List of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre episodes
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre is an American Western anthology television series that was broadcast on CBS from October 5, 1956, until May 18, 1961.[1]
Episodes[edit]
Series overview[edit]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Rank | Rating | Average viewership (in millions) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||||
| 1 | 29 | October 5, 1956 | June 21, 1957 | — | — | — | |
| 2 | 29 | October 4, 1957 | June 6, 1958 | 21 | 27.9 | 11.7[2] | |
| 3 | 29 | October 4, 1958 | June 4, 1959 | 13 | 28.3[a] | 12.4[3] | |
| 4 | 29 | October 1, 1959 | May 5, 1960 | 21 | 24.4[b] | 11.2[4] | |
| 5 | 30 | October 6, 1960 | May 18, 1961 | — | — | — | |
- ^ Tied with Father Knows Best
- ^ Tied with General Electric Theater and Mr. Lucky (TV series)
Season 1 (1956–1957)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "You Only Run Once" | Felix E. Feist | John McGreevey | October 5, 1956 | |
| Stars Robert Ryan, Cloris Leachman and John Hoyt. With Whit Bissell and Leo Gordon. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Fearful Courage" | Bernard Girard | Arthur A. Ross | October 12, 1956 | |
| Stars Ida Lupino and James Whitmore. With Michael Pate. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Long Road Home" | Felix E. Feist | Luke Short (uncredited) and Harold Swanton | October 19, 1956 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Unrelenting Sky" | Felix E. Feist | Aaron Spelling | October 26, 1956 | |
| Stars Lew Ayres and Phyllis Avery. With Walter Sande. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Lariat" | Felix E. Feist | Harold Shumate and Aaron Spelling | November 2, 1956 | |
| Stars Jack Palance and Constance Ford. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Death Watch" | Bernard Girard | Otis Carney | November 9, 1956 | |
| Stars Lee J. Cobb and Bobby Driscoll. With John Larch and John Alderson. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Stage for Tucson" | Bernard Girard | John McGreevey and Harold Shumate | November 16, 1956 | |
| Stars Eddie Albert. With Mona Freeman, Rusty Lane and DeForest Kelley. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "A Quiet Sunday in San Ardo" | Ted Post | James Edmiston and Aaron Spelling | November 23, 1956 | |
| Stars Wendell Corey. With Peggie Castle, Gerald Mohr, Morgan Woodward and Harry Lauter. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Vengeance Canyon" | Robert Florey | Lawrence L. Goldman | November 30, 1956 | |
| Stars Walter Brennan. With Ben Cooper and Sheb Wooley. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Return to Nowhere" | Richard Wilson | Lawrence Menkin and Aaron Spelling | December 7, 1956 | |
| Stars Stephen McNally and John Ireland. With Audrey Totter, Ralph Moody and Chris Alcaide. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Courage Is a Gun" | John English | Frederick Louis Fox | December 13, 1956 | |
| Stars Dick Powell, Beverly Garland and Robert Vaughn. With James Westerfield and Claude Akins. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Muletown Gold Strike" | John English | Aaron Spelling | December 21, 1956 | |
| Stars Rory Calhoun. With Barbara Eiler, Denver Pyle and Dabbs Greer. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Star Over Texas" | Lesley Selander | Harold Shumate | December 28, 1956 | |
