Episode
Peter Gunn: The Best Laid Plans
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Peter Gunn
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 32
- Air date
- 1960-05-09
Episode context
The Best Laid Plans is Episode 32 in Season 2 of Peter Gunn. It aired on 1960-05-09.
Previous / Next
Episode 31: Witness in the Window
Pete is hired by Anthony Scott to locate Marion Venner who is blackmailing him after their affair ended. What he finds leads him to believe that the neighbor may have seen something and met with an unhappy demise.
Episode 33: Send a Thief
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 30: Death Watch
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.
Episode 34: The Semi-Private Eye
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.
Episode 29: Wings of an Angel
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.
Episode 35: Letter of the Law
Nightclub Singer Julie Kent is murdered and the DA's son is the suspect, she also happens to be the ex-girlfriend of syndicate boss DeSantis.
Episode 28: Slight Touch of Homicide
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.
Episode 36: The Crossbow
Gunn is hired by Mr. Copeland to find out who stole his antique crossbow and is using it to murder people.
Episode 27: The Dummy
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.
Episode 37: The Heiress
Walter C. Gerard is prisoner in his own house, his daughter has paroled criminal Frank Loomis who now lives in the mansion and runs the show.
Episode 26: The Murder Clause
Pete is hired by trumpet player Bud Bailey's wife, she is accusing him of wanting to kill her for the insurance money.
Episode 38: Baby Shoes
A baby is dumped outside of Pete's apartment with a note attached asking Pete to take care of the baby. When a woman is gunned down Pete believes that she is somehow connected.