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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Air date: 1961-04-24
Air date: 1961-05-01
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.
