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# Johnny Staccato: The Complete Series

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Johnny Staccato, starring legendary actor, writer and director John Cassavetes, first appeared on television in 1959, and although it lasted only 27 episodes, the unique mixture of big-city mystery-adventure and jazz left an indelible impression on a generation of TV viewers. Johnny Staccato (Cassavetes) is an ex-jazz musician/detective who would prefer to play the piano, relax on a beach, or just talk about life. At his home-away from home, Waldo's Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, Staccato is often joined at the piano by jazz musicians the likes of a young John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws), Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel, Red Norvo and Red Mitchell. Each week Staccato finds himself drawn into cases where his distaste for crime, criminals and injustice is put to the test. From his base at Waldo's, Staccato often finds himself following leads to Rome, Paris and beyond to find solutions to the puzzling cases he takes on. Guest stars include Michael Landon, Susan Oliver, Jack Weston, Alexander Scourby, Frank DeKova, Elizabeth Montgomery and many other notable Hollywood stars. Long absent from the small screen, this 3 DVD set of Johnny Staccato from Timeless Media Group and NBC brings you all 27 exciting episodes of this ground-breaking and important series, fully restored and re-mastered to fully capture the noir atmosphere of New York City in the 1950's!

Review: All that Jazz - First of all, I have to compliment Timeless Media on the quality of the recordings in their complete Johnny Staccato Box Set. I'm pretty well used to the somewhat poorly aged prints that dominate TV reruns and public domain video. Somebody put a lot of work into making Johnny Staccato a great release. The video and sound are great even on my old analog set. It was a pleasure to see and listen to. While some would complain about the lack of extras, I can't really expect many extras when we're dealing with a 51 year old show that was cancelled mid-season and where the star has been dead for 20 years. I'm thankful they got the show out and in such a beautiful form. It can be tempting to write Johnny Staccato off as merely a ripoff of Peter Gunn. After all, both Staccato and Gunn are New York P.I.'s that hang around the jazz scene. The big difference with Staccato is that jazz isn't just something he hangs around for information, but he's truly a part of it as a musician. The scenes of Staccato on the piano are priceless. The music of the lates 50s pulses through Johnny Staccato. In addition, every episode of Peter Gunn seems to end with at least two, and usually four dead bodies. Staccato often ended the show with no dead bodies. Cassavettes influence made Johnny Stacatto much more a Detective Drama than it did Peter Gunn's shooting gallery. Also, another big difference between Peter Gunn and Johnny Staccato is that while "Mother" in Peter Gunn seemed to exist in the story primarily as a plot device and the owner of Peter Gunn's favorite hangout, Waldo (Eduardo Ciannelli) who owns Johnny's favorite spot is a far more fleshed out and there's an almost father-son dynamic of their relationship. As a Private Detective, while Craig Stevens who played Peter Gunn looked and sounded like he was out of central casting for a detective hero, Cassavettes didn't have the look of a great detective hero. Perhaps, it was because I first saw him playing the murderer in the Columbo movie, "Etude in Black", but it took me a while to buy him as a hero. However, Staccato after a while Staccato's looks became a plus. Staccato was a Korean War Veteran who rarely became involved in cases for the money. He rushed off to help his friends and solve cases with little concern for fees. He was the proverbial knight in tarnished armor. According to the first episode, Johnny abandonned full-time piano playing for the life of a private eye when he realized he didn't have the talent to make it big. In the first episode, Johnny states he had turned in his musician's union card years before, but still seemed to play part-time at