Season 4

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Season 4

Oct 01, 1959 29 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1

Interrogation

Oct 01, 1959 30 min

After being captured by the Mexican Army, Captain Kraig holds fast to the interrogation concerning the whereabouts of the coming troops.

Episode 2

The Lone Woman

Oct 08, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 3

Confession

Oct 15, 1959 30 min

A New York newspaper reporter comes West to do a story on Sheriff Agate Slade. He forms an immediate dislike for the sheriff.

Episode 4

The Lonely Gun

Oct 22, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 5

Hand on the Latch

Oct 29, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 6

Shadows

Nov 05, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 7

Mission

Nov 12, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 8

Lonesome Road

Nov 19, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 9

King of the Valley

Nov 26, 1959 30 min

A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.

Episode 10

Rebel Range

Dec 03, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 11

Death in a Wood

Dec 17, 1959 30 min

Two Confederate soldiers, sent into the woods on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly realize that they are being watched.

Episode 12

The Grubstake

Dec 24, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 13

The Ghost

Dec 31, 1959 30 min

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.

Episode 14

Miss Jenny

Jan 07, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 15

The Reckoning

Jan 14, 1960 30 min

Mace, a cattleman, hates sheepherders because he believes that sheep ruin good grazing land.

Episode 16

Wayfarers

Jan 21, 1960 30 min

A forlorn young woman comes to a hostile village to tell her husband, who has been working there, she is pregnant.

Episode 17

Picture of Sal

Jan 28, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 18

Never Too Late

Feb 04, 1960 30 min

Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.

Episode 19

Man in the Middle

Feb 11, 1960 30 min

An Indian agent has a double task: convincing the townspeople that a young man deserves punishment for shooting an Indian and arresting the culprit.

Episode 20

Guns for Garibaldi

Feb 18, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 21

The Sunday Man

Feb 25, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 22

Set-Up

Mar 03, 1960 30 min

When a rancher is set-up for a crime he did not commit he finds out more than he needed to know.

Episode 23

A Small Town That Died

Mar 10, 1960 30 min

An ex-convict hears about a good ranch job - but he arrives to find the rancher murdered.

Episode 24

Killer Instinct

Mar 17, 1960 30 min

McGill acts the big man in town and makes the sheriff look bad to the townspeople.

Episode 25

Sundown Smith

Mar 24, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 26

Calico Bait

Mar 31, 1960 30 min

Deputy Sam Anders is looking for Davey Morse for the murder of a shopkeeper.

Episode 27

Seed of Evil

Apr 07, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 28

Deception

Apr 14, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 29

Stagecoach to Yuma

May 05, 1960 30 min

Marshal Dave Harmon heads for Yuma to end the lawless reign of a notorious woman.