Zane Grey Theater Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Zane Grey Theater: Season 5 (1958 - 1961)

• Season 5 Episode 31: Jericho

  A Federal agent wants to delay the execution of a woman convicted of killing her husband.

• Season 5 Episode 30: The Atoner

  A religious leader paradoxically proposes a hanging to preserve the community's pacifist values.

• Season 5 Episode 29: Empty Shell

  A gambler is suddenly plagued with self-doubt.

• Season 5 Episode 28: Warm Day in Heaven

  A stranger causes unusual events in Heaven, Ariz.

• Season 5 Episode 27: Knight of the Sun

  A desert denizen meets a woman who changes his life.

• Season 5 Episode 26: The Scar

  Physical and psychological scars torment a man.

• Season 5 Episode 25: The Bible Man

  A preacher's son comes to regret the grudge he holds against his father.

• Season 5 Episode 24: The Broken Wing

  A boy and his crippled uncle dream of flight.

• Season 5 Episode 23: Ambush

  A Yankee commander must contend with mutiny as Confederate troops attack.

• Season 5 Episode 22: Morning Incident

  A fugitive's romantic overtures enchant a young woman.

• Season 5 Episode 21: Man From Yesterday

  An old gunfighter finds a wild town is now peaceful and settled.

• Season 5 Episode 20: The Mormons

  A rancher objects to Mormons settling in his area.

• Season 5 Episode 19: Knife of Hate

  A doctor wants to keep his daughter away from a man of which he disapproves.

• Season 5 Episode 18: The Last Bugle

  An Army officer tries to convince Geronimo to surrender.

• Season 5 Episode 17: Ransom

  A cowboy faces torture during a Comanche raid on sheepherders.

• Season 5 Episode 16: So Young the Savage Land

  A genteel woman is horrified at her husband's growing bitterness.

• Season 5 Episode 15: The Ox

  A stranger comes to a small town seeking revenge on the man whose testimony sent him to prison.

• Season 5 Episode 14: Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

  A woman returning to her childhood home is greeted by her bitter father, who rejects her.

• Season 5 Episode 13: Desert Flight

  A bandit's carefully planned bank robbery takes a deadly turn.

• Season 5 Episode 12: A Gun for Willie

  An accident makes a temporary hero of a weak, pathetic man.

• Season 5 Episode 11: Stagecoach to Yuma

  Brothers stand on opposite sides of the law.

• Season 5 Episode 10: Interrogation

  A brave man's reputation suffers under torture.

• Season 5 Episode 9: Deception

  A huge gold shipment is sent out without guards.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Seed of Evil

  Bitterness ruins a patriarch.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Sundown Smith

  A boy thinks a drifter is the killer sought by a posse.

• Season 5 Episode 6: Killer Instinct

  A lawman is increasingly reluctant to do his duty.

• Season 5 Episode 5: Small Town That Died

  A town pays the cost of harboring evil.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Mission to Marathon

  A dishonored Army officer pursues a missing major for the government.

• Season 5 Episode 3: The Last Raid

  Story of a Mexican bandit's love.

• Season 5 Episode 2: Living Is a Lonesome Thing

  A man challenges a bully's strong-arm tactics.

• Season 5 Episode 1: A Debt of Gratitude

  An unpopular lawman faces a town's ire when he arrests a well-loved outlaw.

Zane Grey Theater: Season 4 (1956 - 1961)

• Season 4 Episode 29: The Sunday Man

  A deputy has an attitude about duty.

• Season 4 Episode 28: Guns for Garibaldi

  An Italian officer arrives in town to claim a countryman's mine.

• Season 4 Episode 27: Man in the Middle

  A marshal faces an ethical dilemma.

• Season 4 Episode 26: Never Too Late

  A female rancher wants a gunman to boost her claim on railroad land.

• Season 4 Episode 25: Picture of Sal

  Beautiful woman runs a freewheeling gambling house.

• Season 4 Episode 24: Wayfarers

  A taciturn blacksmith becomes a knight in shining armor.

• Season 4 Episode 23: Reckoning

  A rancher's hired hand sides with sheepherders in a range dispute.

• Season 4 Episode 22: Miss Jenny

  A farmer's wife becomes a heroine when threatened.

• Season 4 Episode 21: The Ghost

  John Wilkes Booth, presumed dead, leads a rebel band.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Grubstake

  A prospector freed from prison reacquaints himself with his son.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Death in a Wood

  Confederate soldiers observe Yankee positions.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Rebel Range

  A Civil War widow hopes to reclaim her homestead.

