First an apple-log … lay on the bed for a few minutes around elevenses, awoke in the late 1300s … uh huh. Right … to business. I never saw Peter Gunn when it came out, which may have had something to do with it not being on tele or me being too young.

So … t’other day, thought I’d watch the first episode … straight down the line mob boss thing … 26 minutes, not much story development. This actor hangs around low joints but in the most expensive gear … not an open invitation? There’s the mandatory girl on the balcony with him … he tries to act nonchalant and standoffish, she adores him but is hardbitten. Uh huh.

Every episode is the same … except for some plot variations … judge by this episode two below. My thoughts on the series are below the episode …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gunn

Now that theme … there’s the Mancini version, which is the original and verra nice indeed, boss … there’s the Art of Noise version with Rik Mayall and the girl in red, also verra nice and quite fun …

… then there’s the Duane Eddy version we’ve had at nourishing a few times … to my mind, it’s the most authentic for the era, it came from that era, Duane Eddy was the real thang hisself:

My thoughts on the series? It’s ok, a curiosity, redolent of The Untouchables, which I did watch, of Dragnet, and later … 77 Sunset Strip … that sort of thing. My thoughts on the times? Brilliant … luv em … the second half of the 50s, first half of the 60s I mean, not the bootleg era itself.

I was a little kid, a spotty herbert with an annoying manner or else in a world of my own … protected by the times we were in. Kidnap? Paedos? Never gave anything nasty much thought, was sure I could have escaped, I had my Colt 45 cap gun and enough rolls of caps to deal with any baddy … in that sense, idyllic times, three square meals a day, didn’t like having to help dry the dishes though. /END.