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

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ You Only Run Once

Fri, Oct 5, 1956

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?

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Fearful Courage

Fri, Oct 12, 1956

Ranchers have hired a gunfighter to run farmers off the land. He kills a man and then goes after the wife. The wife flees to a shack nearby. Soon she and the stranger in the shack are pinned down and try to find a way out.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Long Road Home

Fri, Oct 19, 1956

Sam Gracie returns to Texas from his law practice in Kansas. He is determined to bring an end to a feud involving his family to an end without the use of guns.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Unrelenting Sky

Fri, Oct 26, 1956

There is drought in the land. One rancher has diverted water onto his land and is not of a mind to share with his neighbors.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Lariat

Fri, Nov 2, 1956

Dan Morgan accidentally kills a man and spends five years in jail. He returns to exact revenge against the judge who sent him up. The judge offers him a job which he refuses...until he meets the judges beautiful daughter.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Death Watch

Fri, Nov 9, 1956

Three soldiers and a scout try to cope while a band of Apache warriors surround their strong hold and begin a death watch for the men.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Stage for Tucson

Fri, Nov 16, 1956

A Tucson-bound stagecoach stops for a half-hour rest at an isolated depot. The local sheriff is waiting to identify one of the travelers as a bank robber.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ A Quiet Sunday in San Ardo

Fri, Nov 23, 1956

The marshal of San Ardo is murdered. The town is concerned it may be a part of a plot to rob the bank. There is only one able bodied man in town to serve as marshal but he doesn't want to serve.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Vengeance Canyon

Fri, Nov 30, 1956

Clint Harding is on a mission to kill his father when he falls in with a group of bandits. One of the bandits is an old man who tries to convince him that vengeance is not fruitful.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Return to Nowhere

Fri, Dec 7, 1956

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.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Courage Is a Gun

Fri, Dec 14, 1956

Johnny Adler comes to town. He is fast with a gun and loves to be feared. He accepts an offer to kill the town sheriff, but first he wants to take care of an infection in his finger.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Muletown Gold Strike

Fri, Dec 21, 1956

Mason Ward, a former soldier, wants to leave the war behind and find new work. He is hired as the school teacher and finds one of his students obsessed with discovering gold in the area.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Star Over Texas

Fri, Dec 28, 1956

Joel Todd is in a marriage for convenience to a younger woman. They are moving westward and receive a military escort through Indian country. A young Lieutenant openly shows his affection for the married woman.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Three Graves

Fri, Jan 4, 1957

Cass Kendall is looking for the easy life. He is fast with a gun but not fastest. He moves to a town that doesn't allow guns. He immediately starts scheming to become top man in town.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ No Man Living

Fri, Jan 11, 1957

Jim Todd, a former sheriff, has committed his life to track down the four men who held up a bank and shot his wife. After finding three, he finds a man who resembles the fourth but is a respected citizen.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Time of Decision

Fri, Jan 18, 1957

The son of the most influential man in the territory goads a farmer into a gunfight. The son is killed. Can the farmer get justice in a town owned by ranchers.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Until the Man Dies

Fri, Jan 25, 1957

Clint Belmet stops a lynching. He wants to prove that Nevada is a place of law and order and worthy of statehood. But is it worth the cost?

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Backtrail

Fri, Feb 1, 1957

Kane Eldridge wants to own the whole valley. He brings in a gunman to scare the small ranchers off. The gunman thinks he knows one of the small ranchers - a man he used to ride with.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Dangerous Orders

Fri, Feb 8, 1957

A Union army captain is given orders to carry through Indian country. But can he be trusted with these critical orders seeing as he is from Virginia?

