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The Restless Gun

1957 · 2 seasons · 76 episodes · Ended · NBC

Western

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The Restless Gun is an American western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict wherever possible. He is gregarious, intelligent, and public-spirited. The half-hour black-and-white program aired seventy-eight episodes. Jeanne Bates appeared in varying roles with Payne in five episodes of The Restless Gun. The Restless Gun theme song begins: "I ride with the wind, my eyes on the sun, and my hand on my restless gun..." The song composer is probably Paul Dunlap, credited as the primary series composer, but could have been contributed to by either of the two other series composers, Dave Kahn and Stanley Wilson, also. Two versions are currently posted on YouTube, but neither posting lists any composer or performance credits.

Episodes

  • S01E01Duel at Lockwood1957-09-23

    Vint Bonner meets an elderly woman who asks him to do something about her grandson. The young man has already killed two men and vowed to add Vint Bonner to the list.

  • S01E02Trail to Sunset1957-09-30

    After promising a seriously wounded outlaw that he will get him to town alive to stand trial, Bonner meets five men, including a doctor, who want to bring the man in. But then Bonner learns that the five have just taken part in a lynching, and he becomes concerned that they will do the same with this prisoner.

  • S01E03Revenge at Harness Creek1957-10-0730m

    When the man's hotheaded younger brother is killed in self defense, Vint fears that his sheriff friend is too bent on revenge to bring the man who killed him back alive.

  • S01E04Rink1957-10-14

    On the trail, Bonner meets a young boy who is looking to join his father. Bonner brings the boy to town, where the bank is robbed, and the sheriff kills one of the robbers---the boy's father.

  • S01E05Jenny1957-10-21

    Bonner finds a wounded man on the road, and brings him to the house of a an embittered woman who lives alone. He promises her he won't tell about the man at her place, but he later learns that the man is a wanted outlaw.

  • S01E06The Shooting of Jett King1957-10-28
  • S01E07Jody1957-11-04
  • S01E08General Gilford's Widow1957-11-11
  • S01E09The New Sheriff1957-11-18
  • S01E10Man and Boy1957-11-25
  • S01E11Cheyenne Express1957-12-02
  • S01E12Thicker Than Water1957-12-09
  • S01E13Silver Threads1957-12-16
  • S01E14The Child1957-12-23
  • S01E15The Gold Buckle1957-12-3030m

    Bonner and two strangers trail a pair of killers. Kit: Roy Roberts. Lex: Claude Akins. Bonner: John Payne. Emily: Madge Blake.

  • S01E16The Coward1958-01-06
  • S01E17Friend in Need1958-01-13
  • S01E18Strange Family in Town1958-01-20

    A Quaker family encounters prejudice, hostility, and harassment from the residents of the closest town, who mistake their pacifism for cowardice. They also encounter it from the rancher Bonner has come to do business with, though the man's wife feels differently.

  • S01E19Hang and Be Damned1958-01-27
  • S01E20Quiet City1958-02-03
  • S01E21Hornitas Town1958-02-10
  • S01E22Imposter For A Day1958-02-17
  • S01E23A Pressing Engagement1958-02-24
  • S01E24The Woman from Sacramento1958-03-03
  • S01E25Sheriff Billy1958-03-10
  • S01E26The Hand is Quicker1958-03-17
  • S01E27The Suffragette1958-03-24

    Emma Birch has organized the women of the town into a determined suffragette group; the men rebel and attempt to put the women in their place. Bonner becomes the reluctant mediator between the two groups.

  • S01E28The Whip1958-03-31
  • S01E29The Crisis at Easter Creek1958-04-07
  • S01E30Aunt Emma1958-04-14

    Vint Bonner is wounded while trying to track down the Drake brothers. His elderly aunt nurses him back to health and tries to prevent him from going back after the Drakes when he has recovered.

  • S01E31The Outlander1958-04-21

    Vint arrives in Prairie City, Kansas to visit friends and find that it has been taken over by a band of renegade Civil War veterans from Texas. They are lead by a man called Colonel Bromley.

  • S01E32The Battle of Tower Rock1958-04-28
  • S01E33The Torn Flag1958-05-05
  • S01E34Hiram Grover's Strike1958-05-12
  • S01E35The Gold Star1958-05-19
  • S01E36More Than Kin1958-05-26
  • S01E37The Manhunters1958-06-02
  • S01E38The Peddler1958-06-09
  • S01E39Gratitude1958-06-16

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