The Restless Gun

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.

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 learns that the five have just taken part in a lynching, and he becomes concerned that they will do the same with this prisoner.

Oct 7, 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.

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.

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.

Oct 28, 1957

Nov 4, 1957

Nov 11, 1957

Nov 18, 1957

Nov 25, 1957

Dec 2, 1957

Dec 9, 1957

Dec 16, 1957

Dec 23, 1957

Dec 30, 1957

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

Jan 6, 1958

Jan 13, 1958

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 Bonner has come to do business with, though the man's wife feels differently.

Jan 27, 1958

Feb 3, 1958

Feb 10, 1958

Feb 17, 1958

Feb 24, 1958

Mar 3, 1958

Mar 10, 1958

Mar 17, 1958

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.

Mar 31, 1958

Apr 7, 1958

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.

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.

Apr 28, 1958

May 5, 1958

May 12, 1958

May 19, 1958

May 26, 1958

Jun 2, 1958

Jun 9, 1958

Jun 16, 1958

Jun 22, 1959

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 story of his grandfather, Jebediah Bonner. Vint's parents have been killed and he is brought up by Dr. Ken Ludlow and his wife. Jebediah, a retired marshall, arrives on the stagecoach to visit with his grandson and is confronted in the saloon by Jim Kenyon who holds a grudge from 20 years ago when he believes that Jedediah had not given his father a fair chance when he had killed him. Joe is consumed by hatred and is determined to exact revenge. Young Vint sees and hears of his grandfather being bullied and doing nothing. Jebediah decides that he must gain respect in young Vint's eyes and an exciting conclusion is played out.

Sep 29, 1958

Oct 6, 1958

Oct 13, 1958

Oct 20, 1958

Nov 3, 1958

Bonner persuades Chief Tashuka to honour the treaty with the white man by handing over two braves who are suspected of robbery. Unfortunately for Bonner, the chief's daughter Running Fawn takes a shine to Bonner and follows him to town. By Indian law Bonner is to marry the girl and reluctantly agrees to prevent a war. However when Bonner sees how beautiful Running Fawn is he uses an Indian custom to lose her to a brave.

Nov 10, 1958

Nov 17, 1958

Nov 24, 1958

Dec 8, 1958

Dec 15, 1958

Jan 5, 1959

Jan 12, 1959

Jan 19, 1959

Feb 16, 1959

Vint is deliberately framed for a bank robbery and murder.

Feb 23, 1959

Mar 2, 1959

Mar 23, 1959

Mar 30, 1959

Apr 6, 1959

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 doesn't tell where the other rustlers are. But he is unwilling to because he fears that his compatriots will harm his deaf-mute daughter if they think he's told on them.

Apr 13, 1959

Apr 20, 1959

Apr 27, 1959

Vint Bonner arrives in the town of Toredo to be best man at his friend, Dave Regan's wedding. Vint soon discovers that Dave has been shot in the back and that the town, led by the new sheriff Ben Webster, are looking for his supposed killer, Vance Carter. It is left to Vint to find the truth and lay a trap for the real killer.

May 4, 1959

May 11, 1959

May 18, 1959

Bonner is sent for by Don Tomas Verdes, a Mexican ranch owner, to help him convince his son to stop riding with an outlaw gang. Bonner joins the outlaws to try and bring the boy to his senses.

May 25, 1959

After Jenny May McElroy's husband was killed in a gunfight, no one in town would give her a job to support her children, except for the saloon owner, who hired her as a bookkeeper. Because of this some of the "proper" townspeople want to take her children and make them wards of the state.

Jun 1, 1959

Jun 8, 1959

Jun 15, 1959