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The King of Champagne

Chicago, the 3rd week of November 1932. Working on an anonymous tip, Eliot Ness and his men raid a warehouse; all the crates are filled with champagne bottles, it was a shipment for the New Year's celebrations. Ness has the landlord who owns the warehouse, Michel (french for Michael) Viton, arrested; but he's released. Birdie, a deaf-mute, takes Viton to his boss, Edmund Wald, a bottle manufacturer (he's also the one who tipped Ness, to get rid of the competition). Edmund Wald is secretly making champagne bottles; he also has a man in Indiana making a brew of spiced cider and sugar cane that can pass for champagne. Wald can get all the bogus champagne he needs for $2 a quart-bottle, and then he wants to sell it for $10 a bottle. Wald needs Viton for a capital investment: $100,000 to buy the bogus champagne, and $100,000 to have a bottle-corking machine smuggled in from Europe. Viton says they can steal the corking machine from the Industrial Museum; and Edmund will have to go to

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  • Originally Aired May 25, 1961
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Network ABC (US)
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Name Type Role
David Zelag Goodman Writer
Jack Anthony Guest Star
Jean Harvey Guest Star
Michael Constantine Guest Star
Cyril Delevanti Guest Star
Ben Wright Guest Star
George Kennedy Guest Star
Robert Middleton Guest Star
Jason Wingreen Guest Star
Barry Morse Guest Star
Grant Richards Guest Star
Walter Grauman Director