The Naked Truth

September 10, 1959

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

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Johnny Staccato: Season 1 - 27 Episode s

1x1 - The Naked Truth
September 10, 1959
A young singer is faced with the loss of his promising career because of a scandal magazine's blackmail scheme.
1x2 - Murder for Credit
September 17, 1959
A bandleader, making a comeback, learns that someone is trying to poison him. But four people might want him killed...
1x3 - Parents
September 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.
1x4 - Shop of the Four Winds
October 8, 1959
Investigating the murder of a Japanese friend, Johnny uncovers a scheme to swindle immigrants by promising them citizenship papers.
1x5 - The Nature of the Night
October 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.
1x6 - Viva, Paco!
October 22, 1959
When a Puerto Rican boxer goes missing just before a championship fight, Johnny suspects foul play.
1x7 - Evil
October 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.
1x8 - Murder in Hi-fi
November 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.
1x9 - Fly, Baby, Fly
November 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.
1x10 - Tempted
November 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
1x11 - The Poet's Touch
November 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.
1x12 - The Wild Reed
March 24, 1960
When Frankie Aspen's saxophone-playing takes a sudden turn for the worse, Johnny determines to find out what is bothering him.
1x13 - A Piece of Paradise
December 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.
1x14 - The Return
December 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,
1x15 - The Unwise Men
December 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.
1x16 - Collector's Item
December 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.
1x17 - Man in the Pit
January 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.
1x18 - The Only Witness
January 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.
1x19 - Night of Jeopardy
January 21, 1960
To evade Federal agents, a gang of counterfeiters hide their plates. Convinced that Waldo knows the hiding place, they threaten his life.
1x20 - Double Feature
January 28, 1960
A bowling-alley proprietor is found murdered, and Johnny Staccato is identified as the killer.
1x21 - The List Of Death
February 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.
1x22 - Solomon
February 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.
1x23 - An Act of Terror
February 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.
1x24 - An Angry Young Man
February 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.
1x25 - The Mask of Jason
March 3, 1960
Johnny is hired to bodyguard an aspiring actress who is being terrorized by a man with a horribly scarred face.
1x26 - A Nice Little Town
March 10, 1960
When a former soldier returns home after having defected to Red China, he is murdered by a group of vigilantes.
1x27 - Swinging Long Hair
March 17, 1960
Staccato is mistaken for a concert pianist who has come to the United States to avoid his repressive government.

Johnny Staccato: All seasons

S1: Season 1
27 Episode s

1x1 - The Naked Truth

1x2 - Murder for Credit

1x3 - Parents

1x4 - Shop of the Four Winds

1x5 - The Nature of the Night

1x6 - Viva, Paco!

1x7 - Evil

1x8 - Murder in Hi-fi

1x9 - Fly, Baby, Fly

1x10 - Tempted

1x11 - The Poet's Touch

1x12 - The Wild Reed

1x13 - A Piece of Paradise

1x14 - The Return

1x15 - The Unwise Men

1x16 - Collector's Item

1x17 - Man in the Pit

1x18 - The Only Witness

1x19 - Night of Jeopardy

1x20 - Double Feature

1x21 - The List Of Death

1x22 - Solomon

1x23 - An Act of Terror

1x24 - An Angry Young Man

1x25 - The Mask of Jason

1x26 - A Nice Little Town

1x27 - Swinging Long Hair

S1: Season 1