''Peter Gunn'' is an American
private eye television series, starring
Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with
Lola Albright
Lola Jean Albright (July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017) was an American singer and actress, best known for playing the sultry singer Edie Hart, the girlfriend of private eye Peter Gunn, on all three seasons of the TV series ''Peter Gunn''.
Early ...
as his girlfriend, Edie Hart. The series aired on
NBC
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from September 22, 1958,
to 1960 and on
ABC
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** Disney–ABC Television ...
in 1960–1961.
The series was created by
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio s ...
, who, on occasion, was also writer (for 39 episodes) and director (for nine episodes).
''Peter Gunn'' is notable for being the first televised detective program whose character was created for television, instead of adapted from other media.
The series is probably best remembered today for its music, including the iconic "
Peter Gunn Theme
"Peter Gunn" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name. The song was the opening track on the original soundtrack album, ''The Music from Peter Gunn'', released in 1959. Mancini won an Emmy Award and t ...
", which was nominated for an
Emmy Award and two
Grammys
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for
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini ( ; born Enrico Nicola Mancini, ; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Award ...
. Subsequently it was performed and recorded by many jazz, rock and blues musicians. The progressive rock band
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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recorded the song adding
synthesizers. The series was number 17 in the
Nielsen ratings for the 1958–1959 TV season and number 29 for the 1960-61 TV season.
Plot
Peter Gunn is a suave, well-dressed
private investigator
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whose hair is always in place and who loves
cool jazz
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. Whereas other gumshoes are often coarse and vulgar, Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes. A contemporary article in ''
Life
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'' noted that Edwards "deliberately tailored the part after the famous movie smoothie
Cary Grant
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".
Gunn operates in a gloomy waterfront city, the name and location of which is not revealed in the series. He often visits Mother's, a smokey wharfside
jazz
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club that Gunn uses as his "office", usually meeting new clients there. Gunn has a reputation for integrity and being among the best investigators; he has many reliable informants and is well-connected. His reputation is so good, the police occasionally ask him for help or advice. He sometimes works cases out of state and occasionally out of the country. Gunn was observed in "Murder on the Midway" as "wearing $30 shoes, a $200 suit and carrying a solid gold cigarette lighter". Gunn drives a 1958 two-tone
DeSoto two-door hardtop in the first few episodes of the first season, then a 1959
Plymouth Fury
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convertible with a white top and a
car phone
A car phone is a mobile radio telephone specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile.
This service originated with the Bell System and was first used in St. Louis on June 17, 1946.
Overview
The original equipment weighed , and the ...
. In the third season Gunn drives a 1960 white Plymouth Fury convertible with a car phone, later changing to a 1961 Plymouth Fury convertible.
Gunn's girlfriend, Edie Hart (
Lola Albright
Lola Jean Albright (July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017) was an American singer and actress, best known for playing the sultry singer Edie Hart, the girlfriend of private eye Peter Gunn, on all three seasons of the TV series ''Peter Gunn''.
Early ...
), is a sultry singer employed at Mother's; she opens her own restaurant and nightclub in season 3, named Edie's. Gunn's pet name for Edie is "Silly".
Herschel Bernardi
Herschel Bernardi (October 30, 1923 – May 9, 1986) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his supporting role in the drama television series ''Peter Gunn'' (1958–1961) and his leading role in the comedy television serie ...
costarred as Lieutenant Jacoby, a somber police detective and friend of Gunn who works at the 13th Precinct. Occasionally he refers people to Gunn as clients. In 1959, Bernardi received his only
Emmy nomination for the role.
[ ]Hope Emerson
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Early life
Emerson was born in ...
appeared as Mother, who had been a singer and piano player in speakeasies
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Speakeasy bars came into prominence in the United States ...
during Prohibition
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. She received an Emmy nomination for the role.[ For the second season, Mother was played by ]Minerva Urecal
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, following the departure of Emerson for a starring role in ''The Dennis O'Keefe Show
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''. Associate producer Byron Kane portrayed Barney, the bartender at Mother's; Kane was not credited for playing this role. Bill Chadney appeared as Emmett, Mother's piano player. (Chadney and Albright were married in 1961.)
