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The Restless Gun

Season 1 Episode 35: The Gold Star

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.

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