| Stars Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Talbott and James Garner. With Richard Farnsworth. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Three Graves" | John English | Norman A. Daniels and John McGreevey | January 4, 1957 | |
| Stars Jack Lemmon. With Nan Leslie, Frank Ferguson and James Best. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "No Man Living" | John English | Norman A. Daniels and Stirling Silliphant | January 11, 1957 | |
| Stars Frank Lovejoy and Margaret Hayes. With Peter Whitney, Russ Conway and Stafford Repp. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Time of Decision" | Harold D. Schuster | Luke Short (uncredited) and Sidney Morse | January 18, 1957 | |
| Stars Lloyd Bridges and Diane Brewster. With Walter Sande and Bill Irwin. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Until the Man Dies" | John English | Harold Shumate and Aaron Spelling | July 8, 1957 | |
| Stars Carolyn Jones and John Payne. With Stuart Whitman and James Seay. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Backtrail" | Christian Nyby | Theodore V. Olsen and Harold Swanton | February 1, 1957 | |
| Stars Dick Powell and Catherine McLeod. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Dangerous Orders" | John English | Les Savage Jr., John McGreevey and D.D. Beauchamp | February 8, 1957 | |
| Stars Mark Stevens and Jack Elam. With Robert Cornthwaite. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "The Necessary Breed" | Christian Nyby | Clarke Reynolds and Otis Carney | February 15, 1957 | |
| Stars Sterling Hayden and Jean Willes. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Village of Fear" | Christian Nyby | Antony Ellis | March 1, 1957 | |
| Stars David Niven and George D. Wallace. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Black Creek Encounter" | Roy Del Ruth | Bob Barbash | March 8, 1957 | |
| Stars Ernest Borgnine, Norma Crane and Jan Merlin. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "There Were Four" | Christian Nyby | Steve Frazee and Berne Giler | March 15, 1957 | |
| Stars John Derek and Dean Jagger. | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "Fugitive" | John English | Frederick Louis Fox and Aaron Spelling | March 22, 1957 | |
| Stars Eddie Albert and Celeste Holm. | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "A Time to Live" | Lewis R. Foster | Joseph Chadwick and Aaron Spelling | April 5, 1957 | |
| Stars Ralph Meeker and Julie London. | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "Black Is for Grief" | Lewis Allen | Aaron Spelling | April 12, 1957 | |
| Stars Tom Tully and Tom Tryon. With Mala Powers, Skip Homeier and Mary Astor. | ||||||
| 27 | 27 | "Badge of Honor" | Arthur Hiller | John Robinson | May 3, 1957 | |
| Stars Gary Merrill and Robert Culp. With Peggy Webber and Walter Coy. | ||||||
| 28 | 28 | "Decision at Wilson's Creek" | Louis King | Marc Brandel and John McGreevey | May 17, 1957 | |
| Stars John Forsythe and John Dehner. | ||||||
| 29 | 29 | "Man on the Run" | Felix E. Feist | Richard Wormser | June 21, 1957 | |
| Stars Scott Brady and Nancy Hale. With Hugh Sanders. | ||||||
Season 2 (1957–1958)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 1 | "The Deserters" | Jason Lindsey | Otis Carney | October 4, 1957 | |
| Stars Dick Powell, Margaret Hayes and Tom Pittman. | ||||||
| 31 | 2 | "Blood in the Dust" | Alvin Ganzer | L.A. Pogue & Sidney Morse | October 11, 1957 | |
| Stars Claudette Colbert and Jeff Morrow. With Barry Atwater and Denver Pyle. | ||||||
