Peter Gunn - Season One

Don't mess around with Mother
Lots of fun standard 25 minute episodes where the problem arises in the first five minutes. Then the answer happens in about 15 to twenty minutes and it warps up with Peter played by Craig Stevens on top of the situation in 25 minutes. Most episodes we get to listen to songs sung by Lola Albright as Edie Hart. By the way Edie most of the time stubbles on to the scene at the most inappropriate moments. Why can't she just stay in the car or home?

Peter spends a lot of time hanging around Mom's place "Mothers" where he gets mysterious phone calls from the soon to be dead. We listen to quasi jazz tunes for the most part.

The theme song is by Henry Mancini.

It is still fun to watch and maybe fun to see the old time technology and hear antiquated speech. As for distracters complaining of quality of transfer, my DVD copy of these black and white episodes from 1958 looked much better on a large flat screen LED than the old TV broadcasts.

I...

early TV at its best
the theme song you've heard a million times, the jazz in the background, the smoky voiced singer who's head over heals in love with our hero, mr gunn. The mood, the setting, the lighting...TV noir at its best

Classic series.
Nice quality in the transfer. Each episode is great. The only thing is that each episode has to be started manually.

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