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The Restless Gun

Season 1 Episode 17: Friend in Need

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.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Duel at Lockwood

1. Duel at Lockwood

Aired: Sep 23, 1957

While visiting the town of Lockwood, Vint Bonner is forced into a standoff wi...

Episode 2 Trail to Sunset

2. Trail to Sunset

Aired: Sep 30, 1957

After promising a seriously wounded outlaw that he will get him to town alive...

Episode 4 Rink

4. Rink

Aired: Oct 14, 1957

On the trail, Bonner meets a young boy who is looking to join his father. Bon...

Episode 5 Jenny

5. Jenny

Aired: Oct 21, 1957

Bonner finds a wounded man on the road, and brings him to the house of a an e...

Episode 7 Jody

7. Jody

Aired: Nov 3, 1957

The hotheaded son of an old friend of Bonner's doesn't realize how much troub...

Episode 9 The New Sheriff

9. The New Sheriff

Aired: Nov 17, 1957

Stopping in the town of Harmony to visit his old friend Doc Cross, Bonner lea...

Episode 10 Man and Boy

10. Man and Boy

Aired: Nov 24, 1957

A young killer robs the telegraph office and guns down the clerks. Why is She...

Episode 11 Cheyenne Express

11. Cheyenne Express

Aired: Dec 1, 1957

Vint Bonner reluctantly befriends Wilbur English, a sniveling coward who betr...

Episode 12 Thicker Than Water

12. Thicker Than Water

Aired: Dec 8, 1957

Bonner intercedes in a delicate family situation when a wandering gambler ret...

Episode 13 Silver Threads

13. Silver Threads

Aired: Dec 15, 1957

Bonner begins to suspect that the likable guitar-strumming man he met on the ...

Episode 14 The Child

14. The Child

Aired: Dec 22, 1957

On Christmas Eve Bonner and the Marshal capture "El Bruto," a super-strong bu...

Episode 15 The Gold Buckle

15. The Gold Buckle

Aired: Dec 29, 1957

Bonner meets two brothers on the trail, one of whom he worked with in the pas...

Episode 16 The Coward

16. The Coward

Aired: Jan 5, 1958

Offered a job by powerful rancher George Temple, Bonner turns the man down wh...

Episode 17 Friend in Need

17. Friend in Need

Aired: Jan 12, 1958

Art Hemper and George Willis, two former friends until George married Art's g...

Episode 19 Hang and Be Damned

19. Hang and Be Damned

Aired: Jan 26, 1958

Bonner must travel through renegade Apache territory to escort a ruthless kil...

Episode 20 Quiet City

20. Quiet City

Aired: Feb 2, 1958

Bonner rides into Quiet City, a town that was once wild but is now peaceful. ...

Episode 21 Hornitas Town

21. Hornitas Town

Aired: Feb 9, 1958

Bonner has been sent to check on conditions in Hornitas, a gold mining camp w...

Episode 22 Imposter for a Day

22. Imposter for a Day

Aired: Feb 16, 1958

Stopping in a small town, Bonner learns that someone there using his name gun...

Episode 25 Sheriff Billy

25. Sheriff Billy

Aired: Mar 9, 1958

The drunken escaped convict Bonner met on the trail may just be the long-lost...

Episode 26 The Hand Is Quicker

26. The Hand Is Quicker

Aired: Mar 16, 1958

Bonner agrees to teach young Henry Wilson how to be faster with a gun so that...

Episode 27 The Suffragette

27. The Suffragette

Aired: Mar 23, 1958

Emma Birch has organized the women of the town into a determined suffragette ...

Episode 28 The Whip

28. The Whip

Aired: Mar 30, 1958

A woman is shunned by everyone in her home town, including her own father, be...

Episode 30 Aunt Emma

30. Aunt Emma

Aired: Apr 13, 1958

Bonner is wounded during a bank holdup and all his money (and only his money)...

Episode 31 The Outlander

31. The Outlander

Aired: Apr 20, 1958

A band of former Confederates led by Colonel Bromley have taken over a Kansas...

Episode 33 The Torn Flag

33. The Torn Flag

Aired: May 5, 1958

Bonner and a gun salesman come across the body of a man on the trail. The mai...

Episode 35 The Gold Star

35. The Gold Star

Aired: May 19, 1958

On the very day that Sheriff Jeb Barnes retires after 40 years as sheriff and...

Episode 36 More Than Kin

36. More Than Kin

Aired: May 26, 1958

Two friends of Bonner's, a rancher and his wife, have now become Shakespearea...

Episode 37 The Manhunters

37. The Manhunters

Aired: Jun 2, 1958

Bonner is in the saloon in a lawless town when he sees a young drifter forced...

Episode 38 The Peddler

38. The Peddler

Aired: Jun 9, 1958

An old widow friend of Bonner's hires him to protect an itinerant peddler who...

Episode 39 Gratitude

39. Gratitude

Aired: Jun 16, 1958

Bonner leads a surveying team to lay out the boundary between Colorado and Ne...

Info about The Restless Gun

Seasons: 2

Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Production Country: United States

Genres:Western