7.1/1031 votes#1 - The Deserters
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1957
Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1033 votes
#2 - Blood in the Dust
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1957
Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1040 votes
#3 - A Gun is for Killing
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1957
""Make your play Billy Jack,"" says young Bobby as he pretends with his father's pistol, which is against the family's rules. But when the real Billy Jack shows up in town and threatens the Andrews family trouble begins for Russ who can't find his gun.
Director: Thomas Carr
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1047 votes
#4 - Proud Woman
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1957
When Consuela Bowers arrives in the West, she hires a man to work on her father's ranch. She does not know that he is a professional gunman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1035 votes
#5 - Ride a Lonely Trail
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1957
The town council decides to retire old Sheriff Larson against much protest from the oldtime sheriff himself who does not want to be put out to pasture. He tries to prove to the town just how valuable and useful he still is.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1030 votes
#6 - The Promise
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1957
A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1039 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.1/1030 votes
#8 - The Open Cell
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1957
Sheriff Morgan Winter decides to give a young man involved in a shooting another chance by taking him into his custody for a year. But the rest of the town, including Winter's deputy, just wants to see the boy fail and get sent up to prison.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1029 votes
#9 - 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
- 7.7/1031 votes
#10 - The Bitter Land
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1957
A matriarch is adamanant about keeping the Spring Waters for her ranch and endangers her grandson, while other ranchers seek to use the water for their cattle, trouble ensues.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1034 votes
#11 - Gift From a Gunman
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1957
After he is wounded in a gun duel, Will Gorman resolves to forsake the gunman's life. He visits an old friend, whose restless wife and gun-eager son weaken his resolution to reform.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1036 votes
#12 - A Gun for My Bride
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1957
The daughter of a wealthy cattleman elopes with one of her father's ranch hands. Then he learns that her new husband is a fugitive from justice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1035 votes
#13 - Man Unforgiving
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1958
Ex-army Medical corp doctor Ben Harper winds up in a town run by a crippled sheriff who holds a personal grudge against the doctor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1044 votes
#14 - Trial by Fear
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1958
Gunslinger Tod Owen is on trial for murder, when he is found not guilty, it comes out that the dead man's brother had more reason to want his brother dead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1037 votes
#15 - The Freighter
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1958
Belle is running a freightline outfit. Murdock and his sons are causing problems for Belle and are forcing a merger the hard way. Without the contracts needed for her line, the Murdocks make life miserable for Belle and her Grandfather who founded the line.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1035 votes
#16 - This Man Must Die
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1958
A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1034 votes
#17 - Wire
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1958
A man who has spent most of his life working other people's property, vows to own land of his own. He homesteads on government land until violence breaks out with ranchers who want the land for grazing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1029 votes
#18 - License to Kill
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1958
A frontier sheriff finds he is unable to cope with a group of trouble-making trailherders when he breaks his arm. The his younger brother arrives in town and the sheriff swears him in as his deputy. But the older man learns that his brother's idea of law enforcement is to kill any lawbreaker regardless of the crime.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1040 votes
#19 - Sundown at Bitter Creek
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1958
A man arrives in the town of Bitter Creek. Though he is trying to live down his past as a gun fighter the stranger learns that his appearance has a decided effect on three of the town's inhabitants.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1024 votes
#20 - The Stranger
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1958
Cort McConnell rides into town, when he sees a man running out of the general store and after he wrestles him down they fight until a shot goes off killing the man. With the shopkeeper dead the townspeople charge Cort with the crime.
Director: Robert Gordon
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1024 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.6/1029 votes
#22 - Man of Fear
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1958
The famed gunman Doc Holliday visits a young married couple who are friends of his. He learns that the wife holds her husband in contempt because he is paying protection money to a gang of thieves in order to keep his home and ranch safe.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votes
#23 - The Doctor Keeps a Promise
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1958
Dr. Allan McMurdo tries to save the life of Dave Bechdolt who was shot when he tried to rob a man so that he could buy some seeds to grow his crops for his family.
Director: Robert Gordon
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1023 votes
#24 - 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
- 8.3/1023 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 2
Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 2!
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 2 Ratings Summary
"The Deserters" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 2. It scored 7.1/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/4/1957. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Blood in the Dust".