- 9.0/1042 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.8/1024 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.7/1034 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.5/1026 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.4/1024 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/1023 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/1025 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/1031 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1039 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1024 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1040 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1030 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1037 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.2/1029 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1059 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1029 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1023 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1035 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1027 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1026 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1031 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1031 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1039 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1031 votesLoading...
#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
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
Network:CBS
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".