Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Episode Rating Graph

Marshal Cam Tolby faces the enmity of the townspeople when he tries to take an outlaw to Prescott, Ariz., to stand trial for robbery and murder. His difficulties increase when the outlaw, despite handcuffs, manages to save a group of schoolchildren from disaster.

Logan Wheeler seeks Raney Benson, a wanted bank robber for the reward money. Logan's father is close to losing his ranch and Logan sets out to help him.

A man arrives in the town of Bitter Creek. Though he is trying to live down his past as a gun fighter the stranger learns that his appearance has a decided effect on three of the town's inhabitants.

Ex-army Medical corp doctor Ben Harper winds up in a town run by a crippled sheriff who holds a personal grudge against the doctor.

The daughter of a wealthy cattleman elopes with one of her father's ranch hands. Then he learns that her new husband is a fugitive from justice.

After his son is murdered Joe seeks revenge on his killer.

A man returns to his Texas home with his mind set on accomplishing two things, he wants to avenge his brother's death and also settle an old feud.

After witnessing a murder Louise Brandon is then hunted by the gunmen who want to end her life for fear she will testify.

Retired gunfighter wants to live a peaceful quiet life but there are those that won't let that happen.

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

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

A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.

Deputy Sam Anders is looking for Davey Morse for the murder of a shopkeeper.

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

Jess Clark becomes blind when his horse breaks his leg in a gopher hole in Top Rock, a small town that wants nothing to do with gunfighters. After a prison break Lew Banning goes after Clark who killed his brother not caring that the old timer is blind now.

When a youngster bites off more trouble than he can chew a sympathetic sheriff takes the hard course on teaching him a lesson.

Lawyer Jud Lester is just arriving in town right after a robbery when he finds one of the robbers hiding in his office wounded. The robber passes out and people in town assume that Jud shot him, and treat him as a hero. Unfortunately Jud decides to let them keep thinking this, and helps make plans to capture the rest of the gang when the captured man is scheduled to be hanged. But things may backfire.

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.

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.

After serving in the Union Army, a young man learns that his wife has been murdered. In trying to find the killer he learns a strange story.

A young man vows to get revenge on a wealthy rancher. He uses lawless methods because he regards an outlaw he knows as a hero. These methods, however, result in his being involved in a rustling scheme.

A man is faced with a difficult decision when challenged by a gunman who has searched for him for years. To accept the challenge would mean almost certain death.

Captain Hunter is sent to deliver important orders to the next fort and encounters several disruptions along his way. A turncoat, a drunk, a Confederate spy and Indians.

Cattle rancher Clint Belmet saves criminal Dave Jordan from a lynching determined not to allow mob rule to deprive Nevada of her chance for statehood.

A land baron's son provokes a homesteader into a gun fight and ends up dead. The town hates homesteaders but finds a kindly allie in Evan Tapper.

A sheriff gives up his badge to exact personal revenge on an outlaw who has wronged him. The criminal he seeks has carefully disguised himself as a lawabiding citizen.

A gunman moves into a sleepy western town with the intention of taking it over for himself. But a pretty young woman sets her sights on him as a prospective husband.

When a Wagon from Indiana is ambushed and burned by bushwackers, little Annie Morgan loses her family and gains a new one in the Todds.

A gunslinger is wounded by the marshal in a shooting while waiting to settle a feud. He then plots to kill the marshal as well.

An outlaw gunfighter is haunted by his past and is trying to find his life. He goes looking for his wife and finds she is married to another man. He is determined to get her back.

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.

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.

When horses begin to turn up missing, the county forms a vigilante committee. Rancher Matt Jessop has the bad luck to innocently hire two shady characters to work on his ranch. Will the two drag Matt and his family down with them?

A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.

""Make your play Billy Jack,"" says young Bobby as he pretends with his father's pistol, which is against the family's rules. But when the real Billy Jack shows up in town and threatens the Andrews family trouble begins for Russ who can't find his gun.

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.

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.

Mason Ward just back from the war discovers his law office destroyed he heads west to a new town and another job. Hired by the mayor as the new schoolteacher, he learns of a treasure map from one of his students.

Marshal Thorpe has received a tip that bank robber Bide Turley is on the stage from Las Cruces to Tucson.

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.

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.

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.

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

Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.

When Consuela Bowers arrives in the West, she hires a man to work on her father's ranch. She does not know that he is a professional gunman.

The town council decides to retire old Sheriff Larson against much protest from the oldtime sheriff himself who does not want to be put out to pasture. He tries to prove to the town just how valuable and useful he still is.

Traveling cattleman Ethan Boyan is framed in a frontier town for the slaying of a woman in a stagecoach holdup. The only person present when the crime was committed was Isabelle Rutledge, an embittered blind woman.

A matriarch is adamanant about keeping the Spring Waters for her ranch and endangers her grandson, while other ranchers seek to use the water for their cattle, trouble ensues.

After he is wounded in a gun duel, Will Gorman resolves to forsake the gunman's life. He visits an old friend, whose restless wife and gun-eager son weaken his resolution to reform.

