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The Best Episodes of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Season 5

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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

    S5:E1

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Desert Flight

    S5:E2

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

    S5:E3

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

    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - The Ox

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - So Young the Savage Land

    S5:E5

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

    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Ransom

    S5:E6

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - The Last Bugle

    S5:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - The Black Wagon

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Knife of Hate

    S5:E9

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

    Director:Otto Lang
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - The Mormons

    S5:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - The Man From Yesterday

    S5:E11

    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:Unknown
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    #12 - Morning Incident

    S5:E12

    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:Unknown
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    #13 - Ambush

    S5:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - One Must Die

    S5:E14

    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:Unknown
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    #15 - The Long Shadow

    S5:E15

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - Blood Red

    S5:E16

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Honor Bright

    S5:E17

    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

    S5:E18

    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:Unknown
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    #19 - The Silent Sentry

    S5:E19

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

    Director:Norman Powell
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - The Bible Man

    S5:E20

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

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - The Scar

    S5:E21

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - Knight of the Sun

    S5:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - A Warm Day in Heaven

    S5:E23

    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
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    #24 - The Empty Shell

    S5:E24

    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

    S5:E25

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

    Writer:Unknown
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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 /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by David Lowell Rich and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/6/1960. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Desert Flight".