Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42331 in DVD
• Brand: A&E
• Released on: 2002-03-26
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 400 minutes

From the Back Cover
Drier than a perfect martini. Cooler than a saxophone solo. Tough enough to win over the mob, the cops and the critics. Peter Gunn. Created and produced by Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther), Peter Gunn is the perfect American detective. Handsome. Smart. Two-fisted and straight-shooting. With a girlfriend who can melt butter at twenty yards, a network of informants throughout the LA underworld, a smoky jazz club to call home, an Emmy nomination and, of course, his own timeless Grammy®-winning theme written by the incomparable Henry Mancini.

Customer Reviews

A GREAT Series with POOR quality transfers!
Shame on A&E for using the syndicated masters on the series. In many cases hissy, 16mm prints with scratches in them. To make matters worse, the episodes are cut 22 minute syndicated versions. Another BIG disappointment. The packaging should have been the tip off here...COLOR pictures do exist from the series BUT so-so black and white shots used for the covers. This series deserves better!

Terrible quality, and episodes are cut!
Not only is the quality of the Peter Gunn episodes recently released by A&E substandard (it is more reminiscent of Madacy Video), the episodes are CUT, despite what it says on the box.

I was checking The Chinese Hangman for quality against the Rhino/Image laserdisc and noticed that some lines in one scene were missing, as follows.

[Cult leader Ahben Unesku is talking to Gunn about finding Joanna Lund, who absconded with money from his organization. The missing lines are in square brackets.]

Unesku: The funds were in safe keeping. Joanna and I were the only persons who had access to them.
Gunn: When did she disappear?
Unesku: Last week. [I held hope that perhaps she would return to us. I sought forgiveness for her in meditation. By her act she has desecrated the sacred duty. She's shattered the very tenets of the philosophy.]
Gunn: How long have you known Joanna?
Unesku: She came to us almost five years ago.
Gunn: Any relatives?
Unesku: Not to my knowledge.

Gunn: What about friends?
Unesku: WE were her friends.
Gunn: In other words, you want me to find a girl that could be anywhere. It's a large world, Mr. Unesku
[Unesku: Would you accept a thousand dollars?
Gunn: If I find Joanna and return her to you with the stolen funds...
Unesku: I would be greatly in your debt.
Gunn: There's no need for you getting in debt, Mr. Unesku, I'm sure we could settle on a figure right now.]
Unesku: (takes money from his sleeve) Shall we say a thousand dollars now and an additional two thousand when you find Joanna and the money?

Bulls-eye!
The best noir ever made for the small silver screen, this classy series exudes as much pizzazz today as in its heyday! The dark streets glisten with rain and neon, the nightclubs steam with sultry jazz and smokey-voiced women, and stalwart men stalk the unlit alleyways, shadowy docks, and hitman hideouts of the urban jungle. The storyline of each half-hour-slotted epidode is tight and to the point, but time is still taken to explore the relationahip between Gunn and his glib, glamourous girlfriend Edie, his matron-with-moxie chum Mother, and the dogged, job-bound Lt. Jacoby. The series has a timeless ambience. It oozes with hot, on-the-surface sexuality without being brazenly explicit, and the violence is palpably throbbing without being gratuitous or gorey. As terrific television, it's right on target!