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The Worst Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

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Network:CBS

Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre!

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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  • Man on the Run
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    #1 - Man on the Run

    Season 1 Episode 30

    Aired 6/21/1957

    An outlaw on the run winds up at a ranch run by more outlaws who have taken over the ranch. Duane tries to help the sisters regain control of the ranch.

    Director: Felix E. Feist

    Writer: N/A

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  • One Must Die
    5.4/10(190)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Rebel Range
    5.5/10(192)
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    #3 - Rebel Range

    Season 4 Episode 10

    Aired 12/3/1959

    A strong willed woman and her son return to their old home to find it occupied by a former civil war soldier who refuses to leave.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Last Bugle
    6.5/10(24)
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    #4 - 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

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  • The Release
    6.5/10(28)
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    #5 - The Release

    Season 5 Episode 27

    Aired 4/27/1961

    Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Atoner
    6.6/10(21)
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    #6 - 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

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  • Death Watch
    6.7/10(52)
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    #7 - Death Watch

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 11/9/1956

    After his troops are killed Captain Warling decides to face the Indians alone, they turn and flee when they realize that the Captain is no longer in his right mind and they fear evil spirits may come after them.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

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  • Badge of Honor
    6.8/10(38)
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    #8 - Badge of Honor

    Season 1 Episode 28

    Aired 5/3/1957

    Returning from the Civil War and tired of violence and bloodshed, Hoby Gilman is shocked to find his hometown in the grip of the cruel and power mad Colonel Boyd Nelson.

    Director: Arthur Hiller

    Writer: N/A

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  • Utopia, Wyoming
    6.8/10(30)
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    #9 - Utopia, Wyoming

    Season 2 Episode 29

    Aired 6/6/1958

    A clan of Confederates from Georgia looking for a new way of life settle in a deserted Wyoming ghost town that they have named 'Utopia'.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Heritage
    6.8/10(39)
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    #10 - Heritage

    Season 3 Episode 25

    Aired 4/2/1959

    Victor Bers grows bitter when his son deserts their farm to join the Confederate Army.

    Director: David Lowell Rich

    Writer: N/A

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  • Set-Up
    6.8/10(25)
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    #11 - Set-Up

    Season 4 Episode 22

    Aired 3/3/1960

    When a rancher is set-up for a crime he did not commit he finds out more than he needed to know.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Lariat
    6.9/10(51)
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    #12 - The Lariat

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 11/2/1956

    After serving five years for accidentally killing a man with a lariat, Morgan returns to seek justice from the Judge who sentenced him.

    Director: Felix E. Feist

    Writer: N/A

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  • Trail to Nowhere
    6.9/10(44)
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    #13 - Trail to Nowhere

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 10/2/1958

    Julie Holman swears vengeance when her husband is murdered. Suspecting Carl Benson, a man with whom her husband has quarreled, Julie rides out to his ranch. She finds that Benson has disappeared and sets out to track him down.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Long Shadow
    6.9/10(39)
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    #14 - 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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  • Storm Over Eden
    6.9/10(18)
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    #15 - Storm Over Eden

    Season 5 Episode 28

    Aired 5/4/1961

    Chet Loring, Ellen Gaynor, and Billie Gaynor grew up together in the same house. Chet wants to marry Ellen but accidentally shoots and kills Billie. Now Ellen and Billie's father wants to hang Chet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Unrelenting Sky
    7.0/10(53)
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    #16 - The Unrelenting Sky

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 10/26/1956

    When the drought causes much suffering in a small town and one man has water but will not let anyone near his ranch or land the citizens take matters into their own hands for survival.

    Director: Felix E. Feist

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Time to Live
    7.0/10(48)
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    #17 - A Time to Live

    Season 1 Episode 26

    Aired 4/5/1957

    A dance-hall singer tries to dissuade the man she loves from seeking revenge on a man who shot him and left him for dead.

    Director: Lewis R. Foster

    Writer: N/A

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  • Decision at Wilson's Creek
    7.0/10(41)
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    #18 - Decision at Wilson's Creek

    Season 1 Episode 29

    Aired 5/17/1957

    The Battle of Wilson's Creek occurred August 10, 1861 along Wilson's Creek, about ten miles south of Springfield. This six hour battle is considered to be the second major battle of the Civil War and the first major battle west of the Mississippi River.

    Director: Louis King

    Writer: N/A

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  • Lonesome Road
    7.0/10(24)
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    #19 - Lonesome Road

    Season 4 Episode 8

    Aired 11/19/1959

    Marshall Ben Clark cleaned up the town, but now he is going to far in his effort to suppress dissent. The townspeople decide he needs to leave town. He doesn't want to leave quietly.

    Director: Sam Peckinpah

    Writer: N/A

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  • Wayfarers
    7.0/10(28)
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    #20 - Wayfarers

    Season 4 Episode 16

    Aired 1/21/1960

    A forlorn young woman comes to a hostile village to tell her husband, who has been working there, she is pregnant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Back Trail
    7.1/10(43)
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    #21 - Back Trail

    Season 1 Episode 18

    Aired 2/1/1957

    Ex-gunman John Fallon takes on the town bullies who are trying to get rid of the farmers and take their land.

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Necessary Breed
    7.1/10(34)
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    #22 - The Necessary Breed

    Season 1 Episode 20

    Aired 2/15/1957

    Bounty hunter, Link returns to the town where he once lived, killing a man the town thinks is innocent of the crime they demand he pay for the crime.

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Deserters
    7.1/10(32)
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    #23 - The Deserters

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 10/4/1957

    Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Open Cell
    7.1/10(32)
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    #24 - The Open Cell

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 11/22/1957

    Sheriff Morgan Winter decides to give a young man involved in a shooting another chance by taking him into his custody for a year. But the rest of the town, including Winter's deputy, just wants to see the boy fail and get sent up to prison.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Morning Incident
    7.1/10(22)
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    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Man on the Run" is the worst rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Felix E. Feist and written by N/A, it aired on 6/21/1957. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "One Must Die".