1958
TV-14
30m

Summary Peter Gunn is a private detective with a knack for finding trouble. His cases often mean he runs into the shadiest characters, most vicious thugs and the most powerful crime bosses. Cool and resourceful, he always gets the guilty party. View more details

1958
TV-14
30m

Peter Gunn

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Lola Albright Craig Stevens Herschel Bernardi Bill Chadney

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Genres : Action Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 21, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Spartan Productions

Details

Genres : Action Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 21, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Spartan Productions

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Craig Stevens and Jack LaLanne in Peter Gunn (1958)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 21, 1958

The Kill

A gang attempts to extort money from Mother. When she refuses to pay, the gang dynamites her club and critically injures its owner. The police investigation stalls so Gunn goes hunting for the man he holds responsible.

Episode 2 • Sep 28, 1958

Streetcar Jones

Gunn is hired by a jazz club owner to prove one of his musicians has been framed for murder, but the musician's lawyer doesn't want Gunn's assistance.

Episode 3 • Oct 05, 1958

The Vicious Dog

When newspaper editor George Walker is viciously attacked by a German shepherd, he calls on Peter Gunn to find out why, and his suspicions center on Carl Kane, a powerful and shady businessman. Gunn's path to the truth leads through late-night strong-arm meetings, a poetry-quoting bum and Walker's overly helpful assistant.

Episode 4 • Oct 12, 1958

The Blind Pianist

A suavely dressed man enters a nightclub late at night, carefully takes off his scarf and strangles a woman who is sitting at a table. The only other person in the nightclub is a blind pianist who hires his friend Gunn to get the murderer.

Episode 5 • Oct 19, 1958

The Frog

A low-level mobster, the Frog (Stubby Kruger), is stabbed on a dock and falls into a river. The Frog was to meet Gunn, who is jumped when he goes to Frog's home. Gunn kills his attacker, setting off a police investigation into the deaths.

Episode 6 • Oct 26, 1958

The Chinese Hangman

A young man enters his apartment and is immediately put into a sleeper hold by a huge assailant waiting inside, in the dark. The assailant hoists the victim into a hanging noose, and kicks a stool out from under him. The death is ruled a suicide. The giant is an assistant to Ahben Vanesku, a cult leader who hires Peter Gunn to find a female cult member who supposedly embezzled $ 200,000 from the cult. Gunn tracks the beautiful woman to Spain.

Episode 7 • Nov 02, 1958

Lynn's Blues

A young man rides an apartment building's elevator up, but another man has opened an upper floor elevator door with a knife, stopping the elevator, then jumps on the roof of the elevator, opens the escape door, and shoots the young man. After the murder Edie's friend Lynn Martel, also a nightclub singer, begins to drink uncontrollably. Edie asks Peter Gunn to help Lynn out, and Gunn discovers that Lynn's club is controlled by mobsters.

Episode 8 • Nov 09, 1958

Rough Buck

Episode 9 • Nov 16, 1958

Image of Sally

A man just released from prison hurries down a dark street, sees a patrolman, then breaks into a run. He runs to a warehouse, where he's attacked by a gunman. In the struggle, the assailant is killed. The ex-con hires Peter Gunn to find his girlfriend, to help the ex-con beat the murder charge. Police Lt. Jacoby confides to Gunn that the dead man is a hired killer, and the ex-con took the rap for a payroll robbery, from which the take was never found. Gunn tracks down the girlfriend, who has no interest in helping, because she has a new lover. He's the ex-con's partner - who didn't go to prison.

Episode 10 • Nov 23, 1958

The Man with the Scar

A man with a facial scar confronts a couple necking. A fight ensues and the young man shoots the attacker. The woman urges him to leave saying she "will take care of it." Turns out he's the son of a DA prosecuting a mobster. DA calls Gunn.

Episode 11 • Nov 30, 1958

Death House Testament

The sole survivor of an armored car hold-up sends for Gunn from his death row cell. The convict tells Pete how to find the $700,000 after Pete agrees to turn over the reward to his estranged daughter without telling her where it came from.

Episode 12 • Dec 07, 1958

The Torch

An old man in a suit and a younger man dressed in black set a fire on the roof of a building. As the flames shoot up, a huge young man emerges and throws the man in the suit into the fire. The murdered man co-owned the business which was torched, and his young widow is suspected of contracting his murder, so she hires Peter Gunn to investigate.

Episode 13 • Dec 14, 1958

The Jockey

A nightclub singer makes an unscheduled appearance on stage when she falls through a skylight. When the police rule her death accidental, her wealthy jockey boyfriend hires Peter Gunn to find the truth.

Episode 14 • Dec 21, 1958

Sisters of the Friendless

A car attempts to run down a young man walking a lonely highway. He flees to the woods and over a convent wall, striking his head. Later he is charged with murder but he doesn't recall what happened. Gunn is hired to uncover the alibi.

Episode 15 • Dec 28, 1958

The Leaper

A man on the ledge of a building asks, "What time is it?" Across the street, a sniper in a TV repairman's uniform shoots him with a rifle with silencer. The man was "The Human Fly." His widow hires Gunn to find out who killed him and why.

