Song Title
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Season of First Appearance
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Episode Number of First Appearance
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Episode Title of First Appearance
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Additional Episodes and Notes
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Peter Gunn Theme
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1
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1
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The Kill
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Accompanies the beginning and ending credits of each episode.
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Brief and Breezy
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1
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1
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The Kill
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Also appears in "Murder on the Midway" (Season 1, Episode 19), "The Coffin" (Season 1, Episode 37, sung with lyrics), "The Portrait" (Season 1, Episode 38), "The Rifle" (Season 2, Episode 9), "Death Watch" (Season 2, Episode 30), "Send a Thief" (Season 2, Episode 33), and "Come Dance With Me And Die" (Season 3, Episode 24).
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Slow and Easy
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1
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1
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The Kill
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Also appears in "Image of Sally" (Season 1, Episode 9), "Murder on the Midway" (Season 1, Episode 19), "The Ugly Frame" (Season 1, Episode 24), "The Lederer Story" (Season 1, Episode 25, solo piano version), "Keep Smiling" (Season 1, Episode 26), "The Coffin" (Season 1, Episode 37), "Protection" (Season 2, Episode 1), "Edge of the Knife" (Season 2, Episode 3, solo piano version), "Death is a Red Rose" (Season 2, Episode 5), and "The Price is Murder" (Season 2, Episode 11, sung with lyrics), "The Hunt" (Season 2, Episode 21), "The Long, Long Ride" (Season 2, Episode 24), "The Deadly Proposition" (Season 2, Episode 25), "The Dummy" (Season 2, Episode 27), "Witness in the Window" (Season 2, Episode 31), "Send a Thief" (Season 2, Episode 33), "The Heiress" (Season 2, Episode 37), "Cry Love, Cry Murder" (Season 3, Episode 25), "The Most Deadly Angel" (Season 3, Episode 29), and "Deadly Intrusion" (Season 3, Episode 35).
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The Floater
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1
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3
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The Vicious Dog
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Also appears in "Murder on the Midway" (Season 1, Episode 19), "Scuba" (Season 1, Episode 21), "The Ugly Frame" (Season 1, Episode 24), "Keep Smiling" (Season 1, Episode 26), "Hot Money" (Season 2, Episode 15), "Hollywood Calling" (Season 2, Episode 22), "Wings of an Angel" (Season 2, Episode 29), "Send a Thief" (Season 2, Episode 33), "The Maître D'" (Season 3, Episode 3), "The Judgement" (Season 3, Episode 5), "The Death Frame" (Season 3, Episode 6), "Sepi" (Season 3, Episode 12), and "Portrait in Leather" (Season 3, Episode 23).
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Soft Sounds
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1
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3
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The Vicious Dog
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Also appears in "Image of Sally" (Season 1, Episode 9), "The Leaper" (Season 1, Episode 15), "Pecos Pete" (Season 1, Episode 20, solo piano version), "The Dirty Word" (Season 1, Episode 23), and "The Feathered Doll" (Season 2, Episode 7).
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Fallout!
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1
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3
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The Vicious Dog
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Although the bass line of this song is heard at the opening of most Peter Gunn episodes beginning with "The Kill" (Season 1, Episode 1), the melody is not featured until "The Vicious Dog" (Season 1, Episode 3).
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A Profound Gass
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1
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4
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The Blind Pianist
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Also appears in "Image of Sally" (Season 1, Episode 9), "The Ugly Frame" (Season 1, Episode 24), "The Game" (Season 2, Episode 10, solo piano version), "Letter to the Law" (Season 2, Episode 35), and "Murder on the Line" (Season 3, Episode 38).
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Joanna
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1
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6
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The Chinese Hangman
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Also appears in "February Girl" (Season 1, Episode 30, solo piano version), "Lady Wind Bell's Fan" (Season 1, Episode 33, solo piano version), "The Comic" (Season 2, Episode 4), "Letter to the Law" (Season 2, Episode 35, solo piano version), "Take Five for Murder" (Season 3, Episode 10), "Dream Big, Dream Deadly" (Season 3, Episode 11), "The Deep End" (Season 3, Episode 22), "Portrait in Leather" (Season 3, Episode 23), "Short Motive" (Season 3, Episode 27), and "Down the Drain" (Season 3, Episode 37).
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Not from Dixie
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1
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8
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Rough Buck
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Also appears in "The Ugly Frame" (Season 1, Episode 24), "Death is a Red Rose" (Season 2, Episode 5), "Hot Money" (Season 2, Episode 15), "The Semi-Private Eye" (Season 2, Episode 34), "A Penny Saved" (Season 3, Episode 26), "The Most Deadly Angel" (Season 3, Episode 29), and "Death is a Four Letter Word" (Season 3, Episode 34).
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The Little Man Theme
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1
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10
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The Man with a Scar
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Also appears in "The Ugly Frame" (Season 1, Episode 24), "The Portrait" (Season 1, Episode 38), "Send a Thief" (Season 2, Episode 33), "Baby Shoes" (Season 2, Episode 38), "Blind Item" (Season 3, Episode 17), and "A Kill and a Half" (Season 3, Episode 20).