| 32 | 3 | "A Gun Is For Killing" | Thomas Carr | Peter Ballas & Aaron Spelling | October 18, 1957 | |
| Stars Edmond O'Brien, Marsha Hunt and Robert Vaughn. | ||||||
| 33 | 4 | "Proud Woman" | Louis King | Harold Shumate, Clarke Reynolds & John McGreevey | October 25, 1957 | |
| Stars Hedy Lamarr. With Paul Richards and Roy Roberts. | ||||||
| 34 | 5 | "Ride a Lonely Trail" | Alkvin Ganzer | Marion Hargrove & Kenneth Perkins | November 2, 1957 | |
| Stars Walter Brennan. With John Zaremba, Russell Thorson and Vic Perrin. | ||||||
| 35 | 6 | "The Promise" | Charles F. Haas | James Leiker | November 8, 1957 | |
| Stars Tommy Sands. With Gary Merrill, Carl Benton Reid and Whitney Blake. | ||||||
| 36 | 7 | "Episode in Darkness" | John English | Frederick Louis Fox | November 15, 1957 | |
| Stars Anne Bancroft and Dewey Martin. With John Anderson and Paul Birch. | ||||||
| 37 | 8 | "The Open Cell" | Robert Florey | Barney Slater | November 22, 1957 | |
| Stars Dick Powell and Marshall Thompson. | ||||||
| 38 | 9 | "A Man To Look Up To" | John English | Marc Brandel, Gorse O'Connor & Aaron Spelling | November 29, 1957 | |
| Stars Lew Ayres. With Will Wright, Diane Brewster and Willis Bouchey. | ||||||
| 39 | 10 | "The Bitter Land" | Arthur Hiller | Leonard William Moran & Barney Slater | December 6, 1957 | |
| Stars Peggy Wood and Dan O'Herlihy. With Marian Seldes and Richard Beymer. | ||||||
| 40 | 11 | "Gift from a Gunman" | John English | Russell S. Hughes & Charles A. Stearns | December 13, 1957 | |
| Stars Howard Keel, John Dehner and Jean Willes. With Michael Landon. | ||||||
| 41 | 12 | "A Gun for My Bride" | James Sheldon | Lee Loeb, Jerry Adelman & Aaron Spelling | December 27, 1957 | |
| Stars Eddie Albert. | ||||||
| 42 | 13 | "Man Unforgiving" | James Sheldon | Bob Barbash & Frank Waldman | January 3, 1958 | |
| Stars Joseph Cotten and Claude Akins. With Johnny Crawford and Dan Blocker. | ||||||
| 43 | 14 | "Trial by Fear" | James Sheldon | Howard Dimsdale | January 10, 1958 | |
| Stars Robert Ryan. With Harold J. Stone and Edward Platt. | ||||||
| 44 | 15 | "The Freighter" | Christian Nyby | Fred Freiberger, Luke Short & Charles A. Wallace | January 17, 1958 | |
| Stars Barbara Stanwyck. With Robert H. Harris, James Bell and John Archer. | ||||||
| 45 | 16 | "This Man Must Die" | James Sheldon | Jack Guss, Norman Jacob & Russell S. Hughes | January 24, 1958 | |
| Stars Dan Duryea. With Carole Mathews, Karl Swenson and Walter Coy. | ||||||
| 46 | 17 | "Wire" | James Sheldon | Harry Julian Fink, John McGreevey & Zane Grey | January 31, 1958 | |
| Stars Lloyd Bridges and June Vincent. With James Drury. | ||||||
| 47 | 18 | "License to Kill" | James Sheldon | Kyle Mason & Antony Ellis | February 7, 1958 | |
| Stars Macdonald Carey. With Jacques Aubuchon and Peter Whitney. | ||||||
| 48 | 19 | "Sundown at Bitter Creek" | Robert Florey | Carson A. Wiley & Aaron Spelling | February 14, 1958 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Cathy O'Donnell, Nick Adams, Peter Breck and Jeanne Cooper. | ||||||
| 49 | 20 | "The Stranger" | Robert Gordon | Irvin Elman & John Falvo | February 28, 1958 | |
| Stars Mark Stevens. With Rachel Ames, Denver Pyle and William Schallert. | ||||||
| 50 | 21 | "The Sharpshooter" | Arnold Laven | Sam Peckinpah | March 7, 1958 | |
| Stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford. With Dennis Hopper, R.G. Armstrong and Leif Erickson. This episode serves as the pilot for the series The Rifleman. | ||||||
