Gerard Garrity (know better to me as “Grampa” Garrity) watched The Untouchables regularly while it ran between 1959 and 1963.

Even though he was Irish, it bothered him that the bad guys were always Italian. Surely there were bad dudes of all sorts of ethnic decent. Why, he wondered, must the Italians get hit with the criminal stereotype?

He felt strongly enough about this that he wrote a letter to the makers of the TV show.

Then, in February of 1961, while the family gathered around the TV, he got his response: Episode 2.16 guest-starred James Coburn as a murderer and arsonist named Dennis Garrity!