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The Best Episodes of Peter Gunn Season 2

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Every episode of Peter Gunn Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Peter Gunn Season 2!

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...
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  • Slight Touch of Homicide
    8.0/10(91)
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    #1 - Slight Touch of Homicide

    Season 2 Episode 28

    Aired 4/11/1960

    A little man with homemade bombs has been blowing up four or five gangsters at a clip. Now the mob boss' have hired Gunn to find the culprit.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A

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  • Sing a Song of Murder
    7.9/10(103)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Send a Thief
    7.8/10(88)
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    #3 - Send a Thief

    Season 2 Episode 33

    Aired 5/16/1960

    A secretary has important papers that incriminate her boss and becomes frightened when attempts are made on her life, at least that's the story she gives Pete. The real story is that Lyles a bank robber offs two of his cohorts after looking for the key to the safe deposit book where the loot is.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A

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  • Death Is a Red Rose
    7.7/10(102)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Kidnap
    7.7/10(99)
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    #5 - 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

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  • The Briefcase
    7.7/10(94)
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    #6 - 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

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  • Hot Money
    7.7/10(98)
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    #7 - 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

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  • The Dummy
    7.7/10(90)
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    #8 - The Dummy

    Season 2 Episode 27

    Aired 4/4/1960

    Ventriloquist Marvelous Marvon is found murdered after his act. Gunn is hired by Marcel Benoit to the find killer. Rinaldo his Dummy, turns out to be no dummy.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Best Laid Plans
    7.7/10(95)
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    #9 - The Best Laid Plans

    Season 2 Episode 32

    Aired 5/9/1960

    There is an assassination plot against the Governor, and Pete tries to find out who is behind it to stop the scheduled assassination. The plot is a ruse for something even bigger as Jacoby and Gunn find out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Crisscross
    7.6/10(113)
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    #10 - 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

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  • The Comic
    7.6/10(118)
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    #11 - 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

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  • The Murder Clause
    7.6/10(95)
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    #12 - The Murder Clause

    Season 2 Episode 26

    Aired 3/28/1960

    Pete is hired by trumpet player Bud Bailey's wife, she is accusing him of wanting to kill her for the insurance money.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

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  • Wings of an Angel
    7.6/10(83)
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    #13 - Wings of an Angel

    Season 2 Episode 29

    Aired 4/18/1960

    Charlie Barnes is arrested for bank robbery and is cut a break to attend his daughter's wedding with Gunn as his watchman and then disappears.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Semi-Private Eye
    7.6/10(89)
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    #14 - The Semi-Private Eye

    Season 2 Episode 34

    Aired 5/23/1960

    Eric gets himself a trench coat and a pretty secretary. Now he's ready to start his career as he bumbles his way around town and interferes with the police department he is called in by Janos Thorwald to bring in his easy mark of a son.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Gene L. Coon

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  • Protection
    7.5/10(97)
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    #15 - 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

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  • Edge of the Knife
    7.5/10(93)
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    #16 - 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

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  • The Game
    7.5/10(91)
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    #17 - 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

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  • The Wolfe Case
    7.5/10(92)
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    #18 - 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

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  • The Grudge
    7.5/10(91)
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    #19 - 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

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  • The Hunt
    7.5/10(103)
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    #20 - 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

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  • The Deadly Proposition
    7.5/10(82)
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    #21 - 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

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  • The Feathered Doll
    7.4/10(93)
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    #22 - 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

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  • Death Watch
    7.4/10(84)
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    #23 - Death Watch

    Season 2 Episode 30

    Aired 4/25/1960

    Paul Conlon, a school teacher, is grading papers at school when he hears a scream he goes to investigate and finds a dead girl. He hires Gunn to prove his innocence.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Crossbow
    7.4/10(91)
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    #24 - The Crossbow

    Season 2 Episode 36

    Aired 6/6/1960

    Gunn is hired by Mr. Copeland to find out who stole his antique crossbow and is using it to murder people.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Rifle
    7.3/10(90)
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    #25 - 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

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Slight Touch of Homicide" is the best rated episode of "Peter Gunn" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 91 votes. Directed by Lamont Johnson and written by N/A, it aired on 4/11/1960. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Sing a Song of Murder".