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* {{Leitmotif}}: The InstrumentalThemeTune becomes this for Bally's ''VideoGame/SpyHunter'' video game.

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* {{Leitmotif}}: The InstrumentalThemeTune becomes this for Bally's ''VideoGame/SpyHunter'' ''VideoGame/SpyHunter1983'' video game.
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Well executed, but mostly forgotten... except for the fact that Music/HenryMancini's theme music is legendary, and still popular today. Edwards went on to direct the 1967 feature film ''Gunn'', with Stevens returning to the role and Mancini back to do the music. Intended as the first film of a ''Peter Gunn'' film franchise, it did hardly any business at the box office and the character was retired.

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Well executed, but mostly forgotten... except for the fact that Music/HenryMancini's theme music is legendary, and still popular today. Edwards went on to direct the 1967 feature film ''Gunn'', with Stevens returning to the role and Mancini back to do the music. Intended as the first film of a ''Peter Gunn'' film franchise, it did hardly any business at the box office and the character was retired.
retired, save for an 1989 [[Main/PoorlyDisguisedPilot backdoor pilot]] starring Peter Strauss.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Pete and Edie frequently let on how they're more than satisfied with each other, to the point of Edie even waiting for Pete to finish the case...in Pete's apartment.
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* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: "The Crossbow" centers around three seemingly random murders (an elderly recluse, a carnival fire-eater, and a judge) who were killed by a stolen crossbow. Suspicion falls on the weapon's owner, who was having problems with the judge concerning a possible property acquisition. However, a fourth murder happens while the owner is being detained by police. That death, along with forged checks found at the judge's murder scene, leads Gunn to the real killer - [[spoiler: the judge's disillusioned son, who used the checks to support a gambling habit]].
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Pete and Edie frequently let on how they're more than satisfied with each other, to the point of Edie even waiting for Pete to finish the case...in Pete's apartment.
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* VictorySex: Edie often tells Peter she's got ''something'' in mind for if he manages to finish up the case while she's still awake tonight....
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* TheChartreuse: Pete's girlfriend Edie Hart works as the main singer at the club he frequents, and often an episode has a scene of her singing.

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* TheChartreuse: TheChanteuse: Pete's girlfriend Edie Hart works as the main singer at the club he frequents, and often an episode has a scene of her singing.
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* TheChartreuse: Pete's girlfriend Edie Hart works as the main singer at the club he frequents, and often an episode has a scene of her singing.
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* MusicOfNote:
** The series was notable for its music. (Unusually for the time, every episode had original music written for it.)
** Reaches the point of SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic for the title theme, which has become one of the iconic themes of all time, up there with Mancini's other famous work ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther''.
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* VigilanteExecution: The episode "Slight Touch of Homicide" features a quiet, mentally disturbed little man named Barnaby who was called to serve on a grand jury, was very eager to see justice served... and watched the Brannick mob get off scot-free without even a trial. He subsequently begins [[MadBomber "doing a service to the community", one bomb at a time]], to the point that Brannick tried to recruit Peter to bring the unknown assassin to justice.

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* VigilanteExecution: The episode "Slight Touch of Homicide" features a quiet, mentally disturbed little man named Barnaby who was called to serve on a grand jury, was very eager to see justice served... and watched the Brannick Brannack mob get off scot-free without even a trial. He subsequently begins [[MadBomber "doing a service to the community", one bomb at a time]], to the point that Brannick Brannack tried to recruit Peter to bring the unknown assassin to justice.

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* VigilanteExecution: Barnaby in the episode "Slight Touch of Homicide" -- he served on the grand jury and watched the gangsters he subsequently murdered get off scot-free.


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* NotSoSafeHarbor: Exaggerated; the city appears to be entirely bisected by water (characters frequently mentioning "this side" or "the other side of the river"), so the waterfront itself is ''huge''.


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* VigilanteExecution: The episode "Slight Touch of Homicide" features a quiet, mentally disturbed little man named Barnaby who was called to serve on a grand jury, was very eager to see justice served... and watched the Brannick mob get off scot-free without even a trial. He subsequently begins [[MadBomber "doing a service to the community", one bomb at a time]], to the point that Brannick tried to recruit Peter to bring the unknown assassin to justice.
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* TheExecutioner: Barnaby in the episode "Slight Touch of Homicide"...he served on the Grand Jury and watched the gangsters he subsequently murdered get off scot-free.

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* TheExecutioner: VigilanteExecution: Barnaby in the episode "Slight Touch of Homicide"...Homicide" -- he served on the Grand Jury grand jury and watched the gangsters he subsequently murdered get off scot-free.



* FriendOnTheForce: Lieutenant Jacoby, who provides assistance to private detective Peter Gunn.

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* FriendOnTheForce: Lieutenant Jacoby, who provides assistance to private detective Peter; the two often get together to compare leads and plan any big moves, and [[TheCavalry Jacoby's usually the one to save Peter Gunn.or offer backup in the climax]].
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Zig-zagged with Babby. While the show treats the concept of a pool hustler with dwarfism (who's smaller than his cue and has to drag around a suitcase to use as a step stool) as something of a sight gag, and gives him a discordant, mischievous flute-and-guitar riff, the character himself is a reliable informant and a nice, normal guy, even helping Peter out in a fight in "The Ugly Frame".

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