Episode 16 • Jan 04, 1959

The Fuse

A heavyset man trudges down a quiet neighborhood street, into a dark house, flips on the light-switch, spurring a large group of family and co-workers to yell "Surprise !" It's his birthday, and he generously volunteers to pick up the pizza for the celebration. He's the reform leader of a stevedores' union - when he switches on his car's ignition, the car explodes. The obvious suspect is a mobster who muscles into unions, so the gangster hires Peter Gunn to find the real killer, before the docks explode too.

Episode 17 • Jan 18, 1959

Let's Kill Timothy

A couple of safe-crackers realize too late that the lookout on their jewel store burglary is no longer looking out, he's absconded with the most valuable jewels. The double-crosser bursts into Mother's nightclub to beg Peter Gunn to protect a mysterious 4th conspirator, Timothy, who turns out to be a trained seal. Why would anyone want to kill Timothy?

Episode 18 • Jan 25, 1959

The Missing Night Watchman

Peter Gunn is hired by Quimby, a meek antiques store owner to track down a consignment of rare jewelry, before the arrogant collector finds out they've been stolen. The store's missing night-watchman is the obvious suspect, until he's fished out of the river with a round bullet in him - from a 1836 Colt.

Episode 19 • Feb 01, 1959

Murder on the Midway

At a carnival, a magician promises the audience he'll make his gorgeous assistant disappear - instead she plummets out of the mummy's coffin onto the stage, shot dead. The show's strongman hires Peter Gunn to protect her seductive roommate (Nita Talbot, the Russian spy on Hogan's Heroes), who dances in veils. Soon, Gunn needs protection from a jealous Edie.

Episode 20 • Feb 08, 1959

Pecos Pete

An assailant leaps Tarzan-style from a tree, murdering a wealthy rancher riding a horse. The victim's brother flies cross-country to hire Peter Gunn to disprove the Texas coroner's verdict of accidental death. The big city PI sticks out like a gun in a haystack compared to the suspiciously lackadaisical local sheriff, but Gunn rounds up a Texas-size line-up of prime suspects, who might turn and stampede him.

Episode 21 • Feb 15, 1959

Scuba

Working alone late at night, a marine salvage company owner grabs a revolver to follow gigantic footprints out of his office to a dock, where a frogman croaks him with a spear-gun. His co-owner, a huge, hulking frogman, claims he's too upset to talk to anybody - except his lawyer. A meek insurance adjuster hires Peter Gunn to solve a series of mysterious riverside robberies, so Gunn enlists a competing salvage diver, whose lily pad is a swinging tiki lair, complete with seductive hula dancers.

Episode 22 • Feb 22, 1959

Edie Finds a Corpse

After Edie discovers a male corpse in her shower, her finicky landlord threatens to break her lease. Leaving Lt. Jacobi to crack wise and console Edie, Peter Gunn pursues the killers, so she can stay and won't have an excuse to move in with him.

Episode 23 • Mar 01, 1959

The Dirty Word

At his posh soirée, a publisher sneaks off into the garden to conspire with a sleazy PI. Hiding in the bushes, a man in gloves plugs the publisher, tosses the revolver, then splits. The PI picks it up, just in time for the party-goers to spot him holding the gat, which turns out to be his. The PI hires Peter Gunn to clear him, but is too afraid to level with Gunn.

Episode 24 • Mar 08, 1959

The Ugly Frame

Late at night in an empty greasy spoon, a mug coolly kills the owner, but when the register yields only $14, he just shrugs and unscrews his silencer. The diner was Lt. Jacoby's teenage hangout, so he rabidly pursues the murderer, while struggling to prevent a mob leader from muscling in on Jacoby's side of the river. To help Jacoby, Peter Gunn pays diminutive pool shark Babby (Billy Barty) for a lead.

Episode 25 • Mar 15, 1959

The Lederer Story

As she's dying, a glamorous yacht owner staggers into Mother's, seeking out Peter Gunn. Gunn and Lt. Jacoby suspect she was poisoned and her husband pushed overboard - by her captain, maid, or butler (Sam Edwards, Little House on the Prairie's Bill Anderson) - who are all related, and overacting suspiciously. Gunn cases the yacht club for clues.

Episode 26 • Mar 22, 1959

Keep Smiling

A Murphy game blackmailing trio target lonely male bowlers from out-of-town, murdering an uncooperative one with a bowling ball. After his own tryst in the blackmailers' Poke Street love nest, bowling conclave organizer Woolrich (Jackie Coogan, Uncle Fester of "The Addams Family") hires Peter Gunn to nab the perps on the down-low. Gunn goes way undercover at Shelly's Manne-Hole, grooving to cool sounds by Shelly Manne & His Men. Drummer Manne's LP riffing on Henry Mancini's music from "Peter Gunn" hit the racks simultaneously with this episode. As a bow-tied hayseed from Springfield, Illinois, Gunn's ripe for picking by the female blackmailer (Mara Corday, a 1958 Playmate of the Month).

