The principal producer of "The Restless Gun" was David Dortort, thereafter in 1959 the executive producer of NBC's blockbuster Western hit "Bonanza". Dortort did not create "The Restless Gun", nor did he produce the pilot episode, and he rarely contributed original scripts. A critic who considers "The Restless Gun" only an average program, writes that the series "probably owes its mediocrity more to MCA, the company that 'packaged' the series and produced it through its television arm Revue Productions, than to Dortort."