Dick Powell
Director
Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Season 2
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.
Released Oct. 5, 1956
Episode 30 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.arizona-territory, imdb.hosted-television-series, imdb.reference-to-zane-grey, imdb.author-name-in-series-title, imdb.three-word-series-title, imdb.anthology + 3 more, imdb.classical-western, imdb.sonoita-arizona, imdb.fort-bowie-arizona
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - The Deserters
Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
Oct. 4, 1957, midnight
S2E2 - Blood in the Dust
Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
Oct. 11, 1957, midnight
S2E3 - A Gun is for Killing
""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.
Oct. 18, 1957, midnight
S2E4 - Proud Woman
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.
Oct. 25, 1957, midnight
S2E5 - Ride a Lonely Trail
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.
Nov. 2, 1957, midnight
S2E6 - The Promise
A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
Nov. 8, 1957, midnight
S2E7 - Episode in Darkness
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.
Nov. 15, 1957, midnight
S2E8 - The Open Cell
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.
Nov. 22, 1957, midnight
S2E9 - A Man to Look Up To
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.
Nov. 29, 1957, midnight
S2E10 - The Bitter Land
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.
Dec. 6, 1957, midnight
S2E11 - Gift From a Gunman
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.
Dec. 13, 1957, midnight
S2E12 - A Gun for My Bride
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.
Dec. 27, 1957, midnight
S2E13 - Man Unforgiving
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.
Jan. 3, 1958, midnight
S2E14 - Trial by Fear
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.
Jan. 10, 1958, midnight
S2E15 - The Freighter
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.
Jan. 17, 1958, midnight
S2E16 - This Man Must Die
A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
Jan. 24, 1958, midnight
S2E17 - Wire
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.
Jan. 31, 1958, midnight
S2E18 - License to Kill
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.
Feb. 7, 1958, midnight
S2E19 - Sundown at Bitter Creek
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.
Feb. 14, 1958, midnight
S2E20 - The Stranger
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.
Feb. 28, 1958, midnight
S2E21 - The Sharpshooter
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.
March 7, 1958, midnight
S2E22 - Man of Fear
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.
March 14, 1958, midnight
S2E23 - The Doctor Keeps a Promise
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.
March 21, 1958, midnight
S2E24 - Three Days to Death
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.
April 4, 1958, midnight
S2E25 - Shadow of a Dead Man
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.
April 11, 1958, midnight
S2E26 - Debt of Gratitude
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.
April 18, 1958, midnight
S2E27 - A Handful of Ashes
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.
May 2, 1958, midnight
S2E28 - Threat of Violence
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.
May 23, 1958, midnight
S2E29 - Utopia, Wyoming
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'.
June 6, 1958, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 4410 min.
Released: Oct. 5, 1956
Last Air Date: May 18, 1961, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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