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Peter Gunn: The Complete Series [DVD]

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August 14, 2018
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$149.95
Genre Television/Crime
Format NTSC
Contributor Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Herschel Bernardi, Blake Edwards
Language English
Number Of Discs 12

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Before Miami Vice, before Law & Order, the coolest and most sophisticated TV detective was definitely Peter Gunn, created and produced by Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, SOB). Set in a nameless waterfront city, the series features stylish film noir cinematography and a stylish musical score written by Henry Mancini, whose "The Peter Gunn Theme" won an Emmy Award and two GRAMMY Awards. In fact, Peter Gunn was the first TV show featuring modern jazz for a soundtrack. Edwards himself directed many episodes, as did an impressive roster of Hollywood's best TV directors, including Robert Altman. Craig Stevens plays Gunn, Pete to his friends, a handsome, suave detective tough enough to take on the hardest of hard cases, but a soft touch when it comes to the ladies. His girlfriend, the gorgeous singer Edie Hart (Lola Albright) is the featured singer at 'Mother's' (and later 'Edie's'), a smoke-filled jazz club used by Gunn as his unofficial office. Other regulars at the club include a colorful cast of musicians, pool hustlers, artists and a sculptor. His standard fee is $1,000.00, and his reputation keeps the customers lined up for his services, sometimes referred by Mother (Hope Emerson, Season One; Minerva Urecal, Seasons Two and Three), or his police buddy Lt. Jacoby (Herschel Bernardi). A man with expensive tastes, Peter Gunn drives a stylish two-tone Plymouth Fury Convertible, equipped with a mobile phone! So settle into your favorite easy chair, dim the lights, and enjoy this classic series, one of the best TV detective shows ever!

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 15.2 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 47 hours and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ August 14, 2018
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Craig Stevens, Herschel Bernardi, Lola Albright
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ SHOUT! FACTORY
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CXBXMRK
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 12
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 345 ratings

