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The Worst Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

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.
Genres:WesternDrama
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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".

  • 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

  • One Must Die
    5.4/10189 votes
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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

  • Rebel Range
    5.5/10190 votes
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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

  • The Release
    6.4/1027 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • The Last Bugle
    6.5/1023 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • The Atoner
    6.6/1021 votes
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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

  • Death Watch
    6.7/1052 votes
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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

  • Badge of Honor
    6.8/1038 votes
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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

  • Set-Up
    6.8/1024 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • The Unrelenting Sky
    6.9/1051 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • The Lariat
    6.9/1050 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Heritage
    6.9/1037 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • The Long Shadow
    6.9/1038 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Storm Over Eden
    6.9/1018 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • A Time to Live
    7.0/1048 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Decision at Wilson's Creek
    7.0/1040 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Utopia, Wyoming
    7.0/1027 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Trail to Nowhere
    7.0/1040 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Wayfarers
    7.0/1026 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Back Trail
    7.1/1042 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • The Necessary Breed
    7.1/1033 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • The Deserters
    7.1/1031 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • The Open Cell
    7.1/1030 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Morning Incident
    7.1/1022 votes
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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

  • Image of a Drawn Sword
    7.1/1022 votes
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    #25 - 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