Johnny Staccato
5/5
Année : 1959
Nombre de saisons : 1
Durée moyenne d'un épisode : 30 minutes
Genre(s) :
Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.
Saisons
Saison 1
Épisodes
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Épisode 1 - The Naked Truth
10 septembre 1959
A young singer is faced with the loss of his promising career because of a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
Épisode 2 - Murder for Credit
17 septembre 1959
A bandleader, making a comeback, learns that someone is trying to poison him. But four people might want him killed...
Épisode 3 - Parents
24 septembre 1959
""The parents"" have agreed to sell their child to a black-market racketeer. Now they tell Johnny they want to keep the child.
Épisode 4 - Shop of the Four Winds
8 octobre 1959
Investigating the murder of a Japanese friend, Johnny uncovers a scheme to swindle immigrants by promising them citizenship papers.
Épisode 5 - The Nature of the Night
15 octobre 1959
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.
Épisode 6 - Viva, Paco!
22 octobre 1959
When a Puerto Rican boxer goes missing just before a championship fight, Johnny suspects foul play.
Épisode 7 - Evil
29 octobre 1959
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.
Épisode 8 - Murder in Hi-fi
5 novembre 1959
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.
Épisode 9 - Fly, Baby, Fly
12 novembre 1959
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.
Épisode 10 - Tempted
19 novembre 1959
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
Épisode 11 - The Poet's Touch
26 novembre 1959
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.
Épisode 12 - A Piece of Paradise
10 décembre 1959
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.
Épisode 13 - The Return
17 décembre 1959
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,
Épisode 14 - The Unwise Men
24 décembre 1959
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.
Épisode 15 - Collector's Item
31 décembre 1959
A man called Red Top kills Hannah Green, but pianist Romeo Jefferson is the chief suspect until Staccato suspects that Romeo has been framed.
Épisode 16 - Man in the Pit
7 janvier 1960
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.
Épisode 17 - The Only Witness
14 janvier 1960
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.
Épisode 18 - Night of Jeopardy
21 janvier 1960
To evade Federal agents, a gang of counterfeiters hide their plates. Convinced that Waldo knows the hiding place, they threaten his life.
Épisode 19 - Double Feature
28 janvier 1960
A bowling-alley proprietor is found murdered, and Johnny Staccato is identified as the killer.
Épisode 20 - List of Death
4 février 1960
Deported gangster Alieoto slips back into New York. He promises to surrender to the police if Johnny will be his bodyguard for one day during which he wants to arrange visits with his ex-wife, his old girlfriend, and his mother.
Épisode 21 - Solomon
11 février 1960
Jessica Winthrop, a noted pacifist, is accused of killing her husband. Solomon Bradshaw, the lady's lawyer, comes to Johnny Staccato for help.
Épisode 22 - An Act of Terror
18 février 1960
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.
Épisode 23 - An Angry Young Man
25 février 1960
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.
Épisode 24 - The Mask of Jason
3 mars 1960
Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly scarred face.
Épisode 25 - A Nice Little Town
10 mars 1960
When a former soldier returns home after having defected to Red China, he is murdered by a group of vigilantes.
Épisode 26 - Swinging Long Hair
17 mars 1960
Johnny becomes involved when a couple of mysterious gunmen mistake him for a concert pianist who is a refugee from an Eastern European country.
Épisode 27 - The Wild Reed
24 mars 1960
When Frankie Aspen's saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothering him.
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