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Classic Late 50s Crime Noir 12 Set DVD Version
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Classic Late 50s Crime Noir 12 Set DVD Version
THE SHOW: I'll write a more in-depth review later. Peter Gunn is an excellent series, a hidden gem of the late 50s and early 60s crime television genre. Peter Punn definitely has a noir ambience to it, with most of the action happening at night, frequent car chases, cat-and-mouse surveillance, and shoot outs.Craig Stevens is the leading man sleuth Peter Gunn, with his girl, sexy and elegant night club singer Edie Hart (Lola Albright at his side. Gunn solves a series of crimes, usually murder-related, and his style is reminiscent of LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) on Dragnet 1951-59, with the same "just the facts, ma'am" straight-man attitude. Albeit, Gunn has a ladies-man side to him as well, akin to Robert Mitchum (His Kind of Woman, 1951), (Out of the Past, 1947), (Angel Face, 1952.) The chemistry between Gunn and Edie is quite convincing from the very first episode, an incredible feat, since usually in television it takes a few episodes for the actors to develop a believable vibe. Gunn's ally and friend Lt. Jacoby (Herschel Bernardi) is a no-nonsense, hard-nose, by-the-book type cop, and so he and Gunn clash over investigative methods and procedural decisions. Still, they have each other's backs, with Jacoby frequently being a valuable department source for the PI Gunn. Some episode plots are better written than others, but what is distinct about this show compared with 90s TV and on is its classic non-linear format. Basically, you don't need to know much (or anything) about what happened in the previous episode to watch them, though episode 1 does set the stage for "a-case-per-week" style programming by introducing you to the main characters. Sometimes the guilty culprits are obvious and it's a matter of figuring out how to get them to slip up so they can be arrested. Other times there are many suspects and it's a matter of process of elimination to determine the guilty party.I can get lost in Peter Gunn for 25 or so minutes since the episodes are no longer than that (just like the early Gunsmoke (James Arness as Matt Dillon!) episodes. Since the episodes are low-time commitment, I can watch one while making breakfast, turn it off, go about my day, and return to it while making dinner, as opposed 45-60 min TV shows, which I tend to avoid since it just takes up too much time. I do not binge watch TV, got a life to live. There's so much more to Peter Gunn; suffice to say that the story and series of Peter Gun itself gets a 4/5 star review from me.I watched all the episodes with Dad some years back on one of these on-demand, internet-based television providers, and decided I had to have it. I couldn't be bothered to watch most programs on television, most are trash from a cinema/story line perspective, all marketing and no plot. Peter Gunn combines gripping private I story lines with breathtaking black-and-white cinematography--what can be done with fog and light in black-and-white is truly amazing. And did I mention the music is by Henry Mancini, who composed the scores for Pink Panther (1963) starring Peter Sellers?THE PRODUCT: 12 DVDs, 114 episodes, the whole show, start to finish. No false advertising there. The remaster is by Timeless Media Group, owned by Shout Factory (a privately held group,) and for the most part I'm pleased with the outcome of their efforts. Some reviewers have made some remarks about receiving discs that were not new. That's unfortunate. I've included pictures above to demonstrate that mine came brand new in the wrapper. A careful viewer will notice one of the discs is missing from the first case in the picture where I have all the seasons laid out on the counter--that's only because the disc is in the DVD player. Too bad the series isn't on BLU-RAY, though I recognize it would be very difficult to remaster the series to 1080p, and that the demand for that is lower because this is a niche audience compared to, say, The Twilight Zone (1959-64), which is considerably larger.There is inconsistency in the picture and sound quality depending on the specific episode, which is a little aggravating. The series arrived in the mail only yesterday, so I haven't had the opportunity to check all the episodes on each disk. I will say that on the first disk, the first episode is fairly clear in terms of picture and audio (at least standard 480p. Whereas with episode 2, the jazz musician murder episode, the quality of both picture and audio is lacking, with fuzzy picture at or below 200p and very poor audio, specifically, hissing. That inconsistency tells me that when the engineers remastered the production, they were sloppy--too bad. Then, in the third episode about the dog, the picture and audio are at least as good if not better than the first episode. So, be aware that you are going to get this inconsistency in picture and audio reproduction. So far, no episode is unwatchable, though I'm only three episodes through these disks. If you have an HDMI cable, as I do, you can upscale the picture quality somewhat (I think the DVDs are 480p,) however, that doesn't hold true for the musician murder episode (episode 2); again, the picture is very grainy, so there are limitations to upscaling.In terms of packing, you'll see in the pictures I took with my phone what to expect. There are 12 DVDs, four per a case (slip), and all of the cases fit into a decently constructed cardboard box. I like to take a knife and just remove enough plastic to get each slip (case) out of the box, while leaving most of the plastic around the box, since it preserves the box, which is otherwise prone to scratches and scrapes. The pictures I took and posted show the product completely unwrapped as it was when it arrived. One very disappointing feature of this version of the series is that there is no episode list with an original air date and three sentence synopsis in the cases themselves, nor is there a little booklet with that information. This means that if you have a favorite episode but forget the title, you don't have a synopsis to refer to. What you do get is better than nothing, which is a list of the episodes embossed on each disc. This is slightly disappointing if you spent $64.00 on the entire complete series of a television show. That said, it isn't a deal breaker in the sense that if I had know it beforehand, I would still have made the purchase. The cases are plastic, and fortunately, instead of having some cardboard insets that the discs go into, there are actual plastic clips that hold the discs in place. Be very gentle when removing a disc from a slip, since the plastic is cheap and easily busted off and can't be glued back. Putting the disks back in their clips is considerably easier. I give the product itself a 3/5. Perhaps we'll see a BLU-RAY complete overhaul of the series, but I'm not holding my breath, and I'm happy to this great piece of noir cinema history on my shelf to watch when I please.
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