TV series
Pete to his friends, Gunn to his enemies.
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
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Episode 1
Two thugs selling protection, if you don't pay for protection, you're blown up and permanently out of business. Gunn is hired by Mother when she runs into problems with The Owl.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Dale Van Sickel, Val Avery, Sheldon Allman
Episode 2
Bank Manager Poole places smoke bombs throughout the bank and then cleans out the bank.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Ted Knight, Johnny Seven, Sylvia Lewis
Episode 3
A distraught father is worried about his daughter, Ellen Majeski, who did time for four years as an accomplice in a robbery. Now after her release she has disappeared and her father hires Gunn to find her. The twist is that her father died when she was 4.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Vladimir Sokoloff, Phil Arnold, Jeanne Bates, Ben Wright, Hope Summers
Episode 4
Convinced that his wife is trying to kill him, comedian Danny Holland comes to Peter Gunn for help.
Directed by Blake EdwardsGuest stars Shelley Berman, Pete Candoli, Patricia Donahue
Episode 5
John Alastair is a desperate man and has a problem, he has hired Burnett to kill him but changes his mind. Unfortunately Burnett doesn't see it that way.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Vito Scotti, Don Keefer, Jesslyn Fax, Henry Beckman, Clegg Hoyt
Episode 6
Charlie Mays is on Death Row and his seventeen year old son is heading down the same old road as his dad. Charlie asks Pete for help in saving his son from himself.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Marc Cavell
Episode 7
Plainsclothes policeman Jay Madigan is found knifed on the docks near the carnival. Pete undercovers that the Shooting Gallery at the carnival is smuggling something in the dolls, heroin.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Tom Holland, John Marley, Peggy Maley, Emile Meyer, Eddie Firestone
Episode 8
Lt. Jacoby is kidnapped, Pete goes looking for him and finds suspects at every turn.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Don Diamond, Pete Candoli, Frank Albertson, Richard Bakalyan, Dick Crockett
Episode 9
Janos Kolanski, an inventor goes to Pete for help. Apparently there is a faction after his plans, his invention a deadly rifle.
Directed by Blake EdwardsGuest stars Paul Comi, Burt Mustin, Joseph Ruskin
Episode 10
Some jewels have been stolen, and an insurance man named Nickerman wants to pay the thieves to return them. So he hires Gunn to contact the crooks.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Vito Scotti, Sam Edwards, Walter Reed, Billy Barty
Episode 11
Two escaped convicts go after Peter Gunn, and the best way to do that is get his girl first.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Tenen Holtz, Dennis Patrick, J. Pat O'Malley, Hal Smith, Harry Tyler
Episode 12
Matthew Dunaway is killed on a train and his briefcase is stolen. Gunn is hired by Lavinia to find a man she claims is her husband and to find what is in the briefcase.
Directed by Blake EdwardsGuest stars Joe Sawyer, Barbara Stuart
Episode 13
Dean Norse hires Pete to find out what is happening on the campus, the girls are terrified with lights flickering off every night and the ringing of the bell tower which hasn't rung in over twenty years as well as a mysterious presence.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Peter Brocco, Anne Seymour, Charles Bateman, Anne Neyland
Episode 14
Nancy Fowler is murdered and Pete is hired to find out why. He finds that it's a setup for a bitter wife married to a wealthy older man to get his money.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Norma Crane, Phillip Pine
Episode 15
Willie Coronado is found dead in the dryer of a laundry mat. He was one of the men involved in a daring bank robbery involving one million dollars. Louis hires Pete to find out who killed his partner and to cut a deal with the DA's office for his involvement.
Guest stars Pamela Duncan
Episode 16
An attempt is made on Arnold Simpsons' life when he hires Gunn to find out who is blackmailing him. He tells Pete about a dig he was on with Frank Victor and how he abandoned him when the cave collapsed. Gunn is sent to the Blue Pheasant to pick up a parcel for Simpson and delivers it to him and is stunned when it goes off.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Malcolm Atterbury
Episode 17
An escapee from a mental hospital gives the Mayor an ultimatum, either commit suicide or a bomb will be detonated at the Civic Centre.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Robert Gist, Alexander Lockwood
Episode 18
Getty hires Gunn to help him to stop drinking, his daughter that he hasn't seen in fifteen years is coming to see him tomorrow and he wants to be sober for her. He begs Pete, tells him he's his last hope.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars John Pinette, John McIntire, Bill Quinn, Henry Corden
Episode 19
Cliffy, the blind newspaper vendor is afraid of Brenners who was convicted and escaped after his sentence has been given. He hires Pete to protect Cliffy from Al Brenners and his sidekick Springer.