Both Billy Barty as pool hustler Babby and Herbert Ellis as Beat
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** Beat (police), the territory that a police officer patrols
** Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men
* Battery (c ...
bistro owner, painter, and sculptor Wilbur, appeared in several episodes as occasional "information resources", as "Mother" also often is. Capri Candela played Wilbur's girlfriend, Capri. Morris Erby had the recurring role of Sgt. Lee Davis during all three seasons of the show. Frequent director Robert Gist appeared as an actor in different roles in three episodes. James Lanphier portrayed Leslie the maitre d'hôtel at Edie's restaurant and nightclub during season 3.
Cast
* Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn
* Lola Albright
Lola Jean Albright (July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017) was an American singer and actress, best known for playing the sultry singer Edie Hart, the girlfriend of private eye Peter Gunn, on all three seasons of the TV series ''Peter Gunn''.
Early ...
as Edie Hart, a lounge singer and Pete's girlfriend
* Herschel Bernardi
Herschel Bernardi (October 30, 1923 – May 9, 1986) was an American actor and singer. He is best known for his supporting role in the drama television series ''Peter Gunn'' (1958–1961) and his leading role in the comedy television serie ...
as Lieutenant Jacoby, a police detective and friend of Gunn
* Hope Emerson
Hope Emerson (October 29, 1897 – April 24, 1960;) was an American actress, vaudevillian, nightclub performer, and strongwoman. An imposing person physically, she weighed between and stood tall in her prime.
Early life
Emerson was born in ...
as "Mother", a singer and piano player in speakeasies
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Speakeasy bars came into prominence in the United States ...
during Prohibition
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(Season 1)
* Minerva Urecal
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as "Mother" (Season 2)
* Byron Kane (uncredited) as Barney, the bartender
* Bill Chadney as Emmett, the piano player at Mother's
* Billy Barty as Babby, a pool hustler
* Herbert Ellis as Wilbur, beat
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Common uses
* Patrol, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area
** Beat (police), the territory that a police officer patrols
** Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men
* Battery (c ...
bistro owner, painter, and sculptor
* Capri Candela as Capri, Wilbur's girlfriend
* Morris Erby as police Sgt. Lee Davis (seasons 1-3)
* James Lanphier
James Lanphier was an American actor who did a variety of work for Blake Edwards. He portrayed Saloud in the 1963 film ''The Pink Panther'', and also appeared in films such as ''Darling Lili'' (1970) and the television series ''Peter Gunn'' (1958â ...
as Leslie, maître d' (season 3)
Frequent director Robert Gist appeared as an actor in different roles in three episodes.
Episodes
''Peter Gunn'' ran for three seasons starting in late 1958. A total of 114 episodes were produced during the three season run. ''Peter Gunn'' premiered on September 22, 1958 with the episode ''The Kill''. The first season ran from September 1958 through June 1959 and contained 38 episodes.[
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Origin of series
Edwards developed ''Peter Gunn'' from an earlier fictional detective that he had created. ''Richard Diamond, Private Detective
''Richard Diamond, Private Detective'' is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
Radio
Dick Powell starred in the ''Richard Diamond, Private Detective' ...
'' starred Dick Powell, and aired as a radio series from 1949 to 1953. David Janssen
David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer) (March 27, 1931February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series '' The Fugitive'' (1963–1967). Janssen also ...
later starred in the television adaptation from 1957 to 1960. It was this character's success which prompted his creator to revisit the concept as Peter Gunn. Edwards had earlier written and directed a ''Mike Hammer Michael Hammer or Mike Hammer may refer to:
*Michael Armand Hammer (1955–2022), American philanthropist and businessman
*Michael Martin Hammer (1948–2008), engineer and author
*Mike Hammer (character), a fictional hard boiled detective
** ''Mick ...
'' television pilot for Brian Keith
Brian Keith (born Robert Alba Keith, November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade career gained recognition for his work in films such as the Disney family film '' The Parent T ...
.
According to Blake Edwards, Gunn was "a present-day soldier of fortune who has found himself a gimmick that pays him a very comfortable living. The gimmick was trouble. People who had major trouble will pay handsomely to get rid of it, and Peter Gunn was a man who will not only accept the pay but do something about it. He knows every element of the city, from cops to crooks. He also, of course, has his soft side and will occasionally take on a charity job for free. But we'll never make the mistake of letting her diecatch him. Never."
