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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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".