The Untouchables (TV Series) A Taste for Pineapple (1963) User Reviews

Yup....this is the final episode of the original series "The Untouchables".

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 28 March 2016]

Danny Mundt (Tom Tully) has had enough of Ness and has decided to put out a contract on the Fed. The assignment is given to Elroy Daldron (Jeremy Slate)...a guy who developed a taste for killing during WWI and he just can't see to get enough. However, his first attempt on Ness doesn't go as planned and when he tosses a grenade (the 'pineapple' from the title) at him, it only blinds him. Inexplicably, Mundt has now decided to call off the contract...as a blind Ness is as good as a dead one. But if you remember, Daldron LOVES to kill and it's not like him at all to give up once he's ready for a killing...and he's ready to enjoy it. Since it's the final episode of the series, does this mean that Daldron will get what he wants?!

What's surprising about this plot is that the mob didn't try to kill Ness on the show before this...at least with a contract and a top assassin. In real life, Ness was the object of several attempts on his life...a rare case where his real life was more crazy dangerous than the show!

So is it any good? It is a fitting ending to the show? It's entertaining but the big confrontation scene (after Ness defeats the baddie and then, inexplicably, tosses the knife away) didn't make any sense at all. Decent...could have been a bit better...though there was a nice, bloody shoot out at the end!

Good episode, but...

[SusanJL · 8/10 · 19 September 2021]

I think I'd fire my security team at the end of the episode, lol!!

Superb ending for this TV series.

[searchanddestroy-1 · 10/10 · 24 December 2019]

As another reviewer said, it's a pretty good surprise that we, the audiences, have to wait the very end of the whole show, to have told the fact that the actual Elloitt Ness was the target of many assassination attempts in his life. In the other épisodes, there was nothing like this in the other épisodes. So the last of the last will at last evoke this. But the assassination attempt scene, with the grenade, is not convincing at all. Watch it out, the manner Ness jumps out of the car before the pineapple explodes, how could it be blind, even for a short period of time? I could accept this if the grenad had exploded in the car, yes. But besides this, this is a very good episode to conclude this awesome, if not sometimes a little dated show. Like in any show with a recurrent character, you have one episode without a case to solve, but instead focusing on the character himself. For instance, Ness could have been trapped alone in a warehouse, see?

The man who blinded their boss

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 12 February 2014]

The Untouchables wound up its run with this episode where Eliot Ness is targeted by a rogue operator for doing too good a job on his speakeasy operation. Tom Tully hires a Mad Dog Coll like killer in Jeremy Slate, an individual who honed his killing skills in the late World War and who really loves his work. He also won't leave a job half done.

So when he tosses a hand grenade into Robert Stack's car and Stack is only blinded, Slate feels unsatisfied even though Tully is more than pleased. In fact Slate kills another of Tully's hoods who tries to stop him from continuing.

Paul Picerni takes over The Untouchables temporarily as they search for the man who blinded their boss. Slate is a truly frightening individual with no qualms and no fears, definitely a basket case.