| The Restless Gun | |
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 Title card | |
| Genre | Western |
| Directed by |
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| Starring | John Payne |
| Narrated by | John Payne |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
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| Executive producer | John Payne |
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| Production location | American Southwest |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 23, 1957 – June 22, 1959 |
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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 78 episodes (including the pilot episode in which the John Payne character's name is Britt Ponsett, the name of James Stewart's character in the 1953-54 old-time radio series The Six Shooter, upon which The Restless Gun television series was originally based).
The Restless Gun theme song (officially titled "I Ride With the Wind") begins: "I ride with the wind, my eyes on the sun, and my hand on my restless gun..."
