
The Restless Gun
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.
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Weekend Westerns - THE RESTLESS GUN
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Duel at Lockwood
23-09-1957Vint 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.
- Ep 2
2.Trail to Sunset
30-09-1957After 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 Bonn...
- Ep 3
3.Revenge at Harness Creek
07-10-195730mWhen 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.
- Ep 4
4.Rink
14-10-1957 - Ep 5
5.Jenny
21-10-1957Bonner 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...
- Ep 6
6.The Shooting of Jett King
28-10-1957 - Ep 7
7.Jody
04-11-1957 - Ep 8
8.General Gilford's Widow
11-11-1957 - Ep 9
9.The New Sheriff
18-11-1957 - Ep 10
10.Man and Boy
25-11-1957 - Ep 11
11.Cheyenne Express
02-12-1957 - Ep 12
12.Thicker Than Water
09-12-1957 - Ep 13
13.Silver Threads
16-12-1957 - Ep 14
14.The Child
23-12-1957 - Ep 15
15.The Gold Buckle
30-12-195730mBonner and two strangers trail a pair of killers. Kit: Roy Roberts. Lex: Claude Akins. Bonner: John Payne. Emily: Madge Blake.
- Ep 16
16.The Coward
06-01-1958 - Ep 17
17.Friend in Need
13-01-1958 - Ep 18
18.Strange Family in Town
20-01-1958A 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 ra...
- Ep 19
19.Hang and Be Damned
27-01-1958 - Ep 20
20.Quiet City
03-02-1958 - Ep 21
21.Hornitas Town
10-02-1958 - Ep 22
22.Imposter For A Day
17-02-1958 - Ep 23
23.A Pressing Engagement
24-02-1958 - Ep 24
24.The Woman from Sacramento
03-03-1958 - Ep 25
25.Sheriff Billy
10-03-1958 - Ep 26
26.The Hand is Quicker
17-03-1958 - Ep 27
27.The Suffragette
24-03-1958Emma 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...
- Ep 28
28.The Whip
31-03-1958 - Ep 29
29.The Crisis at Easter Creek
07-04-1958 - Ep 30
30.Aunt Emma
14-04-1958Vint 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 h...
- Ep 31
31.The Outlander
21-04-1958Vint 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 Colone...
- Ep 32
32.The Battle of Tower Rock
28-04-1958 - Ep 33
33.The Torn Flag
05-05-1958 - Ep 34
34.Hiram Grover's Strike
12-05-1958 - Ep 35
35.The Gold Star
19-05-1958 - Ep 36
36.More Than Kin
26-05-1958 - Ep 37
37.The Manhunters
02-06-1958 - Ep 38
38.The Peddler
09-06-1958 - Ep 39
39.Gratitude
16-06-1958
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