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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!

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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    #1 - A Gun for Willie

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    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.

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    #2 - Desert Flight

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    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.

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    #3 - Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

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

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    #4 - The Ox

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    S5:E4

    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.

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    #5 - So Young the Savage Land

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

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    #6 - Ransom

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    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.

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    #7 - The Last Bugle

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    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.

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    #8 - The Black Wagon

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

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    #9 - Knife of Hate

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

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    Director:Otto Lang
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    #10 - The Mormons

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    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.

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    #11 - The Man From Yesterday

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    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.

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    Director:Otto Lang
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    #12 - Morning Incident

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    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.

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    Director:Tom Gries
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    #13 - Ambush

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    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.

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    #14 - One Must Die

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    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.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
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    #15 - The Long Shadow

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    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.

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    #16 - Blood Red

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    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.

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    #17 - Honor Bright

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    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.

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    #18 - The Broken Wing

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    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.

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    Director:Don Taylor
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    #19 - The Silent Sentry

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

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    Director:Norman Powell
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    #20 - The Bible Man

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

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    #21 - The Scar

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

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    #22 - Knight of the Sun

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    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.

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    #23 - A Warm Day in Heaven

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    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.

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    #24 - The Empty Shell

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

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    #25 - The Atoner

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    S5:E25

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

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"A Gun for Willie" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by David Lowell Rich and written by N/A, it aired on 10/6/1960. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Desert Flight".