Post #623658 by Michelle66 on Sat, Feb 4, 2012 11:23 PM

On 2012-02-04 10:33, bigbrotiki wrote:
Kids, I need some help here: WHICH specific episodes show Peter Gunn's apartment festooned with primitive art!? And if you don't have a screen capture application, can you just snap some photos of your screen?

I just watched the 16 episodes of Peter Gunn Set 2 and there is NOTHING Tiki-esque to be found in his or any of the sets - as a matter of fact, the sets are so stagey and boring, it makes sense that the production company called itself "Spartan"! The episode with the "Bamboo Cafe", the episode with the Beatnik diver babes drinking from pineapples and handing out leis to Peter Gunn:
Embarrassingly cheap B-movie set dressing that would be easily outdone by any real Polynesian joint location.

The US sets (with 16 edited-for-syndication first season episodes each) on A&E are not what you need.

You want the UK collection #2, which contains the entire 38-episode second season of the series. (The UK sets are region-free, but they are in PAL.)

There are at least two episodes that show off Pete's pad. (I'm still only on disc 2, so there are more than 20 episodes left.)

In season 2, episode 5 - "Death Is A Red Rose" - A thug shows up at Pete's place and the two men fight it out. You can see some primitive things on the shelves in the background. (The larger items look more African than Polynesian.)

There is a also a close-up of a wooden head that the camera focuses on as the battle wages in the BG.

A few episodes later (season 2, episode 10 - "The Game"), Pete's friends gather at his place for a party.

The same wooden head is featured again. This time, one of Pete's beatnik friends tries to get friendly with it...

If other examples turn up in future episodes, I'll post them here.

[ Edited by: Michelle66 2012-02-04 23:29 ]

[ Edited by: Michelle66 2012-02-04 23:29 ]