The Worst Episodes of Johnny Staccato
Every episode of Johnny Staccato ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Johnny Staccato!
Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Johnny Staccato" is "An Act of Terror", rated 6.3/10 from 28 user votes. It was directed by John Brahm and written by Bernard C. Schoenfeld. "An Act of Terror" aired on 2/18/1960 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "A Nice Little Town".
6.3/10 28 votes#1 - 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
- 6.5/10 39 votes
#2 - A Nice Little Town
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/10/1960
When a former soldier returns home after having defected to Red China, he is murdered by a group of vigilantes.
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10 42 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.0/10 34 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
- 7.1/10 28 votes
#5 - 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
- 7.1/10 29 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.3/10 46 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.3/10 53 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.3/10 33 votes
#9 - 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
- 7.3/10 29 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.3/10 38 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.3/10 26 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.4/10 31 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.5/10 68 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.5/10 53 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.5/10 49 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.5/10 38 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.5/10 38 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.5/10 31 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.6/10 41 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.6/10 36 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.7/10 61 votes
#22 - 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
- 7.7/10 28 votes
#23 - Swinging Long Hair
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/17/1960
Staccato is mistaken for a concert pianist who has come to the United States to avoid his repressive government.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 34 votes
#24 - 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
- 7.9/10 37 votes
#25 - 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