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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767043816
Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767043812
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Running Time: 400 minutes
Sales Rank: 19044
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1958
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Rating:  - The show that started the P.I. wave
Look up "cool" in the dictionary and you might get a picture of "Peter Gunn." This show started a wave of private eye/detective shows in the late 50's, "77 Sunset Strip," "Johnny Staccato," "Mike Hammer," "M Squad," and many others. Craig Stevens starred as "Peter Gunn," sort of a lesser Cary Grant -- but solid nonetheless. Lola Albright was a real dish as his squeeze. Throw in Emmy winner Herchel Bernardi as his Lt. pal, Hope Emerson as the 6'2 "Mother," and last, but surely not least, Henry Mancini's jazzy score and you have a real winner. The show ran first on NBC, then ABC, for a total of three season. The discs are a bit pricey, but you'll get some terrific retro stuff. The picture quality of the 50-year-old prints are not pristine (as you might imagine) but the sound quality is first-class. Highly recommended viewing for a chilly, rainy evening.
Rating: - "Blue is Just the Color of the Sea"
Long before Crockett and Tubbs, before Magnum and Dan Tanna, and before Tony Franciosa as Matt Helm or Mike Conners as Mannix, there was Peter Gunn. He was cool. He was the guy every girl wanted and every guy wanted to be like. He lived in a cool world of jazz and bad guys, and girls who needed his help. He had a cool and sexy girlfriend, a little on the sweet side. Some of his friends, like Lt. Jacoby, were squares. It somehow made Gunn even cooler, that you didn't have to be cool yourself to be his pal.
Craig Stevens was Peter Gunn and Lola Albright was his girl, Edie Hart. Hershel Bernardi was his cop pal Lt. Jocoby. Hope Emerson was "Mother." She ran the jazz joint Gunn frequented. Blake Edwards was the guy who dreamed up Peter Gunn in the first place. By accident, he ran into a guy by the name of Mancini while getting his hair cut, and the music Mancini would write for Gunn would change television forever. It would also begin a long and fruitful friendship that would give moviegoers and music lovers such classics as "Days of Wine and Roses" and "The Pink Panther."
While there is an occasional washed out look to these black and white episodes, the convenience of having so many great episodes on the two discs sort of makes up for the occasional lack of quality. Volume one contains great episodes like "Rough Buck" and "Streetcar Jones," while the second disc contains fabulous entries such as "Death House Testament." My favorite "Peter Gunn" episode of all time, "Lynn's ... Read More
Rating: - Essence of cool
Great entertainment from the fifties. Peter Gunn was the cool detective of his day. From the great opening theme to the fine cast of supporting and guest characters, this show is an institution from the golden days of television. In watching these episodes, it is hard to believe that they only run thirty minutes each rather than the hour long dramas we have become accustom to. Drop into Mother's for a nightcap, some cool jazz and good tv.
Rating:  - Peter Gunn
I was hoping this was going to be a lot cooler than it was. PETER GUNN has a solid reputation, the redoubtable Blake Edwards behind it as creator and, of course, Henry Mancini's justly famous, driving theme song. In this series set you get two disks covering the first 16 half-hour episodes of the show.
Anyway, here's what I learned from the first seven-hours (series set number two is in transit, but the mold was cast by episode two, and I don't think it's gonna change much.) PETER GUNN stars actor Craig Stevens in the title role. At certain angles Stevens is a dead ringer for Cary Grant, a fact not lost on the show's producers. Gunn is suave, cool, unflappable, and well dressed in the latest of late-`50's fashions. Each episode, which lasts about 25-minutes without commercials, begins with a crime or a scene of violence happening to someone we've never seen before. A girl falls through a swank nightclub skyline to her death, for instance. Opening credits and theme roll and Peter Gunn is soon drawn into the case. Gunn can usually be found at Mother's, a smoky jazz joint on the right side of the river run by `Mother,' played by the imposingly tall (6'2") Hope Emerson. Pretty Edie Hart (Lola Albright) is the lead singer at the club and, not surprisingly, Gunn's girlfriend. Rounding out the continuing cast is Herschel Bernardi as police Lieutenant Jacoby. For those who keep track of such things, Gunn has a cordial, respectful, and mutually supportive relationship with Jacoby. ... Read More
Rating: - Sophisticated television Noir
Craig Stevens is the poor man's Cary Grant--perfect for the small screen. The show is the epitome of 50's cool from the long cars with the big fins to the beat coffee houses,jazz clubs and interesting characters. For a half hour show the stories are fairly well rounded too. I only wish the episodes had been an hour long, but, alas, they were not. Our loss.
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