Picks and Pans Review: The Gangster Chronicles

UPDATED 02/16/1981 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 02/16/1981 at 01:00 AM EST

NBC (8-11 p.m. ET)

This new series is no threat to The Godfather, but the photography is beautiful and Michael Nouri, Joe Penny and Brian Benben give finely tuned performances as crime lords Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky (here called Michael Lasker for legal reasons). (Premiere)

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