7.5/1096 votes#1 - Protection
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.5/10111 votes#2 - Crisscross
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1959
Bank Manager Poole places smoke bombs throughout the bank and then cleans out the bank.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.5/1092 votes#3 - Edge of the Knife
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.6/10118 votes#4 - The Comic
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1959
Convinced that his wife is trying to kill him, comedian Danny Holland comes to Peter Gunn for help.
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: N/A
7.7/10102 votes#5 - Death Is a Red Rose
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
6.7/1096 votes#6 - The Young Assassins
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.4/1093 votes#7 - The Feathered Doll
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.7/1099 votes#8 - Kidnap
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1959
Lt. Jacoby is kidnapped, Pete goes looking for him and finds suspects at every turn.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.3/1090 votes#9 - The Rifle
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1959
Janos Kolanski, an inventor goes to Pete for help. Apparently there is a faction after his plans, his invention a deadly rifle.
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: N/A
7.5/1091 votes#10 - The Game
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.3/1088 votes#11 - The Price Is Murder
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1959
Two escaped convicts go after Peter Gunn, and the best way to do that is get his girl first.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.7/1094 votes#12 - The Briefcase
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1959
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.
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: N/A
7.2/1096 votes#13 - Terror on the Campus
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1959
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.5/1092 votes#14 - The Wolfe Case
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1959
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.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
7.7/1098 votes#15 - Hot Money
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1091 votes#16 - Spell of Murder
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1960
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.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
7.5/1090 votes#17 - The Grudge
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1960
An escapee from a mental hospital gives the Mayor an ultimatum, either commit suicide or a bomb will be detonated at the Civic Centre.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
7.3/1099 votes#18 - Fill the Cup
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1960
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.
Director: Boris Sagal
Writer: N/A
7.3/1098 votes#19 - See No Evil
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1960
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.
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: N/A
7.3/1086 votes#20 - Sentenced
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1960
Gunn is "Sentenced" to death for the murder of a clerk, but he escapes jail.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
7.5/10103 votes#21 - The Hunt
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1960
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.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
7.2/1084 votes#22 - Hollywood Calling
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/29/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10103 votes#23 - Sing a Song of Murder
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1960
Arnie Kelton musician and ex-convict, asks Gunn to investigate his wife's death.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
7.4/1090 votes#24 - The Long, Long Ride
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1082 votes#25 - The Deadly Proposition
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/21/1960
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.
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Peter Gunn Season 2
Every episode of Peter Gunn Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Peter Gunn Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Protection" is the best rated episode of "Peter Gunn" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 96 votes. Directed by Boris Sagal and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/1959. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Crisscross".