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Johnny Staccato

Season 1 1959 - 1960
TV-PG

  • 1959-09-11T02:30:00Z on NBC
  • 30m
  • 13h 30m (27 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Crime, Mystery
Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.

27 episodes

Series Premiere

1959-09-11T02:30:00Z

1x01 The Naked Truth

Series Premiere

1x01 The Naked Truth

  • 1959-09-11T02:30:00Z30m

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

1959-09-18T02:30:00Z

1x02 Murder for Credit

1x02 Murder for Credit

  • 1959-09-18T02:30:00Z30m

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

1959-09-25T02:30:00Z

1x03 Parents

1x03 Parents

  • 1959-09-25T02:30:00Z30m

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

1959-10-09T02:30:00Z

1x04 Shop of the Four Winds

1x04 Shop of the Four Winds

  • 1959-10-09T02:30:00Z30m

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

1959-10-16T02:30:00Z

1x05 The Nature of the Night

1x05 The Nature of the Night

  • 1959-10-16T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-10-23T02:30:00Z

1x06 Viva, Paco!

1x06 Viva, Paco!

  • 1959-10-23T02:30:00Z30m

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

1959-10-30T03:30:00Z

1x07 Evil

1x07 Evil

  • 1959-10-30T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-11-06T03:30:00Z

1x08 Murder in Hi-fi

1x08 Murder in Hi-fi

  • 1959-11-06T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-11-13T03:30:00Z

1x09 Fly, Baby, Fly

1x09 Fly, Baby, Fly

  • 1959-11-13T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-11-20T03:30:00Z

1x10 Tempted

1x10 Tempted

  • 1959-11-20T03:30:00Z30m

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

1959-11-27T03:30:00Z

1x11 The Poet's Touch

1x11 The Poet's Touch

  • 1959-11-27T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1960-03-25T03:30:00Z

1x12 The Wild Reed

1x12 The Wild Reed

  • 1960-03-25T03:30:00Z30m

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

1959-12-11T03:30:00Z

1x13 A Piece of Paradise

1x13 A Piece of Paradise

  • 1959-12-11T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-12-18T03:30:00Z

1x14 The Return

1x14 The Return

  • 1959-12-18T03:30:00Z30m

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,

1959-12-25T03:30:00Z

1x15 The Unwise Men

1x15 The Unwise Men

  • 1959-12-25T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1960-01-01T03:30:00Z

1x16 Collector's Item

1x16 Collector's Item

  • 1960-01-01T03:30:00Z30m

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

1960-01-08T03:30:00Z

1x17 Man in the Pit

1x17 Man in the Pit

  • 1960-01-08T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1960-01-15T03:30:00Z

1x18 The Only Witness

1x18 The Only Witness

  • 1960-01-15T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1960-01-22T03:30:00Z

1x19 Night of Jeopardy

1x19 Night of Jeopardy

  • 1960-01-22T03:30:00Z30m

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

1960-01-29T03:30:00Z

1x20 Double Feature

1x20 Double Feature

  • 1960-01-29T03:30:00Z30m

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

1960-02-05T03:30:00Z

1x21 The List Of Death

1x21 The List Of Death

  • 1960-02-05T03:30:00Z30m

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

1960-02-12T03:30:00Z

1x22 Solomon

1x22 Solomon

  • 1960-02-12T03:30:00Z30m

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

1960-02-19T03:30:00Z

1x23 An Act of Terror

1x23 An Act of Terror

  • 1960-02-19T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1960-02-26T03:30:00Z

1x24 An Angry Young Man

1x24 An Angry Young Man

  • 1960-02-26T03:30:00Z30m

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.

1960-03-04T03:30:00Z

1x25 The Mask of Jason

1x25 The Mask of Jason

  • 1960-03-04T03:30:00Z30m

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

1960-03-11T03:30:00Z

1x26 A Nice Little Town

1x26 A Nice Little Town

  • 1960-03-11T03:30:00Z30m

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

1960-03-18T03:30:00Z

1x27 Swinging Long Hair

1x27 Swinging Long Hair

  • 1960-03-18T03:30:00Z30m

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

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