Zane Grey Theatre
An anthology based on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell hosts.
- 1956-1961
- 5 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure
- TV-PG
An anthology based on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell hosts.
Season 1 Episode Guide
29 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
You Only Run Once
Fri, Oct 5, 1956 30 mins
When horses begin to turn up missing, the county forms a vigilante committee. Rancher Matt Jessop has the bad luck to innocently hire two shady characters to work on his ranch. Will the two drag Matt and his family down with them?
Episode 2
Fearful Courage
Fri, Oct 12, 1956 30 mins
Ranchers have hired a gunfighter to run farmers off the land. He kills a man and then goes after the wife. The wife flees to a shack nearby. Soon she and the stranger in the shack are pinned down and try to find a way out.
Episode 3
The Long Road Home
Fri, Oct 19, 1956 30 mins
Sam Gracie returns to Texas from his law practice in Kansas. He is determined to bring an end to a feud involving his family to an end without the use of guns.
Episode 4
The Unrelenting Sky
Fri, Oct 26, 1956 30 mins
Rancher Clint Howard and his wife Peg run into more hardship than happiness as they struggle to settle on their Arizona homestead. Clint joins two neighbors in trying to obtain water from a merciless old man who refuses to share his supply during a drought.
Episode 5
Lariat
Fri, Nov 2, 1956 30 mins
Dan Morgan accidentally kills a man and spends five years in jail. He returns to exact revenge against the judge who sent him up. The judge offers him a job which he refuses...until he meets the judges beautiful daughter.
Episode 6
Death Watch
Fri, Nov 9, 1956 30 mins
Three soldiers and a scout try to cope while a band of Apache warriors surround their strong hold and begin a death watch for the men.
Episode 7
Stage for Tucson
Fri, Nov 16, 1956 30 mins
A Tucson-bound stagecoach stops for a half-hour rest at an isolated depot. The local sheriff is waiting to identify one of the travelers as a bank robber.
Episode 8
A Quiet Sunday in San Ardo
Fri, Nov 23, 1956 30 mins
A small Western town is jolted from its serenity by the murder of its marshal. The townspeople unanimously choose rancher Clay Burnett to fill the post and to track down the killers. But Burnett, desiring a quiet and peaceful life, refuses, and he is accused of being a coward.
Episode 9
Vengeance Canyon
Fri, Nov 30, 1956 30 mins
Clint Harding is on a mission to kill his father when he falls in with a group of bandits. One of the bandits is an old man who tries to convince him that vengeance is not fruitful.
Episode 10
Return to Nowhere
Fri, Dec 7, 1956 30 mins
An outlaw gunfighter is haunted by his past and is trying to find his life. He goes looking for his wife and finds she is married to another man. He is determined to get her back.
Episode 11
Courage Is a Gun
Fri, Dec 14, 1956 30 mins
Johnny Adler comes to town. He is fast with a gun and loves to be feared. He accepts an offer to kill the town sheriff, but first he wants to take care of an infection in his finger.
Episode 12
Muletown Gold Strike
Fri, Dec 21, 1956 30 mins
Mason Ward, a former soldier, wants to leave the war behind and find new work. He is hired as the school teacher and finds one of his students obsessed with discovering gold in the area.
Episode 13
Star Over Texas
Fri, Dec 28, 1956 30 mins
Joel Todd is in a marriage for convenience to a younger woman. They are moving westward and receive a military escort through Indian country. A young Lieutenant openly shows his affection for the married woman.
Episode 14
Three Graves
Fri, Jan 4, 1957 30 mins
Cass Kendall is looking for the easy life. He is fast with a gun but not fastest. He moves to a town that doesn't allow guns. He immediately starts scheming to become top man in town.
Episode 15
No Man Living
Fri, Jan 11, 1957 30 mins
Jim Todd, a former sheriff, has committed his life to track down the four men who held up a bank and shot his wife. After finding three, he finds a man who resembles the fourth but is a respected citizen.
Episode 16
Time of Decision
Fri, Jan 18, 1957 30 mins
The son of the most influential man in the territory goads a farmer into a gunfight. The son is killed. Can the farmer get justice in a town owned by ranchers.
Episode 17
Until the Man Dies
Fri, Jan 25, 1957 30 mins
Clint Belmet stops a lynching. He wants to prove that Nevada is a place of law and order and worthy of statehood. But is it worth the cost?
Episode 18
Backtrail
Fri, Feb 1, 1957 30 mins
Kane Eldridge wants to own the whole valley. He brings in a gunman to scare the small ranchers off. The gunman thinks he knows one of the small ranchers - a man he used to ride with.
Episode 19
Dangerous Orders
Fri, Feb 8, 1957 30 mins
A Union army captain is given orders to carry through Indian country. But can he be trusted with these critical orders seeing as he is from Virginia?
Episode 20
The Necessary Breed
Fri, Feb 15, 1957 30 mins
A bounty hunter tracks a man to his home town. After he kills the man, he stops in to visit his wife. His wife tells him she can't live that type of life anymore and is leaving him. He says he can't change.
Episode 21
Village of Fear
Fri, Mar 1, 1957 30 mins
A traveling book salesman happens upon a town, finds a man hanging, and then is ordered at gunpoint into a barn. A robber tells him to find the man who shot his brother or the whole town will die.
Episode 22
Black Creek Encounter
Fri, Mar 8, 1957 30 mins
Davey Harper is determined to goad Big Jim Morrison into a gunfight for killing his father 12 years earlier. Big Jim Morrison is determined not to pick up a gun.
Episode 23
There Were Four
Fri, Mar 15, 1957 30 mins
Andy Todd wants revenge for the man responsible for the death of his father. He joins up with a gang of 3 cattle thieves and leads a raid on the man's cattle to begin his revenge.
Episode 24
Fugitive
Fri, Mar 22, 1957 30 mins
A woman finds an injured fugitive in her barn. She soon finds that he has information about her husband who is overdue coming home from the war.
Episode 25
A Time to Live
Fri, Apr 5, 1957 30 mins
Steve is the lone survivor of a disastrous armed robbery. He recovers from his injuries, but is told that because of the location of the bullet, he will be lucky to live six months. Realizing his time is short, he goes on a desperate bid to live life to the fullest and exact revenge on those who tried to kill him.
Episode 26
Black Is for Grief
Fri, Apr 12, 1957 30 mins
JEFF Anderson comes home after a long absence because of the war to find his wife Barbara has been murdered. He begins to try and unravel the circumstances of her death and discovers Barbara was not as pure as he'd hoped.
Episode 27
Badge of Honor
Fri, May 3, 1957 30 mins
Hoby Gilman returns to Crawford, Texas after the war and finds the town is taken over by a former confederate colonel. Hoby is asked to stand up to the colonel but he has had enough of guns and violence.
Episode 28
Decision at Wilson's Creek
Fri, May 17, 1957 30 mins
A man abruptly resigns his commission in the Confederate Army to spend time with his wife and endures disgrace at every turn.
Episode 29
Man on the Run
Fri, Jun 21, 1957 30 mins
A man in the desert follows a dead man's horse in hopes it will lead him to water. Instead he finds a home where a young lady asks him to take her away with him.
