To Keep and Bear Arms – The Big Picture

#throwbackthursday

The Big Picture was a long running weekly TV series produced by the United States Army. This episode is a co-presentation of the US Army and the National Rifle Association. It is partially narrated by Craig Stevens, who played Peter Gunn on the TV detective series of the same name. The program also contains scenes from the National Championship at Camp Perry.

For those unfamiliar with Peter Gunn, the series is available on YouTube. The theme song, played by Henry Mancini, has been described as perhaps the coolest and most suave of any TV theme.

4 responses

  1. *I visit Norcross once a week to shoot one of my old rifle, open sights to see how my old eye’**swork* *as shown on target…………. Rebel Rifleman*

    On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:56 PM tacticalprofessor wrote:

    > tacticalprofessor posted: ” #throwbackthursday The Big Picture was a long > running weekly TV series produced by the United States Army. This episode > is a co-presentation of the US Army and the National Rifle Association. It > is partially narrated by Craig Stevens, who played P” >

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  3. Completely unrelated, but we played the Peter Gunn Theme in marching band when I was in HS. As the sole baritone player, I had the familiar bass line all to myself for quite a while. More than 30 years ago, now.

  4. Heh – so *that’s* where the music for Spy Hunter came from…