Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
Air date: 1960-10-03
Overview: A sleepy passenger on a late night bus witnesses a man in a second story apartment strangling a woman. When a police investigation finds nothing,the man hires Gunn to find the killer-before the killer finds him.
Air date: 1960-10-10
Overview: Gunn gets a frantic phone call from Norman Hartley and rushes to Hartley's home - only to find him dead.
Air date: 1960-10-17
Overview: A gourmand gangster blows up his rival and a gourmet restaurant at the same time. The restaurant's cordon bleu owner helps Edie open her own supper club ("Edie's") and in return Gunn teams up with him to bring the mobster to justice.
Air date: 1960-10-24
Overview: The candidate for Governor, Adrian Grimmett, runs on a no-taxes platform. Who could possibly want to assassinate him?
Air date: 1960-10-31
Overview: On Halloween Arthur Merrill answers the door prepared to treat the youngsters - but one of them shoots him.
Air date: 1960-11-07
Overview: Eddie Carson, a small time thug, is sure he's going to be bumped off. He tries to get Gunn to help him but the sleuth is unmoved until it's too late.
Air date: 1960-11-14
Overview: Wealthy Sportsman Harley Bernard would like to know who murdered his stable manager. At first Gunn suspects Frank Rousseau, a gangster who once tried to get Wally to fix a race. The next suspect is a seven-foot giant who tries to strangle Gunn. After being rescued by Lt. Jacoby, Gunn visits TV exercise personality Jack LaLanne who identifies the tall man as the ""Great Gorza.""
Air date: 1960-11-21
Overview: The Rico brothers' testimony was responsible for Matt Poliska's deportation, and when Dave Rico is shot, his dying word is Poliska. But Poliska's not supposted to be in the country.
Air date: 1960-11-28
Overview: A convicted man being escorted to prison via the train is freed by a confederate. The man's wife contacts Gunn to hire him to recapture her husband. Due to him believing she tipped the police and caused his arrest, she fears her husband will kill her.
Air date: 1960-12-05
Overview: Gunn is hired by the manager of teen idol Bobby Jeeter to payoff a blackmailer and find out who is doing the blackmailing.
Air date: 1960-12-12
Overview: Detective Eddie Sellers comes clost to solving a two-million dollar robbery and pays with his life. His brother Cal, also a detective, is afraid he's next.
Air date: 1960-12-19
Overview: A young boy tells Gunn that he saw his father beaten up during the night. But when Gunn calls the police, Sepi disappears.
Air date: 1960-12-26
Overview: An eccentric employee executes a plan to make his bank employer institute a pension plan. He steals the cash in the vault and won't return it until they agree. But a mobster reads of the story and decides to kidnap him and take his money.
Air date: 1961-01-02
Overview: A royal visitor, King Felix, is visiting the city and it's Jacoby's job to escort him through the city jail.
Air date: 1961-01-09
Overview: Ed Stone is released from prison, met by a friend who gives him a gun and makes a call to Peter Gunn.
Air date: 1961-01-16
Overview: Jacoby tells Gunn that he's going on vacation to some nice quiet place. Gunn tells Jacoby he's got just the place.
Air date: 1961-01-23
Overview: A newspaper gossip column item leads to a noted author hiring Gunn to investigate his wife. But the author is murdered, so Gunn seeks to find the killer and starts by investigating the wife. Turns out she has more than one man in her life.
Air date: 1961-01-30
Overview: A janitor and his wife see Police Sergeant Lee Davis enter their building and minutes later they hear two shots. They rush to the scene to find Sergeant Davis holding a gun over the body of a dead derelict.
Air date: 1961-02-13
Overview: Kevin Daniels asks Gunn to prevent the murder of his mother.
Air date: 1961-02-20
Overview: It's ""trick or treat"" night, and Arthur Merrill answers the door to a big surprise.
Air date: 1961-02-27
Overview: A singer, who fifteen years before was found Not Guilty in the questionable shooting death of her gangster husband, hires Gunn to help with a blackmailer. Her psychiatrist was robbed of tapes made during analysis revealing the real story.
Air date: 1961-03-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Susan Neilson swims out to the deep end of her pool and drowns. Her swimming instructor, Phil Matterson, left her alone, poured himself a drink and ignored her cries for help.
Air date: 1961-03-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: While ex-heavyweight champ Billy Cochrane is training for a comeback, an attempt is made on his life.
Air date: 1961-03-20
Overview: A cab driver saves a woman from a beating and from being forced into a car by two thugs. Afterwards, she disappears while he goes for help. The cabby tells his friend Gunn about what happened and this leads into the search for a girl who is "trying to get lost". She is a witness against a top hood and is on his hit list.
Air date: 1961-03-27
Overview: The gun used in a murder of a gangster is found in the possesion of a teenager.
Air date: 1961-04-03
Overview: Ballet dancer Nico Belurin escapes from a home for the mentally ill.
Air date: 1961-04-10
Overview: A racketeer is beaten to death and a woman hires Gunn to find out if her old flame, a Korean War hero, was responsible. Lt. Jacobi knows the man, who has been an out-patient for being manic-depressive for years. Meanwhile, a fellow mobster is worried he may be blamed for the kill and wants to force Gunn to clear his name.
Air date: 1961-04-24
Overview: The biggest Racket Man in town is out on bail and "blows up". Or did he? The hood's bondsman out $100,000 hires Gunn to find out. A derelict who disappeared with a $90,000 winning Irish Sweepstakes ticket may figure in the case.
Air date: 1961-05-01
Overview: An unhinged female admirer of Gunn kills to prove it. First is a hood who threatened Gunn. Next is his lowlife brother. Gunn must prove he's not the killer and find out who's next before the hood brothers' father takes revenge.
Air date: 1961-05-08
Overview: Edward Candell is scheduled to die for the murder of his wife Leona. Tommy McDonald is surprised to hear the verdict - he just saw Leona.
Air date: 1961-05-15
Overview: Clinton Hobart, former movie great, is trying to make a comeback. But hard-driving young producer Les Murdock isn't making matters any easier for the old fellow.
Air date: 1961-05-22
Overview: Gunman Frank Dineen never objected to killing people for money. This time, however he's going to do a job for himself.
Air date: 1961-05-29
Overview: Gambling man Paul Mitchell and the son of an American diplomat in Acapulco, is show and wounded while leaving his home.
Air date: 1961-06-05
Overview: Lisa Randolph's well-groomed appearance belies the turmoil of her emotions - as Gunn discovers when he is asked to prevent her from committing suicide.
Writer: Steffi Barrett
Air date: 1961-06-12
Overview: Golf instructor Gil Manson is accused by the police of being a hit and run driver. Manson insists he was giving a golf lesson at the time of the accident, but his pupil has mysteriously disappeared.
Air date: 1961-06-19
Overview: Abel Gunther a small-time Haitian sugar-cane grower, blames the death of his wife on the spirit world. He has a more praticial explanation for another of his worries - his cane fields have been leveled by fire.
Air date: 1961-06-26
Overview: A man named Paul Condon calls the police and tells them where a cache of stolen jewels can be found. But before any more information can be passed on - Condon is shot down.
Air date: 1961-09-18
Overview: Cesar Carlyle, a very rich man, hires Gunn to find certain documents which, if made public, could ruin him. Seems the papers were stolen and the theif wants a good deal of money for their return.
