Johnny Staccato

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A millionaire hires Johnny as part of a plan to murder his wife (Gena Rowlands).

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…

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

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

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

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 k…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ventriloquist Thad Clinton drops in to ask Staccato if he'll help locate his missing wife. Johnny finds out that the woman has been murdere…

Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man, whose family he has known for years, starts working in a bookshop that is just a cove…

Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress (Mary Tyler Moore) who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly scarred face.

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

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