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The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4

Every episode of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4!

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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. #1 Fan Favorite
    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 1 - Interrogation
    7.8/10(31 votes)

    #1 - Interrogation

    S4:E1

    After being captured by the Mexican Army, Captain Kraig holds fast to the interrogation concerning the whereabouts of the coming troops.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 2 - The Lone Woman
    8.1/10(34 votes)

    #2 - The Lone Woman

    S4:E2

    An Indian is skulking around a ranch house and kills the eldest son of the family living there. The mother is filled with hate and wants him dead. Soon the Indian returns.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 3 - Confession
    7.9/10(22 votes)

    #3 - Confession

    S4:E3

    A New York newspaper reporter comes West to do a story on Sheriff Agate Slade. He forms an immediate dislike for the sheriff.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 4 - The Lonely Gun
    8.3/10(35 votes)

    #4 - The Lonely Gun

    S4:E4

    An outlaw returns home to see his brother. He finds that his brother is dead. His nephew has sold the ranch to pay debts and is about to set out on a life of getting rich fast.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 5 - Hand on the Latch
    8.0/10(33 votes)

    #5 - Hand on the Latch

    S4:E5

    A man is shot while escaping from an army prison camp during the civil war. He happens upon a small farm house where there are two women alone.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 6 - Shadows
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #6 - Shadows

    S4:E6

    Loy Bannister is the town's most powerful figure because of his political and economic influence. In a wild bid to gain Bannister's admiration, young Branch Neeley agrees to stand trial for a murder he didn't commit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 7 - Mission
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #7 - Mission

    S4:E7

    At a frontier cavalry post, a newly arrived black trooper must earn the respect and trust of his fellow cavalrymen, most of whom are white and don't want a black in their outfit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 8 - Lonesome Road
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    #8 - Lonesome Road

    S4:E8

    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:Unknown

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  9. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 9 - King of the Valley
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #9 - King of the Valley

    S4:E9

    A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 10 - Rebel Range
    5.9/10(197 votes)

    #10 - Rebel Range

    S4:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 11 - Death in a Wood
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #11 - Death in a Wood

    S4:E11

    Two Confederate soldiers, sent into the woods on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly realize that they are being watched.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 12 - The Grubstake
    7.9/10(22 votes)

    #12 - The Grubstake

    S4:E12

    Released after a long prison term, prospector Jim Goad is ready to resume panning for gold and he plans to take his son with him. But the boy who was raised by friends of Jim's has fallen in with a bad crowd.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 13 - The Ghost
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #13 - The Ghost

    S4:E13

    Marshal Monty Elstrode is captured by an outlaw gang who are planning to organize a new Confederate Army. Elstrode is shocked to learn that the leader of the group is the supposedly dead murderer of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 14 - Miss Jenny
    8.3/10(35 votes)

    #14 - Miss Jenny

    S4:E14

    Jenny Breckenridge is unhappy with her life. She would much rather be back in the city, where she comes from. than out west with her husband, a lazy drunk. A good-looking young cowboy who stops by sparks her interest, but then the man announces that he has a plan--he's going to take Jenny as his own, and to show that he means business he shoots her husband.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 15 - The Reckoning
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    #15 - The Reckoning

    S4:E15

    Mace, a cattleman, hates sheepherders because he believes that sheep ruin good grazing land.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 16 - Wayfarers
    7.0/10(33 votes)

    #16 - Wayfarers

    S4:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 17 - Picture of Sal
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    #17 - Picture of Sal

    S4:E17

    Jed a former spy during the Civil War shows up in a Nevada casino run by Sal, whom he left standing at the altar years before.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 18 - Never Too Late
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #18 - Never Too Late

    S4:E18

    Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 19 - Man in the Middle
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    #19 - Man in the Middle

    S4:E19

    An Indian agent has a double task: convincing the townspeople that a young man deserves punishment for shooting an Indian and arresting the culprit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 20 - Guns for Garibaldi
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #20 - Guns for Garibaldi

    S4:E20

    Townspeople are disappointed when Giulio Mandati comes to Indian Creek to take over his brother's gold claim. They had hoped that the gold would be used to pay for a much needed dam. What they don't know is that Giulio is an impostor who plans to use the riches to finance Garibaldi's Italian revolt.

    Director:Mark Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 21 - The Sunday Man
    8.4/10(31 votes)

    #21 - The Sunday Man

    S4:E21

    Sheriff Walt Devlin and his brother, Deputy Bill Devlin, are alike in name only. Walt is a letter-of-the-law man who believes the end does not justify the means. Bill's methods are sometimes questionable and certain citizens suspect that he's a lawman purely for the thrill of gunslinging.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 22 - Set-Up
    6.8/10(31 votes)

    #22 - Set-Up

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown

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  23. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 23 - A Small Town That Died
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #23 - A Small Town That Died

    S4:E23

    An ex-convict hears about a good ranch job - but he arrives to find the rancher murdered.

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 24 - Killer Instinct
    7.9/10(27 votes)

    #24 - Killer Instinct

    S4:E24

    McGill acts the big man in town and makes the sheriff look bad to the townspeople.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 4 Episode 25 - Sundown Smith
    7.7/10(29 votes)

    #25 - Sundown Smith

    S4:E25

    After Bobby's mother is murdered by Outlaw Jesse Harp, he runs into Sundown Smith and sets him up for the fall as the murderer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Interrogation" is the best rated episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/1/1959. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Lone Woman".