Gunslinger Tod Owen is on trial for murder, when he is found not guilty, it comes out that the dead man's brother had more reason to want his brother dead.

Belle is running a freightline outfit. Murdock and his sons are causing problems for Belle and are forcing a merger the hard way. Without the contracts needed for her line, the Murdocks make life miserable for Belle and her Grandfather who founded the line.

A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.

A man who has spent most of his life working other people's property, vows to own land of his own. He homesteads on government land until violence breaks out with ranchers who want the land for grazing.

A frontier sheriff finds he is unable to cope with a group of trouble-making trailherders when he breaks his arm. The his younger brother arrives in town and the sheriff swears him in as his deputy. But the older man learns that his brother's idea of law enforcement is to kill any lawbreaker regardless of the crime.

Cort McConnell rides into town, when he sees a man running out of the general store and after he wrestles him down they fight until a shot goes off killing the man. With the shopkeeper dead the townspeople charge Cort with the crime.

Lucas McCain and his son Mark arrive in North Fork, New Mexico. Looking to start a new life, they come across a ranch to their liking, which is for sale.

The famed gunman Doc Holliday visits a young married couple who are friends of his. He learns that the wife holds her husband in contempt because he is paying protection money to a gang of thieves in order to keep his home and ranch safe.

Dr. Allan McMurdo tries to save the life of Dave Bechdolt who was shot when he tried to rob a man so that he could buy some seeds to grow his crops for his family.

An Easterner learns that his brother has been killed out West and sets out to find the murderer. He learns that the killer's identity is known, but that the law does not have the men to go after him.

Old timer Ben Carey wants to become Deputy but the town thinks he's too old for the job. He takes in a man with a snake bite and realizes that he is outlaw Jerrod Toll.

A gunman, tired of violence, hangs up his guns and tries to make a new life for himself as an attorney. But he finds that his reputation as a gunman hinders him. Then he takes the case of a man whose past record makes him the prime suspect in a murder case.

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'.

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.

An embittered man shoots one of the leading citizens.

Though Adam Larkin has spent many years trying to make a living from his land, he has only met with failure. When his wife tells him that she is expecting a child, Larkin goes to the bank and asks for a loan, but the bank refuses it. Larkin decides to take what he needs.

After discovering the body of a murdered rancher, Milo Brant tries to comfort the grieving widow. The widow's little son, however distrusts Brant and resents the man's attentions to his mother.

A drifter arrives in a small Western town claiming to be a famous lawman who had lived there years before. The townspeople, who remember the lawman as a young and vigorous man, refuse to believe him.

Linc Hardway's father is one of the wealthiest men in the West. In his efforts to prove that he can do anything as well as his father, Linc encounters one failure after another, until even the girl he loves loses respect for him. Then Hardway's father is murdered and he is suspected of the crime.

Wanted criminal Jess Matson has been on the run for over a year, he heads back to visit his family and encounters a surprise ambush.

Lorimer is forced to help outlaw Redfern, who is holding Jed's wife hostage, with a Marshal on the trail of Redfern, Lorimer is trying desperately to protect Redfern in order to keep her alive.

Dr. Reynolds faces a painful temptation - if he allows a patient to die, his son's future will be assured.

A wealthy rancher is trying to monopolize the cattle drives leaving Texas. Small ranchers are trying to put their own drive together. The wealthy rancher hires a man's wayward son to sabotage the effort.

Blacksmith Jonas Sutton is elected sheriff. After he takes office, townfolk pressure him into hunting down a murderer who previously had saved Sutton's son.

Discontented with her marriage, Regan Moore attracts the love of gunman Dix Porter with serious consequences.

After the Civil War, lawman Ben Sanderson returns to his Southern home to find things very changed.

Andy McCall comes across a teenage boy wandering through the country. The boy, Peter Owens tells of being thrown by a horse, and his father is Tim Owens, the biggest banker in Chicago. Back at camp Charlie the cook who's been crippled by an accident is bitter he can never partner Andy like they'd always dreamed. The cattle drive continues and Peter starts to adapt to camp life, first as a cook's helper and then as one of the riders. Charlie tells the boy he will stake him a ticket for the stagecoach when they get close to a nearby town. Arriving at Redcliff Charlie ...

When Sam Carter refuses to accept his share of stolen money, he inadvertently places his wife Jenny's life in jeopardy. Carter's companions in crime suspect that he has informed on them.

Gino Pelleti, an immigrant tailor, opens a shop in Yucca City. He and his son are subjected to cruel pranks, but he doesn't believe in violence and refuses to defend himself.

A gunman just out of prison is framed for robbery, convicted and sent back to prison. On the way, outlaws kill the sheriff and kidnap the prisoner.

Miguel and his gang get away from the band with several thousand pesos in gold. But Miguel is betrayed by one of his men, who steals the gold, takes Miguel's girl and her younger brother, and escapes to a hiding place in the mountains.

A father determines that his son must kill Johnny Ringo in order to establish himself as the best gunfighter.

Sam Walston, a town leader, sets out to bring justice to a small town after a murder. A suspect suddenly leaves town and the people don't want to wait for a trial. What Walston doesn't know is that his own wife is the suspect's alibi.