This resembles a collage of technicolored outtakes from the black and white fifties series 77 Sunset Strip complete with jazz-inflected score, this time around Hank Mancini moves in on Jerry Livingston and there's only one lead instead of two. Helen Traubel wanders in on her way to and/or from the Met to play a non-singing 'mother' (The Brothers Go To Mothers was a number in its own right in the original Peter Gunn) and Lou Grant himself - in the shape of Ed Asner - takes a leave of absence from the City desk to play the tame cop aka Gunn's best buddy. Blake Edwards keeps it on a low light and the whole is a passable time-waster.
Review of Gunn