Waldo's. Staccato's cases occassionally fell under the category of "typical PI fare" such as in, "House of the Four Winds," where Johnny deals with trouble in Chinatown and "Night of Jeopardy," where Johnny shoots a counterfeiter and now the mob is after him for the plates. In "Act of Terror," Johnny is hired by a hypnotist to find his missing wife but Johnny becomes suspicious that the man (and his dummy) may know more than they're letting on. In these sort of rough and tumble situations, Staccato handled himself as well as any detective on television. Other episodes had far deeper dramatic and even moral meaning. In "Evil," Johnny takes on a huckster who is using a mission to scam people out oof money. This episode took a few clever turns. In, "Tempted," Johnny has a chance to take a beautiful woman and $200,000 necklace. In the, "Return," Johnny has to stop a Korean War Veteran who escaped from a mental hospital from killing his wife. In, "Solomon," Johnny is asked to commit perjury by the city's greatest defemse attorney in order to acquit a client the lawyer believes to be innocent. Of the first 23 episodes, I'd say 22 are are among the best half hour detective shows of the era (the exception to this being, "Double Feature" which added nothing to the silly "everyone has a double" plots that many shows just have to try.) It was towards the end of the run that the show began to fade. Cassavettes wanted out, and it began to show on the screen starting with, "An Angry Young Man" in which the story was weak and had Johnny unbelievably moving rhythmically to the polka. The show bounced back a bit with "The Mask of Jason" which featured a young Mary Tyler Moore as a beauty queen scared of an ugly man, but by the end of the episode, the audience has to wonder where the real ugliness lay. The last two episodes were straight downhill. In "A Nice Little Town," the writers go literally out of their way to make a political point, sending Johnny out of New York to a small town where a former U.S. soldier who had defected to the North Korean side had been murdered by two men in absurd masks. We then get to watch unlikable townfolks attack Johnny for not having an American name and for being either a commie or stupid. The episode concludes without Johnny capturing the killers, so that Johnny can make a speech to the strawman anti-communist town. Whether Cassavettes was concerned with making a political point, trying to impress avante garde activist types, or pushing the storyline in hopes that it would help the show get cancelled due to public outcry and get him out of his contract, or some combination of the three, we don't know. However, no record exists suggests that the episode played any part in Staccato's exit. The last episode of Johnny Staccato was, "Swinging Long Hair." The episode had some great music, but was one of the shabbiest shows of the series in terms of its writing. It ends with Stacatto remarking that one of the bad guys still needed to be killed but as someone else would have to do it as, "I've had it." Thus star and character bid farewell together. While the show's quick decline was sad to watch, the quality and greatness of the first 23 episodes make this set well worth owning and I'm glad that I do. Johnny Stacatto was a great show and there may have been more episodes if John Cassavettes had agreed.
Review: Cool vintage detective show - We enjoyed watching this series, we like the old detective TV shows.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B003Z3C728 |
| Actors  | Eduardo Ciannelli, Frank London, John Cassavetes |
| Aspect Ratio  | 1.33:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #31,952 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #5,122 in Drama DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (130) |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 14956709 |
| MPAA rating  | NR (Not Rated) |
| Media Format  | Black & White, Box set, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC |
| Number of discs  | 3 |
| Product Dimensions  | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 8.8 ounces |
| Release date  | September 1, 2020 |
| Run time  | 11 hours and 18 minutes |
| Studio  | Shout! Factory / Timeless Media |

