Johnny Staccato

- Season 1

(1959)

A young singer's promising career is threatened by a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.

Johnny Staccato tracks down the killer of a bandleader who is being poisoned.

A young couple who have sold their unborn baby to an unscrupulous baby broker ask Johnny to help them keep their baby.

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.

The attacker in a local slasher spree against blonde women is Johnny's troubled friend Dave (Dean Stockwell). Johnny quickly suspects the truth.

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.

Johnny investigates the popular new preacher at the mission who's taken the life savings of at least one elderly local woman.

Waldo is forced to hire an attractive woman to sing at his club.

A millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands).

Fearing she is being followed, a beautiful blonde asks Johnny to accompany her as she delivers a valuable diamond necklace.

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.

Johnny Staccato investigates an old college friend who is now playing a bad saxophone in a cheap joint.

Johnny helps his ex jockey friend who has been accused of killing a dance hall hostess.

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.

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.

Singer played by Ann Henry, is killed and two of her past lovers are the prime suspects.

Johnny investigates who is blackmailing a Broadway actress and the death of a once great jazz legend.

Johnny receives a telephone call from a wealthy playboy asking him to protect his sister, but before they meet the man is murdered.

A big time counterfeiter believes Johnny has his engraving plates. When he and Waldo are threatened Johnny is given 2 hours to find them.

Johnny is accused of a murder committed by a look-alike hit man.

Johnny helps a dying gangster disguised as a priest settle some old scores.

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 solves the murder of a ventriloquists wife through his dummy.

Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man starts working at a bookstore which is just a cover for a criminal enterprise.

Johnny must protect an actress (Mary Tyler Moore) from a man with a scarred face.

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.

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.