| 51 | 22 | "Man of Fear" | James Sheldon | Aaron Spelling | March 14, 1958 | |
| Stars Julie Adams and Dewey Martin. | ||||||
| 52 | 23 | "The Doctor Keeps a Promise" | Robert Gordon | Luke Short & Harold Swanton | March 21, 1958 | |
| Stars Cameron Mitchell. With Carolyn Kearney, Ken Lynch and Ed Nelson. | ||||||
| 53 | 24 | "Three Days to Death" | Robert Gordon | William L. Stuart & John McGreevey | April 4, 1958 | |
| Stars Michael Rennie. With Chris Alcaide, Earle Hodgins and Tom Brown. | ||||||
| 54 | 25 | "Shadow of a Dead Man" | Robert Gordon | Frederick Louis Fox, Aaron Spelling & Zane Grey | April 11, 1958 | |
| Stars Barry Sullivan and DeForest Kelley. With Carl Benton Reid and Whitney Blake. | ||||||
| 55 | 26 | "Debt of Gratitude" | William D. Faralla | John McGreevey | April 18, 1958 | |
| Stars James Whitmore and Steve Cochran. With Walter Sande and Robert Ellenstein. | ||||||
| 56 | 27 | "Handful of Ashes" | Robert Gordon | Christopher Knopf | May 2, 1958 | |
| Stars Thomas Mitchell and June Lockhart. With Dabbs Greer. | ||||||
| 57 | 28 | "A Threat of Violence" | Robert Gordon | John McGreevey | May 23, 1958 | |
| Stars Cesar Romero and Lyle Bettger. With Jorja Curtright and Chris Alcaide. | ||||||
| 58 | 29 | "Utopia, Wyoming" | William D. Faralla | Aaron Spelling | June 6, 1958 | |
| Stars Gary Merrill, Joanne Gilbert and Pernell Roberts. With Myron Healey. | ||||||
Season 3 (1958–1959)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 1 | "Trail to Nowhere" | William D. Faralla | Aaron Spelling | October 4, 1958 | |
| Stars Barbara Stanwyck and David Janssen. | ||||||
| 60 | 2 | "The Scaffold" | Robert Florey | Will Cook & Aaron Spelling | October 11, 1958 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Paul Richards and Willard Sage. | ||||||
| 61 | 3 | "Homecoming" | John English | Bob Eisenbach & Ted Sherdeman | October 18, 1958 | |
| Stars Rachel Ames and Lloyd Nolan. | ||||||
| 62 | 4 | "The Accuser" | John English | Gene Lesser & Christopher Knopf | October 25, 1958 | |
| Stars David Niven. | ||||||
| 63 | 5 | "Legacy of a Legend" | Jerry Hopper | Robert Libott | November 2, 1958 | |
| Stars Lee J. Cobb, John Dehner and J. Pat O'Malley. | ||||||
| 64 | 6 | "To Sit in Judgment" | John English | Harry Julian Fink | November 8, 1958 | |
| Stars Robert Ryan. With Michael Pate, Betsy Jones-Moreland and Harry Dean Stanton. | ||||||
| 65 | 7 | "The Tall Shadow" | John English | John McGreevey | November 15, 1958 | |
| Stars John Ericson and Julie Adams. | ||||||
| 66 | 8 | "The Vaunted" | David Niven | Fred Freiberger | November 22, 1958 | |
| Stars Eddie Albert and Jane Greer. | ||||||
| 67 | 9 | "Pressure Point" | John English | Morris Lee Green & Bill Walker | November 29, 1958 | |
| Stars Walter Pidgeon. With Carl Benton Reid, Walter Sande, Pernell Roberts, Dabbs Greer and Stafford Repp. | ||||||
| 68 | 10 | "Bury Him Dead" | John English | John McGreevey | December 6, 1958 | |
| Stars Barry Sullivan and Joan Tetzel. | ||||||
| 69 | 11 | "Let the Man Die" | Roger Kay | Dory Previn & Aaron Spelling | December 13, 1958 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Marsha Hunt, R.G. Armstrong and John Hoyt. | ||||||
| 70 | 12 | "Medal for Valor" | Jesse Hibbs | Edmund Morris & Samuel A. Peeples | December 27, 1958 | |
| Stars Richard Basehart. With Richard Anderson and Paul Fix. | ||||||
