Episode 1
The Deserters
30m
Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
Episode credits
Guest stars Joe De Santis, Margaret Hayes
TV series
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
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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 premiered October 5, 1956. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
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.
Season 2 episodes
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Episode 2
Blood in the Dust
30m
Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
Episode credits
Guest stars Claudette Colbert, Alexander Lockwood, Joseph V. Perry, Harry Bartell, Denver Pyle
Episode 3
A Gun is for Killing
30m
""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.
Episode credits
Directed by Thomas CarrGuest stars Marsha Hunt, Edmond O'Brien, Walter Reed, Robert Vaughn
Episode 4
Proud Woman
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Iphigenie Castiglioni, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Richards, Val Avery
Episode 5
Ride a Lonely Trail
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars John Zaremba, Val Dufour, Walter Brennan
Episode 6
The Promise
30m
A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
Episode credits
Directed by Charles F. HaasGuest stars Whitney Blake, Carl Benton Reid, Tommy Sands, Gary Merrill
Episode 7
Episode in Darkness
30m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by John EnglishGuest stars Mason Curry, Phillip Pine, Dewey Martin, Anne Bancroft, John Anderson, Paul Birch, Bill Erwin, Dick Rich
Episode 8
The Open Cell
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Marshall Thompson, Frances Robinson
Episode 9
A Man to Look Up To
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Will Wright, Robert Gothie, Lew Ayres, Diane Brewster, Willis Bouchey, Herbert Lytton
Episode 10
The Bitter Land
30m
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.
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Directed by Arthur HillerGuest stars Marian Seldes, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Beymer, Peggy Wood
Episode 11
Gift From a Gunman
30m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by John EnglishGuest stars Howard Keel, Michael Landon, Jean Willes, John Dehner
Episode 12
A Gun for My Bride
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Onslow Stevens, Jane Greer, Chris Alcaide, Eddie Albert, Robert Karnes, Ollie O'Toole
Episode 13
Man Unforgiving
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Joseph Cotten, Johnny Crawford, Mary Shipp, S. John Launer, Claude Akins
Episode 14
Trial by Fear
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Edward Platt, Dick Crockett, Raymond Bailey, Joseph V. Perry, Robert Ryan, Harold J. Stone, Russell Thorson
Episode 15
The Freighter
30m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Christian NybyGuest stars Barbara Stanwyck, Robert H. Harris, John Archer, James Bell, Jason Johnson, Bill Catching, Thomas Peters, Robert F. Hoy
Episode 16
This Man Must Die
30m
A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
Episode credits
Guest stars Dan Duryea, Joseph Sargent, Chuck Hayward, Karl Swenson, Carole Mathews, Than Wyenn, Walter Coy
Episode 17
Wire
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Dale Van Sickel, James Drury, Tom Holland, David Opatoshu, Edward Binns, Lloyd Bridges, Mimi Gibson, John Wilder
Episode 18
License to Kill
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Macdonald Carey, Gene Roth, Peter Whitney, John Ericson, Stacy Harris, Richard Devon, George Cisar
Episode 19
Sundown at Bitter Creek
30m
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.
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Directed by Robert FloreyGuest stars Nick Adams, Cathy O'Donnell, Tex Ritter, Jeanne Cooper, Dennis Cross, Peter Breck
Episode 20
The Stranger
30m
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.
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Directed by Robert GordonGuest stars William Schallert, Rachel Ames, Mark Stevens, Denver Pyle
Episode 21
The Sharpshooter
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Leif Erickson, R.G. Armstrong, Sidney Blackmer, Chuck Connors, Dennis Hopper, Johnny Crawford, Charles Arnt
Episode 22
Man of Fear
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Julie Adams, Arthur Franz, Dewey Martin, Robert Gothie, Chuck Hayward
Episode 23
The Doctor Keeps a Promise
30m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Robert GordonGuest stars Alex Gerry, Forrest Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Nelson, Peter Breck
Episode 24
Three Days to Death
30m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Robert GordonGuest stars Michael Rennie
Episode 25
Shadow of a Dead Man
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Barry Sullivan, Fred Kohler Jr., Whitney Blake, Carl Benton Reid, DeForest Kelley
Episode 26
Debt of Gratitude
30m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Henry Rowland, Howard Culver, Ben Wright, Sam Edwards, Steve Cochran, James Whitmore
Episode 27
A Handful of Ashes
30m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Robert GordonGuest stars Jon Lormer, June Lockhart, Gene Evans, Thomas Mitchell, William Schallert
Episode 28
Threat of Violence
30m
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.
Episode credits
Directed by Robert GordonGuest stars Cesar Romero, Bruce Cowling, Lyle Bettger, Alex Gerry, Chris Alcaide, Harry Lauter
Episode 29
Utopia, Wyoming
30mfinale
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'.
Episode credits
Guest stars Myron Healey, Pernell Roberts, Gary Merrill, Robert Gothie, Joanne Gilbert, Walter Coy
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More about Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Cast
Dick PowellSelf - Host
Chris AlcaideNate Evers
Peter WhitneyMoose
Claude AkinsWalker Collins
Lloyd BridgesEvan Tapper
Carl Benton ReidThad Hobbs
Marsha HuntClaire Andrews
Barbara StanwyckRegan MooreCredits
- Created by
- Robert Florey, Dick Powell
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 147
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
CBSUnited States
Themes
anthology