• Season 4 Episode 17: The Law and the Gun

  A lawman and a bounty hunter hold the fates of a young outlaw and his fiancée in their hands.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Checkmate

  A bank teller and a female doctor find themselves caught up in robbery and murder.

• Season 4 Episode 15: The Sunrise Gun

  A disabled gunfighter uses his son to exact revenge.

• Season 4 Episode 14: Trouble at Tres Cruces

  A cowboy learns that a man has murdered his friend and confiscated the victim's ranch.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Hanging Fever

  A call for justice spawns a lynch mob.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Star Over Texas

  A love triangle and Indian raids endanger a marriage.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Bury Him Dead

  A gunfight disrupts the lives of a frontier couple.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Set-Up

  A forced marriage compromises a man's ranch and herd.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Blood Red

  An Indian death curse haunts a frontier wife.

• Season 4 Episode 8: King of the Valley

  Falling cattle prices threaten a land baron's wealth.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Shadows

  A man single-handedly runs a frontier town.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Hand on the Latch

  A lonely woman shelters a wounded fugitive against her husband's wishes.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Lonely Gun

  A man risks his life to save his nephew from error.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Confession

  A sheriff has a reputation for extracting confessions from the accused.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Lonesome Road

  A Kansas town's marshal can't settle down to a sedentary life.

• Season 4 Episode 2: The Vaunted

  An outlaw becomes a hero in a small town.

• Season 4 Episode 1: The Tall Shadow

  A successful man's son needs to come out from under his father's shadow.

Zane Grey Theater: Season 3 (1957 - 1961)

• Season 3 Episode 28: The Accuser

  A man helps a widow run a ranch after her husband is killed.

• Season 3 Episode 27: The Scaffold

  Town exacts vengeance upon an embittered man who shot a prominent citizen.

• Season 3 Episode 26: Threat of Violence

  A man tries to get back the land he feels was cheated from him.

• Season 3 Episode 25: Shadow of a Dead Man

  A rattlesnake draws an outlaw and his pursuer together.

• Season 3 Episode 24: Three Days to Death

  An Easterner pursues the man who killed his brother.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Man of Fear

  A coward launches a personal search for courage.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Promise

  Two brothers are bound together by a promise and a woman.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Ride a Lonely Trail

  An aging sheriff who was asked to retire proves his worth one more time.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Legacy of a Legend

  An elderly man is thwarted in his efforts to prove his identity.

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Stranger

  Circumstantial evidence condemns a man to death by hanging.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Trial by Fear

  A man fears being forced to kill.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Sundown at Bitter Creek

  A mysterious stranger disrupts three people's lives as well as his own.

• Season 3 Episode 16: License to Kill

  A frontier sheriff resists deputizing his brother.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Wire

  A homesteader builds a barbed-wire fence to protect his land.

• Season 3 Episode 14: This Man Must Die

  A condemned man escapes hanging to find the liar who doomed him.

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Freighter

  A woman confronts thugs while maintaining her father's business.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Homecoming

  A man contemplates failure.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Let the Man Die

  A doctor faces a moral dilemma when a life he can save may ruin his son.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Pressure Point

  A gunfighter who has lost his sight is challenged by an outlaw sworn to kill him.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Storm Over Eden

  A killing and a father's desire for revenge ruins a love affair.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Image of a Drawn Sword

  Lt. Sam Kenyon tries to tame a rebellious town.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Deadfall

  A notorious gunman, fresh out of prison, is framed for a bank robbery.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Village of Fear

  A peddler outwits a gang of killers.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Make It Look Good

  A former Confederate soldier rides into a Northern town.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Trail Incident

  A cowhand moving a herd to market finds a lost boy.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Welcome From a Stranger

  People in a small Western town deal with the Civil War's legacy.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Hang the Heart High

  A wife plots with her lover to kill her wealthy rancher husband.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Day of the Killing

  A sheriff faces down two gun-slinging strangers.

Zane Grey Theater: Season 2 (1956 - 1961)

• Season 2 Episode 27: Medal for Valor

  A returning war hero takes another man's place.

• Season 2 Episode 26: A Gun for My Bride

  A bounty hunter pursues a couple who have eloped.

• Season 2 Episode 25: Gift From a Gunman

  A gun-happy youth and a restless woman haunt a reformed gunman.

• Season 2 Episode 24: The Bitter Land

  A determined woman risks a range war to create a cattle empire.