| 71 | 13 | "Living is a Longsome Thing" | John English | Marion Parsonnet | January 1, 1959 | |
| Stars Michael Rennie and Michael Landon. With Walter Sande. | ||||||
| 72 | 14 | "Day of the Killing" | John English | Frederick Louis Fox | January 8, 1959 | |
| Stars Paul Douglas and John Litel. | ||||||
| 73 | 15 | "Hang the Heart High" | William D. Faralla | John McGreevey & Luke Short | January 15, 1959 | |
| Stars Barbara Stanwyck. With David Janssen, Paul Richards and John Anderson. | ||||||
| 74 | 16 | "Welcome Home a Stranger" | Mark Sandrich Jr. | Barney Slater | January 15, 1959 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Torin Thatcher, Frank Albertson and James Drury. | ||||||
| 75 | 17 | "Trail Incident" | Alving Ganzer | Bob Barbash | February 2, 1959 | |
| Stars Cameron Mitchell. With John Ericson and Tim Considine. | ||||||
| 76 | 18 | "Make it Look Good" | Anton Leader | Nina Laemmle, Marianne Mosner & Francis Rosenwald | February 5, 1959 | |
| Stars Arthur Kennedy. With Jacqueline Scott, Parley Baer and Robert F. Simon. | ||||||
| 77 | 19 | "A Thread of Respect" | John English | Aaron Spelling | February 12, 1959 | |
| Stars Danny Thomas. With Nick Adams and James Coburn. | ||||||
| 78 | 20 | "Deadfall" | Jerry Hopper | Frederick Louis Fox & Sloan Nibley | February 19, 1959 | |
| Stars Van Johnson. | ||||||
| 79 | 21 | "The Last Raid" | John English | Christopher Knopf & Jonreed Lauritzen | February 26, 1959 | |
| Stars Fernando Lamas and Rita Moreno. | ||||||
| 80 | 22 | "The Loner" | Francis D. Lyon | Aaron Spelling | March 5, 1959 | |
| Stars Thomas Mitchell and Don Durant. | ||||||
| 81 | 23 | "Hanging Fever" | John English | Arthur A. Ross & Palmer Thompson | March 12, 1959 | |
| Stars Beverly Garland and Frank Lovejoy. With Walter Burke. | ||||||
| 82 | 24 | "Trouble at Tres Cruces" | Sam Peckinpah | Sam Peckinpah | March 26, 1959 | |
| Stars Brian Keith. With Neville Brand, Michael Pate and Frank Silvera. This episode serves as the pilot for the series The Westerner. | ||||||
| 83 | 25 | "Heritage" | David Lowell Rich | Christopher Knopf | April 2, 1959 | |
| Stars Edward G. Robinson. With Robert Blake, George D. Wallace and Edward G. Robinson Jr. | ||||||
| 84 | 26 | "The Sunrise Gun" | Phil Karlson | Bruce Geller | April 16, 1959 | |
| Stars Everett Sloane and Dennis Hopper. With Ben Cooper, Karl Swenson and Bill Erwin. | ||||||
| 85 | 27 | "Checkmate" | John English | William R. Cox, Nina Laemmle & John Marsh | April 30, 1959 | |
| Stars James Whitmore. | ||||||
| 86 | 28 | "Mission to Marathon" | John English | Hal Hudson & Christopher Knopf | May 14, 1959 | |
| Stars Stephen McNally. With John McIntire, Robert Cornthwaite and Peter Mark Richman. | ||||||
| 87 | 29 | "The Law and the Gun" | John English | Frank Gruber | June 4, 1959 | |
| Stars Lyle Bettger and Michael Ansara. | ||||||
Season 4 (1959–1960)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 1 | "Interrogation" | James Sheldon | Christopher Knopf | October 1, 1959 | |
| Stars Robert Ryan and Harry Townes. | ||||||
| 89 | 2 | "The Lone Woman" | James Sheldon | Richard Fielder | October 8, 1959 | |
| Stars Barbara Stanwyck and Martin Balsam. With George Keymas and Veronica Cartwright. | ||||||
| 90 | 3 | "Confession" | Frank Baur | Ellis Marcus | October 15, 1959 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Charles Aidman, Walter Burke, Jason Wingreen and Rance Howard. | ||||||
| 91 | 4 | "The Lonely Gun" | André De Toth | Richard Carr | October 22, 1959 | |
