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Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend Edie Hart, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960-1961. [1]

90 relations: A&E Networks, Action fiction, Alfred Music, American Broadcasting Company, Ancestry.com, André Nemec, Beat Generation, Billboard (magazine), Billy Barty, Black and white, Blake Edwards, Boris Sagal, Brian Keith, Car phone, Cinematographer, Cool jazz, Craig Stevens (actor), David Janssen, David Permut, Dell Publishing, DeSoto (automobile), Detective fiction, Dick Nash, Dick Powell, Emmy Award, Flugelhorn, Gene L. Coon, Gordon Oliver, Grammy Award, Gunn (film), Henry Mancini, Herb Ellis (actor), Herschel Bernardi, Hope Emerson, How High the Moon, Jack Arnold (director), James Lanphier, Jazz, Jeff Pinkner, John Michaels, John Williams, John Woo, Josh Appelbaum, Julie Andrews, Lamont Johnson, Laurindo Almeida, Life (magazine), Lola Albright, Maître d'hôtel, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ..., Mike Hammer, Minerva Urecal, Monaural, NBC, Nielsen ratings, Norman Snider, Official Films, Ostinato, Paramount Pictures, Pete Candoli, Peter Gunn (1989 film), Peter Gunn (song), Peter Rodgers Organization, Peter Strauss, Philip H. Lathrop, Plymouth Fury, Police procedural, Prohibition in the United States, RCA Records, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Robert Altman, Robert Gist, Ronnie Lang, Scott Rosenberg, Shelly Manne, Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn, Shorty Rogers, Single-camera setup, Son of Gunn!!, Speakeasy, Steven Spielberg, Ted Nash (saxophonist, born 1922), The Music from Peter Gunn, This Gun for Hire, Timeless Media Group, Unison, United States, Universal Pictures, William Peter Blatty, 1st Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (40 more) »

A&E Networks

A&E Networks (branded as A+E Networks) is a US media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the U.S. and abroad.

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Action fiction

Action fiction is the literary genre that includes spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror and intrigue ("cloak and dagger"), and mysteries.

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Alfred Music

Alfred Music is a music publishing company.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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André Nemec

André Nemec (born 1972) is an American writer, showrunner and producer.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billy Barty

Billy Barty (born William John Bertanzetti, October 25, 1924 – December 23, 2000) was an American actor and activist.

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Black and white

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts.

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Blake Edwards

William Blake Crump (July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010), better known by his stage name Blake Edwards, was an American filmmaker.

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Boris Sagal

Boris Sagal (October 18, 1923 – May 22, 1981) was a Ukrainian-American television and film director.

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Brian Keith

Brian Keith (born Robert Alba Keith, November 14, 1921 – June 24, 1997) was an American film, television and stage actor who in his six-decade-long career gained recognition for his work in movies such as the Disney family film The Parent Trap (1961), the comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), and the adventure saga The Wind and the Lion (1975), in which he portrayed President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Car phone

A car phone is a mobile radio telephone specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile.

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Cinematographer

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II.

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Craig Stevens (actor)

Craig Stevens (born Gail Shikles Jr.; July 8, 1918 – May 10, 2000) was an American film and television actor, best known for his starring role on television as private detective Peter Gunn from 1958 to 1961.

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David Janssen

David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer, March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967).

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David Permut

David A. Permut (born March 23, 1954) is a multiple Academy Award nominated film producer and founder of Permut Presentations based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Dell Publishing

Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000, two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about the movies, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day).

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DeSoto (automobile)

DeSoto (sometimes De Soto) is an American automobile marque that was manufactured and marketed by the DeSoto Division of the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to the 1961 model year.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Dick Nash

Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash (born January 26, 1928) is an American jazz trombonist most associated with the swing and big band genres.

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Dick Powell

Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.

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Gene L. Coon

Eugene Lee Coon (January 7, 1924 – July 8, 1973) was an American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.

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Gordon Oliver

Gordon Oliver (April 27, 1910 – January 26, 1995) was an American actor and film producer.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gunn (film)

Gunn is an American 1967 mystery film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Craig Stevens, based on the 1958-1961 television series Peter Gunn.

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Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores.

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Herb Ellis (actor)

Herbert "Herb" Ellis (born January 17, 1921) is an American character actor and writer.

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Herschel Bernardi

Herschel Bernardi (October 30, 1923 – May 9, 1986) was an American film, stage, and television actor.

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Hope Emerson

Hope Emerson (October 30, 1897 – April 24, 1960) was an American actress, vaudeville and nightclub performer, and strongwoman.

