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JOHNNY STACCATO
Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran
for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959
through March 24, 1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played
by John Cassavetes, is a jazz pianist/private detective. The setting
for many episodes is a Greenwich Village jazz club belonging to
his friend, Waldo, played by Eduardo Ciannelli. The show
featured many musicians, such as Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne,
Red Mitchell, Red Norvo, and Johnny Williams. Elmer Bernstein
composed the main theme and Stanley Wilson was music
supervisor. Cassavetes also directed some of the series episodes.
JOHNNY STACCATO was a pianist who sometimes played at
Waldo's, a Greenwich Village jazz hangout in 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.
The Naked Truth
Murder for Credit
The Parents
The Shop of the Four Winds
The Nature of the Night
Viva Paco
Evil
Murder in Hi Fi
Fly, Baby, Fly !
Tempted
The Poet's Touch
The Unwise Men
A Piece of Paradise
The Return
Collector's Item
Man in the Pit
The Only Witness
Night of the Jeopardy
Double Feature
The List of Death
Jessica Winthrop
An Act of Terror
An Angry Young Man
The Mask of Jason
A Nice Little Town
Swinging Longhair
The Wild Reed
Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran
for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959
through March 24, 1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played
by John Cassavetes, is a jazz pianist/private detective. The setting
for many episodes is a Greenwich Village jazz club belonging to
his friend, Waldo, played by Eduardo Ciannelli. The show
featured many musicians, such as Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne,
Red Mitchell, Red Norvo, and Johnny Williams. Elmer Bernstein
composed the main theme and Stanley Wilson was music
supervisor. Cassavetes also directed some of the series episodes.
JOHNNY STACCATO was a pianist who sometimes played at
Waldo's, a Greenwich Village jazz hangout in 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.
The Naked Truth
Murder for Credit
The Parents
The Shop of the Four Winds
The Nature of the Night
Viva Paco
Evil
Murder in Hi Fi
Fly, Baby, Fly !
Tempted
The Poet's Touch
The Unwise Men
A Piece of Paradise
The Return
Collector's Item
Man in the Pit
The Only Witness
Night of the Jeopardy
Double Feature
The List of Death
Jessica Winthrop
An Act of Terror
An Angry Young Man
The Mask of Jason
A Nice Little Town
Swinging Longhair
The Wild Reed