| Stars Barry Sullivan. With Wayne Rogers and Paul Birch. | ||||||
| 92 | 5 | "Hand on the Latch[5]" | John English | Mary Cholmondeley & Donald S. Sanford | October 29, 1959 | |
| Stars Anne Baxter. With Paul Richards and Charles H. Gray. | ||||||
| 93 | 6 | "Shadows" | Robert Ellis Miller | Bob Eisenbach & Bruce Geller | November 5, 1959 | |
| Stars Frank Lovejoy and Paul Carr. With Dyan Cannon. | ||||||
| 94 | 7 | "Mission" | William D. Faralla | Aaron Spelling | November 12, 1959 | |
| Stars Sammy Davis Jr. With James Edwards, Felix Nelson, Hari Rhodes, Roy Glenn, Joseph Ruskin and Abraham Sofaer.[6] | ||||||
| 95 | 8 | "Lonesome Road" | Sam Peckinpah | Jack Curtis & Sam Peckinpah | November 19, 1959 | |
| Stars Edmond O'Brien. | ||||||
| 96 | 9 | "King of the Valley" | John English | Mel Goldberg & Edward J. Lakso | November 26, 1959 | |
| Stars Walter Pidgeon. With Leora Dana and Karl Swenson. | ||||||
| 97 | 10 | "Rebel Range" | Don Medford | Kathleen Hite & Joseph Chadwick | December 3, 1959 | |
| Stars Joan Crawford. | ||||||
| 98 | 11 | "Death in a Wood" | Paul Stanley | Saul Levitt | December 17, 1959 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Simon Oakland. | ||||||
| 99 | 12 | "The Grubstake" | David Lowell Rich | Luke Short & Harold Swanton | December 27, 1959 | |
| Stars Cameron Mitchell and Ben Piazza. | ||||||
| 100 | 13 | "The Ghost" | Robert Morgan | Arthur Fitz-Richard & Donn Mullally | December 31, 1959 | |
| Stars Mel Ferrer. | ||||||
| 101 | 14 | "Miss Jenny" | Sam Peckinpah | Robert Heverly & Sam Peckinpah | January 7, 1960 | |
| Stars Vera Miles. With Ben Cooper and Jack Elam. | ||||||
| 102 | 15 | "The Reckoning" | Don Taylor | Richard Fielder | January 14, 1960 | |
| Stars Cesar Romero and Stephen McNally. | ||||||
| 103 | 16 | "Wayfarers" | David Niven | James E. Moser & Luke Short | January 21, 1960 | |
| Stars James Whitmore. With Felicia Farr and Walter Sande. | ||||||
| 104 | 17 | "Picture of Sal" | William D. Faralla | Laurence Heath & Robert Libott | January 28, 1960 | |
| Stars Rod Taylor and Carolyn Jones. | ||||||
| 105 | 18 | "Never Too Late" | William D. Faralla | Howard Dimsdale & Bruce Geller | February 4, 1960 | |
| Stars Ginger Rogers. | ||||||
| 106 | 19 | "The Man in the Middle" | Rudolph Maté | Howard Dimsdale | February 11, 1960 | |
| Stars Michael Rennie and Richard Jaeckel. | ||||||
| 107 | 20 | "Guns for Garibaldi" | Mark Stevens | Franklin Coen | February 18, 1960 | |
| Stars Fernando Lamas. With Mary LaRoche and Al Ruscio. | ||||||
| 108 | 21 | "The Sunday Man" | William D. Faralla | Luke Short & Charles A. Wallace | February 25, 1960 | |
| Stars Dean Jones, Brian Donlevy and Leif Erickson. | ||||||
| 109 | 22 | "Set-Up" | Robert Florey | Robert Blees | March 3, 1960 | |
| Stars Phyllis Kirk and Steve Forrest. | ||||||
| 110 | 23 | "A Small Town That Died" | Robert Florey | Bob Barbash | March 10, 1960 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Beverly Garland and Henry Hull. | ||||||
| 111 | 24 | "Killer Instinct" | Murray Golden | Larry Cohen & Elliot West | March 17, 1960 | |
| Stars Wendell Corey. | ||||||
| 112 | 25 | "Sundown Smith" | William D. Faralla | Heck Allen | March 24, 1960 | |
| Stars Jack Carson. With Simon Oakland and John Hoyt. | ||||||
| 113 | 26 | "Calico Bait" | Robert Ellis Miller | Raphael Hayes | March 31, 1960 | |
| Stars Robert Culp and Inger Stevens. With DeForest Kelley. | ||||||
