Peter Gunn
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.
Cast:Craig Stevens , Herschel Bernardi , Lola Albright , Bill Chadney , Hope Emerson , Minerva Urecal , James Lanphier , Billy Barty , Morris D. Erby , Dick Crockett , Ned Glass , Herbert Ellis , Gene Coogan , Jack Perkins , Peter Mamakos , Henry Corden , Anthony De Mario , Frank Richards
S2.E1 ∙ Protection
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."
S2.E2 ∙ Crisscross
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.
S2.E3 ∙ Edge of the Knife
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.
S2.E4 ∙ The Comic
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.
S2.E5 ∙ Death Is a Red Rose
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.
S2.E6 ∙ The Young Assassins
Gunn takes on a murderous gang of juvenile delinquents.
S2.E7 ∙ The Feathered Doll
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.
S2.E8 ∙ Kidnap
Peter Gunn has two questions: Where is Lieutenant Jacoby, and who kidnapped him?
S2.E9 ∙ The Rifle
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.
S2.E10 ∙ The Game
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.
S2.E11 ∙ The Price Is Murder
Two inmates break out of prison. First item on their agenda: Kill Peter Gunn.
S2.E12 ∙ The Briefcase
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.
S2.E13 ∙ Terror on the Campus
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.
S2.E14 ∙ The Wolfe Case
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.
S2.E15 ∙ Hot Money
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.
S2.E16 ∙ Spell of Murder
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.
S2.E17 ∙ The Grudge
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.
S2.E18 ∙ Fill the Cup
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.
S2.E19 ∙ See No Evil
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.
S2.E20 ∙ Sentenced
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.
S2.E21 ∙ The Hunt
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.
S2.E22 ∙ Hollywood Calling
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.
S2.E23 ∙ Sing a Song of Murder
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.
S2.E24 ∙ The Long, Long Ride
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.
S2.E25 ∙ The Deadly Proposition
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.
S2.E26 ∙ The Murder Clause
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.
S2.E27 ∙ The Dummy
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.
S2.E28 ∙ Slight Touch of Homicide
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.
S2.E29 ∙ Wings of an Angel
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.
S2.E30 ∙ Death Watch
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.
S2.E31 ∙ Witness in the Window
Gunn is hired by a lawyer to help get evidence against a female blackmailer. The woman is found dead, an apparent suicide; the death is tied to the murder of her neighbor, an elderly woman happened to be at her own window at the wrong time.
S2.E32 ∙ The Best Laid Plans
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.
S2.E33 ∙ Send a Thief
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.
S2.E34 ∙ The Semi-Private Eye
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.
S2.E35 ∙ Letter of the Law
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.
S2.E36 ∙ The Crossbow
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?
S2.E37 ∙ The Heiress
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.
S2.E38 ∙ Baby Shoes
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.
