7.8/1027 votes#1 - Interrogation
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1959
After being captured by the Mexican Army, Captain Kraig holds fast to the interrogation concerning the whereabouts of the coming troops.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1030 votes
#2 - The Lone Woman
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1959
An Indian is skulking around a ranch house and kills the eldest son of the family living there. The mother is filled with hate and wants him dead. Soon the Indian returns.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1016 votes
#3 - Confession
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1959
A New York newspaper reporter comes West to do a story on Sheriff Agate Slade. He forms an immediate dislike for the sheriff.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1031 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.9/1028 votes
#5 - Hand on the Latch
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1959
A man is shot while escaping from an army prison camp during the civil war. He happens upon a small farm house where there are two women alone.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1019 votes
#6 - Shadows
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1959
Loy Bannister is the town's most powerful figure because of his political and economic influence. In a wild bid to gain Bannister's admiration, young Branch Neeley agrees to stand trial for a murder he didn't commit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1034 votes
#7 - Mission
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1959
At a frontier cavalry post, a newly arrived black trooper must earn the respect and trust of his fellow cavalrymen, most of whom are white and don't want a black in their outfit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1022 votes
#8 - Lonesome Road
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1959
Marshall Ben Clark cleaned up the town, but now he is going to far in his effort to suppress dissent. The townspeople decide he needs to leave town. He doesn't want to leave quietly.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1026 votes
#9 - King of the Valley
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1959
A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.5/10190 votes
#10 - Rebel Range
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1959
A strong willed woman and her son return to their old home to find it occupied by a former civil war soldier who refuses to leave.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1021 votes
#11 - Death in a Wood
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1959
Two Confederate soldiers, sent into the woods on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly realize that they are being watched.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1017 votes
#12 - The Grubstake
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1959
Released after a long prison term, prospector Jim Goad is ready to resume panning for gold and he plans to take his son with him. But the boy who was raised by friends of Jim's has fallen in with a bad crowd.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1018 votes
#13 - The Ghost
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/31/1959
Marshal Monty Elstrode is captured by an outlaw gang who are planning to organize a new Confederate Army. Elstrode is shocked to learn that the leader of the group is the supposedly dead murderer of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1026 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.2/1017 votes
#15 - The Reckoning
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1960
Mace, a cattleman, hates sheepherders because he believes that sheep ruin good grazing land.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1026 votes
#16 - Wayfarers
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1960
A forlorn young woman comes to a hostile village to tell her husband, who has been working there, she is pregnant.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1019 votes
#17 - Picture of Sal
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1960
Jed a former spy during the Civil War shows up in a Nevada casino run by Sal, whom he left standing at the altar years before.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1032 votes
#18 - Never Too Late
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1960
Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1028 votes
#19 - Man in the Middle
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1960
An Indian agent has a double task: convincing the townspeople that a young man deserves punishment for shooting an Indian and arresting the culprit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1022 votes
#20 - Guns for Garibaldi
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1960
Townspeople are disappointed when Giulio Mandati comes to Indian Creek to take over his brother's gold claim. They had hoped that the gold would be used to pay for a much needed dam. What they don't know is that Giulio is an impostor who plans to use the riches to finance Garibaldi's Italian revolt.
Director: Mark Stevens
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1024 votes
#21 - 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
- 6.8/1024 votes
#22 - Set-Up
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/1960
When a rancher is set-up for a crime he did not commit he finds out more than he needed to know.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1024 votes
#23 - A Small Town That Died
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/10/1960
An ex-convict hears about a good ranch job - but he arrives to find the rancher murdered.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1022 votes
#24 - Killer Instinct
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/17/1960
McGill acts the big man in town and makes the sheriff look bad to the townspeople.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1024 votes
#25 - Sundown Smith
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/24/1960
After Bobby's mother is murdered by Outlaw Jesse Harp, he runs into Sundown Smith and sets him up for the fall as the murderer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4
Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4!
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 4 Ratings Summary
"Interrogation" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1959. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Lone Woman".