***SPOILERS*** In the first episode of the series "Peter Gunn" Peter Gunn, Craig Stevens, is off and running with him involved in trying to solve the murder of mob kingpin "Big Al" Fusary, Sam Scar, by a couple of rouge or phony cops who stopped him, even though he wasn't behind the wheel, for driving without a license! Attending the big man's, Fusary, funeral Gunn meets the person who had him whacked the up and coming just out of his diapers George Fallon, Gavin MacLoad, who tells Gunn he plans to run his good friend "Mother's", Hope Emerson, high class night club out of business and turn it into a sleazy combination gambling den and bordello. Amoug the other things that are going on in "Mother's" club is its star attraction the pretty and smoldering blond singer Edie Hart, Lola Albright, Gunn's personal squeeze who would end up, together with "Mother", losing her job if she refuses to work for Fallon:Just get a load of Edie's cool and sexy rendition of the song "Day In Day Out" which has to be the highlight of this inaugural "Peter Gunn" episode.
Gunn with the help of his policeman friend Let. Jacoby, Herschel "The Bird" Bernardi,try to prevent Fallon and his hoods from doing any harm or damage to "Mother" or her nightclub but they beat them to it by blowing the place up with a bomb set by Fallon's explosive expert Dave Green Jack Weston, that levels the place, while Gunn and Edie were in it, and put "Mother" on life support at a local hospital! Now having a personal stake in the matter Gunn takes the law into his own hands and after kidnapping and getting Green to confess his role in bombing "Mother's" joint has him thrown to the wolves, or the Fallon Mob, in them thinking that he ratted them out to the police.
***SPOILERS*** It' now up to the police lead by Let.Jacoby and Gunn to put an end to Fallon's totally incompetent and Mickey Mouse crime organization which completely fell apart after the murder, by Fallon's hoods, of mob boss "Big Al" Fusary who successfully ran the crime organization for over thirty years! While given the chance the babyish hot shot and snot nose Fallon couldn't even run it for more then a week!
Gunn with the help of his policeman friend Let. Jacoby, Herschel "The Bird" Bernardi,try to prevent Fallon and his hoods from doing any harm or damage to "Mother" or her nightclub but they beat them to it by blowing the place up with a bomb set by Fallon's explosive expert Dave Green Jack Weston, that levels the place, while Gunn and Edie were in it, and put "Mother" on life support at a local hospital! Now having a personal stake in the matter Gunn takes the law into his own hands and after kidnapping and getting Green to confess his role in bombing "Mother's" joint has him thrown to the wolves, or the Fallon Mob, in them thinking that he ratted them out to the police.
***SPOILERS*** It' now up to the police lead by Let.Jacoby and Gunn to put an end to Fallon's totally incompetent and Mickey Mouse crime organization which completely fell apart after the murder, by Fallon's hoods, of mob boss "Big Al" Fusary who successfully ran the crime organization for over thirty years! While given the chance the babyish hot shot and snot nose Fallon couldn't even run it for more then a week!