Oh, Mother! Reader Mike from Jersey teased us with a comment over on the Peter Gunn page, suggesting that the show featured an unnamed first in TV history that had "escaped all the experts,” and added "If you catch it you’ll slap your head and say ‘Of course! How did I miss that?’" How could I resist? … Continue reading Peter Gunn: The Television First That Dare Not Speak Its Name
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My Scrapbook: Original Artwork for “Peter Goon” by Jack Davis
My Scrapbook Original Artwork for "Peter Goon" by Jack Davis What? You thought MAD Magazine had a monopoly on snotty, adolescent parodies of television private eyes? Or that the work of the "usual gang of idiots" was exclusive to William M. Gaines' "What, Me Worry?" periodical? Nope. In its day, MAD had a slew of … Continue reading My Scrapbook: Original Artwork for “Peter Goon” by Jack Davis
Peter Gunn
Created by Blake Edwards Pseudonyms include Sam O. Brown (1922-2010) Suave, sophisticated, hep to the jive, groovin' to the oh-so-cool jazzbo-beat, PETER GUNN was like nothing ever seen before on television or anywhere else, really. He was a new kind of eye. While other dicks hung out in rundown offices, swilling rotgut, living hand to … Continue reading Peter Gunn