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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.
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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.
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Episode 1
When simple Willie receives a reward for killing an outlaw he becomes the big man in town, until it turns out that Willie killed the wrong man.
Directed by David Lowell RichGuest stars Dub Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Birch, Arthur Shields, Paul Sorensen
Episode 2
Brenner, Doyle and Sandy are a trio of bank robbers, who've come up with a really slick plan. But Brenner, the mastermind, hasn't taken Doyle's itchy trigger finger into account.
Directed by Budd BoetticherGuest stars Rand Brooks, James Coburn, Ben Cooper, John Pickard
Episode 3
After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.
Directed by Abner BibermanGuest stars June Allyson, Paul Fix
Episode 4
A former Confederate soldier who has spent some long years in prison, Ox has only one thing in mind - revenge on his old commanding officer for putting him behind bars.
Directed by David Lowell RichGuest stars Burl Ives, Andy Albin, Edward Platt, Bill Erwin, Whit Bissell
Episode 5
Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.
Directed by Richard DonnerGuest stars Chris Robinson, Claudette Colbert, Roy Barcroft, Harry Dean Stanton, John Dehner
Episode 6
Comanche Indians raid a shepherd's camp, killing all the hands except an itinerant cowboy named Dundee. He doesn't have to wait long before he learns why he have to wait long before he learns why he was spared. The Indians plan to trade him for horses and guns.
Directed by Budd BoetticherGuest stars Aneta Corsaut, Michael Parks, Lloyd Bridges, Claude Akins, Ed Nelson
Episode 7
Geronimo and his renagades are on the warpath again. Army officer Gatewood heads for the Mexican Sierras with two Apache prisoners to try and talk the ruthless leader into surrender.
Guest stars Robert Cummings, Rodd Redwing, Robert Warwick, Michael Pate
Episode 8
Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.
Guest stars Larry Pennell, Esther Williams, Joseph Sargent
Episode 9
Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.
Directed by Otto LangGuest stars Vladimir Sokoloff, Susan Oliver, Lloyd Nolan, Tyler McVey, Marjorie Bennett, Michael T. Mikler
Episode 10
Matt Rowland is determined to prevent Mormons from entering into Joshua City after he hears there is cholera aboard the wagon train. His son Tod begins to question his father's motives after he meets a young lady from the train.
Guest stars Mark Goddard, Tuesday Weld, Stephen McNally, Bing Russell, Joseph V. Perry
Episode 11
An old-time gunslinger named Mapes gets out of prison and returns to track down John Duncan, the man who framed him many years ago.
Directed by Otto LangGuest stars Bill Idelson, Cubby O'Brien, Marsha Hunt, Wendell Corey, Chuck Hayward, John Anderson
Episode 12
Laurie Pritchard is a farm girl engaged to a farm boy but the farm life isn't consistent with her dreams. Then she meets a man who might be able to make her dreams come true.
Directed by Tom GriesGuest stars Martha Hyer, Robert Culp, Fiona Hale
Episode 13
Union Army Col. Blackburn commands a squad of mercenary soldiers whose current mission is to get vital papers through Confederate lines. There's an air of mutiny as the mercenaries complain about the dangerous duty.
Where to watch Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreEpisode 14
John Baylor is summoned to the home of a friend of his fathers. The man is dying and wishes to leave everything to one of his two daughters. John wants to find out why one daughter is excluded.
Directed by Lewis AllenGuest stars Joan Crawford, Philip Carey, Carl Benton Reid, Ben Wright, Ted Stanhope
Episode 15
Widow Amy Lawson's son, a Cavalry Officer, is killed in action. Amy blames Major Sinclair for her son's death. The major isn't just the Cavalry commander - he's Amy's fiance.
Directed by Budd BoetticherGuest stars Roberta Shore, Scott Marlowe, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, John Pickard
Episode 16
Jess Whiting is a driven man, he is afraid that the Indian uprising is because of his Indian wife and that she will be taken from him.
Directed by David Lowell RichGuest stars Sterling Holloway, Iron Eyes Cody, Eddie Little Sky, Carolyn Jones, Paul Richards, Sam Edwards
Episode 17
Ex-convict Ed Dubro has reluctantly agreed to his daughter's marriage to Vince Harwell. But on the wedding day, Laurie learns that Vince is already married.
Directed by Robert Ellis MillerGuest stars Grace Lee Whitney, Marlo Thomas, Robert Warwick, Joseph V. Perry, Danny Thomas, Ed Nelson
Episode 18
Lyman now a cripple, years ago tried to fly through the air under his own power. Now Lyman's nephew Thalian is determined to do the same thing.
Directed by Don TaylorGuest stars K.T. Stevens, David Ladd, Arthur O'Connell, John Larch
Episode 19
A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.
Directed by Norman PowellGuest stars Don Taylor, James Whitmore
Episode 20
Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.
Directed by Don TaylorGuest stars Jack Linkletter, Alvy Moore, Art Linkletter, Peter Whitney
Episode 21
The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.
Guest stars Lew Ayres, Mort Mills
Episode 22
Henry Jacob Hanley, a drunken desert rat, is just making himself at home in a deserted fort when he acquires some company. Beth Woodfield arrives on a mission taken over from her dead father- delivering the new Gatling gun to the troops in Mexico.
Guest stars Constance Towers, Dan Duryea
Episode 23
In the sleepy decent town of Heaven, evil arrives in the form of Nick Finn, as Michael Peters soon finds out he is the only one not swayed by the devil.
Directed by Don TaylorWritten by Howard HeadGuest stars Fred Graham, Malcolm Atterbury, Lon Chaney Jr., William Schallert, Ken Mayer, Hank Patterson, Bill Erwin, Thomas Mitchell
Episode 24
Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.
Directed by David Lowell RichWritten by Bruce GellerGuest stars Jean Hagen, Jan Murray, Dub Taylor, Denver Pyle, Marjorie Bennett
Episode 25
New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.
Directed by László BenedekGuest stars Herbert Marshall, Virginia Gregg, John Milford, Edward Binns
Episode 26
Sheriff Jed Morgan is worried about his prisoner, Tom Bowdry, because the local gentry seems to be getting lynch fever. Morgan hires guide Branch Taylor to hustle Bowdry to the nearby town of Borrego.
Guest stars Ruta Lee, Burt Reynolds, Peter Whitney, Cesar Romero, Dabbs Greer, Michael T. Mikler, Fred Graham
Episode 27
Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.
Where to watch Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreEpisode 28
Chet Loring, Ellen Gaynor, and Billie Gaynor grew up together in the same house. Chet wants to marry Ellen but accidentally shoots and kills Billie. Now Ellen and Billie's father wants to hang Chet.
Guest stars Robert Middleton, John Derek, Roberto Contreras, Harry Dean Stanton
Episode 29
Union Lieutenant Sam Kenyon informs the citizens of an isolated Rebel community that some rookie troops will be camping near there for a few days. For the sake of their own health, he offers the townspeople a warning - don't taunt the young soldiers.
Guest stars Beau Bridges, Royal Dano, Susan Oliver, Lloyd Bridges
Episode 30
A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.
Directed by Harry KellerWritten by Herb Meadow, Helen AinsworthGuest stars Guy Madison, Les Tremayne, Allison Hayes, Claude Akins, John Hoyt, George D. Wallace, Beverly Garland, Robert Foulk
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