Dick Powell
Director
Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Season 5
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
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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
S5E1 - A Gun for Willie
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.
Oct. 6, 1960, midnight
S5E2 - Desert Flight
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.
Oct. 13, 1960, midnight
S5E3 - Cry Hope! Cry Hate!
After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.
Oct. 20, 1960, midnight
S5E4 - The Ox
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.
Nov. 3, 1960, midnight
S5E5 - So Young the Savage Land
Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.
Nov. 10, 1960, midnight
S5E6 - Ransom
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.
Nov. 17, 1960, midnight
S5E7 - The Last Bugle
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.
Nov. 24, 1960, midnight
S5E8 - The Black Wagon
Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.
Dec. 1, 1960, midnight
S5E9 - Knife of Hate
Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.
Dec. 8, 1960, midnight
S5E10 - The Mormons
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.
Dec. 15, 1960, midnight
S5E11 - The Man From Yesterday
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.
Dec. 22, 1960, midnight
S5E12 - Morning Incident
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.
Dec. 29, 1960, midnight
S5E13 - Ambush
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.
Jan. 5, 1961, midnight
S5E14 - One Must Die
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.
Jan. 12, 1961, midnight
S5E15 - The Long Shadow
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.
Jan. 19, 1961, midnight
S5E16 - Blood Red
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.
Jan. 29, 1961, midnight
S5E17 - Honor Bright
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.
Feb. 2, 1961, midnight
S5E18 - The Broken Wing
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.
Feb. 9, 1961, midnight
S5E19 - The Silent Sentry
A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.
Feb. 16, 1961, midnight
S5E20 - The Bible Man
Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.
Feb. 23, 1961, midnight
S5E21 - The Scar
The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.
March 2, 1961, midnight
S5E22 - Knight of the Sun
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.
March 9, 1961, midnight
S5E23 - A Warm Day in Heaven
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.
March 23, 1961, midnight
S5E24 - The Empty Shell
Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.
March 30, 1961, midnight
S5E25 - The Atoner
New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.
April 6, 1961, midnight
S5E26 - Man from Everywhere
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.
April 13, 1961, midnight
S5E27 - The Release
Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.
April 27, 1961, midnight
S5E28 - Storm Over Eden
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.
May 4, 1961, midnight
S5E29 - Image of a Drawn Sword
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.
May 11, 1961, midnight
S5E30 - Jericho
A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.
May 18, 1961, 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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