Johnny Staccato
Johnny Staccato is a jazz pianist and private detective.
Cast:John Cassavetes , Eduardo Ciannelli , Dennis Sallas , Frank London , Garry Walberg , Bert Freed , Pete Candoli , Monica Lewis , Elisha Cook Jr. , J. Pat O'Malley , Joseph Sargent , Charles Thompson , Steve Gravers , Walter Maslow , Jimmy Joyce , Wally Brown , Robert Gibbons , Shelly Manne
S1.E1 ∙ The Naked Truth
A young singer's promising career is threatened by a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
S1.E2 ∙ Murder for Credit
Johnny Staccato tracks down the killer of a bandleader who is being poisoned.
S1.E3 ∙ The Parents
A young couple who have sold their unborn baby to an unscrupulous baby broker ask Johnny to help them keep their baby.
S1.E4 ∙ The Shop of the Four Winds
Johnny looks for his friend's killer in Little Tokyo and finds an unscrupulous acquaintance from his army days who is cheating the inhabitants with crooked immigration deals. He sends his goon Tikon to kill Johnny with Karate.
S1.E5 ∙ Nature of the Night
The attacker in a local slasher spree against blonde women is Johnny's troubled friend Dave (Dean Stockwell). Johnny quickly suspects the truth.
S1.E6 ∙ Viva, Paco!
When a racketeer calls Johnny's friend a cowardly, womanizing Puerto Rican, Johnny goes to Spanish Harlem to prove Paco hasn't bailed on his community and biggest boxing match of his life.
S1.E7 ∙ Evil
Johnny investigates the popular new preacher at the mission who's taken the life savings of at least one elderly local woman.
S1.E8 ∙ Murder in Hi-Fi
Waldo is forced to hire an attractive woman to sing at his club.
S1.E9 ∙ Fly Baby, Fly
A millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands).
S1.E10 ∙ Tempted
Fearing she is being followed, a beautiful blonde asks Johnny to accompany her as she delivers a valuable diamond necklace.
S1.E11 ∙ The Poet's Touch
A young poet is jarred sober when his friends go too far and unintentionally kill a man. In the days that follow, Johnny investigates the poet's own disappearance.
S1.E12 ∙ The Wild Reed
Johnny Staccato investigates an old college friend who is now playing a bad saxophone in a cheap joint.
S1.E13 ∙ A Piece of Paradise
Johnny helps his ex jockey friend who has been accused of killing a dance hall hostess.
S1.E14 ∙ The Return
Johnny narrowly misses a War vet pawning his Distinguished Service Cross for a handgun. The recently escaped mental patient has long intended to kill the wife he came to believe was betraying him while he was in Korea.
S1.E15 ∙ The Unwise Men
Hardworking family man, Tom (Jack Weston) is stressed by his ex-con older brother, Vic (Marc Lawrence). Vic wants Tom to endanger his straight life and help out on his latest criminal sure thing days before Christmas.
S1.E16 ∙ Collector's Item
Singer played by Ann Henry, is killed and two of her past lovers are the prime suspects.
S1.E17 ∙ The Man in the Pit
Johnny investigates who is blackmailing a Broadway actress and the death of a once great jazz legend.
S1.E18 ∙ The Only Witness
Johnny receives a telephone call from a wealthy playboy asking him to protect his sister, but before they meet the man is murdered.
S1.E19 ∙ Night of Jeopardy
A big time counterfeiter believes Johnny has his engraving plates. When he and Waldo are threatened Johnny is given 2 hours to find them.
S1.E20 ∙ Double Feature
Johnny is accused of a murder committed by a look-alike hit man.
S1.E21 ∙ The List of Death
Johnny helps a dying gangster disguised as a priest settle some old scores.
S1.E22 ∙ Solomon
High-profile attorney Solomon Bradshaw is desperate for a defense of his wealthy client Jessica Winthrop who is charged with murdering her husband. Bradshaw is utterly convinced of her innocence, yet Mrs. Winthrop refuses to answer any questions in her own defense, maintaining that it would violate her self-avowed pacifist ideals. Bradshaw intends to hire private detective Johnny Staccato to commit perjury in court and provide an alibi for Mrs. Winthrop. Johnny agrees on the condition that he is given the opportunity to meet Mrs. Winthrop first. In her holding cell, Johnny interrogates her and many shocking revelations are exposed.
S1.E23 ∙ An Act of Terror
Johnny solves the murder of a ventriloquists wife through his dummy.
S1.E24 ∙ An Angry Young Man
Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man starts working at a bookstore which is just a cover for a criminal enterprise.
S1.E25 ∙ The Mask of Jason
Johnny must protect an actress (Mary Tyler Moore) from a man with a scarred face.
S1.E26 ∙ A Nice Little Town
A lady friend asks Johnny to find out who beat her brother to death. No one is investigating the crime in the small town because they think he was a traitor.
S1.E27 ∙ Swinging Long Hair
A classical pianist and his wife defect to the USA after a concert. He gets a job playing jazz at Waldo's even though they are hiding from communist agents wanting to take them back.
