The Restless Gun

The Restless Gun

1957 2 Seasons 76 Episodes ⭐ 4.4 Western

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.

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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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Duel at Lockwood

Vint Bonner meets an elderly woman who asks him to do something about her grandson. The young man has already killed two

EP 2

Trail to Sunset

After promising a seriously wounded outlaw that he will get him to town alive to stand trial, Bonner meets five men, inc

EP 3

Revenge at Harness Creek

When the man's hotheaded younger brother is killed in self defense, Vint fears that his sheriff friend is too bent on re

EP 4

Rink

On the trail, Bonner meets a young boy who is looking to join his father. Bonner brings the boy to town, where the bank

EP 5

Jenny

Bonner finds a wounded man on the road, and brings him to the house of a an embittered woman who lives alone. He promise

EP 6

The Shooting of Jett King

EP 7

Jody

EP 8

General Gilford's Widow

EP 9

The New Sheriff

EP 10

Man and Boy

EP 11

Cheyenne Express

EP 12

Thicker Than Water

EP 13

Silver Threads

EP 14

The Child

EP 15

The Gold Buckle

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

EP 16

The Coward

EP 17

Friend in Need

EP 18

Strange Family in Town

A Quaker family encounters prejudice, hostility, and harassment from the residents of the closest town, who mistake thei

EP 19

Hang and Be Damned

EP 20

Quiet City

EP 21

Hornitas Town

EP 22

Imposter For A Day

EP 23

A Pressing Engagement

EP 24

The Woman from Sacramento

EP 25

Sheriff Billy

EP 26

The Hand is Quicker

EP 27

The Suffragette

Emma Birch has organized the women of the town into a determined suffragette group; the men rebel and attempt to put the

EP 28

The Whip

EP 29

The Crisis at Easter Creek

EP 30

Aunt Emma

Vint Bonner is wounded while trying to track down the Drake brothers. His elderly aunt nurses him back to health and tri

EP 31

The Outlander

Vint arrives in Prairie City, Kansas to visit friends and find that it has been taken over by a band of renegade Civil W

EP 32

The Battle of Tower Rock

EP 33

The Torn Flag

EP 34

Hiram Grover's Strike

EP 35

The Gold Star

EP 36

More Than Kin

EP 37

The Manhunters

EP 38

The Peddler

EP 39

Gratitude

EP 1

The Hill of Death

Vint and the boy Robby are fishing by the riverbank. Vint tells the boy that the gun is a tool and goes on to tell the s

EP 2

Dragon for a Day

EP 3

Mercyday

EP 4

Thunder Valley

EP 5

The Nowhere Kid

EP 6

Bonner's Squaw

Bonner persuades Chief Tashuka to honour the treaty with the white man by handing over two braves who are suspected of r

EP 7

Tomboy

EP 8

Remember the Dead

EP 9

No Way to Kill

EP 10

Take Me Home

EP 11

Multiply One Boy

EP 12

Peligroso

EP 13

A Bell for Santo Domingo

EP 14

The Way Back

EP 15

The Painted Beauty

EP 16

Shadow of a Gunfighter

EP 17

The Lady and the Gun

EP 18

Blood of Courage

EP 19

Better Than A Cannon

EP 20

The Dead Ringer

Vint is deliberately framed for a bank robbery and murder.

EP 21

The Last Grey Man

EP 22

Melany

EP 23

Ricochet

EP 24

Dead Man's Hand

EP 25

The Sweet Sisters

EP 26

Incident at Bluefield

EP 27

The Pawn

An old friend of Vint's has been jailed after being caught with a band of rustlers, and is likely to be hanged if he doe

EP 28

Four Lives

EP 29

One on the House

EP 30

Code for a Killer

Vint Bonner arrives in the town of Toredo to be best man at his friend, Dave Regan's wedding. Vint soon discovers that D

EP 31

Mme. Brimstone

EP 32

Lady by Law

EP 33

Ride with the Devil

Bonner is sent for by Don Tomas Verdes, a Mexican ranch owner, to help him convince his son to stop riding with an outla

EP 34

A Trial for Jenny May

After Jenny May McElroy's husband was killed in a gunfight, no one in town would give her a job to support her children,

EP 35

The Cavis Boy

EP 36

The Englishman

EP 37

A Very Special Investigator

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