The Many Wild Accidents That Led to Peter Gunn

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 654.5: Ed welcomes back esteemed music journalist and music historian Jon Burlingame (Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring). Jon’s latest book, Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir, is a combination history of Peter Gunn (NBC/ABC, 1958-1961) on television; biography of Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning composer Henry Mancini; and discography of all of the original music that Henry Mancini composed for both Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky (CBS, 1959-1960) and the soundtrack albums that accompanied both series. Topics this segment include the many moments of serendipity that enabled series creator/producer Blake Edwards to get Peter Gunn on the air and hire Henry Mancini; how Mancini changed the face and sound of prime time television by introducing jazz music as dramatic accompaniment; and the sheer volume of original music that Mancini composed for both Gunn and Mr. Lucky every week between 1958 and 1961. Dreamsville: Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn, and Music for TV Noir is available from BearManor Media.

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