1958

S2.E1 ∙ Protection

Sun, Sep 20, 1959

Thugs are terrorizing business people with their protection racket. When they drop in to Mother's, Mother tells them to take a hike. After the thugs return and trash her place, Peter Gunn tracks down the boss of the protection racket with the help of an old friend nicknamed "The Owl."

7.5 /10

S2.E2 ∙ Crisscross

Sun, Sep 27, 1959

A bank manager robs his own bank after disabling everyone with knockout gas. When the manager's co-conspirator escapes to Italy with the money, Gunn is hired to track the man down.

7.5 /10

S2.E3 ∙ Edge of the Knife

Sun, Oct 04, 1959

A man asks Peter Gunn to find his daughter who recently got out of prison after serving a stretch for four years for involvement in a robbery. Complicating Gunn's investigation is the fact that other people are also interested in the daughter's whereabouts, including her accomplice who she never identified after being caught.

7.5 /10

S2.E4 ∙ The Comic

Sun, Oct 11, 1959

Danny Holland, a paranoid stand-up comedian, is convinced that his wife of six years is trying to kill him. He hires Peter Gunn to investigate, but Gunn gets a completely opposite view of the marriage from the wife when he confronts her with her husband's fears.

7.6 /10

S2.E5 ∙ Death Is a Red Rose

Sun, Oct 18, 1959

A man takes out a contract on himself, so his family can collect on his life insurance policy, but when his money troubles suddenly disappear, he hires Peter Gunn to find and stop the hitman before he makes the hit.

7.7 /10

S2.E6 ∙ The Young Assassins

Sun, Oct 25, 1959

Gunn takes on a murderous gang of juvenile delinquents.

6.7 /10

S2.E7 ∙ The Feathered Doll

Sun, Nov 01, 1959

After a midway shooting gallery employee realizes that some of the prize dolls are being used for a sinister purpose, he asks Gunn for protection. His request is not as simple as it seems.

7.4 /10

S2.E8 ∙ Kidnap

Sun, Nov 15, 1959

Peter Gunn has two questions: Where is Lieutenant Jacoby, and who kidnapped him?

7.7 /10

S2.E9 ∙ The Rifle

Sun, Nov 22, 1959

A Hungarian gunsmith has designed a rifle, ostensibly to help freedom fighters in his country, flees to the States to continue work on his project. He hires Gunn to protect him from Commie agents. But the Commies are closer than realized.

7.3 /10

S2.E10 ∙ The Game

Sun, Nov 29, 1959

Peter Gunn learns that The Game is an insurance company that practices paying thieves off to recover the stolen loot because it's cheaper than settling a claim at full value.

7.5 /10

S2.E11 ∙ The Price Is Murder

Sun, Dec 06, 1959

Two inmates break out of prison. First item on their agenda: Kill Peter Gunn.

7.3 /10

S2.E12 ∙ The Briefcase

Sun, Dec 13, 1959

Gunn is hired by a woman to follow her "husband." Turns out the man is actually her partner in crime. Gunn's investigation leads to the tax commissioner. He is worried about the "lies" held in a missing briefcase that could implicate him.

7.7 /10

S2.E13 ∙ Terror on the Campus

Sun, Dec 20, 1959

Gunn is hired after some disturbing occurrences at an all-girls school including a steeple bell ringing that has no rope and the electricity going off and on. One girl has the hots for Gunn but also for a professor who is a major suspect.

7.2 /10

S2.E14 ∙ The Wolfe Case

Sun, Dec 27, 1959

Gunn is hired by the wife of a prominent lawyer who is convinced that her husband and his mistress are plotting to kill her. Complicating matters is the mistress's connection to a local mobster.

7.5 /10

S2.E15 ∙ Hot Money

Sun, Jan 03, 1960

After a body is found in one of his dryers, laundromat owner Louis Anza hires Gunn to make a deal for him to return $1,000,000 he and a partner stole eight months ago. The body in the dryer was his partner and he's scared he'll be next.

7.7 /10

S2.E16 ∙ Spell of Murder

Sun, Jan 10, 1960

The wife of a successful businessman hires Gunn to investigate after someone takes a shot at her husband. The prime suspect is the husband's former business partner who he abandoned during a mine collapse years before.

7.3 /10

S2.E17 ∙ The Grudge

Sun, Jan 17, 1960

Gunn is called in by Lt. Jacoby to deal with a psychotic bomber who has escaped from a mental institution and is threatening to cause major damage unless the mayor kills himself.

7.5 /10

S2.E18 ∙ Fill the Cup

Sun, Jan 24, 1960

An alcoholic hires Gunn to keep him off the sauce for 12 hours so he can sober up and put on a good appearance for his daughter, who is arriving on a plane the next day.

7.3 /10

S2.E19 ∙ See No Evil

Sun, Jan 31, 1960

After receiving a long sentence, gangster Al Brenners has escaped and is trying to lay low. He blinded newsstand man Cliffie ten years ago but now realizes that Cliffie can put the law on him. Fearful, Cliffie hires Pete for protection.

7.3 /10

S2.E20 ∙ Sentenced

Sun, Feb 07, 1960

Peter Gunn is convicted and sentenced to death for a bank robbery/murder he did not commit. After sentencing and before Gunn is delivered to prison, Lt. Jacoby asks to see him in his office. Gunn escapes and desperately looks for clues to what really happened.

