Johnny Staccato - Season 1
Johnny Staccato - Season 1
Johnny Staccato - Season 1
1959
Drama, Crime
TV Season
Season 1 - John Cassavetes stars as Johnny Staccato, a jazz pianist/private detective. The setting for many episodes is a Greenwich Village jazz club belonging to his friend, Waldo, played by Eduardo Ciannelli. The show featured many musicians, such as Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo, and Johnny Williams. Elmer Bernstein composed the main theme and Stanley Wilson was music supervisor. Cassavetes also directed some of the series episodes.
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Starring:
John Cassavetes
64 total credits
John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He appeared in many Hollywood films. He is most notable as a pioneer of American independent film. His films are noted for their use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style... (Wikipedia)
59 total credits
Eduardo Ciannelli has 59 credits at Criticker, including: Foreign Correspondent, Gunga Din, Houseboat, The Mummy's Hand and Marked Woman
Ratings & Reviews
The Naked Truth (1959)
- S1E1
A young singer's promising career is threatened by a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme. (imdb)
Murder for Credit (1959)
- S1E2
Johnny Staccato tracks down the killer of a bandleader who is being poisoned. (imdb)
The Parents (1959)
- S1E3
A young couple who have sold their unborn baby to an unscrupulous baby broker ask Johnny to help them keep their baby. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Nature of the Night (1959)
- S1E5
The attacker in a local slasher spree against blonde women is Johnny's troubled friend Dave (Dean Stockwell). Johnny quickly suspects the truth. (imdb)
Viva, Paco! (1959)
- S1E6
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. (imdb)
Evil (1959)
- S1E7
Johnny investigates the popular new preacher at the mission who's taken the life savings of at least one elderly local woman. (imdb)
Murder in Hi-Fi (1959)
- S1E8
Waldo is forced to hire an attractive woman to sing at his club. (imdb)
Fly Baby, Fly (1959)
- S1E9
A millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands). (imdb)
Tempted (1959)
- S1E10
Fearing she is being followed, a beautiful blonde asks Johnny to accompany her as she delivers a valuable diamond necklace. (imdb)
The Poet's Touch (1959)
- S1E11
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. (imdb)
The Wild Reed (1959)
- S1E12
Johnny Staccato investigates an old college friend who is now playing a bad saxophone in a cheap joint. (imdb)
A Piece of Paradise (1959)
- S1E13
Johnny helps his ex jockey friend who has been accused of killing a dance hall hostess. (imdb)
The Return (1959)
- S1E14
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. (imdb)
The Unwise Men (1959)
- S1E15
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. (imdb)
Cast & Info
Starring:
John Cassavetes 64 total credits
John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He appeared in many Hollywood films. He is most notable as a pioneer of American independent film. His films are noted for their use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style... (Wikipedia)
59 total credits
Eduardo Ciannelli has 59 credits at Criticker, including: Foreign Correspondent, Gunga Din, Houseboat, The Mummy's Hand and Marked Woman
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