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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Air Date: 1957-09-23
Vint Bonner meets an elderly woman who asks him to do something about her grandson. The young man has already killed ...
Air Date: 1957-09-30
After promising a seriously wounded outlaw that he will get him to town alive to stand trial, Bonner meets five men, ...
Air Date: 1957-10-07
When the man's hotheaded younger brother is killed in self defense, Vint fears that his sheriff friend is too bent on...
Air Date: 1957-10-14
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Air Date: 1957-10-21
Bonner finds a wounded man on the road, and brings him to the house of a an embittered woman who lives alone. He prom...
Air Date: 1957-10-28
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Air Date: 1957-11-04
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Air Date: 1957-11-11
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Air Date: 1957-11-18
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Air Date: 1957-11-25
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Air Date: 1957-12-02
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Air Date: 1957-12-09
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Air Date: 1957-12-16
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Air Date: 1957-12-23
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Air Date: 1957-12-30
Bonner and two strangers trail a pair of killers. Kit: Roy Roberts. Lex: Claude Akins. Bonner: John Payne. Emily: Mad...
Air Date: 1958-01-06
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Air Date: 1958-01-13
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Air Date: 1958-01-20
A Quaker family encounters prejudice, hostility, and harassment from the residents of the closest town, who mistake t...
Air Date: 1958-01-27
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Air Date: 1958-02-03
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Air Date: 1958-02-10
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Air Date: 1958-02-17
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Air Date: 1958-02-24
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Air Date: 1958-03-03
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Air Date: 1958-03-10
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Air Date: 1958-03-17
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Air Date: 1958-03-24
Emma Birch has organized the women of the town into a determined suffragette group; the men rebel and attempt to put ...
Air Date: 1958-03-31
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Air Date: 1958-04-07
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Air Date: 1958-04-14
Vint Bonner is wounded while trying to track down the Drake brothers. His elderly aunt nurses him back to health and ...
Air Date: 1958-04-21
Vint arrives in Prairie City, Kansas to visit friends and find that it has been taken over by a band of renegade Civi...
Air Date: 1958-04-28
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Air Date: 1958-05-05
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Air Date: 1958-05-12
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Air Date: 1958-05-19
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Air Date: 1958-05-26
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Air Date: 1958-06-02
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Air Date: 1958-06-09
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Air Date: 1958-06-16
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