Peter Gunn — Season 3

Aired 3 October 1960

A sleepy passenger on a late night bus witnesses a man in a second story apartment strangling a woman. When a police investigation finds nothing,the man hires Gunn to find the killer-before the killer finds him.

Aired 10 October 1960

Gunn gets a frantic phone call from Norman Hartley and rushes to Hartley's home - only to find him dead.

Aired 17 October 1960

A gourmand gangster blows up his rival and a gourmet restaurant at the same time. The restaurant's cordon bleu owner helps Edie open her own supper club ("Edie's") and in return Gunn teams up with him to bring the mobster to justice.

Aired 24 October 1960

The candidate for Governor, Adrian Grimmett, runs on a no-taxes platform. Who could possibly want to assassinate him?

Aired 31 October 1960

On Halloween Arthur Merrill answers the door prepared to treat the youngsters - but one of them shoots him.

Aired 7 November 1960

Eddie Carson, a small time thug, is sure he's going to be bumped off. He tries to get Gunn to help him but the sleuth is unmoved until it's too late.

Aired 14 November 1960

Wealthy Sportsman Harley Bernard would like to know who murdered his stable manager. At first Gunn suspects Frank Rousseau, a gangster who once tried to get Wally to fix a race. The next suspect is a seven-foot giant who tries to strangle Gunn. After being rescued by Lt. Jacoby, Gunn visits TV exercise personality Jack LaLanne who identifies the tall man as the ""Great Gorza.""

Aired 21 November 1960

The Rico brothers' testimony was responsible for Matt Poliska's deportation, and when Dave Rico is shot, his dying word is Poliska. But Poliska's not supposted to be in the country.

Aired 28 November 1960

A convicted man being escorted to prison via the train is freed by a confederate. The man's wife contacts Gunn to hire him to recapture her husband. Due to him believing she tipped the police and caused his arrest, she fears her husband will kill her.

Aired 5 December 1960

Gunn is hired by the manager of teen idol Bobby Jeeter to payoff a blackmailer and find out who is doing the blackmailing.

Aired 12 December 1960

Detective Eddie Sellers comes clost to solving a two-million dollar robbery and pays with his life. His brother Cal, also a detective, is afraid he's next.

Aired 19 December 1960

A young boy tells Gunn that he saw his father beaten up during the night. But when Gunn calls the police, Sepi disappears.

Aired 26 December 1960

An eccentric employee executes a plan to make his bank employer institute a pension plan. He steals the cash in the vault and won't return it until they agree. But a mobster reads of the story and decides to kidnap him and take his money.

Aired 2 January 1961

A royal visitor, King Felix, is visiting the city and it's Jacoby's job to escort him through the city jail.

Aired 9 January 1961

Ed Stone is released from prison, met by a friend who gives him a gun and makes a call to Peter Gunn.

Aired 16 January 1961

Jacoby tells Gunn that he's going on vacation to some nice quiet place. Gunn tells Jacoby he's got just the place.

Aired 23 January 1961

A newspaper gossip column item leads to a noted author hiring Gunn to investigate his wife. But the author is murdered, so Gunn seeks to find the killer and starts by investigating the wife. Turns out she has more than one man in her life.

Aired 30 January 1961

A janitor and his wife see Police Sergeant Lee Davis enter their building and minutes later they hear two shots. They rush to the scene to find Sergeant Davis holding a gun over the body of a dead derelict.

Aired 13 February 1961

Kevin Daniels asks Gunn to prevent the murder of his mother.

Aired 20 February 1961

It's ""trick or treat"" night, and Arthur Merrill answers the door to a big surprise.

Aired 27 February 1961

A singer, who fifteen years before was found Not Guilty in the questionable shooting death of her gangster husband, hires Gunn to help with a blackmailer. Her psychiatrist was robbed of tapes made during analysis revealing the real story.

Aired 6 March 1961 • 30 min

Susan Neilson swims out to the deep end of her pool and drowns. Her swimming instructor, Phil Matterson, left her alone, poured himself a drink and ignored her cries for help.

Aired 13 March 1961 • 30 min

While ex-heavyweight champ Billy Cochrane is training for a comeback, an attempt is made on his life.

Aired 20 March 1961

A cab driver saves a woman from a beating and from being forced into a car by two thugs. Afterwards, she disappears while he goes for help. The cabby tells his friend Gunn about what happened and this leads into the search for a girl who is "trying to get lost". She is a witness against a top hood and is on his hit list.

Aired 27 March 1961

The gun used in a murder of a gangster is found in the possesion of a teenager.

Aired 3 April 1961

Ballet dancer Nico Belurin escapes from a home for the mentally ill.

Aired 10 April 1961

A racketeer is beaten to death and a woman hires Gunn to find out if her old flame, a Korean War hero, was responsible. Lt. Jacobi knows the man, who has been an out-patient for being manic-depressive for years. Meanwhile, a fellow mobster is worried he may be blamed for the kill and wants to force Gunn to clear his name.

Aired 24 April 1961

The biggest Racket Man in town is out on bail and "blows up". Or did he? The hood's bondsman out $100,000 hires Gunn to find out. A derelict who disappeared with a $90,000 winning Irish Sweepstakes ticket may figure in the case.

Aired 1 May 1961

An unhinged female admirer of Gunn kills to prove it. First is a hood who threatened Gunn. Next is his lowlife brother. Gunn must prove he's not the killer and find out who's next before the hood brothers' father takes revenge.

Aired 8 May 1961

Edward Candell is scheduled to die for the murder of his wife Leona. Tommy McDonald is surprised to hear the verdict - he just saw Leona.

Aired 15 May 1961

Clinton Hobart, former movie great, is trying to make a comeback. But hard-driving young producer Les Murdock isn't making matters any easier for the old fellow.

Aired 22 May 1961

Gunman Frank Dineen never objected to killing people for money. This time, however he's going to do a job for himself.

Aired 29 May 1961

Gambling man Paul Mitchell and the son of an American diplomat in Acapulco, is show and wounded while leaving his home.

Aired 5 June 1961

Lisa Randolph's well-groomed appearance belies the turmoil of her emotions - as Gunn discovers when he is asked to prevent her from committing suicide.

Aired 12 June 1961

Golf instructor Gil Manson is accused by the police of being a hit and run driver. Manson insists he was giving a golf lesson at the time of the accident, but his pupil has mysteriously disappeared.

Aired 19 June 1961

Abel Gunther a small-time Haitian sugar-cane grower, blames the death of his wife on the spirit world. He has a more praticial explanation for another of his worries - his cane fields have been leveled by fire.

Aired 26 June 1961

A man named Paul Condon calls the police and tells them where a cache of stolen jewels can be found. But before any more information can be passed on - Condon is shot down.

Aired 18 September 1961

Cesar Carlyle, a very rich man, hires Gunn to find certain documents which, if made public, could ruin him. Seems the papers were stolen and the theif wants a good deal of money for their return.