Peter Gunn

Thugs are terrorizing business people with their protection racket. When they drop in to Mother's, she 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Gunn has two questions: Where is Lieutenant Jacoby, and who kidnapped him? Pete goes looking for him and finds suspects at every turn.

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.

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.

Two inmates break out of prison. First item on their agenda: Kill Peter Gunn. And the best way to do that is get his girl Edie first.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. Peter Gunn is Cliffie's key to remaining alive.

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.

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.

A Hollywood movie company comes to town to film a movie. When a bit player is killed the police shut down the production. Gunn is hired by the Producer to find out what happened.

Gunn is hired by broken down musician and ex-convict Arnie Kelton to find his wife who is supposed to be dead. Gunn discovers the truth does involve death.

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.

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.