• Season 2 Episode 23: A Man to Look Up To

  Circumstances give a coward an opportunity to redeem himself.

• Season 2 Episode 22: The Open Cell

  A sheriff stands against his community to keep a young cowboy from a life of crime.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Man Unforgiving

  A bully comes to his senses.

• Season 2 Episode 20: Episode in Darkness

  A blind woman can a man awaiting hanging.

• Season 2 Episode 19: A Gun Is for Killing

  A man is forbidden to avenge his son's death.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Blood in the Dust

  A resettled Yankee rancher faces the wrath of an ex-Confederate.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Release

  An imprisoned gunfighter is offered freedom for fighting outlaws.

• Season 2 Episode 16: To Sit in Judgment

  A son watches his father hang, then seeks revenge on the sheriff.

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Doctor Keeps a Promise

  A doctor takes a beating rather than give away a patient's identity.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Handful of Ashes

  A washed-up gunman drinks and recalls past glories.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Utopia, Wyoming

  Drifters stumble onto a remote town where they are sentenced to death.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Deserter

  A sergeant is ordered to track down a deserter in the Arizona desert.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Man on the Run

  A drifter's stop at a water hole turns his life upside-down.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Until the Man Dies

  A cold-blooded killer escapes when a man prevents a hanging.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Return to Nowhere

  An outlaw returns home to find his wife married to a marshal.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Unrelenting Sky

  A pioneer couple refuses to move when their water supply is threatened.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Man From Everywhere

  A man is taunted into taking a job escorting a gambler to stand trial.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Hangin' Tree

  An accused horse thief faces hanging.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Courage Is a Gun

  A sheriff tries to rehabilitate a young outlaw.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Vengeance Canyon

  An old man tempers a youth's desire for vengeance.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Quiet Sunday in San Ardo

  A man's refusal to become a lawman is viewed as cowardice.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Death Watch

  Indians trap a handful of men in an adobe ruin.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Stage for Tucson

  A bank robber may be traveling on a westbound stage.

Zane Grey Theater: Season 1 (1956 - 1961)

• Season 1 Episode 31: Decision at Wilson's Creek

  A Civil War officer faces disdain from friend and foe alike.

• Season 1 Episode 30: Badge of Honor

  A disillusioned Confederate veteran encounters a power-mad colonel.

• Season 1 Episode 29: Fearful Courage

  A pioneer widow flees her land as a hired killer approaches.

• Season 1 Episode 28: Black Is for Grief

  A Civil War veteran searches for the man who killed his wife.

• Season 1 Episode 27: A Time to Live

  A saloon girl helps a vengeful man planning murder.

• Season 1 Episode 25: There Were Four

  A bitter young man takes up cattle rustling to avenge his father's death.

• Season 1 Episode 24: Black Creek Encounter

  A gunman lays down his arms, vowing never to use them again.

• Season 1 Episode 23: The Long Road Home

  A Texan who fought for the Union finds himself outcast.

• Season 1 Episode 22: No Man Living

  A sheriff turns in his badge to pursue a desperado.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Muletown Gold Strike

  A boy restores an embittered rebel's faith in humanity.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Time of Decision

  An attorney faces an ethical dilemma when defending a seemingly innocent man.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Dangerous Orders

  A Southerner serving in the Union army has his loyalty questioned.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Backtrail
• Season 1 Episode 17: Necessary Breed

  A man is the victim of his own greed when he becomes a bounty hunter.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Honor Bright

  A man is reunited with his daughter.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Long Shadow

  A frontier hoodlum targets a cavalry officer.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Calico Bait

  A deputy tracks a murderer.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Proud Woman

  A fiercely independent woman hires a gunman as a ranch hand.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Trail to Nowhere

  A woman swears vengeance when her husband is killed in a dispute over water rights.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Heritage

  A farmer must choose between his land and his son.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Three Graves

  A young gunman tries to take over a peaceful town.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Mission

  Cavalrymen must bring an Indian chief to sign a treaty.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Thread of Respect

  An immigrant tailor endures cruel jokes and malicious pranks.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Fugitive

  A trick of fate separates a man from everything he values.

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Lariat

  A rope trick ends in strangling.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Black Wagon

  A woman refuses to let cholera victims die alone in the desert.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Loner

  A gunman becomes sheriff of a small Western town.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Silent Sentry

  Two Civil War soldiers fight their own battle.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Lone Woman

  Love for her son blinds a frontier mother.

• Season 1 Episode 1: One Must Die

  Two sisters lead strange lives.