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Peter Gunn Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
38 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
Protection
Mon, Sep 21, 195925 mins
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."
Episode 2
Crisscross
Mon, Sep 28, 195925 mins
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.
Episode 3
Edge of the Knife
Mon, Oct 5, 195925 mins
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.
Episode 4
The Comic
Mon, Oct 12, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 5
Death Is a Red Rose
Mon, Oct 19, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 6
The Young Assassins
Mon, Oct 26, 195925 mins
Gunn takes on a murderous gang of juvenile delinquents.
Episode 7
The Feathered Doll
Mon, Nov 2, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 8
Kidnap
Mon, Nov 16, 195930 mins
Peter Gunn has two questions: Where is Lieutenant Jacoby, and who kidnapped him?
Episode 9
The Rifle
Mon, Nov 23, 195930 mins
A Hungarian gunsmith who is designing a rifle, ostensibly to help underground freedom fighters in his own country, flees to the States to continue work on his project. He hires Gunn to protect him because "they [meaning Communists] have people everywhere." It turns out that the Commie agents are much closer to the man than he realizes.
Episode 10
The Game
Mon, Nov 30, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 11
The Price Is Murder
Mon, Dec 7, 195930 mins
Two inmates break out of prison. First item on their agenda: Kill Peter Gunn.
Episode 12
The Briefcase
Mon, Dec 14, 195930 mins
Gunn is hired by a woman to follow her "husband," but it turns out that this man is actually her partner in crime. Gunn's investigation leads to the local tax commissioner who is worried about the "lies" contained in a missing suitcase which will implicate him in scandal. This episode is a wacky mixture of suspense and comedy, including a scene where the woman ends up in Gunn's apartment dressed in his pajamas, just as Edie comes knocking at the door!
Episode 13
Terror on the Campus
Mon, Dec 21, 195925 mins
The dean of an all-girls school hires Gunn after a series of mysterious occurrences on campus, including a bell ringing after not being heard for 20 years and the electrical power suddenly going off and on. One of the co-eds has hot pants for Gunn, but also for one of the professors, who is a major suspect.
Episode 14
The Wolfe Case
Mon, Dec 28, 195925 mins
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.
Episode 15
Hot Money
Mon, Jan 4, 196025 mins
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.
Episode 16
Spell of Murder
Mon, Jan 11, 196025 mins
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.
Episode 17
The Grudge
Mon, Jan 18, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 18
Fill the Cup
Mon, Jan 25, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 19
See No Evil
Mon, Feb 1, 196030 mins
Cliffie Thomas hires Pete to protect him from recently convicted and even more recently escaped Al Brenners. Cliffie was blinded 10 years ago by Brenners and Vic Stringer. The police think Brenners left town, but Cliffie knows otherwise because he knows Stringer has visited his newsstand a couple times. Cliffie figures Brenners and Stringer will kill him because wherever Stringer is, Brenners can't be far away. Peter Gunn is Cliffie's key to remaining alive.
Episode 20
Sentenced
Mon, Feb 8, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 21
The Hunt
Mon, Feb 15, 196026 mins
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.
Episode 22
Hollywood Calling
Mon, Feb 29, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 23
Sing a Song of Murder
Mon, Mar 7, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 24
The Long, Long Ride
Mon, Mar 14, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 25
The Deadly Proposition
Mon, Mar 21, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 26
The Murder Clause
Mon, Mar 28, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 27
The Dummy
Mon, Apr 4, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 28
Slight Touch of Homicide
Mon, Apr 11, 196025 mins
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.
Episode 29
Wings of an Angel
Mon, Apr 18, 196025 mins
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 the man disappears on the trip back to prison,Gunn and Jacoby know what is going to happen-a bank heist!
Episode 30
Death Watch
Mon, Apr 25, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 31
Witness in the Window
Mon, May 2, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 32
The Best Laid Plans
Mon, May 9, 196030 mins
Gunn is tipped;the soon-to-be visiting Governor will be assassinated.When the rumor is shared with Lt. Jacoby,there is a doubt as to the validity of this information since it comes from Gunn's "coterie of misguided souls".Further investigation is even more puzzling-a gun is found but no sniper.
Episode 33
Send a Thief
Mon, May 16, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 34
The Semi-Private Eye
Mon, May 23, 196030 mins
Gunn is hired by a wealthy businessman to deter the man's son (an amateur detective) from trying to solve the case of a Investment Counselor who disappeared with a suitcase of money-and who murdered a cop and a Securities Investigator.The self-assured,yet bumbling,budding detective is unaware of the danger.
Episode 35
Letter of the Law
Mon, May 30, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 36
The Crossbow
Mon, Jun 6, 196025 mins
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?
Episode 37
The Heiress
Mon, Jun 13, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 38
Baby Shoes
Mon, Jun 27, 196025 mins
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.