I've seen it on reruns before, but on Tubi you can conveniently find all the seasons of
Peter Gunn. the detective series created by Blake Edwards, known for it's iconic opening credits theme composed by Henry Mancini. Though the rest of the soundtrack is tops as well.
Peter Gunn, as played by Craig Stevens was like no other detective seen on TV or elsewhere at the time. While other (but not all) fictional private eyes conformed to the popular ideas of being loners living hand-to-mouth, hanging out in run down one-room offices, swilling whiskey and of course wearing rumpled trenchcoats, the suave, urbane Gunn hung out at his unofficial office which was Mother’s, a swanky jazz club on the waterfront of a big but never named Everytown USA kind of city, wearing his finest suits, making time with his girlfriend, singer Edie Hart (Lola Albright), drinking nothing more than an occasional tasteful martini.
The show features a strong cast, including Herschel Bernardi as Lieutenant Jacoby, Gunn's long-suffering contact and pal in the local police department.
Gunn was a highly-innovative and influential show, featuring tight writing, witty dialogue, snazzy wardrobes for the cast and elaborate camerawork for television of the time, especially in the half-hour format. Really in thirty minutes or less, an average episode would be displaying more private eye action that many sixty-minute shows would die for, through all three of the show's seasons (two on NBC, the third on ABC.)
