The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 1

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

Director: Bernard Girard

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Mason Ward just back from the war discovers his law office destroyed he heads west to a new town and another job. Hired by the mayor as the new schoolteacher, he learns of a treasure map from one of his students.

Director: John English

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After serving in the Union Army, a young man learns that his wife has been murdered. In trying to find the killer he learns a strange story.

Director: Lewis Allen

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A gunslinger is wounded by the marshal in a shooting while waiting to settle a feud. He then plots to kill the marshal as well.

Director: John English

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A sheriff gives up his badge to exact personal revenge on an outlaw who has wronged him. The criminal he seeks has carefully disguised himself as a lawabiding citizen.

Director: John English

Writer: Stirling Silliphant

A young man vows to get revenge on a wealthy rancher. He uses lawless methods because he regards an outlaw he knows as a hero. These methods, however, result in his being involved in a rustling scheme.

Director: Christian Nyby

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A gunman moves into a sleepy western town with the intention of taking it over for himself. But a pretty young woman sets her sights on him as a prospective husband.

Director: John English

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When horses begin to turn up missing, the county forms a vigilante committee. Rancher Matt Jessop has the bad luck to innocently hire two shady characters to work on his ranch. Will the two drag Matt and his family down with them?

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A man returns to his Texas home with his mind set on accomplishing two things, he wants to avenge his brother's death and also settle an old feud.

Director: Felix E. Feist

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After his son is murdered Joe seeks revenge on his killer.

Director: Robert Florey

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An outlaw gunfighter is haunted by his past and is trying to find his life. He goes looking for his wife and finds she is married to another man. He is determined to get her back.

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After witnessing a murder Louise Brandon is then hunted by the gunmen who want to end her life for fear she will testify.

Director: Bernard Girard

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When a Wagon from Indiana is ambushed and burned by bushwackers, little Annie Morgan loses her family and gains a new one in the Todds.

Director: Lesley Selander

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A land baron's son provokes a homesteader into a gun fight and ends up dead. The town hates homesteaders but finds a kindly allie in Evan Tapper.

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Captain Hunter is sent to deliver important orders to the next fort and encounters several disruptions along his way. A turncoat, a drunk, a Confederate spy and Indians.

Director: John English

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The town is out to hang a man without the marshal around, they become the judge jury and executioner.

Director: Felix E. Feist

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A traveling book salesman is greeted by a dead man hanging in an alley when he arrives in a deserted Western town.

Director: Christian Nyby

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A man is faced with a difficult decision when challenged by a gunman who has searched for him for years. To accept the challenge would mean almost certain death.

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Retired gunfighter wants to live a peaceful quiet life but there are those that won't let that happen.

Director: Ted Post

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Cattle rancher Clint Belmet saves criminal Dave Jordan from a lynching determined not to allow mob rule to deprive Nevada of her chance for statehood.

Director: John English

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Fleeing from Union soldiers, an ex-Confederate is helped by a young widow, who believes he's a Union man. The soldier soon realizes he has fallen in love with the widow.

Director: John English

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Ex-gunman John Fallon takes on the town bullies who are trying to get rid of the farmers and take their land.

Director: Christian Nyby

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Bounty hunter, Link returns to the town where he once lived, killing a man the town thinks is innocent of the crime they demand he pay for the crime.

Director: Christian Nyby

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When the drought causes much suffering in a small town and one man has water but will not let anyone near his ranch or land the citizens take matters into their own hands for survival.

Director: Felix E. Feist

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A dance-hall singer tries to dissuade the man she loves from seeking revenge on a man who shot him and left him for dead.

Director: Lewis R. Foster

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