7.5/1068 votes#1 - The Naked Truth
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1959
A young singer is faced with the loss of his promising career because of a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1062 votes
#2 - Murder for Credit
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1959
A bandleader, making a comeback, learns that someone is trying to poison him. But four people might want him killed...
Director: John Cassavetes
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1053 votes
#3 - Parents
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1959
""The parents"" have agreed to sell their child to a black-market racketeer. Now they tell Johnny they want to keep the child.
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1034 votes
#4 - Shop of the Four Winds
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1959
Investigating the murder of a Japanese friend, Johnny uncovers a scheme to swindle immigrants by promising them citizenship papers.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1046 votes
#5 - The Nature of the Night
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1042 votes
#6 - Viva, Paco!
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1959
When a Puerto Rican boxer goes missing just before a championship fight, Johnny suspects foul play.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1050 votes
#7 - Evil
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1959
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.
Director: John Cassavetes
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1041 votes
#8 - Murder in Hi-fi
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1959
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.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1053 votes
#9 - Fly, Baby, Fly
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1959
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.
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1054 votes
#10 - Tempted
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1959
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
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
- 7.5/1038 votes
#11 - The Poet's Touch
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1959
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.
Director: Robert Parrish
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1038 votes
#12 - The Wild Reed
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/1960
When Frankie Aspen's saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothering him.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1036 votes
#13 - A Piece of Paradise
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1959
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.
Director: John Cassavetes
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1033 votes
#14 - The Return
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1959
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,
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1031 votes
#15 - The Unwise Men
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1959
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.
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1031 votes
#16 - Collector's Item
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/31/1959
A man called Red Top kills Hannah Green, but pianist Romeo Jefferson is the chief suspect until Staccato suspects that Romeo has been framed.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1029 votes
#17 - Man in the Pit
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1960
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.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Jameson Brewer
- 7.1/1028 votes
#18 - The Only Witness
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1960
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.
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: Robert L. Jacks
- 7.8/1035 votes
#19 - Night of Jeopardy
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1960
To evade Federal agents, a gang of counterfeiters hide their plates. Convinced that Waldo knows the hiding place, they threaten his life.
Director: John Cassavetes
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1038 votes
#20 - Double Feature
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1960
A bowling-alley proprietor is found murdered, and Johnny Staccato is identified as the killer.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
- 7.3/1026 votes
#21 - The List Of Death
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1960
A hunted criminal hires Staccato as a bodyguard and promises to turn himself over to police in exchange for letting him visit family members.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1038 votes
#22 - Solomon
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1960
Jessica Winthrop, a noted pacifist, is accused of killing her husband. Solomon Bradshaw, the lady's lawyer, comes to Johnny Staccato for help.
Director: John Cassavetes
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1028 votes
#23 - An Act of Terror
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1960
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.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
- 7.1/1029 votes
#24 - An Angry Young Man
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1960
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.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1036 votes
#25 - The Mask of Jason
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1960
Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly scarred face.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Johnny Staccato Season 1
Every episode of Johnny Staccato Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Johnny Staccato Season 1!
Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Naked Truth" is the best rated episode of "Johnny Staccato" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 68 votes. Directed by Joseph Pevney and written by N/A, it aired on 9/10/1959. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Murder for Credit".