Johnny Staccato

Johnny Staccato is a jazz pianist and private detective.

1959 HD 30min TV-PG United States English

John Cassavetes Eduardo Ciannelli

Crime Drama

private investigator new york city jazz

S1E1 - The Naked Truth 1959-09-10

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

S1E2 - Murder for Credit 1959-09-17

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

S1E3 - Parents 1959-09-24

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

S1E4 - Shop of the Four Winds 1959-10-08

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

S1E5 - The Nature of the Night 1959-10-15

Dave, the new young bartender at Waldos, comes under suspicion when a number of blonde women are slashed nearby. Johnny uncovers some darkly disturbing information.

S1E6 - Viva, Paco! 1959-10-22

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

S1E7 - Evil 1959-10-29

Johnny Staccato learns from his friend Barney that Barneys sister has given all her money to a local mission house. Knowing that the mission wouldnt ordinarily accept so much, Staccato suspects a bunco scheme.

S1E8 - Murder in Hi-fi 1959-11-05

An underworld boss forces Waldo to hire singer Barbara Ames. Then Johnny gets interested in the girl--and is beaten up by a couple of thugs.

S1E9 - Fly, Baby, Fly 1959-11-12

Johnny is hired by tough-guy millionaire Guy Fletcher to transport a locked valise containing valuable gems to Arizona. Once aboard the plane Johnny meets Nina, who turns out to be Fletchers beautiful wife. This is no coincidence, however, as Johnny learns he isnt carrying jewels after all. Fletcher has provided him with a bomb set to explode during the flight, in an insidious plot to murder her.

S1E10 - Tempted 1959-11-19

Elizabeth Montgomery plays a rare pre-Bewitched role as a floozy jazz groupie whos the ex-wife of one of Staccatos former band mates. Out of the blue she shows up at Waldos the jazz club (and Staccatos ""office"") to enlist Staccatos help, telling him shes almost just been robbed of expensive jewelry she was taking from work. What she was doing with the jewels and why she was taking them from the store she works at piques Staccatos interest (as does the fast-talking and shapely Ms. Montgomery). Hes immediately suspicious, but cautiously takes on the case. While hes escorting her home (supposedly with the jewels) theyre accosted by a mugger who knocks Staccato out, grabs the jewels, and takes off. The next morning, nursing the bump on his head, Staccato gets a visit from an insurance adjuster who reads him the riot act. Unfazed, Johnny tells the adjuster to take a hike, goes into the bathroom and viola! pulls the jewels out from the soap dispenser. Who set him up? Could it have

S1E11 - The Poet's Touch 1959-11-26

Working on a murder case, Johnny Staccato trails two suspects to their hideout. With them is beatnik poet Dick Potter, whom the men attempt to implicate in the crime.

S1E12 - The Wild Reed 1960-03-24

When Frankie Aspens saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothering him.

S1E13 - A Piece of Paradise 1959-12-10

A dance-hall girl is murdered, and Police Sergeant Joe Gillan suspects ex-jockey Stash McGill, a friend of the dead girl. Gillan asks Johnny Staccato if he can help locate McGill.

S1E14 - The Return 1959-12-17

Korean War veteran Eddie Dasko escapes from a mental hospital. Dasko is sure that his wife has been seeing another man, and he intends to kill her,

S1E15 - The Unwise Men 1959-12-24

Johnny tries to help a musician who, while moonlighting as a department-store Santa Claus, is being pressured by his ex-con brother to help set up a robbery at the store.

S1E17 - Man in the Pit 1960-01-07

A young man enters Waldos and attacks Pete, the trumpet player. Johnny Staccato learns that the youth thinks Pete is his father, who deserted the family years before.

S1E18 - The Only Witness 1960-01-14

Wealthy racketeer Barney Buford calls Johnny Staccato to ask him to look after his young sister, Karen. As he approaches Bufords apartment, Staccato is shot at by a gunman. Then inside, he finds Buford dead.

S1E19 - Night of Jeopardy 1960-01-21

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

S1E20 - Double Feature 1960-01-28

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

S1E21 - The List Of Death 1960-02-04

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

S1E22 - Solomon 1960-02-11

Jessica Winthrop, a noted pacifist, is accused of killing her husband. Solomon Bradshaw, the ladys lawyer, comes to Johnny Staccato for help.

S1E23 - An Act of Terror 1960-02-18

Ventriloquist Thad Clinton drops in to ask Staccato if hell help locate his missing wife. Johnny finds out that the woman has been murdered.

S1E24 - An Angry Young Man 1960-02-25

Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man, whose family he has known for years, starts working in a bookshop that is just a cover for a criminal enterprise.

S1E25 - The Mask of Jason 1960-03-03

Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly scarred face.

S1E26 - A Nice Little Town 1960-03-10

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

S1E27 - Swinging Long Hair 1960-03-17

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