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  • NBC
  • Sep 22, 1958
  • NBC
  • Sep 22, 1958
The Restless Gun

Summary Movie star John Payne played Vint Bonner, a retired gunfighter who wanders the west. Payne gave a fine, easygoing, humorous performance as Vint Bonner. John Payne made a very appealing western hero, and "The Restless Gun" was in the Nielsen top ten during its run. The producer of "The Restless Gun" was David Dortort, whose next show w...

  • NBC
  • Sep 22, 1958
  • NBC
  • Sep 22, 1958
The Restless Gun
Season 2
Season Premiere: Sep 22, 1958
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Summary Movie star John Payne played Vint Bonner, a retired gunfighter who wanders the west. Payne gave a fine, easygoing, humorous performance as Vint Bonner. John Payne made a very appealing western hero, and "The Restless Gun" was in the Nielsen top ten during its run. The producer of "The Restless Gun" was David Dortort, whose next show w...

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Episode 1 • Sep 22, 1958 • 30 m
Jebediah Bonner
To explain to a young boy why he tries not to kill in gunfights, Vint relates to him the story of his grandfather, and how he dealt with a young hoodlum bent on revenge.
Episode 2 • Sep 29, 1958 • 30 m
Day of the Dragon
After a minister and his wife are killed by Yaqui renegades, their young son vows to avenge their deaths by killing 200 of the tribe. Vint hopes to talk some sense into the boy before it's too late.
Episode 3 • Oct 6, 1958 • 30 m
Mercyday
At the dying request of an old buffalo hunter friend, Vint brings the man's uneducated, unkempt, and poorly mannered daughter to town with him in the hopes of transforming her into a lady.
Episode 4 • Oct 13, 1958 • 30 m
Thunder Valley
Episode 5 • Oct 20, 1958 • 30 m
The Nowhere Kid
Episode 6 • Nov 3, 1958 • 30 m
Bonner's Squaw
Episode 7 • Nov 10, 1958 • 30 m
Tomboy
While riding in an area where road agents have recently held up a stage and killed three men, Vint is himself held up by a rather inept would-be road agent, who happens to be a young woman, and who manages to save his life.
Episode 8 • Nov 17, 1958 • 30 m
Remember the Dead
Episode 9 • Nov 24, 1958 • 30 m
No Way to Kill
Vint joins with a sheriff and posse in tracking an escaped killer who is avenging his maiming by shooting his victims repeatedly in the arm and leg before killing them.
Episode 10 • Dec 1, 1958 • 30 m
Take Me Home
Vint learns that a gambling house worker he knows is the daughter of a Quaker couple who believe she is dead. The girl is in an abusive relationship with the owner of the gambling house, who will not let her leave him.
Episode 11 • Dec 8, 1958 • 30 m
Multiply One Boy
Vint brings an orphaned Southern boy to live with his Northern uncle's family. But the boy still has resentments toward the North, and is angry that his uncle fought on a different side from his father, who was killed in the war.
Episode 12 • Dec 15, 1958 • 30 m
Peligroso
Episode 13 • Dec 22, 1958 • 30 m
A Bell for Santo Domingo
Episode 14 • Dec 29, 1958 • 30 m
The Way Back
Episode 15 • Jan 5, 1959 • 30 m
The Painted Beauty
Episode 16 • Jan 12, 1959 • 30 m
Shadow of a Gunfighter
Episode 17 • Jan 19, 1959 • 30 m
The Lady and the Gun
Vint is infuriated when he learns that a young woman has taken his horse Scar for a joyride, but his anger quickly evaporates when he meets the girl, and soon falls in love with her.
Episode 18 • Feb 2, 1959 • 30 m
Blood of Courage
Episode 19 • Feb 9, 1959 • 30 m
Better Than a Cannon
Episode 20 • Feb 16, 1959 • 30 m
The Dead Ringer
Vint is deliberately framed for a bank robbery and murder.
Episode 21 • Feb 23, 1959 • 30 m
The Last Grey Man
Episode 22 • Mar 2, 1959 • 30 m
Melany
Vint visits a former girlfriend, though she is now married, and her husband is now paralyzed and unable to speak, a fact for which she blames herself. Nearby a posse is hunting a ruthless killer who is known to be in the area.
Episode 23 • Mar 9, 1959 • 30 m
Ricochet
Episode 24 • Mar 16, 1959 • 30 m
Dead Man's Hand
Episode 25 • Mar 23, 1959 • 30 m
The Sweet Sisters
Episode 26 • Mar 30, 1959 • 30 m
Incident at Bluefield
Episode 27 • Apr 6, 1959 • 30 m
The Pawn
Episode 28 • Apr 13, 1959 • 30 m
Four Lives
Vint helps search for a killer, a young man he helped raise, hoping to get him to trial before a lynch mob gets him. He has to contend with the man's ex-girlfriend, who still believes him to be innocent.
Episode 29 • Apr 20, 1959 • 30 m
One on the House
Old Matt Harper spent many years in prison for a bank robbery he did not commit. The state is now offering him compensation, but he refuses to take it, believing the state owes him a bank robbery.
Episode 30 • Apr 27, 1959 • 30 m
Code for a Killer
Vint searches for the hired gunman whom he is told killed a sheriff friend. But when the gunman saves Vint from ambush, and the sheriff's fiancée tells him a very different story of what happened, he decides the real answer lies elsewhere.
Episode 31 • May 4, 1959 • 30 m
Mme. Brimstone
Episode 32 • May 11, 1959 • 30 m
Lady by Law
When Vint stands up for saloon owner Fern Foster against abuse from townsfolk, a judge gives him 60 days to turn her into a lady---and threatens him with jail if he's not successful. Fern's husband, an outlaw, may complicate matters.
Episode 33 • May 18, 1959 • 30 m
Ride with the Devil
In Mexico, a friend of Vint asks for his help in getting his son away from a gang of thieves before they graduate to violence.
Episode 34 • May 25, 1959 • 30 m
A Trial for Jenny May
Episode 35 • Jun 1, 1959 • 30 m
The Cavis Boy
Episode 36 • Jun 8, 1959 • 30 m
The Englishman
An English journalist asks Vint to accompany him as he researches the West for material for his book, but actually he has other plans.
Episode 37 • Jun 15, 1959 • 30 m
A Very Special Investigator
Vint tries to help an old newspaper editor in his crusade against three corrupt officials---the town's mayor, sheriff, and judge, as well as the gunman they've been using as their enforcer.
Episode 38 • Jun 22, 1959 • 30 m
The Hill of Death

