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

Genres:WesternDrama
Network:CBS

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.
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  • Honor Bright
    8.9/10(43)
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    #1 - 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

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  • Desert Flight
    8.7/10(34)
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    #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

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  • Knife of Hate
    8.6/10(27)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Man from Everywhere
    8.2/10(38)
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    #4 - Man from Everywhere

    Season 5 Episode 26

    Aired 4/13/1961

    Sheriff Jed Morgan is worried about his prisoner, Tom Bowdry, because the local gentry seems to be getting lynch fever. Morgan hires guide Branch Taylor to hustle Bowdry to the nearby town of Borrego.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Jericho
    8.2/10(30)
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    #5 - Jericho

    Season 5 Episode 30

    Aired 5/18/1961

    A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.

    Director: Harry Keller

    Writer: N/A

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  • Cry Hope! Cry Hate!
    8.1/10(26)
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    #6 - 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

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  • The Ox
    8.0/10(26)
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    #7 - 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

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  • So Young the Savage Land
    7.9/10(29)
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    #8 - 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

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  • The Mormons
    7.9/10(24)
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    #9 - 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

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  • The Silent Sentry
    7.9/10(29)
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    #10 - 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

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  • The Black Wagon
    7.8/10(28)
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    #11 - 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

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  • Ambush
    7.8/10(24)
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    #12 - 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

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  • A Warm Day in Heaven
    7.6/10(33)
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    #13 - 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

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  • The Man From Yesterday
    7.5/10(18)
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    #14 - 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

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  • The Scar
    7.5/10(24)
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    #15 - 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

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  • Knight of the Sun
    7.5/10(21)
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    #16 - 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

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  • Ransom
    7.3/10(27)
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    #17 - 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

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  • The Broken Wing
    7.3/10(24)
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    #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

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  • The Bible Man
    7.3/10(27)
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    #19 - 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

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  • The Empty Shell
    7.3/10(26)
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    #20 - 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

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  • A Gun for Willie
    7.2/10(30)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Blood Red
    7.2/10(23)
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    #22 - 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

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  • Image of a Drawn Sword
    7.2/10(23)
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    #23 - Image of a Drawn Sword

    Season 5 Episode 29

    Aired 5/11/1961

    Union Lieutenant Sam Kenyon informs the citizens of an isolated Rebel community that some rookie troops will be camping near there for a few days. For the sake of their own health, he offers the townspeople a warning - don't taunt the young soldiers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Morning Incident
    7.1/10(22)
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    #24 - 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

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  • The Long Shadow
    6.9/10(39)
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    #25 - 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

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Honor Bright" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 5. It scored 8.9/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by Robert Ellis Miller and written by N/A, it aired on 2/2/1961. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Desert Flight".