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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
After being captured by the Mexican Army, Captain Kraig holds fast to the interrogation concerning the whereabouts of the coming troops.
Guest stars Alexander Scourby, Roberto Contreras, Don Diamond, Robert Ryan
Episode 2
An Indian is skulking around a ranch house and kills the eldest son of the family living there. The mother is filled with hate and wants him dead. Soon the Indian returns.
Guest stars Barbara Stanwyck, Martin Balsam, George Keymas, Joel Crothers, John Pickard, Shari Lee Bernath, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Masters
Episode 3
A New York newspaper reporter comes West to do a story on Sheriff Agate Slade. He forms an immediate dislike for the sheriff.
Guest stars Charles Aidman, Rance Howard
Episode 4
An outlaw returns home to see his brother. He finds that his brother is dead. His nephew has sold the ranch to pay debts and is about to set out on a life of getting rich fast.
Guest stars Patricia Donahue, Wayne Rogers, Barry Sullivan, Paul Birch
Episode 5
A man is shot while escaping from an army prison camp during the civil war. He happens upon a small farm house where there are two women alone.
Guest stars Anne Baxter, Paul Richards
Episode 6
Loy Bannister is the town's most powerful figure because of his political and economic influence. In a wild bid to gain Bannister's admiration, young Branch Neeley agrees to stand trial for a murder he didn't commit.
Guest stars James McCallion, Dyan Cannon, Frank Lovejoy, Paul Carr, Catherine McLeod
Episode 7
At a frontier cavalry post, a newly arrived black trooper must earn the respect and trust of his fellow cavalrymen, most of whom are white and don't want a black in their outfit.
Guest stars Abraham Sofaer, Sammy Davis Jr., James Edwards, Roy Glenn, Ernest Anderson, Bobby Johnson, Hari Rhodes, Joseph Ruskin
Episode 8
Marshall Ben Clark cleaned up the town, but now he is going to far in his effort to suppress dissent. The townspeople decide he needs to leave town. He doesn't want to leave quietly.
Directed by Sam PeckinpahGuest stars Tol Avery, Edmond O'Brien, Rita Lynn
Episode 9
A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.
Guest stars Leora Dana, Walter Pidgeon, Karl Swenson
Episode 10
A strong willed woman and her son return to their old home to find it occupied by a former civil war soldier who refuses to leave.
Directed by Don MedfordGuest stars Joan Crawford, Scott Forbes, John Anderson, Don Grady, Joseph V. Perry
Episode 11
Two Confederate soldiers, sent into the woods on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly realize that they are being watched.
Guest stars Simon Oakland, Don Grady, William Boyett
Episode 12
Released after a long prison term, prospector Jim Goad is ready to resume panning for gold and he plans to take his son with him. But the boy who was raised by friends of Jim's has fallen in with a bad crowd.
Guest stars John Milford, Cameron Mitchell
Episode 13
Marshal Monty Elstrode is captured by an outlaw gang who are planning to organize a new Confederate Army. Elstrode is shocked to learn that the leader of the group is the supposedly dead murderer of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.
Where to watch Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreEpisode 14
Jenny Breckenridge is unhappy with her life. She would much rather be back in the city, where she comes from. than out west with her husband, a lazy drunk. A good-looking young cowboy who stops by sparks her interest, but then the man announces that he has a plan--he's going to take Jenny as his own, and to show that he means business he shoots her husband.
Guest stars Vera Miles, Jack Elam, Ben Cooper, Adam Williams
Episode 15
Mace, a cattleman, hates sheepherders because he believes that sheep ruin good grazing land.
Guest stars Jeff Morris, Cesar Romero, Stephen McNally, Ed Nelson
Episode 16
A forlorn young woman comes to a hostile village to tell her husband, who has been working there, she is pregnant.
Guest stars Robert B. Williams, Felicia Farr, James Whitmore
Episode 17
Jed a former spy during the Civil War shows up in a Nevada casino run by Sal, whom he left standing at the altar years before.
Guest stars Rod Taylor, Carolyn Jones, Richard Shannon, J. Pat O'Malley, Louis Mercier
Episode 18
Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.
Guest stars Richard Eastham, Wendell Holmes, Roy Barcroft, Ginger Rogers, Melinda Byron, Alan Reed Jr.
Episode 19
An Indian agent has a double task: convincing the townspeople that a young man deserves punishment for shooting an Indian and arresting the culprit.
Guest stars Richard Jaeckel, Louis Jean Heydt, James Anderson, Michael Rennie
Episode 20
Townspeople are disappointed when Giulio Mandati comes to Indian Creek to take over his brother's gold claim. They had hoped that the gold would be used to pay for a much needed dam. What they don't know is that Giulio is an impostor who plans to use the riches to finance Garibaldi's Italian revolt.
Directed by Mark StevensGuest stars Earle Hodgins, Ken Mayer, Al Ruscio, Fernando Lamas, Robert Fortier
Episode 21
Sheriff Walt Devlin and his brother, Deputy Bill Devlin, are alike in name only. Walt is a letter-of-the-law man who believes the end does not justify the means. Bill's methods are sometimes questionable and certain citizens suspect that he's a lawman purely for the thrill of gunslinging.
Guest stars Dean Jones, Hank Patterson, Jeanne Bates, Ron Hagerthy, Brian Donlevy, Leif Erickson, Howard Culver, Ross Elliott
Episode 22
When a rancher is set-up for a crime he did not commit he finds out more than he needed to know.
Directed by Robert FloreyGuest stars Bill Quinn, Robert Gist, Stephen Talbot, Phyllis Kirk, Steve Forrest, Harry Lauter, Lane Bradford
Episode 23
An ex-convict hears about a good ranch job - but he arrives to find the rancher murdered.
Directed by Robert FloreyGuest stars Henry Hull, Tol Avery, Denver Pyle, Howard Culver, Beverly Garland
Episode 24
McGill acts the big man in town and makes the sheriff look bad to the townspeople.
Guest stars Marc Lawrence, John Clarke, Howard Petrie, Wendell Corey
Episode 25
After Bobby's mother is murdered by Outlaw Jesse Harp, he runs into Sundown Smith and sets him up for the fall as the murderer.
Guest stars Jack Carson, Simon Oakland, John Hoyt, George D. Wallace
Episode 26
Deputy Sam Anders is looking for Davey Morse for the murder of a shopkeeper.
Directed by Robert Ellis MillerGuest stars Inger Stevens, Robert Culp, DeForest Kelley
Episode 27
Malachi West has developed a bitter hatred for the Union secret-service man who was responsible for his son's death during the war. The townspeople are very afraid of West until Sam Brady comes to town.
Directed by Paul StanleyGuest stars Conlan Carter, Raymond Massey, Cara Williams, Marion Ross, Charles Maxwell, Myron Healey, William Henry
Episode 28
In an effort to thwart thieving outlaws that rob their stagecoaches, the stage-line's main operators come up with a plan that is not only unorthodox but risky as well.
Guest stars Peggy Ann Garner, Jack Elam
Episode 29
Marshal Dave Harmon heads for Yuma to end the lawless reign of a notorious woman.
Guest stars Tom Drake, J. Pat O'Malley, Raymond Bailey, Dewey Martin, Jane Greer, Chuck Hayward
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