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Pay Now, Kill Later

Thriller

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Dec 31, 1958

After serving 14 years for a crime he did not commit, textile factory owner Gregory decides to commit the crime he was convicted of.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 38 episodes

The Kill,

A gang attempts to extort money from Mother. When she refuses to pay, the gang dynamites her club and critically injures its owner.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Streetcar Jones,

Gunn is hired by a jazz club owner to prove one of his musicians has been framed for murder, but the musician's lawyer doesn't want Gunn's assistance.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Vicious Dog,

When newspaper editor George Walker is viciously attacked by a German shepherd.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Blind Pianist,

A man calmly enters a nightclub, takes off his scarf, and with it, strangles an older woman.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Frog,

A mobster, the Frog, is stabbed on a dock and falls into a river, his green hat floating above him. The Frog was waiting to meet Peter Gunn, who is jumped when he goes to the Frog's apartment.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Chinese Hangman,

A young man enters his apartment and is put into a sleeper hold by an assailant waiting inside. The assailant hoists the victim into a noose, and the death is ruled a suicide.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Lynn's Blues,

Nightclub singer Lynn Martel has lost all hope after her boyfriend has been killed. When Peter Gunn tries to help her, his life also becomes endangered.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Rough Buck,

A popular young boxer on his way up, Tony Triano, is gunned to death by professional hitmen. His family is devastated - who would want the generous Tony dead?

26m Dec 31, 1958

Image of Sally,

Nightclub singer Sally Hall is caught between two crime bosses who intend to have her at all cost.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Man with the Scar,

Roy Davidson the D.A.'s son is being framed for a crime he did not commit, Gunn investigates and is surprised by what he uncovers in the way of a beautiful woman and a giant with a scarred face.

25m Dec 31, 1958

Death House Testament,

Ten minutes before his execution, a convicted murderer hires Peter Gunn to find the $700,000 he stole, hand it over to the bond company, collect the 10% reward, and give it to his daughter.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Torch,

A man is burned to death on the rooftop of a building. The murdered man co-owned the business which was torched, and his young widow is suspected of contracting his murder.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Jockey,

A nightclub singer makes an unscheduled appearance on stage when she falls through a skylight. When the police rule her death an accident, her wealthy boyfriend hires Peter Gunn to find the truth.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Sisters of the Friendless,

A car attempts to run down a young man as he walks a lonely stretch of highway. He flees into the woods and over a convent wall striking his head. Hours later he wonders home.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Leaper,

An elderly circus performer known as Lester the Human Fly is shot while standing on the ledge of an apartment building. The man's wife asks Peter Gunn to investigate the death of her husband.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Fuse,

A union boss's birthday starts off with a bang when he switches on his car's ignition and it explodes. The crime boss who is the chief suspect wants Pete to clear his name.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Let's Kill Timothy,

A couple of safe-crackers realize too late that the lookout on their jewel store burglary is no longer looking out, he's absconded with the most valuable jewels.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Missing Night Watchman,

Peter Gunn is hired by Quimby, a meek antique store owner to track down a consignment of rare jewelry before the arrogant collector finds out they've been stolen.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Murder on the Midway,

At a carnival, a magician promises the audience he'll make his gorgeous assistant disappear - instead, she plummets out of the mummy's coffin onto the stage, shot dead.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Pecos Pete,

An assailant leaps from a tree, murdering a wealthy rancher riding a horse. The victim's brother flies cross-country to hire Peter Gunn to disprove the Texas coroner's verdict of accidental death.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Scuba,

Working alone late at night, a marine salvage company owner grabs a revolver to follow gigantic footprints out of his office to a dock, where a frogman croaks him with a spear gun.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Edie Finds a Corpse,

After Edie discovers a male corpse in her shower, her finicky landlord threatens to break her lease. Leaving Lt. Jacobi to crack wise and console Edie, Peter Gunn pursues the killers.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Dirty Word,

At his posh soirée, a publisher sneaks off into the garden to conspire with a sleazy PI. Hiding in the bushes, a man in gloves plugs the publisher, tosses the revolver, then splits.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Ugly Frame,

Late at night in an empty greasy spoon, a robbery turns ends in the murder of the owner. The diner was Lt. Jacoby's teenage hangout, so he rabidly pursues the murderer.

25m Dec 31, 1958

The Lederer Story,

As she's dying, a glamorous yacht owner staggers into Mother's, seeking out Peter Gunn. Gunn and Lt. Jacoby suspect she was poisoned and her husband pushed overboard - by her captain, maid, or butler.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Keep Smiling,

A Murphy game blackmailing trio targets lonely male bowlers from out-of-town, murdering one with a bowling ball. Bowling conclave organizer Woolrich hires Peter Gunn to nab the perps on the down-low.

23m Dec 31, 1958

Breakout,

A priest totes a Bible into a prison cell and presents it to a convicted murderer. The hollow book contains a gun, which the killer uses to escape.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Pay Now, Kill Later,

After serving 14 years for a crime he did not commit, textile factory owner Gregory decides to commit the crime he was convicted of.

25m Dec 31, 1958

Skin Deep,

An heiress is clubbed with poker while flirting on the phone. Her uptight sister employs Peter Gunn to locate her missing sibling.

25m Dec 31, 1958

February Girl,

June Holton meets Michael Delak in his apartment. She refuses his sexual advances then a shot rings out killing Delak. The woman contacts Gunn for assistance after someone tried to run her over.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Love Me to Death,

Mr. Bowers booby-traps his basement, electrocuting his wife when she turns on an overhead bulb. Shortly after he marries heiress Maggie. Maggie's older sister employs Peter Gunn to investigate Bowers.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Family Affair,

B E Raleigh places something into a hidden wall safe before preparing for bed. As he rides a stair elevator ax swings across in front of him almost putting him into cardiac arrest.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Lady Windbell's Fan,

A man stabs a Chinese shop owner to death with a dagger, while Triad muscle goes after a gorgeous dancer's fan, given to her for good luck. The dancer's fiancé hires Peter Gunn to change her luck.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Bullet for a Badge,

Lt. Jacoby scurries out for a night rendezvous with a tipster, but it's a set-up, and he's wounded by gangsters, so Peter Gunn leaps into the case. Two real informants talk to Gunn, but one is killed.

25m Dec 31, 1958

Kill from Nowhere,

Louise is a wheelchair-bound woman with no enemies, but somebody lures her to a window as a sniper's target. The obvious suspect is Joe, an ex-convict who is her nurse and has been named in her will.

26m Dec 31, 1958

Vendetta,

Two men arrive at a closed restaurant and ask one of the people inside if they are Edie Hart. She confirms her identity and is shot with a warning "Tell Peter the 3 years are up."

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Coffin,

Gunn is hired to accompany a coffin to Mexico City. The hitch is that there is nobody in the coffin only money stolen during a robbery.

26m Dec 31, 1958

The Portrait,

Luther, a famous painter wakes to find two men breaking into his house to steal artwork. He confronts them only to be shot dead. A woman visits Gunn insisting he recovers one of the stolen paintings.

26m Dec 31, 1958