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- 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.
- A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
- Willie Dante carries his shady history, and old-time buddies Biff and Stewart, into the operation of his legit San Francisco nightclub. Neither the cops nor the bad guys really believe he's done with the underworld however. Much humor.
- An anthology series starring Richard Boone as host and starred in about 50% of the shows. Each regular had parts in almost every episode and starred in at least one episode.
- This was a game based on the ability to predict whether or not your teammate could answer a question correctly. Two teams consisting of a contestant paired up with a celebrity were pitted against one another. The host would ask either team member a question. Before the team member answered, their teammate would predict whether or not they could answer correctly ("Can" or "Can't") and wager a certain amout of money. If the correct answer was given and a "Can" prediction was made, or if a wrong answer was given and a "Can't" prediction made, the team earned the amount of money wagered. If a correct answer was given and a "Can't" prediction was made, or if a wrong answer was given and a "Can" prediction was made, the amount of money wagered was deducted from the team's winnings.
- 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.
- 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?
- Ed Stone, a hard case whom Gunn helped send to prison, is paroled. Stone calls Gunn and lets the latter know he has little time to live. Ignoring Jacoby's suggestion to leave town, Gunn schemes to fight on his own turf.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- June Holton meets Michael Delak in his apartment. She refuses his sexual advances then a shot rings out killing Delak. The woman contacts Peter for assistance after someone tried to run her over. Gunn guesses there is more to the story and she finally admits witnessing the murder of Delak. She then admits she intended to kill Delak after his rejection of her sister led to her suicide. Gunn speaks to a number of people including Rector the newspaper man, all confirm Delak was extremely disliked and a known player of women's emotions. On Rector's suggestion Gunn goes to the apartment and is surprised by the gunman, a brief shootout occurs but the man escapes. Gunn confronts Rector who then admits to the murder triggered by his wife's affair with Delak
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- Mr. Bowers booby-traps his basement, electrocuting his wife when she turns on an overhead bulb. Next, the widower ties the knot with a mousy heiress, Maggie, whom he has seduced. While Edie warbles "when the lights start lighting the town", Maggie's quibbling older sisters, one controlling and their other daffy, along with their pince-nezed attorney James Bond, drive to Mother's in their antique Baker Electric car (c1913) to employ Gunn to investigate Bowers, whom they accurately suspect is only interested in Maggie's money. Gunn detects he's an ex-con blackmailer, but the new bride doesn't fret, although Bond warns her she'll be the next victim.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- A popular young boxer on his way up, Tony Triano, is shotgunned to death on a dark city street by professional hit men. His family is devastated - who would want the generous Tony dead ? Especially hard-hit is Tony's mediocre stablemate Gino, who Tony helped get fights. Tony's family hires Peter Gunn to find who killed Tony. When the drunken Gino comes to Mother's nightclub to meet with Gunn, he's waylaid and beaten by the hit men.
- 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.
- 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.
- A young boy "pays" Gunn to protect his father from unknown men who beat him up. After Gunn starts to investigate,the boy denies needing help. The father is found but denies having a son. Questions surround the boy's "Aunt and Uncle."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gunn is hired to deliver the body of a man's dead son to him in Mexico.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An unhinged female admirer of Gunn kills to prove it. First is a hood who threatened Gunn. Next is his lowlife brother. Gunn must prove he's not the killer and find out who's next before the hood brothers' father takes revenge.
- Luther Russ, a famous painter wakes to find two men breaking into his house to steal artwork. He confronts them only to be shot dead. A woman visits Gunn insisting he recover one of the stolen paintings. She has a theory the theft was the beginning of a blackmail attempt. She is a married woman having an affair with Russ. Gunn contacts Walter, a local dealer who was very familiar with Russ's work. Following up on a lead he finds his way to a waterside warehouse. He meets the men who have the paintings; Gunn discovers the mysterious woman is Elsa Keys, wife of State Senator. Peter then is made aware known gangster Frankie Barber is behind the blackmail attempt. The criminals decide to let Barber and Gunn bid on the painting. The deal goes wrong and a gun battle breaks out. The two criminals are killed but Barber and Gunn escape only to drive into a police roadblock. Barber is arrested and Gunn retrieves the painting
- Two inmates break out of prison. First item on their agenda: Kill Peter Gunn.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When master criminal Zondakes (Stevens) goes to prison for a three-year stretch, IRS agent Sidney Hagen (Morgan) is sure he can find the million dollars the crook has hidden away; but after two years, Zondakes is about to be released early and Hagen has come up empty. He's convinced that Zondakes stashed his money with a young waitress named Norma Jean Freiberger (Harding) who was a witness at Zondakes' trial and lives in mortal fear of him. Desperate, Hagen calls on young colleague Ray March (Stockwell) who specializes in romancing women to uncover tax frauds. Posing as an out-of-work musician, March uses his considerable charm on Norma Jean and succeeds in locating the missing money. Now, all that's left is capturing Zondakes red handed when he comes calling for his cash.
- A ballet dancer hires Gunn to find her old dancing partner who has recently broken out of a sanitarium. He holds a grudge against her and before being committed he had threatened her life. The girl's new beau, a gangster, vows he will kill the "sick boy" if he finds him before Gunn or the police do.
- Dante has to find out how an employee is photographing wealthy, married male customers with other women and then using the photos to try and blackmail them.