Zane Grey Theatre
An anthology based (earlier more so than later) on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell was often the star, as well as the host.
Genre: Western
Cast:Dick Powell , Walter Sande , Denver Pyle , Bill Erwin , Chris Alcaide , Dabbs Greer , Harry Lauter , John Hackett , Joseph V. Perry , Jason Johnson , Bob Hoy , John Falvo , Paul Richards , Richard Shannon , Brett King , Ed Nelson , John Pickard , Michael Hinn
S4.E1 ∙ Interrogation
An army captain and corporal are captured and put through some interrogations in an attempt to solicit some key information.
S4.E2 ∙ The Lone Woman
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.
S4.E3 ∙ Confession
A sheriff is known as the best confession getter in the territory. A newspaper man aims to expose his unjust tactics.
S4.E4 ∙ The Lonely Gun
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.
S4.E5 ∙ Hand on the Latch
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.
S4.E6 ∙ Shadows
A young man named Branch Neely agrees to stand trial for a murder he didn't commit, as a way of winning the favor of a Mr. Lloyd Bannister, who has the most political and economic influence in town.
S4.E7 ∙ Mission
A patrol of the 10th Cavalry--an all-black unit of the US Army--headed by a sergeant is sent on a secret mission to bring a Commanche chief back to their fort to sign a peace treaty. As they are on the way back to the fort with the chief, they are ambushed by a group of Apaches who do not want such a treaty. The sergeant is killed, and Cpl. Smith--who despises Indians--takes command. The Apaches tell him they will let the soldiers go free if the Commanche chief is turned over to them; otherwise, they will all be killed.
S4.E8 ∙ Lonesome Road
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.
S4.E9 ∙ King of the Valley
A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.
S4.E10 ∙ Rebel Range
A Union law allows homes vacated by confederates to be sold at auction. A woman comes back to claim her home irregardless of the fact that it is lawfully occupied.
S4.E11 ∙ Death in a Wood
Two soldiers are sent to spy out a Union army camp when they come upon a 12 year old boy who is helping to set up a telegraph system for the north.
S4.E12 ∙ The Grubstake
Jim Goad is summoned back home when his son falls in with a bad crowd Jim is determined to establish a relationship with him and set him on the right path.
S4.E13 ∙ The Ghost
A U.S. Marshal is bringing a wanted man to Laredo when the man is killed by a sniper. In his dying words he tells the Marshal he is after John Wilkes Booth. The Marshal must find out if he is really alive.
S4.E14 ∙ Miss Jenny
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.
S4.E15 ∙ The Reckoning
Two cattle ranching brothers decide to move a sheep herder out of the valley. However, the younger brother's sympathies start to turn.
S4.E16 ∙ Wayfarers
A young pregnant lady arrives in town looking for her husband. She soon learns he is dead and finds herself all alone in the town.
S4.E17 ∙ Picture of Sal
Sal, the owner of the Rue Royale gambling house, is a hard-hearted young woman who seems to have a chip on her shoulder. One day, Jed Harper rides into town carrying a picture of a girl who looks very much like Sal.
S4.E18 ∙ Never Too Late
Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.
S4.E19 ∙ The Man in the Middle
Marshall Locke Gardner is an Indian agent who goes after an Indian boy missing from the reservation. He finds the boy shot and a dead cow nearby Locke seeks to mete out justice despite pressure from the Indians and local ranchers.
S4.E20 ∙ Guns for Garibaldi
Guns for Garibaldi aired Februrary 18, 1960 marking the 100th anniversary of the Unification of Italy 1860, and is among the only American shows that demonstrated the affairs of Italians in pre Civil War 19th century America. It takes place in a small Western gold mining town of Indian Creek. Giulio Mandati comes to Indian Creek to take over his brother's gold claim. The townspeople had hoped that the gold would be used to pay for a much needed dam. Giulio plans to use the riches to finance Garibaldi's Italian Reunification. General Giuseppe Garibaldi did ask for financing for the movement from sources around the globe, he received not only finances, but volunteers as well and in July 1860 launched his famous 1000 Redshirts volunteers to invade Sicily and conquered the Kingdom of Naples fro King Victor Emanuel.
S4.E21 ∙ The Sunday Man
A young deputy is determined to enforce the law even when it means going up against one of the most powerful ranchers in the territory.
S4.E22 ∙ Set-Up
Mike Bagley is a young man who is forced to marry a woman at gun point and then run off his farm. Years later he returns to claim what is his.
S4.E23 ∙ A Small Town That Died
Dave Cameron comes to town looking for a friend. He finds that his friend was hung after shooting a beloved man of the town. Dave knows his friend would never shoot a man in the back and sets out to clear his name.
S4.E24 ∙ Killer Instinct
Marshal Bigger has a reputation for being soft on a town ruffian - Wade Migil. But when Wade kills a man, the sheriff is forced to go after him - but can he be trusted to do the right thing?
S4.E25 ∙ Sundown Smith
Sundown Smith is enjoying a meal on the trail when he crosses paths with a murderer who takes his horse and forces him to change shoes. Now, the bloodhounds are after Sundown.
S4.E26 ∙ Calico Bait
A deputy on the trail of a bandit uses the outlaw's girlfriend as bait to capture him. However, before he realizes it a bond begins to form between him and the woman.
S4.E27 ∙ Seed of Evil
Malachi West lives to see Sam Brady - the man responsible for the death of his son - dead. Then he learns Sam Brady is coming to town to set up a detective agency.
S4.E28 ∙ Deception
In an effort to thwart thieving outlaws that rob their stagecoaches, the stage-line's main operators come up with a plan that is not only unorthodox but risky as well.
S4.E29 ∙ Stagecoach to Yuma
When a lawless female and company stir up trouble, Arizona territory Marshal Dave Harmon boards a stagecoach bound for Yuma, where he hopes to restore order and run her out or take her in, one way or another.