Episode 27 • Mar 29, 1959

Breakout

A phony priest totes a Bible into a prison cell and presents it to a convicted murderer. The hollow book contains a gun, which the killer uses to escape. Soon, Peter Gunn is hired by an accident victim cloaked in head bandages, to find his brother. At Mother's nightclub, while Edie chirps "Eisenhower's looks give me a thrill". Mother helps Gunn piece together that the missing "brother" is actually the escapee's robbery partner who kept the take, ducked the rap, and went to ground. The police join the hunt for the deceitful partner.

Episode 28 • Apr 05, 1959

Pay Now, Kill Later

England 1945: Working late, an arrogant textile scientist assures the failing factory's owner, Gregory Spain, he'll soon perfect his long-promised miracle fabric. After the owner heads home, the scientist urges a homeless man he just hired on to sweep out his lab, to try on one of the scientist's own suits, then knocks the janitor out and blows up the factory with a bomb. After serving 14 years for insurance fraud and for murdering the scientist, the factory owner traces the scientist, who framed him, to the U.S., where Spain hires Peter Gunn to flush his quarry out into his gun-sights.

Episode 29 • Apr 12, 1959

Skin Deep

A gorgeous heiress disappears. In reality, she was beaten to death while flirting on the phone. Her uptight sister hires Gunn to find her. He learns she lured wealthy men and used a lonely hearts bureau. Gunn gets a tip on a jilted gigolo.

Episode 30 • Apr 19, 1959

February Girl

Model June Holton meets Michael Delak in his apartment, intending to shoot him. When he forces himself upon her, she reaches for the gun, but someone else who is hiding in the kitchen shoots Delak. Edie brings Holton to Peter Gunn. Holton says that someone is trying to kill her; but Gunn knows she isn't telling the whole story. Gunn learns that Delak was a womanizer and a ladies' man who had many enemies. He sets out to find the killer.

Episode 31 • Apr 26, 1959

Love Me to Death

Older sisters seek Gunn's help when a woman with a shot at love ignores a mountain of evidence suggesting her man is anything but lovely.

Episode 32 • May 03, 1959

The Family Affair

B E Raleigh places something into a hidden wall safe before preparing for bed. As he rides a stair elevator an ax swings across in front of him almost sending him into cardiac arrest. Gunn arrives at the house at the request of Raleigh who explains he only has months to live, then shows Gunn a threatening letter from his nephew, Martin Raleigh, who had previously stolen money from Raleigh and gone to jail. Raleigh wants Martin found and stopped from completing his threat. Raleigh also explains his nephew was an accomplished guitarist. Talking to Raleigh's nurse, Gunn discovers Martin is concerned all his money will be left to Raleigh's assistant. While investigating the musician lead, Gunn gets a phone call in which Martin claims he's going to kill his uncle then himself. Treating the threat seriously Gunn races back to the house only to find Raleigh dead. Gunn continues his search, first locating Martin's rather odd girlfriend who gives Gunn Martin's address. Arriving he finds Martin dead, an apparent suicide. Gunn returns to Raleigh's house and surprises Mr. Collins, Raleigh's assistant. Gunn confronts him and accuses him of killing both men. Collins attacks Gunn. During the fight Collins falls in a letter opener and dies.

Episode 33 • May 10, 1959

Lady Windbell's Fan

A hearing-impaired man stabs a Chinese shop owner to death with a dagger, while Triad muscle go after a gorgeous dancer's fan, given to her for good luck. The dancer's fiancé hires Peter Gunn ("the king of finders-out") to change her luck. Is there a connection between the fan and the murderer, who adores The Green Dragon's star dancer?

Episode 34 • May 17, 1959

Bullet for a Badge

Jacoby goes for a night meeting with a tipster but it's a set-up and he is shot but lives. Gunn steps up and speaks to 2 informants but one is killed, the other scared off. The incorruptible Jacoby was up for promotion. Police involved?

Episode 35 • May 24, 1959

Kill from Nowhere

Louise Reardon is a wheelchair-bound woman with no enemies but she is lured to a window as a sniper's target. The obvious suspect is Joe Scully, an ex-con who is her nurse and in her will. But Louise, barely alive, hires Gunn to clear him.

Episode 36 • May 31, 1959

Vendetta

Two men barge into Mother's after hours. One positively identifies Edie and then shoots her in the shoulder saying "Tell Peter Gunn the 3 years are up." Gunn visits Edie in hospital and learns a man blames him for a 3 year prison sentence.

Episode 37 • Jun 07, 1959

The Coffin

Gunn is hired to deliver the body of a man's dead son to him in Mexico.

Episode 38 • Jun 14, 1959

The Portrait

Two men break into an artist's studio, assault him, and steal a portrait. Peter Gunn is approached by the wife of a State Senator; she wants him to recover that stolen painting. The portrait shows her in a compromising situation; it will be used for extortion/blackmail against that Senator. When Peter Gunn locates the painting, he is forced into a bidding war against the blackmailer.

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