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.
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Air Date: 1959-09-10
A young singer is faced with the loss of his promising career because of a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
Air Date: 1959-09-17
A bandleader, making a comeback, learns that someone is trying to poison him. But four people might want him killed...
Air Date: 1959-09-24
""The parents"" have agreed to sell their child to a black-market racketeer. Now they tell Johnny they want to keep t...
Air Date: 1959-10-08
Investigating the murder of a Japanese friend, Johnny uncovers a scheme to swindle immigrants by promising them citiz...
Air Date: 1959-10-15
Dave, the new young bartender at Waldo's, comes under suspicion when a number of blonde women are slashed nearby. Joh...
Air Date: 1959-10-22
When a Puerto Rican boxer goes missing just before a championship fight, Johnny suspects foul play.
Air Date: 1959-10-29
Johnny Staccato learns from his friend Barney that Barney's sister has given all her money to a local mission house. ...
Air Date: 1959-11-05
An underworld boss forces Waldo to hire singer Barbara Ames. Then Johnny gets interested in the girl--and is beaten u...
Air Date: 1959-11-12
A millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands).
Air Date: 1959-11-19
Elizabeth Montgomery plays a rare pre-Bewitched role as a floozy jazz groupie who's the ex-wife of one of Staccato's ...
Air Date: 1959-11-26
Working on a murder case, Johnny Staccato trails two suspects to their hideout. With them is beatnik poet Dick Potter...
Air Date: 1960-03-24
When Frankie Aspen's saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothe...
Air Date: 1959-12-10
A dance-hall girl is murdered, and Police Sergeant Joe Gillan suspects ex-jockey Stash McGill, a friend of the dead g...
Air Date: 1959-12-17
Korean War veteran Eddie Dasko escapes from a mental hospital. Dasko is sure that his wife has been seeing another ma...
Air Date: 1959-12-24
Johnny tries to help a musician who, while moonlighting as a department-store Santa Claus, is being pressured by his ...
Air Date: 1959-12-31
A man called Red Top kills Hannah Green, but pianist Romeo Jefferson is the chief suspect until Staccato suspects tha...
Air Date: 1960-01-07
A young man enters Waldo's and attacks Pete, the trumpet player. Johnny Staccato learns that the youth thinks Pete is...
Air Date: 1960-01-14
Wealthy racketeer Barney Buford calls Johnny Staccato to ask him to look after his young sister, Karen. As he approac...
Air Date: 1960-01-21
To evade Federal agents, a gang of counterfeiters hide their plates. Convinced that Waldo knows the hiding place, the...
Air Date: 1960-01-28
A bowling-alley proprietor is found murdered, and Johnny Staccato is identified as the killer.
Air Date: 1960-02-04
A hunted criminal hires Staccato as a bodyguard and promises to turn himself over to police in exchange for letting h...
Air Date: 1960-02-11
Jessica Winthrop, a noted pacifist, is accused of killing her husband. Solomon Bradshaw, the lady's lawyer, comes to ...
Air Date: 1960-02-18
Ventriloquist Thad Clinton drops in to ask Staccato if he'll help locate his missing wife. Johnny finds out that the ...
Air Date: 1960-02-25
Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man, whose family he has known for years, starts working in a booksh...
Air Date: 1960-03-03
Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress (Mary Tyler Moore) who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly...
Air Date: 1960-03-10
When a former soldier returns home after having defected to Red China, he is murdered by a group of vigilantes.
Air Date: 1960-03-17
Staccato is mistaken for a concert pianist who has come to the United States to avoid his repressive government.