| 114 | 27 | "Seed of Evil" | Paul Stanley | Palmer Thompson | April 7, 1960 | |
| Stars Raymond Massey and Myron Healey. With Cara Williams and Marion Ross. | ||||||
| 115 | 28 | "Deception" | Lamont Johnson | Terrence Kilpatrick & Harold Medford | April 14, 1960 | |
| Stars Barry Nelson. With Peggy Ann Garner, Jack Elam and Alan Hale Jr. | ||||||
| 116 | 29 | "Stagecoach to Yuma" | William D. Faralla | Luke Short & Charles A. Wallace | May 5, 1960 | |
| Stars Dewey Martin and Jane Greer. With J. Pat O'Malley. | ||||||
Season 5 (1960–1961)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117 | 1 | "A Gun for Willie" | David Lowell Rich | Howard Dimsdale | October 6, 1960 | |
| Stars Ernest Borgnine. With Arthur Shields, Nancy Valentine and Dub Taylor. | ||||||
| 118 | 2 | "Desert Flight" | Budd Boetticher | Jim Byrnes & Joseph Byrnes | October 13, 1960 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With James Coburn and John Pickard. | ||||||
| 119 | 3 | "Cry Hope! Cry Hate!" | Abner Biberman | Margaret Armen | October 20, 1960 | |
| Stars June Allyson. With Paul Fix and Robert Crawford Jr. | ||||||
| 120 | 4 | "The Ox" | David Lowell Rich | Giulio Anfuso & Estelle Conde | November 3, 1960 | |
| Stars Burl Ives and Whit Bissell. With Edward Platt and Bill Erwin. | ||||||
| 121 | 5 | "So Young the Savage Land" | Richard Donner | Stephen Lord & Rudolph Roderick | October 29, 1960 | |
| Stars Claudette Colbert and John Dehner. | ||||||
| 122 | 6 | "Ransom" | Budd Boetticher | Harry Julian Fink | November 17, 1960 | |
| Stars Lloyd Bridges. With Claude Akins and Michael Parks. | ||||||
| 123 | 7 | "The Last Bugle" | Budd Boetticher | Otis Carney | November 24, 1960 | |
| Stars Robert Cummings. With Michael Pate, Rodd Redwing, Robert Carricart and Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. | ||||||
| 124 | 8 | "The Black Wagon" | Tom Gries | David T. Chandler & Aaron Spelling | December 1, 1960 | |
| Stars Esther Williams. | ||||||
| 125 | 9 | "Knife of Hate" | Otto Lang | John Marsh | December 8, 1960 | |
| Stars Robert Harland, Susan Oliver and Lloyd Nolan. With Marjorie Bennett. | ||||||
| 126 | 10 | "The Mormons" | Dick Moder | Lou Morheim | December 3, 1960 | |
| Stars Stephen McNally and Tuesday Weld. With Mark Goddard. | ||||||
| 127 | 11 | "The Man from Yesterday" | Otto Lang | Don Ingalls | December 22, 1960 | |
| Stars Wendell Corey. With Marsha Hunt, John Anderson and Cubby O'Brien. | ||||||
| 128 | 12 | "Morning Incident" | Tom Gries | Mort Thaw | December 29, 1960 | |
| Stars Martha Hyer and Robert Culp. | ||||||
| 129 | 13 | "Ambush" | Budd Boetticher | Richard Fielder | January 5, 1961 | |
| Stars Dick Powell. With Arch Johnson, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton and Don Dubbins. | ||||||
| 130 | 14 | "One Must Die" | Lewis Allen | Peter Germano | January 12, 1961 | |
| Stars Joan Crawford. With Philip Carey, Ben Wright and Carl Benton Reid. | ||||||
| 131 | 15 | "The Long Shadow" | Budd Boetticher | Richard Fielder | January 19, 1961 | |
| Stars Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan. With Roberta Shore and Walter Sande. | ||||||
| 132 | 16 | "Blood Red" | David Lowell Rich | Stephen Lord | January 26, 1961 | |
| Stars Carolyn Jones and Sterling Holloway. With Iron Eyes Cody, Charlie Briggs, Eddie Little Sky, Chief Yowlachie and Paul Richards. | ||||||
| 133 | 17 | "Honor Bright" | Robert Ellis Miller | John Furia | February 2, 1961 | |
| Stars Danny Thomas. With Ed Nelson, Grace Lee Whitney and Marlo Thomas. | ||||||
