7.2/1030 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
- 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
- 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
- 8.0/1026 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
- 7.9/1029 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
- 7.2/1026 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
- 6.5/1024 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
- 7.8/1028 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
- 8.6/1027 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
- 7.9/1024 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
- 7.5/1018 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
- 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
- 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
- 5.4/10189 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
- 6.9/1038 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
- 7.2/1023 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
- 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
- 7.3/1024 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
- 7.9/1029 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
- 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
- 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
- 7.5/1021 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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 30 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".