Episode 1
The Education of Lucky Luciano
2015-06-15 • 43 min
Charles "Lucky" Luciano arrives in New York, teaming with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. During Prohibition, Luciano's crew makes a fortune.
TV season
2015-06-15
Season 1 begins in 1905 and spans over 50 years to trace the rise of Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and other notorious gangsters from their beginnings as a neighborhood gang of teenagers to murderous entrepreneurs and bootleggers who organized the criminal underworld, turning the Mafia into an American institution.
Episode 1
2015-06-15 • 43 min
Charles "Lucky" Luciano arrives in New York, teaming with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. During Prohibition, Luciano's crew makes a fortune.
Episode 2
2015-06-22 • 43 min
"Lucky" Luciano gains power in the New York underworld during Prohibition. When two bosses start a mob war, Luciano plans to kill them both.
Episode 3
2015-06-29 • 43 min
"Lucky" Luciano takes over the New York mob, organizing the Five Families. As Luciano's power grows, so does the attention from the Feds.
Episode 4
2015-07-06 • 43 min
Luciano's decision to enter the prostitution business gives Thomas Dewey the chance to arrest him and put him on trial.
Episode 5
2015-07-13 • 43 min
Luciano is found guilty of running a prostitution ring and goes to prison, leaving Vito Genovese as acting boss.
Episode 6
2015-07-20 • 43 min
World War II begins, and the military asks Luciano to aid in the invasion of Sicily. Thomas Dewey considers letting him go.
Episode 7
2015-07-27 • 43 min
Luciano takes over Vito Genovese's heroin ring in Italy, then rejoins Meyer Lansky at a mob summit in Cuba. Genovese and Carlo Gambino plot against the mob leadership, and Bugsy Siegel's dream of Las Vegas turns deadly.
Episode 8
2015-08-03 • 43 min
Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino make their move. The police raid a mob summit, arresting Genovese. Gambino takes over.