Episode
Peter Gunn: The Comic
Overview
Convinced that his wife is trying to kill him, comedian Danny Holland comes to Peter Gunn for help.
Details
- Series
- Peter Gunn
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1959-10-12
Episode context
The Comic is Episode 4 in Season 2 of Peter Gunn. It aired on 1959-10-12.
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Episode 3: Edge of the Knife
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.
Episode 5: Death Is a Red Rose
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Crisscross
Bank Manager Poole places smoke bombs throughout the bank and then cleans out the bank.
Episode 6: The Young Assassins
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.
Episode 1: Protection
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.
Episode 7: The Feathered Doll
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.
Episode 8: Kidnap
Lt. Jacoby is kidnapped, Pete goes looking for him and finds suspects at every turn.
Episode 9: The Rifle
Janos Kolanski, an inventor goes to Pete for help. Apparently there is a faction after his plans, his invention a deadly rifle.
Episode 10: The Game
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.
Episode 11: The Price Is Murder
Two escaped convicts go after Peter Gunn, and the best way to do that is get his girl first.
Episode 12: The Briefcase
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.
Episode 13: Terror on the Campus
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.