7.4/1074 votes#1 - You Only Run Once
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1956
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?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1050 votes
#2 - The Fearful Courage
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1055 votes
#3 - The Long Road Home
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1051 votes
#4 - The Unrelenting Sky
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1050 votes
#5 - The Lariat
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1956
After serving five years for accidentally killing a man with a lariat, Morgan returns to seek justice from the Judge who sentenced him.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1052 votes
#6 - Death Watch
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1956
After his troops are killed Captain Warling decides to face the Indians alone, they turn and flee when they realize that the Captain is no longer in his right mind and they fear evil spirits may come after them.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1059 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.2/1052 votes
#8 - A Quiet Sunday in San Ardo
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1956
Retired gunfighter wants to live a peaceful quiet life but there are those that won't let that happen.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1053 votes
#9 - Vengeance Canyon
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1956
After his son is murdered Joe seeks revenge on his killer.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1047 votes
#10 - Return to Nowhere
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1956
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1043 votes
#11 - Courage is a Gun
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1046 votes
#12 - Muletown Gold Strike
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1043 votes
#13 - Stars Over Texas
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1033 votes
#14 - The Three Graves
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1957
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1041 votes
#15 - No Man Living
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1957
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
- 7.2/1036 votes
#16 - Time of Decision
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1957
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1044 votes
#17 - Until the Man Dies
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1957
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1042 votes
#18 - Back Trail
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1957
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1039 votes
#19 - Dangerous Orders
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1957
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1033 votes
#20 - The Necessary Breed
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1957
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1036 votes
#21 - The Hanging Tree
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1957
The town is out to hang a man without the marshal around, they become the judge jury and executioner.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1040 votes
#22 - Village of Fear
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1957
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1044 votes
#23 - Black Creek Encounter
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1957
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1040 votes
#24 - There Were Four
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1957
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1038 votes
#25 - Fugitive
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1957
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
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 1
Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 1!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"You Only Run Once" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 74 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/5/1956. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Fearful Courage".