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The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 5

Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 5!

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 5 Ratings Summary

"A Gun for Willie" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 5. It scored 7.2/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by David Lowell Rich and written by N/A, it aired on 10/6/1960. This episode is rated 1.5 points higher than the second-best, "Desert Flight".

  • A Gun for Willie
    7.2/1029 votes

    #1 - A Gun for Willie

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1960

    When simple Willie receives a reward for killing an outlaw he becomes the big man in town, until it turns out that Willie killed the wrong man.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • Desert Flight
    8.7/1034 votes

    #2 - Desert Flight

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1960

    Brenner, Doyle and Sandy are a trio of bank robbers, who've come up with a really slick plan. But Brenner, the mastermind, hasn't taken Doyle's itchy trigger finger into account.

    Director: Budd Boetticher

    Writer: N/A

  • Cry Hope! Cry Hate!
    8.1/1026 votes

    #3 - Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1960

    After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.

    Director: Abner Biberman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ox
    8.1/1025 votes

    #4 - The Ox

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/1960

    A former Confederate soldier who has spent some long years in prison, Ox has only one thing in mind - revenge on his old commanding officer for putting him behind bars.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • So Young the Savage Land
    7.9/1028 votes

    #5 - So Young the Savage Land

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1960

    Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: N/A

  • Ransom
    7.2/1025 votes

    #6 - Ransom

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1960

    Comanche Indians raid a shepherd's camp, killing all the hands except an itinerant cowboy named Dundee. He doesn't have to wait long before he learns why he have to wait long before he learns why he was spared. The Indians plan to trade him for horses and guns.

    Director: Budd Boetticher

    Writer: N/A

  • The Last Bugle
    6.9/1021 votes

    #7 - The Last Bugle

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1960

    Geronimo and his renagades are on the warpath again. Army officer Gatewood heads for the Mexican Sierras with two Apache prisoners to try and talk the ruthless leader into surrender.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Black Wagon
    7.7/1025 votes

    #8 - The Black Wagon

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1960

    Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Knife of Hate
    8.6/1026 votes

    #9 - Knife of Hate

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1960

    Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.

    Director: Otto Lang

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mormons
    7.9/1023 votes

    #10 - The Mormons

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1960

    Matt Rowland is determined to prevent Mormons from entering into Joshua City after he hears there is cholera aboard the wagon train. His son Tod begins to question his father's motives after he meets a young lady from the train.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Man From Yesterday
    7.5/1017 votes

    #11 - The Man From Yesterday

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/22/1960

    An old-time gunslinger named Mapes gets out of prison and returns to track down John Duncan, the man who framed him many years ago.

    Director: Otto Lang

    Writer: N/A

  • Morning Incident
    7.1/1022 votes

    #12 - Morning Incident

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1960

    Laurie Pritchard is a farm girl engaged to a farm boy but the farm life isn't consistent with her dreams. Then she meets a man who might be able to make her dreams come true.

    Director: Tom Gries

    Writer: N/A

  • Ambush
    7.8/1024 votes

    #13 - Ambush

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1961

    Union Army Col. Blackburn commands a squad of mercenary soldiers whose current mission is to get vital papers through Confederate lines. There's an air of mutiny as the mercenaries complain about the dangerous duty.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Must Die
    5.4/10188 votes

    #14 - One Must Die

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1961

    John Baylor is summoned to the home of a friend of his fathers. The man is dying and wishes to leave everything to one of his two daughters. John wants to find out why one daughter is excluded.

    Director: Lewis Allen

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Shadow
    6.9/1036 votes

    #15 - The Long Shadow

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1961

    Widow Amy Lawson's son, a Cavalry Officer, is killed in action. Amy blames Major Sinclair for her son's death. The major isn't just the Cavalry commander - he's Amy's fiance.

    Director: Budd Boetticher

    Writer: N/A

  • Blood Red
    7.6/1022 votes

    #16 - Blood Red

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1961

    Jess Whiting is a driven man, he is afraid that the Indian uprising is because of his Indian wife and that she will be taken from him.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

  • Honor Bright
    9.0/1042 votes

    #17 - Honor Bright

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1961

    Ex-convict Ed Dubro has reluctantly agreed to his daughter's marriage to Vince Harwell. But on the wedding day, Laurie learns that Vince is already married.

    Director: Robert Ellis Miller

    Writer: N/A

  • The Broken Wing
    7.4/1023 votes

    #18 - The Broken Wing

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1961

    Lyman now a cripple, years ago tried to fly through the air under his own power. Now Lyman's nephew Thalian is determined to do the same thing.

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A

  • The Silent Sentry
    8.0/1028 votes

    #19 - The Silent Sentry

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1961

    A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.

    Director: Norman Powell

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bible Man
    7.3/1027 votes

    #20 - The Bible Man

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1961

    Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A

  • The Scar
    7.5/1024 votes

    #21 - The Scar

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1961

    The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Knight of the Sun
    7.5/1020 votes

    #22 - Knight of the Sun

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1961

    Henry Jacob Hanley, a drunken desert rat, is just making himself at home in a deserted fort when he acquires some company. Beth Woodfield arrives on a mission taken over from her dead father- delivering the new Gatling gun to the troops in Mexico.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Warm Day in Heaven
    7.6/1033 votes

    #23 - A Warm Day in Heaven

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/23/1961

    In the sleepy decent town of Heaven, evil arrives in the form of Nick Finn, as Michael Peters soon finds out he is the only one not swayed by the devil.

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: Howard Head

  • The Empty Shell
    7.3/1026 votes

    #24 - The Empty Shell

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/30/1961

    Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: Bruce Geller

  • The Atoner
    6.6/1021 votes

    #25 - The Atoner

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 4/6/1961

    New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.

    Director: László Benedek

    Writer: N/A