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
A sleepy passenger on a late night bus witnesses a man in a second story apartment strangling a woman. When a police investigation finds nothing,the man hires Gunn to find the killer-before the killer finds him.
Guest stars Forrest Lewis, Rhys Williams
Episode 2
Gunn gets a frantic phone call from Norman Hartley and rushes to Hartley's home - only to find him dead.
Guest stars Margarita Cordova, Dianne Foster
Episode 3
A gourmand gangster blows up his rival and a gourmet restaurant at the same time. The restaurant's cordon bleu owner helps Edie open her own supper club ("Edie's") and in return Gunn teams up with him to bring the mobster to justice.
Guest stars Luis van Rooten
Episode 4
The candidate for Governor, Adrian Grimmett, runs on a no-taxes platform. Who could possibly want to assassinate him?
Guest stars Lloyd Corrigan, Alexander Lockwood, Yuki Shimoda, Ken Mayer
Episode 5
On Halloween Arthur Merrill answers the door prepared to treat the youngsters - but one of them shoots him.
Guest stars Joe E. Tata, George Eldredge
Episode 6
Eddie Carson, a small time thug, is sure he's going to be bumped off. He tries to get Gunn to help him but the sleuth is unmoved until it's too late.
Guest stars Wesley Lau
Episode 7
Wealthy Sportsman Harley Bernard would like to know who murdered his stable manager. At first Gunn suspects Frank Rousseau, a gangster who once tried to get Wally to fix a race. The next suspect is a seven-foot giant who tries to strangle Gunn. After being rescued by Lt. Jacoby, Gunn visits TV exercise personality Jack LaLanne who identifies the tall man as the ""Great Gorza.""
Guest stars Robert Warwick, Jack LaLanne, Tyler McVey, Jimmy Lydon, Ned Glass
Episode 8
The Rico brothers' testimony was responsible for Matt Poliska's deportation, and when Dave Rico is shot, his dying word is Poliska. But Poliska's not supposted to be in the country.
Guest stars Bert Freed, Henry Corden
Episode 9
A convicted man being escorted to prison via the train is freed by a confederate. The man's wife contacts Gunn to hire him to recapture her husband. Due to him believing she tipped the police and caused his arrest, she fears her husband will kill her.
Guest stars Roy Jenson
Episode 10
Gunn is hired by the manager of teen idol Bobby Jeeter to payoff a blackmailer and find out who is doing the blackmailing.
Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars Herb Vigran
Episode 11
Detective Eddie Sellers comes clost to solving a two-million dollar robbery and pays with his life. His brother Cal, also a detective, is afraid he's next.
Guest stars Regis Toomey
Episode 12
A young boy tells Gunn that he saw his father beaten up during the night. But when Gunn calls the police, Sepi disappears.
Guest stars Kent Taylor
Episode 13
An eccentric employee executes a plan to make his bank employer institute a pension plan. He steals the cash in the vault and won't return it until they agree. But a mobster reads of the story and decides to kidnap him and take his money.
Guest stars Howard Petrie, Howard McNear
Episode 14
A royal visitor, King Felix, is visiting the city and it's Jacoby's job to escort him through the city jail.
Guest stars Leonard Strong, Milton Parsons, Fred Sherman, Warren J. Kemmerling
Episode 15
Ed Stone is released from prison, met by a friend who gives him a gun and makes a call to Peter Gunn.
Guest stars Leonard Stone, Clegg Hoyt
Episode 16
Jacoby tells Gunn that he's going on vacation to some nice quiet place. Gunn tells Jacoby he's got just the place.
Where to watch Peter GunnEpisode 17
A newspaper gossip column item leads to a noted author hiring Gunn to investigate his wife. But the author is murdered, so Gunn seeks to find the killer and starts by investigating the wife. Turns out she has more than one man in her life.
Guest stars Richard Ney, Irene Hervey, Billy Barty
Episode 18
A janitor and his wife see Police Sergeant Lee Davis enter their building and minutes later they hear two shots. They rush to the scene to find Sergeant Davis holding a gun over the body of a dead derelict.
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Episode 19
Kevin Daniels asks Gunn to prevent the murder of his mother.
