Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
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.
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Episode 1 - Trail to Nowhere
Release Date: 1958-10-02Julie Holman swears vengeance when her husband is murdered. Suspecting Carl Benson, a man with whom her husband has quarreled, Julie rides out to his ranch. She finds that Benson has disappeared and sets out to track him down.
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Episode 2 - The Scaffold
Release Date: 1958-10-09An embittered man shoots one of the leading citizens.
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Episode 3 - Homecoming
Release Date: 1958-10-23Though Adam Larkin has spent many years trying to make a living from his land, he has only met with failure. When his wife tells him that she is expecting a child, Larkin goes to the bank and asks for a loan, but the bank refuses it. Larkin decides to take what he needs.
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Episode 4 - The Accuser
Release Date: 1958-10-30After discovering the body of a murdered rancher, Milo Brant tries to comfort the grieving widow. The widow's little son, however distrusts Brant and resents the man's attentions to his mother.
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Episode 5 - Legacy of a Legend
Release Date: 1958-11-06A drifter arrives in a small Western town claiming to be a famous lawman who had lived there years before. The townspeople, who remember the lawman as a young and vigorous man, refuse to believe him.
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Episode 6 - To Sit in Judgment
Release Date: 1958-11-13When a youngster bites off more trouble than he can chew a sympathetic sheriff takes the hard course on teaching him a lesson.
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Episode 7 - The Tall Shadow
Release Date: 1958-11-20Linc Hardway's father is one of the wealthiest men in the West. In his efforts to prove that he can do anything as well as his father, Linc encounters one failure after another, until even the girl he loves loses respect for him. Then Hardway's father is murdered and he is suspected of the crime.
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Episode 8 - The Vaunted
Release Date: 1958-11-27Wanted criminal Jess Matson has been on the run for over a year, he heads back to visit his family and encounters a surprise ambush.
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Episode 9 - Pressure Point
Release Date: 1958-12-04Jess Clark becomes blind when his horse breaks his leg in a gopher hole in Top Rock, a small town that wants nothing to do with gunfighters. After a prison break Lew Banning goes after Clark who killed his brother not caring that the old timer is blind now.
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Episode 10 - Bury Me Dead
Release Date: 1958-12-11Lorimer is forced to help outlaw Redfern, who is holding Jed's wife hostage, with a Marshal on the trail of Redfern, Lorimer is trying desperately to protect Redfern in order to keep her alive.
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Episode 11 - Let the Man Die
Release Date: 1958-12-18Dr. Reynolds faces a painful temptation - if he allows a patient to die, his son's future will be assured.
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Episode 12 - Medal for Valor
Release Date: 1958-12-25David Manning asks Rufus Stewart for money so he can relocate to a warmer climate due to his wife's illness. The catch is that he serve in the U.S. Armory under Stewart's sons name for so that his son can run for U.S. senate.
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Episode 13 - Living is a Lonesome Thing
Release Date: 1959-01-01A wealthy rancher is trying to monopolize the cattle drives leaving Texas. Small ranchers are trying to put their own drive together. The wealthy rancher hires a man's wayward son to sabotage the effort.
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Episode 14 - Day of the Killing
Release Date: 1959-01-08Blacksmith Jonas Sutton is elected sheriff. After he takes office, townfolk pressure him into hunting down a murderer who previously had saved Sutton's son.
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Episode 15 - Hang the Heart High
Release Date: 1959-01-15Discontented with her marriage, Regan Moore attracts the love of gunman Dix Porter with serious consequences.
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Episode 16 - Welcome Home a Stranger
Release Date: 1959-01-22After the Civil War, lawman Ben Sanderson returns to his Southern home to find things very changed.
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Episode 17 - Trail Incident
Release Date: 1959-01-29Andy McCall comes across a teenage boy wandering through the country. The boy, Peter Owens tells of being thrown by a horse, and his father is Tim Owens, the biggest banker in Chicago. Back at camp Charlie the cook who's been crippled by an accident is bitter he can never partner Andy like they'd always dreamed. The cattle drive continues and Peter starts to adapt to camp life, first as a cook's helper and then as one of the riders. Charlie tells the boy he will stake him a ticket for the stagecoach when they get close to a nearby town. Arriving at Redcliff Charlie ...
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Episode 18 - Make It Look Good
Release Date: 1959-02-05When Sam Carter refuses to accept his share of stolen money, he inadvertently places his wife Jenny's life in jeopardy. Carter's companions in crime suspect that he has informed on them.
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Episode 19 - A Thread of Respect
Release Date: 1959-02-12Gino Pelleti, an immigrant tailor, opens a shop in Yucca City. He and his son are subjected to cruel pranks, but he doesn't believe in violence and refuses to defend himself.
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Episode 20 - Deadfall
Release Date: 1959-02-19A gunman just out of prison is framed for robbery, convicted and sent back to prison. On the way, outlaws kill the sheriff and kidnap the prisoner.
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Episode 21 - The Last Raid
Release Date: 1959-02-26Miguel and his gang get away from the band with several thousand pesos in gold. But Miguel is betrayed by one of his men, who steals the gold, takes Miguel's girl and her younger brother, and escapes to a hiding place in the mountains.
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Episode 22 - Man Alone
Release Date: 1959-03-05A father determines that his son must kill Johnny Ringo in order to establish himself as the best gunfighter.
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Episode 23 - Hanging Fever
Release Date: 1959-03-12Sam Walston, a town leader, sets out to bring justice to a small town after a murder. A suspect suddenly leaves town and the people don't want to wait for a trial. What Walston doesn't know is that his own wife is the suspect's alibi.
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Episode 24 - Trouble at Tres Cruces
Release Date: 1959-03-26After many years away from his family, Dave Blasingame is asked to return home.
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Episode 25 - Heritage
Release Date: 1959-04-02Victor Bers grows bitter when his son deserts their farm to join the Confederate Army.
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Episode 26 - The Sunrise Gun
Release Date: 1959-04-16Bitter memories plague old Johnny Sunrise, one-time gunslinger.
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Episode 27 - Checkmate
Release Date: 1959-04-30The story of Ward Pendleton, an examiner for a chain of banks, as he travels throughtout the old west.
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Episode 28 - Mission To Marathon
Release Date: 1959-05-14Gil Durand, dishonorably discharged from the Army, is asked by the government to locate an Army major.
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Episode 29 - The Law and the Gun
Release Date: 1959-06-04John Welker's new bride is killed by bank robbers. John goes undercover to try and infiltrate the gang.