7.3 /10

S2.E21 ∙ The Hunt

Sun, Feb 14, 1960

The local Syndicate heads pay a hitman to eliminate Peter Gunn.Despite being tipped off by Jacoby,Gunn is kidnapped and driven out to an abandoned mine to be killed.

7.5 /10

S2.E22 ∙ Hollywood Calling

Sun, Feb 28, 1960

A Hollywood movie company comes to town to shoot a film.When a bit player is killed the police shut down the production.Gunn is hired by the Producer to find out what happened.

7.2 /10

S2.E23 ∙ Sing a Song of Murder

Sun, Mar 06, 1960

Gunn is hired by a broken down musician to find his wife.She is supposed to be dead.Gunn discovers the truth does involve death.

7.9 /10

S2.E24 ∙ The Long, Long Ride

Sun, Mar 13, 1960

An old-style Mob Boss,who has recently returned from prison,hires Gunn to find out who wants him dead.His reason for wanting to know is more than it would seem.

7.3 /10

S2.E25 ∙ The Deadly Proposition

Sun, Mar 20, 1960

A man is paid to take the blame for the murder of his boss' wife and as part of the plan he hires Gunn to look into the death.Gunn finds evidence linking the man to the crime but it seems too pat-especially to Jacoby.

7.5 /10

S2.E26 ∙ The Murder Clause

Sun, Mar 27, 1960

Gunn is hired by a woman who is afraid her husband may kill her. When the husband, a famous musician, is found dead, the wife is the chief suspect - but the circumstances seem "out of key" to Gunn.

7.6 /10

S2.E27 ∙ The Dummy

Sun, Apr 03, 1960

Gunn looks into the killing of a famous ventriloquist whose dummy is missing. One of the clues is especially baffling-the man would only work and live where there were two ways in and out.

7.7 /10

S2.E28 ∙ Slight Touch of Homicide

Sun, Apr 10, 1960

Peter Gunn is hired by the local Syndicate Boss (who once put out a contract on Gunn) to find out who is killing Mob members.Gunn only takes the job to avoid a gang war,which could end up with innocent citizens being caught in the crossfire.

8 /10

S2.E29 ∙ Wings of an Angel

Sun, Apr 17, 1960

A prison warden asks Gunn to help in the rehabilitation of a veteran bank heist planner by escorting the man to his daughter's wedding. When he vanishes on the trip back to prison, Gunn and Jacoby know what's going to happen; a bank heist.

7.6 /10

S2.E30 ∙ Death Watch

Sun, Apr 24, 1960

A teacher working after regular school hours finds a female student dead in the gym locker room. He is presumed to be a murderer by the irate citizenry and, worried about his life and reputation,he contacts Peter Gunn for help.

7.4 /10

S2.E31 ∙ Witness in the Window

Sun, May 01, 1960

Peter Gunn is hired by a lawyer to help him deal with a lady blackmailer. But the woman is found dead, apparently by suicide. And a neighbor, an elderly woman who was watching from her window across the way, is also found dead.

7.3 /10

S2.E32 ∙ The Best Laid Plans

Sun, May 08, 1960

Gunn is tipped the soon-to-visit Governor will be assassinated. When shared with Jacoby there is a doubt since the information comes from Gunn's fringe contacts. Further investigation is even more puzzling; a sniper nest but no sniper.

7.7 /10

S2.E33 ∙ Send a Thief

Sun, May 15, 1960

Gunn is hired by a mystery woman to deliver a briefcase. A bigger mystery is what is in the briefcase and who will kill to get it? Lt. Jacoby and Gunn find the answers involve a "dead" man.

7.8 /10

S2.E34 ∙ The Semi-Private Eye

Sun, May 22, 1960

Gunn is hired by a businessman to deter his endangered son, a bumbling amateur detective, from trying to solve the case of a investment counselor who disappeared with a suitcase of money and murdered a cop and a securities investigator.

7.6 /10

S2.E35 ∙ Letter of the Law

Sun, May 29, 1960

Gunn is hired by the District Attorney,whose son is the chief suspect in the murder of a pretty gold-digger.Gunn is to find out the truth,one way or the other.The fact that she was once the girlfriend of a local mobster may/may not be a clue.

7.2 /10

S2.E36 ∙ The Crossbow

Sun, Jun 05, 1960

A man is killed by a sniper with a crossbow. Gunn has a client with a criminal record, an upper-crust clientele sensitive to scandal, and a collection of weapons that used to include a crossbow. It was stolen and the client, Copeland (Henry Daniell), wants Gunn to find the killer before the police find Copeland. There are three more killings, including one at the house of a judge whose groundskeeper Karl (George Kennedy) controls a large unfriendly dog. Question: how did the killer get past the dog?

7.4 /10

S2.E37 ∙ The Heiress

Sun, Jun 12, 1960

Gunn's job is to remove a gangster from a wealthy man's mansion. The millionaire's wacky daughter had an ex-mob boss paroled to her and now he is using the estate as a base of operations to rub out his enemies and regain power.

6.8 /10

S2.E38 ∙ Baby Shoes

Sun, Jun 26, 1960

A perplexed Gunn has a baby dumped on his doorstep. He finds the father is scheduled to testify against a crime czar who is hiding out until all witnesses are killed. Gunn sets himself up as a target to draw the mobster out into the open.

7.1 /10