Directed by Blake EdwardsGuest stars Benny Rubin, Jon Lormer, Walter Burke, Rand Brooks
Episode 20
Gunn is "Sentenced" to death for the murder of a clerk, but he escapes jail.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Don Brodie, Robert Ellenstein, George Eldredge, Ned Glass, John Frank
Episode 21
Two-thirds of this episode consists of a chase sequence without any dialog. Pete hears that he's marked for murder, but he refuses police protection. The killer finds Gunn alone in his apartment and forces him to take a nighttime ride into the desert.
Directed by Jack Arnold
Episode 22
Actor Frankie Burns is murdered on the set of a new movie. Gunn finds out that the crime was committed to cover up an old crime.
Guest stars Harry Lauter, Terry Frost, Sid Melton
Episode 23
Arnie Kelton musician and ex-convict, asks Gunn to investigate his wife's death.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Diahann Carroll, Stanley Adams, Dick Crockett
Episode 24
Someone is out to kill a former underworld boss, Joe Webber, back home after serving a lengthy prison term. Out of touch with the underworld, Webber hires Peter Gunn to find the identity of his would-be killer.
Guest stars Robert J. Wilke, Elisha Cook Jr.
Episode 25
Employee Arthur Cole accuses his boss of killing his wife and hires Gunn to prove it. There is a twist and it leads to the suspect being Cole instead.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars David White, Frank Maxwell, Anthony Eustrel
Episode 26
Pete is hired by trumpet player Bud Bailey's wife, she is accusing him of wanting to kill her for the insurance money.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars James Coburn, Sam Edwards
Episode 27
Ventriloquist Marvelous Marvon is found murdered after his act. Gunn is hired by Marcel Benoit to the find killer. Rinaldo his Dummy, turns out to be no dummy.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Wally Brown, Arlene Harris, Dick Beals
Episode 28
A little man with homemade bombs has been blowing up four or five gangsters at a clip. Now the mob boss' have hired Gunn to find the culprit.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Terence de Marney, Meg Wyllie, Howard McNear, Rusty Lane, Lillian Bronson
Episode 29
Charlie Barnes is arrested for bank robbery and is cut a break to attend his daughter's wedding with Gunn as his watchman and then disappears.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Lennie Weinrib, Sandy Kenyon, Robert Karnes
Episode 30
Paul Conlon, a school teacher, is grading papers at school when he hears a scream he goes to investigate and finds a dead girl. He hires Gunn to prove his innocence.
Guest stars Herbert Rudley, Frank Ferguson, Christopher Dark, Henry Corden
Episode 31
Pete is hired by Anthony Scott to locate Marion Venner who is blackmailing him after their affair ended. What he finds leads him to believe that the neighbor may have seen something and met with an unhappy demise.
Directed by Boris SagalGuest stars Eleanor Audley, Charles Aidman, Milton Parsons
Episode 32
There is an assassination plot against the Governor, and Pete tries to find out who is behind it to stop the scheduled assassination. The plot is a ruse for something even bigger as Jacoby and Gunn find out.
Guest stars Sterling Holloway, Forrest Lewis, Peter Whitney, Sandra Giles
Episode 33
A secretary has important papers that incriminate her boss and becomes frightened when attempts are made on her life, at least that's the story she gives Pete. The real story is that Lyles a bank robber offs two of his cohorts after looking for the key to the safe deposit book where the loot is.
Directed by Lamont JohnsonGuest stars Billy Barty
Episode 34
Eric gets himself a trench coat and a pretty secretary. Now he's ready to start his career as he bumbles his way around town and interferes with the police department he is called in by Janos Thorwald to bring in his easy mark of a son.
Directed by Gene ReynoldsWritten by Gene L. CoonGuest stars Edward Platt, Richard Reeves, Wendell Holmes
Episode 35
Nightclub Singer Julie Kent is murdered and the DA's son is the suspect, she also happens to be the ex-girlfriend of syndicate boss DeSantis.
Directed by Robert GistGuest stars Frank Overton, Stanley Adams, Carey Loftin, Andrew Prine, Robin Raymond
Episode 36
Gunn is hired by Mr. Copeland to find out who stole his antique crossbow and is using it to murder people.
Guest stars George Kennedy, Henry Daniell
Episode 37
Walter C. Gerard is prisoner in his own house, his daughter has paroled criminal Frank Loomis who now lives in the mansion and runs the show.
Directed by Robert GistGuest stars Ned Glass
Episode 38
A baby is dumped outside of Pete's apartment with a note attached asking Pete to take care of the baby. When a woman is gunned down Pete believes that she is somehow connected.
Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars Don 'Red' Barry, Billy Barty
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Craig StevensPeter Gunn
Lola AlbrightEdie Hart
Herschel BernardiLieutenant Jacoby
Hope EmersonMother
Minerva UrecalMother
Richard Ney
Margarita Cordova
Tom Holland
NBCUnited States
