The Restless Gun

  • Premiered: Sep 1957
  • Episodes: 77
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Monday
  • Drama Western

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Season 1
1x1
Duel at Lockwood
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 23, 1957
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.
1x2
Trail to Sunset
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 30, 1957
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 .. show full overview
1x3
Revenge at Harness Creek
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1957
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.
1x4
Rink
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 14, 1957
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.
1x5
Jenny
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 21, 1957
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.
1x6
The Shooting of Jett King
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 28, 1957
Everybody in the town of Copper Springs is eager to credit Bonner with the shooting of legendary gunman Jett King - including King himself, who doesn't want his reputation destroyed by .. show full overview
1x7
Jody
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 04, 1957
The hotheaded son of an old friend of Bonner's doesn't realize how much trouble he's in for after he kills the son of a powerful rancher in a gunfight.
1x8
General Gilford's Widow
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 11, 1957
The widow of a general insists her husband is still alive, though Bonner and everyone else knows that no one survived the massacre at the fort he commanded. Believing her to be .. show full overview
1x9
The New Sheriff
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 18, 1957
Stopping in the town of Harmony to visit his old friend Doc Cross, Bonner learns that the ruthless Cotten brothers and an infamous gunfighter plan to take control of the town and .. show full overview
1x10
Man and Boy
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 25, 1957
A young killer robs the telegraph office and guns down the clerks. Why is Sheriff Lawson reluctant to get up a posse or even to interview the surviving clerk? Vint Bonner comes into town and prods the sheriff into upholding the law.
1x11
Cheyenne Express
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 02, 1957
Vint Bonner reluctantly befriends Wilbur English, a sniveling coward who betrayed his outlaw gang in return for a reward and pardon. Wilbur is fearful of deadly retaliation and looks to Bonner for protection.
1x12
Thicker Than Water
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 09, 1957
Bonner intercedes in a delicate family situation when a wandering gambler returns to reconcile with the young son he abandoned eight years earlier. The boy believes his daddy is dead, and Bonner believes it's best to keep it that way.
1x13
Silver Threads
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 16, 1957
Bonner begins to suspect that the likable guitar-strumming man he met on the trail may be the same man who shot and robbed a farmer. His clue is the song "Silver Threads Among The Gold".
1x14
The Child
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 23, 1957
On Christmas Eve Bonner and the Marshal capture "El Bruto," a super-strong but mute giant of a man accused of murder. The three men seek refuge for the night in a Spanish Mission where the resident orphans are reenacting the miracle of Christmas.
1x15
The Gold Buckle
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 30, 1957
Bonner meets two brothers on the trail, one of whom he worked with in the past. The two claim to be with a posse that is searching for the robbers who held up a stage and killed an .. show full overview
1x16
The Coward
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 06, 1958
Offered a job by powerful rancher George Temple, Bonner turns the man down when he learns that he is trying to force Will Fetter to sell his small homestead. Temple and his hands regard .. show full overview
1x17
Friend in Need
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 13, 1958
Art Hemper and George Willis, two former friends until George married Art's girl, accuse each other of the murder of Art's brother. Bonner tries to determine which of them actually did it.
1x18
Strange Family in Town
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 20, 1958
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 .. show full overview
1x19
Hang and Be Damned
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 27, 1958
Bonner must travel through renegade Apache territory to escort a ruthless killer to another town for his hanging. Before he leaves, however, he realizes that he will face yet another danger---the man's girlfriend, who is determined to free him.
1x20
Quiet City
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 03, 1958
Bonner rides into Quiet City, a town that was once wild but is now peaceful. The sheriff of more than thirty years, an old friend of Bonner's, feels as if he's no longer needed and .. show full overview
1x21
Hornitas Town
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 10, 1958
Bonner has been sent to check on conditions in Hornitas, a gold mining camp which supposedly has none of the violence common to such towns. He finds that it is not so different after .. show full overview
1x22
Imposter For A Day
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 17, 1958
Stopping in a small town, Bonner learns that someone there using his name gunned down a harmless drunk for money. To clear his reputation, he must try to find out who the killer really was and who was really behind it.
1x23
A Pressing Engagement
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 24, 1958
To Bonner's astonishment, everyone in the town he is in believes he is about to be married to Helen Rockwood, including the friend of his that he thought was in love with Helen.
1x24
The Woman from Sacramento
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 03, 1958
Bonner is suspicious of the motives of the daughter of a dying old friend when she comes to visit him, especially since she is in the company of a known outlaw. On top of this, after .. show full overview
1x25
Sheriff Billy
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 10, 1958
The drunken escaped convict Bonner met on the trail may just be the long-lost father that the young sheriff in the nearby town is looking for.
1x26
The Hand is Quicker
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 17, 1958
Bonner agrees to teach young Henry Wilson how to be faster with a gun so that he can defend himself against the man he says is gunning for him. But is Wilson telling the real truth about what he intends to do with his newly acquired skill?
1x27
The Suffragette
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 24, 1958
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.
1x28
The Whip
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 31, 1958
A woman is shunned by everyone in her home town, including her own father, because she married a man who later turned outlaw and killed the town's leading citizen. Bonner tries to prevent the shunning from escalating into violence.
1x29
The Crisis at Easter Creek
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 07, 1958
The citizens of a town persuade (well, not exactly just persuade) Bonner into the job of collecting money for a new church organ. Sounds too simple and safe compared to what Bonner's done before? Anything but, as he soon learns.
1x30
Aunt Emma
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 14, 1958
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.
1x31
The Outlander
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 21, 1958
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.
1x32
The Battle of Tower Rock
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 28, 1958
The two partners in Tower Rock's bank have split and formed two rival banks across the street, both men blaming the feud on each others' wives and their rivalry over the annual .. show full overview
1x33
The Torn Flag
Episode overview
Air date
May 05, 1958
Bonner and a gun salesman come across the body of a man on the trail. The main clue they find is a torn half of a Confederate flag. After bringing the dead man to town, Bonner notices .. show full overview
1x34
Hiram Grover's Strike
Episode overview
Air date
May 12, 1958
Near Clay City, Bonner stops two bullies who are trying to force an old prospector to reveal the location of the gold he believes he has found. The old man has a history of claiming to .. show full overview
1x35
The Gold Star
Episode overview
Air date
May 19, 1958
On the very day that Sheriff Jeb Barnes retires after 40 years as sheriff and is awarded a gold star by his citizens, the town bank is robbed. As Bonner goes looking for the robbers, he wonders if it was just a coincidence.
1x36
More Than Kin
Episode overview
Air date
May 26, 1958
Two friends of Bonner's, a rancher and his wife, have now become Shakespearean actors on tour. When they learn that P.T. Barnum is in town, they decide to change their plans of moving on .. show full overview
1x37
The Manhunters
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 02, 1958
Bonner is in the saloon in a lawless town when he sees a young drifter forced into killing one of three brothers in self defense after they had been goading him. The other brothers lead .. show full overview
1x38
The Peddler
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 09, 1958
An old widow friend of Bonner's hires him to protect an itinerant peddler who has been harassed by thugs working for a rancher, but the man insists on going through the rancher's land alone.
1x39 Season finale
Gratitude
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 16, 1958
Bonner leads a surveying team to lay out the boundary between Colorado and New Mexico, but he has to deal with the opposition of both a powerful rancher and a widowed homesteader and her young son.

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