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Johnny Staccato(1959)

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First Air Date: 1959-09-10
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 5.3
Votes: 7
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 27

Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

Keywords

new york cityjazzprivate investigator

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 27
E01
The Naked Truth

Air Date: 1959-09-10

30m

A young singer is faced with the loss of his promising career because of a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.

E02
Murder for Credit

Air Date: 1959-09-17

30m

A bandleader, making a comeback, learns that someone is trying to poison him. But four people might want him killed...

E03
Parents

Air Date: 1959-09-24

30m

""The parents"" have agreed to sell their child to a black-market racketeer. Now they tell Johnny they want to keep t...

E04
Shop of the Four Winds

Air Date: 1959-10-08

30m

Investigating the murder of a Japanese friend, Johnny uncovers a scheme to swindle immigrants by promising them citiz...

E05
The Nature of the Night

Air Date: 1959-10-15

30m

Dave, the new young bartender at Waldo's, comes under suspicion when a number of blonde women are slashed nearby. Joh...

E06
Viva, Paco!

Air Date: 1959-10-22

30m

When a Puerto Rican boxer goes missing just before a championship fight, Johnny suspects foul play.

E07
Evil

Air Date: 1959-10-29

30m

Johnny Staccato learns from his friend Barney that Barney's sister has given all her money to a local mission house. ...

E08
Murder in Hi-fi

Air Date: 1959-11-05

30m

An underworld boss forces Waldo to hire singer Barbara Ames. Then Johnny gets interested in the girl--and is beaten u...

E09
Fly, Baby, Fly

Air Date: 1959-11-12

30m

A millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands).

E10
Tempted

Air Date: 1959-11-19

30m

Elizabeth Montgomery plays a rare pre-Bewitched role as a floozy jazz groupie who's the ex-wife of one of Staccato's ...

E11
The Poet's Touch

Air Date: 1959-11-26

30m

Working on a murder case, Johnny Staccato trails two suspects to their hideout. With them is beatnik poet Dick Potter...

E12
The Wild Reed

Air Date: 1960-03-24

30m

When Frankie Aspen's saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothe...

E13
A Piece of Paradise

Air Date: 1959-12-10

30m

A dance-hall girl is murdered, and Police Sergeant Joe Gillan suspects ex-jockey Stash McGill, a friend of the dead g...

E14
The Return

Air Date: 1959-12-17

30m

Korean War veteran Eddie Dasko escapes from a mental hospital. Dasko is sure that his wife has been seeing another ma...

E15
The Unwise Men

Air Date: 1959-12-24

30m

Johnny tries to help a musician who, while moonlighting as a department-store Santa Claus, is being pressured by his ...

E16
Collector's Item

Air Date: 1959-12-31

30m

A man called Red Top kills Hannah Green, but pianist Romeo Jefferson is the chief suspect until Staccato suspects tha...

E17
Man in the Pit

Air Date: 1960-01-07

30m

A young man enters Waldo's and attacks Pete, the trumpet player. Johnny Staccato learns that the youth thinks Pete is...

E18
The Only Witness

Air Date: 1960-01-14

30m

Wealthy racketeer Barney Buford calls Johnny Staccato to ask him to look after his young sister, Karen. As he approac...

E19
Night of Jeopardy

Air Date: 1960-01-21

30m

To evade Federal agents, a gang of counterfeiters hide their plates. Convinced that Waldo knows the hiding place, the...

E20
Double Feature

Air Date: 1960-01-28

30m

A bowling-alley proprietor is found murdered, and Johnny Staccato is identified as the killer.

E21
The List Of Death

Air Date: 1960-02-04

30m

A hunted criminal hires Staccato as a bodyguard and promises to turn himself over to police in exchange for letting h...

E22
Solomon

Air Date: 1960-02-11

30m

Jessica Winthrop, a noted pacifist, is accused of killing her husband. Solomon Bradshaw, the lady's lawyer, comes to ...

E23
An Act of Terror

Air Date: 1960-02-18

30m

Ventriloquist Thad Clinton drops in to ask Staccato if he'll help locate his missing wife. Johnny finds out that the ...

E24
An Angry Young Man

Air Date: 1960-02-25

30m

Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man, whose family he has known for years, starts working in a booksh...

E25
The Mask of Jason

Air Date: 1960-03-03

30m

Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress (Mary Tyler Moore) who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly...

E26
A Nice Little Town

Air Date: 1960-03-10

30m

When a former soldier returns home after having defected to Red China, he is murdered by a group of vigilantes.

E27
Swinging Long Hair

Air Date: 1960-03-17

30m

Staccato is mistaken for a concert pianist who has come to the United States to avoid his repressive government.

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Top Cast

John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes
Johnny Staccato
Eduardo Ciannelli
Eduardo Ciannelli
Waldo