JOHNNY STACCATO

1959-1960, NBC/ 1960 ABC (reruns)

27 30-minute episodes

Created by Dick Berg

Music: Elmer Bernstein

Producer: Everett Chambers

Executive Producer: William Frye

Starring

John Cassavettes

JOHNNY STACCATO

with

Eduardio Ciannelli as Waldo.

JOHNNY STACCATO was a pianist who sometimes played at Waldo's, a Greenwich Village jazz hangout in NYC. Staccato, a stylish, moody, TV show from 1959, that still remains a cult favorite. Johnny supplemented his income as a musician by taking on detective work, and otherwise sticking his nose in other people's business.

Most episodes were filmed on location in New York City.

Episodes In Broadcast Order:

DISC 1: 1.The Naked Truth; 2.Murder For Credit; 3.The Parents;

4. The Shop of Four Winds; 5.The Nature of the Night;

6. Viva Paco

DISC 2: 7.Evil; 8.Murder in Hi Fi; 9. Fly Baby Fly; 10. Tempted;

11. The Poet's Touch; 12. The Unwise Men

DISC 3: 13. A Piece of Paradise;

14. The Return;15. The Unwise Men; 16. Collector's Item;

17. Man in the Pit; 18. The Only Witness

DISC 4: 19. Night of Jeopardy; 20. Double Feature; 21. The List Of Death; 22. Solomon; 23. An Act of Terror;

24. An Angry Young Man

DISC 5: 25. The Mask of Jason; 26. A Nice Little Town; 27.. The Swinging Longhair