Peter Gunn - Complete Season 2 - 5-DVD Box Set ( Gunn for Hire ) ( Peter Gunn - Complete Season Two )

Peter Gunn - Complete Season 2 - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Gunn for Hire
Alternate Title: Peter Gunn - Complete Season Two
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
970 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1958 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Boris Sagal
Tony Barrett

Written By:
Blake Edwards
Lewis Reed

Actors:
Craig Stevens ..... Peter Gunn
Lola Albright ..... Edie Hart
Herschel Bernardi ..... Lieutenant Jacoby
Minerva Urecal ..... Mother
Cyril Delevanti ..... The Owl
Val Avery ..... Hoodlum
Sheldon Allman ..... Clegg
Mickey Morton ..... Giant
Dale Van Sickel ..... Gunman
Bill Chadney ..... Emmett
Byron Kane ..... Barney (uncredited)

Synopsis:

Suave and sophisticated Peter Gunn was like nothing ever seen before on television. He was a new kind of private eye. While others hung out in rundown offices, living hand to mouth, Gunn held court at Mother's, a high class jazz club. Always ready to bust the bad guys - Gunn worked in a different way, associating with the underworld was all in a days work for the unorthadox private eye. Starring Craig Stevens as Gunn and Lola Albright as his girl, Edie - Peter Gunn was a highly-innovative and influential show. As well boasting Henri Mancini's hit theme song, it also featured witty dialogue, snazzy clothing and elaborate camerawork. Peter Gunn was a highly innovative and influential show. Created by Blake Edwards and featuring episodes written by Hollywood legend Robert Altman the second season continues the adventures of the first and best dressed private eye in the business.

Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Protection
Original Air Date-21 September 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."
Season 2, Episode 2: Crisscross
Original Air Date-28 September 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.
Season 2, Episode 3: Edge of the Knife
Original Air Date-5 October 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.
Season 2, Episode 4: The Comic
Original Air Date-12 October 1959
Danny Holland, a paranoid stand-up comedian (played by Shelley Berman) 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.
Season 2, Episode 5: Death Is a Red Rose
Original Air Date-19 October 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.
Season 2, Episode 6: The Young Assassins
Original Air Date-26 October 1959
Gunn takes on a murderous gang of juvenile delinquents.
Season 2, Episode 7: The Feathered Doll
Original Air Date-2 November 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.
Season 2, Episode 8: Kidnap
Original Air Date-16 November 1959
Peter Gunn has two questions: Where is Lieutenant Jacoby, and who kidnapped him?
Season 2, Episode 9: The Rifle
Original Air Date-23 November 1959
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.
Season 2, Episode 10: The Game
Original Air Date-30 November 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.
Season 2, Episode 11: The Price Is Murder
Original Air Date-7 December 1959
Two inmates break out of prison. First item on their agenda: Kill Peter Gunn.
Season 2, Episode 12: The Briefcase
Original Air Date-14 December 1959
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!
Season 2, Episode 13: Terror on the Campus
Original Air Date-21 December 1959
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.
Season 2, Episode 14: The Wolfe Case
Original Air Date-28 December 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 are the mistress's connection to a local mobster.
Season 2, Episode 15: Hot Money
Original Air Date-4 January 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.
Season 2, Episode 16: Spell of Murder
Original Air Date-11 January 1960
The wife of a successful business 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.
Season 2, Episode 17: The Grudge
Original Air Date-18 January 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.
Season 2, Episode 18: Fill the Cup
Original Air Date-25 January 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.
Season 2, Episode 19: See No Evil
Original Air Date-1 February 1960
Season 2, Episode 20: Sentenced
Original Air Date-8 February 1960
Peter Gunn is convicted and given the Death Sentence for a bank robbery/murder he did not commit.After the sentencing and before being delivered to prison,Jacoby asks to see his old friend in his office.Gunn escapes and desperately looks for clues to what really happened.
Season 2, Episode 21: The Hunt
Original Air Date-15 February 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.
Season 2, Episode 22: Hollywood Calling
Original Air Date-29 February 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.
Season 2, Episode 23: Sing a Song of Murder
Original Air Date-7 March 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.
Season 2, Episode 24: The Long, Long Ride
Original Air Date-14 March 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.
Season 2, Episode 25: The Deadly Proposition
Original Air Date-21 March 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.
Season 2, Episode 26: The Murder Clause
Original Air Date-28 March 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.
Season 2, Episode 27: The Dummy
Original Air Date-4 April 1960
Gunn looks into the killing of a famous ventriloquist who's dummy is missing. One of the clues is especially baffling-the man would only work & live where there were two ways in and out.
Season 2, Episode 28: Slight Touch of Homicide
Original Air Date-11 April 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.
Season 2, Episode 29: Wings of an Angel
Original Air Date-18 April 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 the man disappears on the trip back to prison,Gunn and Jacoby know what is going to happen-a bank heist!
Season 2, Episode 30: Death Watch
Original Air Date-25 April 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.
Season 2, Episode 31: Witness in the Window
Original Air Date-2 May 1960
Gunn is hired by a lawyer to help get evidence against a female blackmailer. The woman is found dead, a suicide, and tied to the murder of her neighbor.
Season 2, Episode 32: The Best Laid Plans
Original Air Date-9 May 1960
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.
Season 2, Episode 33: Send a Thief
Original Air Date-16 May 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.
Season 2, Episode 34: The Semi-Private Eye
Original Air Date-23 May 1960
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.
Season 2, Episode 35: Letter of the Law
Original Air Date-30 May 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.
Season 2, Episode 36: The Crossbow
Original Air Date-6 June 1960
Season 2, Episode 37: The Heiress
Original Air Date-13 June 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.
Season 2, Episode 38: Baby Shoes
Original Air Date-27 June 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.

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