Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (Season 2)
The Deserters (Episode 1)
Air date: 1957-10-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
Blood in the Dust (Episode 2)
Air date: 1957-10-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
A Gun is for Killing (Episode 3)
Air date: 1957-10-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: ""Make your play Billy Jack,"" says young Bobby as he pretends with his father's pistol, which is against the family's rules. But when the real Billy Jack shows up in town and threatens the Andrews family trouble begins for Russ who can't find his gun.
Proud Woman (Episode 4)
Air date: 1957-10-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When Consuela Bowers arrives in the West, she hires a man to work on her father's ranch. She does not know that he is a professional gunman.
Ride a Lonely Trail (Episode 5)
Air date: 1957-11-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The town council decides to retire old Sheriff Larson against much protest from the oldtime sheriff himself who does not want to be put out to pasture. He tries to prove to the town just how valuable and useful he still is.
The Promise (Episode 6)
Air date: 1957-11-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
Episode in Darkness (Episode 7)
Air date: 1957-11-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Traveling cattleman Ethan Boyan is framed in a frontier town for the slaying of a woman in a stagecoach holdup. The only person present when the crime was committed was Isabelle Rutledge, an embittered blind woman.
The Open Cell (Episode 8)
Air date: 1957-11-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sheriff Morgan Winter decides to give a young man involved in a shooting another chance by taking him into his custody for a year. But the rest of the town, including Winter's deputy, just wants to see the boy fail and get sent up to prison.
A Man to Look Up To (Episode 9)
Air date: 1957-11-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Lawyer Jud Lester is just arriving in town right after a robbery when he finds one of the robbers hiding in his office wounded. The robber passes out and people in town assume that Jud shot him, and treat him as a hero. Unfortunately Jud decides to let them keep thinking this, and helps make plans to capture the rest of the gang when the captured man is scheduled to be hanged. But things may backfire.
The Bitter Land (Episode 10)
Air date: 1957-12-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A matriarch is adamanant about keeping the Spring Waters for her ranch and endangers her grandson, while other ranchers seek to use the water for their cattle, trouble ensues.
Gift From a Gunman (Episode 11)
Air date: 1957-12-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: After he is wounded in a gun duel, Will Gorman resolves to forsake the gunman's life. He visits an old friend, whose restless wife and gun-eager son weaken his resolution to reform.
A Gun for My Bride (Episode 12)
Air date: 1957-12-27
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy cattleman elopes with one of her father's ranch hands. Then he learns that her new husband is a fugitive from justice.
Man Unforgiving (Episode 13)
Air date: 1958-01-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Ex-army Medical corp doctor Ben Harper winds up in a town run by a crippled sheriff who holds a personal grudge against the doctor.
Trial by Fear (Episode 14)
Air date: 1958-01-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Gunslinger Tod Owen is on trial for murder, when he is found not guilty, it comes out that the dead man's brother had more reason to want his brother dead.
The Freighter (Episode 15)
Air date: 1958-01-17
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Belle is running a freightline outfit. Murdock and his sons are causing problems for Belle and are forcing a merger the hard way. Without the contracts needed for her line, the Murdocks make life miserable for Belle and her Grandfather who founded the line.
This Man Must Die (Episode 16)
Air date: 1958-01-24
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
Wire (Episode 17)
Air date: 1958-01-31
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A man who has spent most of his life working other people's property, vows to own land of his own. He homesteads on government land until violence breaks out with ranchers who want the land for grazing.
License to Kill (Episode 18)
Air date: 1958-02-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A frontier sheriff finds he is unable to cope with a group of trouble-making trailherders when he breaks his arm. The his younger brother arrives in town and the sheriff swears him in as his deputy. But the older man learns that his brother's idea of law enforcement is to kill any lawbreaker regardless of the crime.
Sundown at Bitter Creek (Episode 19)
Air date: 1958-02-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A man arrives in the town of Bitter Creek. Though he is trying to live down his past as a gun fighter the stranger learns that his appearance has a decided effect on three of the town's inhabitants.
The Stranger (Episode 20)
Air date: 1958-02-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Cort McConnell rides into town, when he sees a man running out of the general store and after he wrestles him down they fight until a shot goes off killing the man. With the shopkeeper dead the townspeople charge Cort with the crime.
The Sharpshooter (Episode 21)
Air date: 1958-03-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale.
Man of Fear (Episode 22)
Air date: 1958-03-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The famed gunman Doc Holliday visits a young married couple who are friends of his. He learns that the wife holds her husband in contempt because he is paying protection money to a gang of thieves in order to keep his home and ranch safe.
The Doctor Keeps a Promise (Episode 23)
Air date: 1958-03-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Dr. Allan McMurdo tries to save the life of Dave Bechdolt who was shot when he tried to rob a man so that he could buy some seeds to grow his crops for his family.
Three Days to Death (Episode 24)
Air date: 1958-04-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: An Easterner learns that his brother has been killed out West and sets out to find the murderer. He learns that the killer's identity is known, but that the law does not have the men to go after him.
Shadow of a Dead Man (Episode 25)
Air date: 1958-04-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Logan Wheeler seeks Raney Benson, a wanted bank robber for the reward money. Logan's father is close to losing his ranch and Logan sets out to help him.
Debt of Gratitude (Episode 26)
Air date: 1958-04-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Marshal Cam Tolby faces the enmity of the townspeople when he tries to take an outlaw to Prescott, Ariz., to stand trial for robbery and murder. His difficulties increase when the outlaw, despite handcuffs, manages to save a group of schoolchildren from disaster.
A Handful of Ashes (Episode 27)
Air date: 1958-05-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Old timer Ben Carey wants to become Deputy but the town thinks he's too old for the job. He takes in a man with a snake bite and realizes that he is outlaw Jerrod Toll.
Threat of Violence (Episode 28)
Air date: 1958-05-23
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A gunman, tired of violence, hangs up his guns and tries to make a new life for himself as an attorney. But he finds that his reputation as a gunman hinders him. Then he takes the case of a man whose past record makes him the prime suspect in a murder case.
Utopia, Wyoming (Episode 29)
Air date: 1958-06-06
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A clan of Confederates from Georgia looking for a new way of life settle in a deserted Wyoming ghost town that they have named 'Utopia'.
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