For the part of Edie, Edwards said, "We toyed at first with the idea of getting a name singer. But we soon realized it would be impractical to have a name singer cast in what is primarily a straight dramatic role. It wouldn't be fair, either to the singer or the audience. Once that idea was discarded, my first thought was Lola Albright. Lola had been going along well but not terribly well, if you know what I mean. But I'd always felt she had a potential that had never really been tapped. She's sort of two beats off center in the way she talks and sings, and that's what we were looking for."
Henry Mancini said in 1992, "She was perfect casting for that role because she had an off-the-cuff kind of jazz delivery that was very hard to find."
Lola Albright said, "My whole career had been sort of ordinary. ''Peter Gunn'' changed all that." Albright said that Blake Edwards had her in mind from the outset, "But he had no idea I could sing. I had just recorded my first album."
In a 1993 interview, Craig Stevens talks about how he and co-star Lola Albright were hired for the show.
Initial plans called for the title of the program to be ''Gunn for Hire''. The change to ''Peter Gunn'' occurred after officials at Paramount Pictures complained that the title was similar to that of the 1942 Paramount film ''This Gun for Hire
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''.
Production
Besides those directed by Blake Edwards, other episodes were directed by Boris Sagal, Robert Gist
Robert Marion Gist (October 1, 1917 – May 21, 1998) was an American actor and film director.
Life and career
Gist was reared around the stockyards of Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression. Reform school-bound after injuring an ...
, Jack Arnold, Lamont Johnson
Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.
Early years
Johnson was born in Stockto ...
, Robert Altman (for one episode) and several others. A total of 114 thirty-minute episodes were produced by Spartan Productions. Season one was filmed at Universal Studios
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, while seasons two and three were filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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. Philip H. Lathrop and William W. Spencer were cinematographers
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on many episodes. Craig Stevens' wardrobe was tailored by Don Richards and Lola Albright's fashions by Emeson's for 2 episodes (The Vicious Dog, The Blind Pianist) and by Jax for the remainder of the episodes. Wardrobe was not credited in episode 1, The Kill.
Music
The show's use of modern jazz music was a distinctive touch that helped set the standard for many years to come, with cool jazz
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themes accompanying every move Gunn made. The music, composed by Henry Mancini
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, was performed by a small jazz ensemble which included a number of prominent Los Angeles-based jazz and studio musicians. Trumpeter Pete Candoli
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Ca ...
, alto saxophonist Ted Nash, flutist Ronny Lang
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, trombonist Dick Nash
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He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and began playing brass instruments at ten. He became more interested in this a ...
, and pianist and future composer John Williams provided most of the improvised jazz solos. Williams plays the piano part on the title music ostinato.
Prominent jazz musicians occasionally made on-screen appearances. Trumpeter Shorty Rogers
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appeared in the episode titled "The Frog" playing flugelhorn as Lola sings "How High the Moon
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". Drummer Shelly Manne
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, in addition to performing on the soundtrack album, was credited with a Special Guest role in the 1959 episode "Keep Smiling" playing drums in the "Bamboo Club" combo. Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida
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plays guitar as himself in the 1959 episode "Skin Deep".
In his autobiography ''Did They Mention the Music?'' Mancini stated:
The "Peter Gunn Theme
"Peter Gunn" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name. The song was the opening track on the original soundtrack album, ''The Music from Peter Gunn'', released in 1959. Mancini won an Emmy Award and t ...
" became an instant hit, earning Mancini an Emmy Award nomination[ and two ]Grammys
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. The RCA Victor soundtrack album by Henry Mancini, ''The Music from Peter Gunn
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'', was voted Album of the Year at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards
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in 1959 and reached No. 1 in Billboard's Pop LP Charts. The popularity of this album prompted RCA Victor to issue a second Mancini album of ''Peter Gunn'' music titled ''More Music from Peter Gunn
''The Music from Peter Gunn'' is a soundtrack album to the TV series ''Peter Gunn'', composed and conducted by Henry Mancini, and released in 1959 on RCA Victor. It was the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 195 ...
''.[ Bandleader Ray Anthony's recording of the theme music reached No. 8 on Billboard's Hot 100. Shelly Manne recorded two jazz albums of themes from the show in 1959, '' Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn'' and '' Son of Gunn!!''.
"The Peter Gunn Theme" has been recorded and performed by numerous musicians.
