Episode
Peter Gunn: A Tender Touch
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Peter Gunn
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1960-12-26
Episode context
A Tender Touch is Episode 13 in Season 3 of Peter Gunn. It aired on 1960-12-26.
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