## Product Details

- **Contributor:** Eduardo Ciannelli, Frank London, John Cassavetes
- **Format:** Black & White, Box set, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC
- **Genre:** Television, Television/Crime
- **Language:** English
- **Number Of Discs:** 3

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All that Jazz
*by A***M on February 28, 2011*

First of all, I have to compliment Timeless Media on the quality of the recordings in their complete Johnny Staccato Box Set. I'm pretty well used to the somewhat poorly aged prints that dominate TV reruns and public domain video. Somebody put a lot of work into making Johnny Staccato a great release. The video and sound are great even on my old analog set. It was a pleasure to see and listen to. While some would complain about the lack of extras, I can't really expect many extras when we're dealing with a 51 year old show that was cancelled mid-season and where the star has been dead for 20 years. I'm thankful they got the show out and in such a beautiful form. It can be tempting to write Johnny Staccato off as merely a ripoff of Peter Gunn. After all, both Staccato and Gunn are New York P.I.'s that hang around the jazz scene. The big difference with Staccato is that jazz isn't just something he hangs around for information, but he's truly a part of it as a musician. The scenes of Staccato on the piano are priceless. The music of the lates 50s pulses through Johnny Staccato. In addition, every episode of Peter Gunn seems to end with at least two, and usually four dead bodies. Staccato often ended the show with no dead bodies. Cassavettes influence made Johnny Stacatto much more a Detective Drama than it did Peter Gunn's shooting gallery. Also, another big difference between Peter Gunn and Johnny Staccato is that while "Mother" in Peter Gunn seemed to exist in the story primarily as a plot device and the owner of Peter Gunn's favorite hangout, Waldo (Eduardo Ciannelli) who owns Johnny's favorite spot is a far more fleshed out and there's an almost father-son dynamic of their relationship. As a Private Detective, while Craig Stevens who played Peter Gunn looked and sounded like he was out of central casting for a detective hero, Cassavettes didn't have the look of a great detective hero. Perhaps, it was because I first saw him playing the murderer in the Columbo movie, "Etude in Black", but it took me a while to buy him as a hero. However, Staccato after a while Staccato's looks became a plus. Staccato was a Korean War Veteran who rarely became involved in cases for the money. He rushed off to help his friends and solve cases with little concern for fees. He was the proverbial knight in tarnished armor. According to the first episode, Johnny abandonned full-time piano playing for the life of a private eye when he realized he didn't have the talent to make it big. In the first episode, Johnny states he had turned in his musician's union card years before, but still seemed to play part-time at Waldo's. Staccato's cases occassionally fell under the category of "typical PI fare" such as in, "House of the Four Winds," where Johnny deals with trouble in Chinatown and "Night of Jeopardy," where Johnny shoots a counterfeiter and now the mob is after him for the plates. In "Act of Terror," Johnny is hired by a hypnotist to find his missing wife but Johnny becomes suspicious that the man (and his dummy) may know more than they're letting on. In these sort of rough and tumble situations, Staccato handled himself as well as any detective on television. Other episodes had far deeper dramatic and even moral meaning. In "Evil," Johnny takes on a huckster who is using a mission to scam people out oof money. This episode took a few clever turns. In, "Tempted," Johnny has a chance to take a beautiful woman and $200,000 necklace. In the, "Return," Johnny has to stop a Korean War Veteran who escaped from a mental hospital from killing his wife. In, "Solomon," Johnny is asked to commit perjury by the city's greatest defemse attorney in order to acquit a client the lawyer believes to be innocent. Of the first 23 episodes, I'd say 22 are are among the best half hour detective shows of the era (the exception to this being, "Double Feature" which added nothing to the silly "everyone has a double" plots that many shows just have to try.) It was towards the end of the run that the show began to fade. Cassavettes wanted out, and it began to show on the screen starting with, "An Angry Young Man" in which the story was weak and had Johnny unbelievably moving rhythmically to the polka. The show bounced back a bit with "The Mask of Jason" which featured a young Mary Tyler Moore as a beauty queen scared of an ugly man, but by the end of the episode, the audience has to wonder where the real ugliness lay. The last two episodes were straight downhill. In "A Nice Little Town," the writers go literally out of their way to make a political point, sending Johnny out of New York to a small town where a former U.S. soldier who had defected to the North Korean side had been murdered by two men in absurd masks. We then get to watch unlikable townfolks attack Johnny for not having an American name and for being either a commie or stupid. The episode concludes without Johnny capturing the killers, so that Johnny can make a speech to the strawman anti-communist town. Whether Cassavettes was concerned with making a political point, trying to impress avante garde activist types, or pushing the storyline in hopes that it would help the show get cancelled due to public outcry and get him out of his contract, or some combination of the three, we don't know. However, no record exists suggests that the episode played any part in Staccato's exit. The last episode of Johnny Staccato was, "Swinging Long Hair." The episode had some great music, but was one of the shabbiest shows of the series in terms of its writing. It ends with Stacatto remarking that one of the bad guys still needed to be killed but as someone else would have to do it as, "I've had it." Thus star and character bid farewell together. While the show's quick decline was sad to watch, the quality and greatness of the first 23 episodes make this set well worth owning and I'm glad that I do. Johnny Stacatto was a great show and there may have been more episodes if John Cassavettes had agreed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cool vintage detective show
*by B***J on November 18, 2025*

We enjoyed watching this series, we like the old detective TV shows.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Swingin baby
*by J***N on February 12, 2011*

This show was too good for the early 60's televiwer. it tackles themes in a frank manner, that were heavier than normal for the time. addiction, and other criminal activity are presented in a manner that wouldn't cause a ripple now, but were ground breaking. halfway through the shows run the opening and theme were changed to the lead character justbeing a detective and less of a jazzman. great actual jazz musicians are featured, including John Williams who went on to Oscar winning fame, highly reccomended if you are "cool" enough

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