| 134 | 18 | "The Broken Wing" | Don Taylor | Christopher Knopf | February 9, 1961 | |
| Stars David Ladd, John Larch and Arthur O'Connell. | ||||||
| 135 | 19 | "The Silent Sentry" | Norman S. Powell | Aaron Spelling | February 16, 1961 | |
| Stars Dick Powell and Don Taylor. With James Whitmore. | ||||||
| 136 | 20 | "The Bible Man" | Don Taylor | Elizabeth Campbell Ward & Walter Wagner | February 23, 1961 | |
| Stars Art Linkletter. With Jack Linkletter and Peter Whitney. | ||||||
| 137 | 21 | "The Scar" | Dick Moder | Shirl Hendryx | March 2, 1961 | |
| Stars Lew Ayres and Patricia Barry. With Alan Hale Jr. and Mort Mills. | ||||||
| 138 | 22 | "Knight of the Sun" | Don Taylor | John Furia | March 9, 1961 | |
| Stars Dan Duryea and Constance Towers. | ||||||
| 139 | 23 | "A Warm Day in Heaven" | Don Taylor | Howard Dimsdale & Aaron Spelling | March 23, 1961 | |
| Stars Lon Chaney Jr. and Thomas Mitchell. With William Schallert, Hank Patterson, Bill Erwin and Ken Mayer. | ||||||
| 140 | 24 | "The Empty Shell" | David Lowell Rich | Paul Franklin & Bruce Geller | March 30, 1961 | |
| Stars Jan Murray and Jean Hagen. With Denver Pyle and Dub Taylor. | ||||||
| 141 | 25 | "The Atoner" | Laslo Benedek | Howard Dimsdale | April 6, 1961 | |
| Stars Britt Lomond. With Herbert Marshall, Edward Binns and Virginia Gregg. | ||||||
| 142 | 26 | "Man from Everywhere" | Don Taylor | Frederick Louis Fox | April 13, 1961 | |
| Stars Cesar Romero and King Calder. With Peter Whitney, Ruta Lee, Dabbs Greer and Burt Reynolds. | ||||||
| 143 | 27 | "The Release" | Joseph H. Lewis | Calvin Clements Sr. | April 27, 1961 | |
| Stars Gary Merrill and Cesare Danova. With Lee Kinsolving and Vito Scotti. | ||||||
| 144 | 28 | "Storm Over Eden" | Dick Moder | Stephen Lord | May 4, 1961 | |
| Stars John Derek and Nancy Gates. With Robert Middleton. | ||||||
| 145 | 29 | "Image of a Drawn Sword" | Bernard L. Kowalski | Christopher Knopf | May 11, 1961 | |
| Stars Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges and Royal Dano. With Susan Oliver. | ||||||
| 146 | 30 | "Jericho" | Harry Keller | Herb Meadow & Helen Ainsworth | May 18, 1961 | |
| Stars Guy Madison and Beverly Garland. With Claude Akins, John Hoyt and Les Tremayne. | ||||||
References[edit]
- ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 939. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
- ^ "TV Ratings - 1957".
- ^ "TV Ratings - 1958".
- ^ "TV Ratings - 1959".
- ^ This is the title listed for Season 4 Episode 5 in Dan Kruger’s 129 episode playlist of Zane Grey Theatre Episodes uploaded to YouTube.com
- ^ Tube (November 18, 1959). "Tele Followups: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre". Variety. p. 56. ProQuest 1014824276.
Naughty little television comes clean in this precedental episode out of Four Star's 'Zane Grey' stable. By breaking the racial barrier that has, up to now, existed in video's somewhat rigged version of the early American west, it takes some of the sting out of the gaping wound left by the pay-for-play quiz whizzes. 'Mission' accomplished. [...] Davis, who probably hasn't even scratched the surface of his talents yet, gives a convincing performance throughout. James Edwards has some telling moments as a sergeant of great conviction. As other troopers on the squad, Felix Nelson, Roy Glenn, Ernie Anderson, Bobby Johnson and Hari Rhodes come through admirably. All these men deserve bigger and better parts.