In 2019 Jasmine Records released a CD combining both Henry Mancini soundtracks of ''The Music of Peter Gunn'' and ''More Music from Peter Gunn''.
The theme was also used in the '']Spy Hunter
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'' arcade video game, and has been used by the Kilgore College Rangerettes
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as the tryout music for their specialty jazz group since the 1960s.
Emmy nominations
The series was nominated for eight prime time Emmys without wins, all in 1959. They were for Best Dramatic Series - Less than One Hour, Craig Stevens as best lead actor in a drama, Herschel Bernardi as best supporting actor in a drama, Lola Albright and Hope Emerson as best supporting actress in a drama, Henry Mancini for best musical contribution to a television production, and Blake Edwards for best writing and direction of a single episode of a drama series.
Adaptations
The series made the transition to other media. An original novel and a comic book adaptation were published by Dell Publishing in 1960. The novel, entitled ''Peter Gunn: Murder to a Jazz Beat'', was written by Henry Kane. The 4-color comic book was Dell #1087, entitled "Peter Gunn", and had a photo cover with an introduction which said, "Pete tries to stop a postage stamp counterfeiter and gets a parcel of trouble - special delivery!" Lowell Toy Mfg. produced the "Peter Gunn Detective Game", a board game in 1960.
A feature film, ''Gunn Gunn may refer to:
Places
* Gunn City, Missouri, a village
* Gunn, Northern Territory, outer suburb of Darwin
* Gunn, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
* Gunn Valley, a mountain valley in British Columbia, Canada
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'', was released by Paramount Pictures in 1967, scripted by Edwards and William Peter Blatty
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and directed by Edwards with Stevens reprising the title role. A long-gestating ABC 90-minute pilot, ''Peter Gunn
''Peter Gunn'' is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend, Edie Hart. The series aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960–1961. The seri ...
'', aired in April 1989 was written, produced, and directed by Edwards and starred Peter Strauss
Peter Lawrence Strauss (born February 20, 1947) is an American television and film actor, known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s and 1980s. He is five-time Golden Globe Awards nominee.
Early life
Strauss was born in C ...
in the lead role, but the network failed to order a series despite strong ratings and reviews.
In 2001, Edwards and his son, Geoffrey, joined with producers Jeffrey Tinnell and John Michaels and writer Norman Snider in developing an updated television series, ''The New Peter Gunn'' for Muse Entertainment in Canada. The project fell through when producers John Woo
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and David Permut
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Early life and education
Permut was born in New York City, New York to a Jewish fa ...
began developing a big screen remake for Paramount
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with screenwriter W. Peter Iliff. ''Once Upon a Time in L.A.'' was pitched as a possible vehicle for John Travolta or Harrison Ford. Neither revival made it beyond the script stage.
TNT announced a new series was in development in May 2013 from producers Steven Spielberg, Julie Andrews, Lou Pitt, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank with writers Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner
Jeff Pinkner (born November 16, 1964) is an American television and movie writer and producer.
Life and career
Born to a Jewish family,[Josh Appelbaum
Josh Appelbaum is an American television writer, screenwriter, showrunner and producer.
Biography
Appelbaum is from a Jewish family.][André Nemec
André Nemec (born 1972) is an American writer, showrunner and producer.
His screenplays include '' Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol'' and ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. He is also the co-creator of CBS's summer hit series ''Zoo'', as ...]
. The proposed series was not picked up for the 2014–2015 season.
In 2017, Paramount renewed its agreement with The Blake Edwards Estate with the intent of developing the property.
Media
From 1992 to 1996, Rhino Entertainment released various episodes of Peter Gunn on VHS cassettes. In 1999, Diamond Entertainment Corporation released a five-cassette set comprising ten episodes. Marathon Music & Video released a seven-cassette box set entitled "TV Cops and Private Eyes", in which an episode of Peter Gunn was included.
In 2002, A&E Home Video
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released two volume sets of ''Peter Gunn'' on DVD in Region 1, which comprise 32 episodes from Season One. These releases used edited-for-syndication versions of episodes.
Timeless Media Group
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released ''Peter Gunn – The Complete Series'' on DVD in Region 1 in 2012. The 12-disc set features all 114 episodes of the series, as well as a bonus CD of Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini ( ; born Enrico Nicola Mancini, ; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flautist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Award ...
's score, The Music from Peter Gunn
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