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The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre!

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.
Genres:WesternDrama
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Best Episodes Summary

"Honor Bright" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre". It scored 9/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Robert Ellis Miller and written by N/A, it aired on 2/2/1961. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Sharpshooter".

  • Honor Bright
    9.0/1042 votes
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    #1 - Honor Bright

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1961

    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.

    Director: Robert Ellis Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sharpshooter
    8.8/1024 votes
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    #2 - The Sharpshooter

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1958

    Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Desert Flight
    8.7/1034 votes
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    #3 - Desert Flight

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1960

    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.

    Director: Budd Boetticher

    Writer: N/A

  • Knife of Hate
    8.6/1026 votes
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    #4 - Knife of Hate

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1960

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

    Director: Otto Lang

    Writer: N/A

  • Miss Jenny
    8.5/1026 votes
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    #5 - Miss Jenny

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sunday Man
    8.4/1024 votes
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    #6 - The Sunday Man

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Shadow of a Dead Man
    8.3/1023 votes
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    #7 - Shadow of a Dead Man

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/11/1958

    Logan Wheeler seeks Raney Benson, a wanted bank robber for the reward money. Logan's father is close to losing his ranch and Logan sets out to help him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Trail Incident
    8.3/1025 votes
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    #8 - Trail Incident

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1959

    Andy 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 ...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lonely Gun
    8.3/1031 votes
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    #9 - The Lonely Gun

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1959

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Episode in Darkness
    8.2/1039 votes
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    #10 - Episode in Darkness

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1957

    Traveling cattleman Ethan Boyan is framed in a frontier town for the slaying of a woman in a stagecoach holdup. The only person present when the crime was committed was Isabelle Rutledge, an embittered blind woman.

    Director: John English

    Writer: N/A

  • The Accuser
    8.2/1024 votes
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    #11 - The Accuser

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1958

    After 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.

    Director: John English

    Writer: N/A

  • Trouble at Tres Cruces
    8.2/1040 votes
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    #12 - Trouble at Tres Cruces

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/26/1959

    After many years away from his family, Dave Blasingame is asked to return home.

    Director: Sam Peckinpah

    Writer: N/A

  • The Law and the Gun
    8.2/1030 votes
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    #13 - The Law and the Gun

    Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 6/4/1959

    John Welker's new bride is killed by bank robbers. John goes undercover to try and infiltrate the gang.

    Director: John English

    Writer: N/A

  • Man from Everywhere
    8.2/1037 votes
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    #14 - Man from Everywhere

    Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 4/13/1961

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jericho
    8.2/1029 votes
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    #15 - Jericho

    Season 5 Episode 30 - Aired 5/18/1961

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

    Director: Harry Keller

    Writer: N/A

  • Stage to Tucson
    8.1/1059 votes
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    #16 - Stage to Tucson

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1956

    Marshal Thorpe has received a tip that bank robber Bide Turley is on the stage from Las Cruces to Tucson.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • A Man to Look Up To
    8.1/1029 votes
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    #17 - A Man to Look Up To

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1957

    Lawyer Jud Lester is just arriving in town right after a robbery when he finds one of the robbers hiding in his office wounded. The robber passes out and people in town assume that Jud shot him, and treat him as a hero. Unfortunately Jud decides to let them keep thinking this, and helps make plans to capture the rest of the gang when the captured man is scheduled to be hanged. But things may backfire.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Three Days to Death
    8.1/1023 votes
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    #18 - Three Days to Death

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/4/1958

    An Easterner learns that his brother has been killed out West and sets out to find the murderer. He learns that the killer's identity is known, but that the law does not have the men to go after him.

    Director: Robert Gordon

    Writer: N/A

  • Debt of Gratitude
    8.1/1035 votes
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    #19 - Debt of Gratitude

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 4/18/1958

    Marshal Cam Tolby faces the enmity of the townspeople when he tries to take an outlaw to Prescott, Ariz., to stand trial for robbery and murder. His difficulties increase when the outlaw, despite handcuffs, manages to save a group of schoolchildren from disaster.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Threat of Violence
    8.1/1027 votes
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    #20 - Threat of Violence

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 5/23/1958

    A gunman, tired of violence, hangs up his guns and tries to make a new life for himself as an attorney. But he finds that his reputation as a gunman hinders him. Then he takes the case of a man whose past record makes him the prime suspect in a murder case.

    Director: Robert Gordon

    Writer: N/A

  • Cry Hope! Cry Hate!
    8.1/1026 votes
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    #21 - Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1960

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

    Director: Abner Biberman

    Writer: N/A

  • Let the Man Die
    8.0/1031 votes
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    #22 - Let the Man Die

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1958

    Dr. Reynolds faces a painful temptation - if he allows a patient to die, his son's future will be assured.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Day of the Killing
    8.0/1031 votes
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    #23 - Day of the Killing

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1959

    Blacksmith Jonas Sutton is elected sheriff. After he takes office, townfolk pressure him into hunting down a murderer who previously had saved Sutton's son.

    Director: John English

    Writer: N/A

  • Hang the Heart High
    8.0/1039 votes
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    #24 - Hang the Heart High

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1959

    Discontented with her marriage, Regan Moore attracts the love of gunman Dix Porter with serious consequences.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Checkmate
    8.0/1031 votes
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    #25 - Checkmate

    Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 4/30/1959

    The story of Ward Pendleton, an examiner for a chain of banks, as he travels throughtout the old west.

    Director: John English

    Writer: N/A