Top Cast

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John Payne

Vint Bonner, Britt Ponset, Gene Baroda

Leonard P. Geer

Townsman, Ambusher #2, Henchman

Dan Blocker

Fred Burgermen, Ike Burnett, John 'El Bruto'

Jeanne Bates

Anna Ritter, Greta Hoffman, Mary Jepson

Stuart Randall

Marshal Powers, Ruby Bannister, Sheriff

John Larch

Anse Newton, Jett King, Red-eye Kirk

Claude Akins

Lex Springer, Matt Pierce, Rafe Marlowe

Lane Bradford

Howie, Jesse Drake, Sheriff Ben Webster

William Fawcett

Doctor, Moss Blaine, Seth

Henry Hull

Doc Kemmer, Jesse McKee, Matt Harper

John Dehner

Aaron Dixon, George Temple, Sheriff Heck Partridge

John Litel

Father Luke, McClelland Burke, Tom Cauter

Gloria Talbott

Mercyday Giffen, Sophie Wilmer, Valya

Lloyd Corrigan

Doc Cross, Jesse Alden, Kermit Taylor

Veda Ann Borg

Jenny Garver, Maggie Plunkette, Rollie Akins

Ellen Corby

Emma Birch, Mrs. Amy Morgan, Ruth Purcell

Trevor Bardette

Enoch Wilson, Grant Fisher, Marshal Jason

Gregg Palmer

Bill Clayton, Jim Carter, Joe Kruger

Don Grady

Andy Cavis, Donny Betts, Sylvester Cromwell III

Morgan Woodward

Ben Cotterman, J.B. Cauter, Jubal Carney

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