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A Quiet Gass
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1
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10
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The Man with a Scar
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Also appears in "February Girl" (Season 1, Episode 30), "Bullet for a Badge" (Season 1, Episode 35), "Vendetta" (Season 1, Episode 36), "The Portrait" (Season 1, Episode 38), "The Rifle" (Season 2, Episode 9), "Sentenced" (Season 2, Episode 20), "The Maître D'" (Season 3, Episode 3), "Sepi" (Season 3, Episode 12), "Portrait in Leather" (Season 3, Episode 23), "Till Death Do Us Part" (Season 3, Episode 30), and "Voodoo" (Season 3, Episode 36).
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The Brothers Go to Mother's
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1
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11
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Death House Testament
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Also appears in "Scuba" (Season 1, Episode 21), "The Lederer Story" (Season 1, Episode 25), "The Family Affair" (Season 1, Episode 32), "Kidnap" (Season 2, Episode 8, solo piano version), "Down the Drain" (Season 3, Episode 37), and "Murder on the Line" (Season 3, Episode 38).
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Spook!
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1
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11
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Death House Testament
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Also appears in "The Dummy" (Season 2, Episode 27).
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Blues for Mother's
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1
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12
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The Torch
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Also appears in "Edie Finds a Corpse" (Season 1, Episode 22), "Breakout" (Season 1, Episode 27), "February Girl" (Season 1, Episode 30, solo piano version), "February Girl" (Season 1, Episode 30), "Crisscross" (Season 2, Episode 2, solo piano version), "The Grudge" (Season 2, Episode 17, solo piano version), "Sentenced" (Season 2, Episode 20), "The Murder Clause" (Season 2, Episode 26, solo piano version), "The Candidate" (Season 3, Episode 4), "Death Across the Board" (Season 3, Episode 07, solo piano version), "The Long Green Kill" (Season 3, Episode 9, solo piano version), and "The Royal Roust" (Season 3, Episode 14, solo piano version).
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Blue Steel
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1
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13
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The Jockey
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Also appears in "The Lederer Story" (Season 1, Episode 25) and "The Portrait" (Season 1, Episode 38).
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Timothy
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1
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17
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Let's Kill Timothy
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Sorta Blue
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1
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21
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Scuba
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Also appears in "The Ugly Frame" (Season 1, Episode 24), "The Feathered Doll" (Season 2, Episode 7, sung with lyrics), "The Game" (Season 2, Episode 10), "Letter to the Law" (Season 2, Episode 35), and "A Penny Saved" (Season 3, Episode 26).
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Odd Ball
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1
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22
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Edie Finds a Corpse
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My Manne Shelly
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1
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26
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Keep Smiling
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The title of the song is a pun on the name of the drummer Shelly Manne.
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Session at Pete's Pad
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1
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31
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Love Me to Death
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In its first appearances in "Love Me to Death" (Season 1, Episode 31), "Bullet for a Badge" (Season 1, Episode 34), and "The Rifle" (Season 2, Episode 9), this composition is performed in the form of a song (with lyrics) called "Straight to Baby" (as it is titled in Lola Albright's 1959 album "Dreamsville").
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Goofin' at the Coffee House
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1
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31
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Love Me to Death
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Also appears in "The Family Affair", "The Portrait" (Season 1, Episode 38), and (Season 1, Episode 32), "Crisscross" (Season 2, Episode 2), "Kidnap" (Season 2, Episode 8), "The Wolfe Case" (Season 2, Episode 14), "Hollywood Calling" (Season 2, Episode 22), "Witness in the Window" (Season 2, Episode 31), "The Semi-Private Eye" (Season 2, Episode 34), "Dream Big, Dream Deadly" (Season 3, Episode 11), "Bullet in Escrow" (Season 3, Episode 15), "A Penny Saved" (Season 3, Episode 26), and "The Murder Bond" (Season 3, Episode 28, sung with words).
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Lightly
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1
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31
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Love Me to Death
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Also appears in "Bullet for a Badge" (Season 1, Episode 34), "The Feathered Doll" (Season 2, Episode 7), "Slight Touch of Homicide" (Season 2, Episode 28), "The Heiress" (Season 2, Episode 37), "The Judgement" (Season 3, Episode 5), "Bullet in Escrow" (Season 3, Episode 15), A Penny Saved (Season 3, Episode 26), and "Voodoo" (Season 3, Episode 36).
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Dreamsville
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1
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34
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Bullet for a Badge
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Although the opening piano introduction is heard in "Bullet for a Badge" (Season 1, Episode 34), the primary melody is not heard until "Kidnap" (Season 2, Episode 8). Also appears in "Spell of Murder" (Season 2, Episode 16), "The Deadly Proposition" (Season 2, Episode 25), "The Murder Clause" (Season 2, Episode 26), "The Semi-Private Eye" (Season 2, Episode 34), "Baby Shoes" (Season 2, Episode 38), "The Passenger" (Season 3, Episode 1), "A Kill and a Half" (Season 3, Episode 20), "The Deep End" (Season 3, Episode 22), and "Voodoo" (Season 3, Episode 36).
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Walkin' Bass
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2
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31
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Witness in the Window
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