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How High the Moon

"How High the Moon" is a jazz standard with lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis.

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Jack Arnold (director)

Jack Arnold (October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992) was an American actor and film and television director, best known as one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films.

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James Lanphier

James Lanphier (August 31, 1920February 11, 1969) was an American actor.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jeff Pinkner

Jeff Pinkner (born November 16, 1964) is an American television writer and producer.

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John Michaels

John Joseph Michaels (July 10, 1907 – November 18, 1996) was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

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John Woo

John Woo SBS (Wu Yu-seng; Ng Yu-sum (Cantonese); born May 1, 1946) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer.

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Josh Appelbaum

Josh Appelbaum is an American television writer, screenwriter, showrunner and producer.

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Julie Andrews

Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, (born 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.

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Lamont Johnson

Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies.

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Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Lola Albright

Lola Jean Albright (July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017) was an American singer and actress.

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Maître d'hôtel

The maître d'hôtel (French 'master of the house'), head waiter, host, waiter captain or maître d manages the public part, or "front of the house", of a formal restaurant.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Mike Hammer

Michael "Mike" Hammer is a fictional hard boiled detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury.

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Minerva Urecal

Minerva Urecal (September 22, 1894 – February 26, 1966) was an American actress.

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Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nielsen ratings

Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems operated by Nielsen Media Research that seek to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States.

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Norman Snider

Norman Snider is a Canadian screenwriter.

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Official Films

Official Films, Incorporated (Inc.) was a home movie distributor founded by Leslie Winik in 1939 to produce educational shorts.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Pete Candoli

Pete Candoli (born Walter Joseph Candoli; June 28, 1923 – January 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter and the brother of trumpeter Conte Candoli.

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Peter Gunn (1989 film)

Peter Gunn is a television film by Blake Edwards.

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Peter Gunn (song)

"Peter Gunn" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name.

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Peter Rodgers Organization

The Peter Rodgers Organization (PRO) is a television syndication company based in Hollywood, California.

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Peter Strauss

Peter Lawrence Strauss (born February 20, 1947) is an American television and film actor, known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Philip H. Lathrop

Philip H. Lathrop, A.S.C. (October 22, 1912 – April 12, 1995) was an American cinematographer noted for his skills with wide screen technology and detailed approach to lighting and camera placement.

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Plymouth Fury

The Plymouth Fury is a model of automobile which was produced by Plymouth from 1955 to 1989.

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Police procedural

The police procedural, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of detective fiction that depicts investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story or episode.

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Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

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Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Robert Gist

Robert Gist (October 1, 1917 – May 21, 1998) was an American actor and film director.

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Ronnie Lang

Ronnie Lang (sometimes spelled Ronny; born July 24, 1929) is an American jazz alto saxophonist.

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Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg (born April 24, 1963) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer.

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Shelly Manne

Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), was an American jazz drummer.

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Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn

Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn is an album by drummer Shelly Manne's group Shelly Manne & His Men performing Henry Mancini's score from the TV show Peter Gunn, recorded in 1959 and released on the Contemporary label.

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Shorty Rogers

Milton "Shorty" Rogers (April 14, 1924 – November 7, 1994) was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz.

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Single-camera setup

The single-camera setup, or single-camera mode of production, also known as Portable Single Camera, is a method of filmmaking and video production.

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Son of Gunn!!

Son of Gunn!! (subtitled Shelly Manne & His Men Play More Music from Peter Gunn) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne's group Shelly Manne & His Men, the second featuring compositions from Henry Mancini's score from the TV show Peter Gunn, which was recorded in 1959 and released on the Contemporary label.

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Speakeasy

A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Ted Nash (saxophonist, born 1922)

Theodore Malcolm "Ted" Nash (October 31, 1922 – May 12, 2011) was a noted jazz and studio musician who played saxophone, flute and clarinet and was a first-call session musician in the Hollywood recording studios for many years.

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The Music from Peter Gunn

The Music from Peter Gunn is a 1959 album by Henry Mancini, RCA Victor LPM/LSP-1956, the soundtrack of the TV series Peter Gunn.

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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American crime drama film and film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the 1936 novel (published in America with the same title, and in Britain with the title A Gun for Sale) by Graham Greene.

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Timeless Media Group

Timeless Media Group (TMG) is an American home entertainment company that produces and distributes various audio and video products on CD, DVD & Blu-ray for the home video market.

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Unison

In music, unison is two or more musical parts sounding the same pitch or at an octave interval, usually at the same time.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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William Peter Blatty

William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation.

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1st Annual Grammy Awards

The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gunn

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