Season 1
27 episodes · Sep 10, 1959
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S1E1The Naked Truth
Sep 10, 195930mA young singer is faced with the loss of his promising career because of a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
S1E2Murder for Credit
Sep 17, 195930mA bandleader, making a comeback, learns that someone is trying to poison him. But four people might want him killed...
S1E3Parents
Sep 24, 195930m""The parents"" have agreed to sell their child to a black-market racketeer. Now they tell Johnny they want to keep the child.
S1E4Shop of the Four Winds
Oct 8, 195930mInvestigating the murder of a Japanese friend, Johnny uncovers a scheme to swindle immigrants by promising them citizenship papers.
S1E5The Nature of the Night
Oct 15, 195930mDave, 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.
S1E6Viva, Paco!
Oct 22, 195930mWhen a Puerto Rican boxer goes missing just before a championship fight, Johnny suspects foul play.
S1E7Evil
Oct 29, 195930mJohnny 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.
S1E8Murder in Hi-fi
Nov 5, 195930mAn 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.
S1E9Fly, Baby, Fly
Nov 12, 195930mA millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands).
S1E10Tempted
Nov 19, 195930mElizabeth 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
S1E11The Poet's Touch
Nov 26, 195930mWorking 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.
S1E12The Wild Reed
Mar 24, 196030mWhen Frankie Aspen's saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothering him.
S1E13A Piece of Paradise
Dec 10, 195930mA 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.
S1E14The Return
Dec 17, 195930mKorean 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,
S1E15The Unwise Men
Dec 24, 195930mJohnny 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.
S1E16Collector's Item
Dec 31, 195930mA man called Red Top kills Hannah Green, but pianist Romeo Jefferson is the chief suspect until Staccato suspects that Romeo has been framed.
S1E17Man in the Pit
Jan 7, 196030mA 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.
S1E18The Only Witness
Jan 14, 196030mWealthy 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.
S1E19Night of Jeopardy
Jan 21, 196030mTo evade Federal agents, a gang of counterfeiters hide their plates. Convinced that Waldo knows the hiding place, they threaten his life.
S1E20Double Feature
Jan 28, 196030mA bowling-alley proprietor is found murdered, and Johnny Staccato is identified as the killer.
S1E21The List Of Death
Feb 4, 196030mA hunted criminal hires Staccato as a bodyguard and promises to turn himself over to police in exchange for letting him visit family members.
S1E22Solomon
Feb 11, 196030mJessica Winthrop, a noted pacifist, is accused of killing her husband. Solomon Bradshaw, the lady's lawyer, comes to Johnny Staccato for help.
S1E23An Act of Terror
Feb 18, 196030mVentriloquist Thad Clinton drops in to ask Staccato if he'll help locate his missing wife. Johnny finds out that the woman has been murdered.
S1E24An Angry Young Man
Feb 25, 196030mJohnny 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.
S1E25The Mask of Jason
Mar 3, 196030mJohnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress (Mary Tyler Moore) who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly scarred face.
S1E26A Nice Little Town
Mar 10, 196030mWhen a former soldier returns home after having defected to Red China, he is murdered by a group of vigilantes.
S1E27Swinging Long Hair
Mar 17, 196030mStaccato is mistaken for a concert pianist who has come to the United States to avoid his repressive government.