Johnny Staccato Season 1

(1959) September - March | # of Episodes : 27

Ratings

5.6

Series Details

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 27

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Networks: NBC

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 10, 1959

Recent Air Date: Mar 24, 1960

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: TV-PG

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Production Companies: Revue Studios

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Main Cast

John Cassavetes

Johnny Staccato

Age : N/A | Popularity : 81%

Episodes

Episode 1

10 September 1959 - The Naked Truth

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

Episode 2

17 September 1959 - Murder for Credit

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

Episode 3

24 September 1959 - Parents

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

Episode 4

08 October 1959 - Shop of the Four Winds

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

Episode 5

15 October 1959 - The Nature of the Night

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

Episode 6

22 October 1959 - Viva, Paco!

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

Episode 7

29 October 1959 - Evil

Johnny Staccato learns from his friend Barney that Barney's sister has given all her money to a local mission house. Knowing that the mission wouldn't ordinarily accept so much, Staccato suspects a bunco scheme.

Episode 8

05 November 1959 - Murder in Hi-fi

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.

Episode 9

12 November 1959 - Fly, Baby, Fly

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 Fletcher's beautiful wife. This is no coincidence, however, as Johnny learns he isn't carrying jewels after all. Fletcher has provided him with a bomb set to explode during the flight, in an insidious plot to murder her.

Episode 10

19 November 1959 - Tempted

Elizabeth Montgomery plays a rare pre-Bewitched role as a floozy jazz groupie who's the ex-wife of one of Staccato's former band mates. Out of the blue she shows up at Waldo's the jazz club (and Staccato's ""office"") to enlist Staccato's help, telling him she's 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 Staccato's interest (as does the fast-talking and shapely Ms. Montgomery). He's immediately suspicious, but cautiously takes on the case. While he's escorting her home (supposedly with the jewels) they're 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

Episode 11

26 November 1959 - The Poet's Touch

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.

Episode 12

24 March 1960 - The Wild Reed

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

Episode 13

10 December 1959 - A Piece of Paradise

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.

Episode 14

17 December 1959 - The Return

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,

Episode 15

24 December 1959 - The Unwise Men

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.

Episode 16

31 December 1959 - Collector's Item

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

Episode 17

07 January 1960 - Man in the Pit

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

Episode 18

14 January 1960 - The Only Witness

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

Episode 19

21 January 1960 - Night of Jeopardy

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

Episode 20

28 January 1960 - Double Feature

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

Episode 21

04 February 1960 - The List Of Death

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

Episode 22

11 February 1960 - Solomon

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

Episode 23

18 February 1960 - An Act of Terror

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

Episode 24

25 February 1960 - An Angry Young Man

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.

Episode 25

03 March 1960 - The Mask of Jason

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

Episode 26

10 March 1960 - A Nice Little Town

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

Episode 27

17 March 1960 - Swinging Long Hair

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

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