7.0/1040 votes#1 - Trail to Nowhere
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1958
Julie Holman swears vengeance when her husband is murdered. Suspecting Carl Benson, a man with whom her husband has quarreled, Julie rides out to his ranch. She finds that Benson has disappeared and sets out to track him down.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1026 votes
#2 - The Scaffold
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1958
An embittered man shoots one of the leading citizens.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1022 votes
#3 - Homecoming
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1958
Though Adam Larkin has spent many years trying to make a living from his land, he has only met with failure. When his wife tells him that she is expecting a child, Larkin goes to the bank and asks for a loan, but the bank refuses it. Larkin decides to take what he needs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1024 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.8/1027 votes
#5 - Legacy of a Legend
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1958
A drifter arrives in a small Western town claiming to be a famous lawman who had lived there years before. The townspeople, who remember the lawman as a young and vigorous man, refuse to believe him.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1028 votes
#6 - To Sit in Judgment
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1958
When a youngster bites off more trouble than he can chew a sympathetic sheriff takes the hard course on teaching him a lesson.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1027 votes
#7 - The Tall Shadow
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1958
Linc Hardway's father is one of the wealthiest men in the West. In his efforts to prove that he can do anything as well as his father, Linc encounters one failure after another, until even the girl he loves loses respect for him. Then Hardway's father is murdered and he is suspected of the crime.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1028 votes
#8 - The Vaunted
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1958
Wanted criminal Jess Matson has been on the run for over a year, he heads back to visit his family and encounters a surprise ambush.
Director: David Niven
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1028 votes
#9 - Pressure Point
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1958
Jess Clark becomes blind when his horse breaks his leg in a gopher hole in Top Rock, a small town that wants nothing to do with gunfighters. After a prison break Lew Banning goes after Clark who killed his brother not caring that the old timer is blind now.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1026 votes
#10 - Bury Me Dead
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1958
Lorimer is forced to help outlaw Redfern, who is holding Jed's wife hostage, with a Marshal on the trail of Redfern, Lorimer is trying desperately to protect Redfern in order to keep her alive.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1031 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.8/1025 votes
#12 - Medal for Valor
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1958
David Manning asks Rufus Stewart for money so he can relocate to a warmer climate due to his wife's illness. The catch is that he serve in the U.S. Armory under Stewart's sons name for so that his son can run for U.S. senate.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1033 votes
#13 - Living is a Lonesome Thing
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1959
A wealthy rancher is trying to monopolize the cattle drives leaving Texas. Small ranchers are trying to put their own drive together. The wealthy rancher hires a man's wayward son to sabotage the effort.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1031 votes
#14 - 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 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.8/1035 votes
#16 - Welcome Home a Stranger
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1959
After the Civil War, lawman Ben Sanderson returns to his Southern home to find things very changed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1025 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.8/1023 votes
#18 - Make It Look Good
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1959
When Sam Carter refuses to accept his share of stolen money, he inadvertently places his wife Jenny's life in jeopardy. Carter's companions in crime suspect that he has informed on them.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1037 votes
#19 - A Thread of Respect
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1959
Gino Pelleti, an immigrant tailor, opens a shop in Yucca City. He and his son are subjected to cruel pranks, but he doesn't believe in violence and refuses to defend himself.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1027 votes
#20 - Deadfall
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1959
A gunman just out of prison is framed for robbery, convicted and sent back to prison. On the way, outlaws kill the sheriff and kidnap the prisoner.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1026 votes
#21 - The Last Raid
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1959
Miguel and his gang get away from the band with several thousand pesos in gold. But Miguel is betrayed by one of his men, who steals the gold, takes Miguel's girl and her younger brother, and escapes to a hiding place in the mountains.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1025 votes
#22 - Man Alone
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1959
A father determines that his son must kill Johnny Ringo in order to establish himself as the best gunfighter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1024 votes
#23 - Hanging Fever
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1959
Sam Walston, a town leader, sets out to bring justice to a small town after a murder. A suspect suddenly leaves town and the people don't want to wait for a trial. What Walston doesn't know is that his own wife is the suspect's alibi.
Director: John English
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1040 votes
#24 - 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
- 6.9/1037 votes
#25 - Heritage
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 4/2/1959
Victor Bers grows bitter when his son deserts their farm to join the Confederate Army.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 3
Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 3!
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 3 Ratings Summary
"Trail to Nowhere" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 3. It scored 7/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/2/1958. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "The Scaffold".