Season 1 (1959)

The Naked Truth
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September 10, 1959 • 30m

A young singer is faced with the loss of his promising career because of a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.

Murder for Credit
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September 17, 1959 • 30m

A bandleader, making a comeback, learns that someone is trying to poison him. But four people might want him killed...

Parents
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September 24, 1959 • 30m

""The parents"" have agreed to sell their child to a black-market racketeer. Now they tell Johnny they want to keep the child.

Shop of the Four Winds
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October 8, 1959 • 30m

Investigating the murder of a Japanese friend, Johnny uncovers a scheme to swindle immigrants by promising them citizenship papers.

The Nature of the Night
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October 15, 1959 • 30m

Dave, the new young bartender at Waldo's, comes under suspicion when a number of blonde women are slashed nearby. Johnny uncovers ...Read more

Viva, Paco!
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October 22, 1959 • 30m

When a Puerto Rican boxer goes missing just before a championship fight, Johnny suspects foul play.

Evil
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October 29, 1959 • 30m

Johnny Staccato learns from his friend Barney that Barney's sister has given all her money to a local mission house. Knowing that ...Read more

Murder in Hi-fi
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November 5, 1959 • 30m

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.

Fly, Baby, Fly
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November 12, 1959 • 30m

Johnny is hired by tough-guy millionaire Guy Fletcher to transport a locked valise containing valuable gems to Arizona. Once aboar...Read more

Tempted
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November 19, 1959 • 30m

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 m...Read more

The Poet's Touch
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November 26, 1959 • 30m

Working on a murder case, Johnny Staccato trails two suspects to their hideout. With them is beatnik poet Dick Potter, whom the me...Read more

The Wild Reed
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March 24, 1960 • 30m

When Frankie Aspen's saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothering him.

A Piece of Paradise
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December 10, 1959 • 30m

A dance-hall girl is murdered, and Police Sergeant Joe Gillan suspects ex-jockey Stash McGill, a friend of the dead girl. Gillan a...Read more

The Return
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December 17, 1959 • 30m

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,

The Unwise Men
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December 24, 1959 • 30m

Johnny tries to help a musician who, while moonlighting as a department-store Santa Claus, is being pressured by his ex-con brothe...Read more

Collector's Item
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December 31, 1959 • 30m

A man called Red Top kills Hannah Green, but pianist Romeo Jefferson is the chief suspect until Staccato suspects that Romeo has been framed.

Man in the Pit
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January 7, 1960 • 30m

A young man enters Waldo's and attacks Pete, the trumpet player. Johnny Staccato learns that the youth thinks Pete is his father, ...Read more

The Only Witness
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January 14, 1960 • 30m

Wealthy racketeer Barney Buford calls Johnny Staccato to ask him to look after his young sister, Karen. As he approaches Buford's ...Read more

Night of Jeopardy
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January 21, 1960 • 30m

To evade Federal agents, a gang of counterfeiters hide their plates. Convinced that Waldo knows the hiding place, they threaten his life.

Double Feature
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January 28, 1960 • 30m

A bowling-alley proprietor is found murdered, and Johnny Staccato is identified as the killer.

The List Of Death
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February 4, 1960 • 30m

A hunted criminal hires Staccato as a bodyguard and promises to turn himself over to police in exchange for letting him visit family members.

Solomon
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February 11, 1960 • 30m

Jessica Winthrop, a noted pacifist, is accused of killing her husband. Solomon Bradshaw, the lady's lawyer, comes to Johnny Staccato for help.

An Act of Terror
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February 18, 1960 • 30m

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.

An Angry Young Man
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February 25, 1960 • 30m

Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man, whose family he has known for years, starts working in a bookshop that is ju...Read more

The Mask of Jason
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March 3, 1960 • 30m

Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly scarred face.

A Nice Little Town
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March 10, 1960 • 30m

When a former soldier returns home after having defected to Red China, he is murdered by a group of vigilantes.

Swinging Long Hair
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March 17, 1960 • 30m

Staccato is mistaken for a concert pianist who has come to the United States to avoid his repressive government.