helps an immigrant working with the mob to get rid of an illegal gun.
- The early days in the career of the notorious Al Capone before he left New York for Chicago.
- 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.
- Muddy rents cars for racketeers and also tips off the police.
- Underworld bribes police detective to hide info.
- Crook gets into politics to protect crime interests.
- The story of the brutal crime boss Louis "Lepke" Burchalter.
- A gangster kills a rival crime boss for his employer and has plans that will gets his double crossing killed.
- Little Augie Orgen begins a major racket 'protecting' businesses against strikes. Ruditsky believes he finally has him nailed, due to a witness who can swear against him in court. But a crafty move by Augie and his attorney gets him off. Now Augie has bigger problems, with his fellow mobsters Gurrah and Lepke.
- Story of an ex con who makes a deal with police for a reduced sentence for a crime he committed.
- A botched hit leads to a child's death.
- 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."
- 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.
- In Brooklyn, the Poison Ivy Gang is robbing drugstores. Barney Ruditsky is determined to stop them.
- 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.
- Ruditsky investigates a crooked judge.
- Girlfriend is murdered when she dumps bootlegger.
- In an effort to nail associates of Dutch Schultz, Ruditsky is ordered by Captain McCloskey to take a bribe from one of them. To set this up, Ruditsky gets close to Schultz' former girlfriend.
- Artie Moon is a paid killer who hopes to work his way up in the underworld independent of the big time mobsters. His own wife, an old family friend of Ruditsky, is not aware of how far Artie's gone, but she begs Ruditsky to help stop him before it's too late.
- Vince Matteo and Tommy Ryan have been raised together and are like brothers. When they are ordered by the mob to kill Vince's godfather, Vince balks, but helps Tommy with the hit. After Ruditsky puts the pressure on Vince and Vince is observed coming into his office, the mob orders Tommy to kill Vince.
- Lepke Buchalter hires a novelty expert to find a new method of controlling labor disputes. The man soon comes up with an ingeniously odious (or rather odorous) method and sells Dutch Schultz on it as well.
- Louy Kassoff sees his sister abducted from the streets by hoodlums. (Although not explicitly stated due to the TV code at the time, the implication is that she was sexually assaulted). He is plagued by guilt because he was unable to protect her, and as a result he casts aside his rabbinical studies and decides to join a mob. Within a year ha has taken over as its leader.
- After being sent to Sing Sing for an armored car robbery in which several were killed, Louy Kassoff decides to organize the prisoners, including such future underworld figures as Dutch Schultz, Lepke Buchalter, Lucky Luciano, and Legs Diamond, by forming a "Mutual Welfare League".
- 1959–196126mTV Episode
- After the death of his sister, Louy Kassoff decides to resign from the organization he started. But his associates, worried about what he may do next, are not so willing to let him just go.
- A hit man working for Murder, Inc. is ordered to kill a woman who witnessed a hit. Instead, he winds up falling in love with the witness.
- Legs Diamond guns down three men in a nightclub. None of the others who saw the shooting will testify against him. Soon afterward, no less than five men who might have been able to talk turn up dead.
- Gangster Jacob Koster, a.k.a. Kid Dropper, humiliates and scars "Little Augie" Orgen, leading to a bloody feud which gets innocent people caught in the crossfires. The district attorney puts the heat on the police department and Ruditsky in particular to put an end to it. Ruditsky gets help from an unlikely source, the Kid's own mother and brother.
- Miles Miller is a crooked attorney who acts as middleman between jewel thieves and insurance companies trying to make a profit. Unfortunately for Miller, a policeman and an accomplice to the crime were both killed in the latest robbery in which his client was involved.
- Sonny Rosen's wealthy parents receive a ransom note demanding money in exchange for his return. But as Ruditzky investigates, it begins to appear that the "kidnapping" is not what it seems.
- To nail the leaders of a murderous mob attempting to take over the labor unions, Ruditsky puts the screws to one of the gang's top enforcers, by convincing him that he'll be the next one to be hit.
- Millie Grayson offers to help Ruditsky get evidence on her former boyfriend, mobster Jurgie Jorgenson. Millie is an old girlfriend of Ruditsky's as well. Ruditsky is skeptical, but learns he is not immune to misled by a woman's charms.