Guest stars Tommy Rettig, Hayden Rorke
Episode 20
It's ""trick or treat"" night, and Arthur Merrill answers the door to a big surprise.
Guest stars Norman Fell, Bruce Gordon
Episode 21
A singer, who fifteen years before was found Not Guilty in the questionable shooting death of her gangster husband, hires Gunn to help with a blackmailer. Her psychiatrist was robbed of tapes made during analysis revealing the real story.
Guest stars Pamela Britton
Episode 22
Susan Neilson swims out to the deep end of her pool and drowns. Her swimming instructor, Phil Matterson, left her alone, poured himself a drink and ignored her cries for help.
Guest stars William Bakewell, John Fiedler
Episode 23
While ex-heavyweight champ Billy Cochrane is training for a comeback, an attempt is made on his life.
Guest stars Ann Robinson, Herb Armstrong
Episode 24
A cab driver saves a woman from a beating and from being forced into a car by two thugs. Afterwards, she disappears while he goes for help. The cabby tells his friend Gunn about what happened and this leads into the search for a girl who is "trying to get lost". She is a witness against a top hood and is on his hit list.
Guest stars Barbara Stuart
Episode 25
The gun used in a murder of a gangster is found in the possesion of a teenager.
Guest stars Margarita Cordova, Eugene Iglesias
Episode 26
Ballet dancer Nico Belurin escapes from a home for the mentally ill.
Guest stars Abraham Sofaer
Episode 27
A racketeer is beaten to death and a woman hires Gunn to find out if her old flame, a Korean War hero, was responsible. Lt. Jacobi knows the man, who has been an out-patient for being manic-depressive for years. Meanwhile, a fellow mobster is worried he may be blamed for the kill and wants to force Gunn to clear his name.
Guest stars John Dierkes
Episode 28
The biggest Racket Man in town is out on bail and "blows up". Or did he? The hood's bondsman out $100,000 hires Gunn to find out. A derelict who disappeared with a $90,000 winning Irish Sweepstakes ticket may figure in the case.
Guest stars Al Christy, Owen Bush, Roy Jenson, Jean Willes, Russell Collins
Episode 29
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.
Guest stars Mary Sinclair
Episode 30
Edward Candell is scheduled to die for the murder of his wife Leona. Tommy McDonald is surprised to hear the verdict - he just saw Leona.
Guest stars David O. McCall
Episode 31
Clinton Hobart, former movie great, is trying to make a comeback. But hard-driving young producer Les Murdock isn't making matters any easier for the old fellow.
Guest stars Francis X. Bushman, Ross Elliott, Milton Selzer
Episode 32
Gunman Frank Dineen never objected to killing people for money. This time, however he's going to do a job for himself.
Guest stars Bert Remsen, Anna Navarro
Episode 33
Gambling man Paul Mitchell and the son of an American diplomat in Acapulco, is show and wounded while leaving his home.
Guest stars Linda Watkins
Episode 34
Lisa Randolph's well-groomed appearance belies the turmoil of her emotions - as Gunn discovers when he is asked to prevent her from committing suicide.
Guest stars Patric Knowles, Virginia Grey, J. Pat O'Malley, Ned Glass
Episode 35
Golf instructor Gil Manson is accused by the police of being a hit and run driver. Manson insists he was giving a golf lesson at the time of the accident, but his pupil has mysteriously disappeared.
Directed by Robert GistWritten by Steffi Barrett, Tony Barrett
Episode 36
Abel Gunther a small-time Haitian sugar-cane grower, blames the death of his wife on the spirit world. He has a more praticial explanation for another of his worries - his cane fields have been leveled by fire.
Guest stars Ronald Long, Al Ruscio
Episode 37
A man named Paul Condon calls the police and tells them where a cache of stolen jewels can be found. But before any more information can be passed on - Condon is shot down.
Guest stars Burt Mustin
Episode 38
Cesar Carlyle, a very rich man, hires Gunn to find certain documents which, if made public, could ruin him. Seems the papers were stolen and the theif wants a good deal of money for their return.
Guest stars Robert Gist
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
