Season 5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Season 5

Oct 06, 1960 30 episodes

Episodes

Episode 1

A Gun for Willie

Oct 06, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 2

Desert Flight

Oct 13, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 3

Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

Oct 20, 1960 30 min

After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.

Episode 4

The Ox

Nov 03, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 5

So Young the Savage Land

Nov 10, 1960 30 min

Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.

Episode 6

Ransom

Nov 17, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 7

The Last Bugle

Nov 24, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 8

The Black Wagon

Dec 01, 1960 30 min

Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.

Episode 9

Knife of Hate

Dec 08, 1960 30 min

Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.

Episode 10

The Mormons

Dec 15, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 11

The Man From Yesterday

Dec 22, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 12

Morning Incident

Dec 29, 1960 30 min

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.

Episode 13

Ambush

Jan 05, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 14

One Must Die

Jan 12, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 15

The Long Shadow

Jan 19, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 16

Blood Red

Jan 29, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 17

Honor Bright

Feb 02, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 18

The Broken Wing

Feb 09, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 19

The Silent Sentry

Feb 16, 1961 30 min

A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.

Episode 20

The Bible Man

Feb 23, 1961 30 min

Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.

Episode 21

The Scar

Mar 02, 1961 30 min

The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.

Episode 22

Knight of the Sun

Mar 09, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 23

A Warm Day in Heaven

Mar 23, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 24

The Empty Shell

Mar 30, 1961 30 min

Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.

Episode 25

The Atoner

Apr 06, 1961 30 min

New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.

Episode 26

Man from Everywhere

Apr 13, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 27

The Release

Apr 27, 1961 30 min

Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.

Episode 28

Storm Over Eden

May 04, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 29

Image of a Drawn Sword

May 11, 1961 30 min

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.

Episode 30

Jericho

May 18, 1961 30 min

A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.