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ The Necessary Breed

Fri, Feb 15, 1957

A bounty hunter tracks a man to his home town. After he kills the man, he stops in to visit his wife. His wife tells him she can't live that type of life anymore and is leaving him. He says he can't change.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Village of Fear

Fri, Mar 1, 1957

A traveling book salesman happens upon a town, finds a man hanging, and then is ordered at gunpoint into a barn. A robber tells him to find the man who shot his brother or the whole town will die.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Black Creek Encounter

Fri, Mar 8, 1957

Davey Harper is determined to goad Big Jim Morrison into a gunfight for killing his father 12 years earlier. Big Jim Morrison is determined not to pick up a gun.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ There Were Four

Fri, Mar 15, 1957

Andy Todd wants revenge for the man responsible for the death of his father. He joins up with a gang of 3 cattle thieves and leads a raid on the man's cattle to begin his revenge.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ Fugitive

Fri, Mar 22, 1957

A woman finds an injured fugitive in her barn. She soon finds that he has information about her husband who is overdue coming home from the war.

25Season 1

S1.E25 ∙ A Time to Live

Fri, Apr 5, 1957

Steve is the lone survivor of a disastrous armed robbery. He recovers from his injuries, but is told that because of the location of the bullet, he will be lucky to live six months. Realizing his time is short, he goes on a desperate bid to live life to the fullest and exact revenge on those who tried to kill him.

26Season 1

S1.E26 ∙ Black Is for Grief

Fri, Apr 12, 1957

JEFF Anderson comes home after a long absence because of the war to find his wife Barbara has been murdered. He begins to try and unravel the circumstances of her death and discovers Barbara was not as pure as he'd hoped.

27Season 1

S1.E27 ∙ Badge of Honor

Fri, May 3, 1957

Hoby Gilman returns to Crawford, Texas after the war and finds the town is taken over by a former confederate colonel. Hoby is asked to stand up to the colonel but he has had enough of guns and violence.

28Season 1

S1.E28 ∙ Decision at Wilson's Creek

Fri, May 17, 1957

A man abruptly resigns his commission in the Confederate Army to spend time with his wife and endures disgrace at every turn.

29Season 1

S1.E29 ∙ Man on the Run

Fri, Jun 21, 1957

A man in the desert follows a dead man's horse in hopes it will lead him to water. Instead he finds a home where a young lady asks him to take her away with him.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Deserters

Fri, Oct 4, 1957

A young private has deserted from the Army and is riding on a freight wagon with a manipulative woman who claims to love him. An Army sergeant, assigned to look for deserters, joins the ride and recognizes the woman from his own past.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Blood in the Dust

Fri, Oct 11, 1957

A newly appointed schoolteacher refuses to cave in to the demands of a gunman that he leave town. But he can't convince his wife of the importance of not backing down, even though the gunman has vowed to face him in a showdown if he doesn't leave, and the teacher has not fired a gun since he was in the war.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ A Gun Is for Killing

Fri, Oct 18, 1957

When Russ Andrews' oldest son is killed by a young punk who goaded him into drawing first, his wife begs him to stay away from the killer, but that's not so easy, as whenever Russ comes into town to buy supplies, the punk does his best to goad him as well.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Proud Woman

Fri, Oct 25, 1957

Headstrong Consuela Bowers tries to resist her attraction to the intriguing drifter whom her father has hired on for their ranch, not knowing that he is plotting with a pair of horse thieves to steal their prize stallion.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Ride a Lonely Trail

Sat, Nov 2, 1957

Several of the town's leading citizens think that Sheriff John Larson is getting too old for the job and should not run for reelection, but Larson disagrees. He gets the chance to put himself to the test when he must pursue two outlaws, and insists on trailing them alone.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Promise

Fri, Nov 8, 1957

Before he dies, Jace Rawlins' father asks him to promise to stay and work his half of the ranch which will be split between Jace and his brother Noah. But Jace wants to roam first and doesn't intend to stay, causing friction between him and Noah, over both the ranch and Noah's wife.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Episode in Darkness

Fri, Nov 15, 1957

Cattleman Ethan Boyan is framed for murder and the only witness is Isabelle Rutledge, who is blind.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Open Cell

Fri, Nov 22, 1957

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.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ A Man to Look Up To

Fri, Nov 29, 1957

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.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Bitter Land

Fri, Dec 6, 1957

Sarah Jolland hires war hero Cleve Scott as foreman of her ranch. But her real plan is to use his gun skills in fighting a range war with a neighboring rancher over water rights, an idea Scott does not like. Sarah is even willing to risk her grandson in the showdown, much to the distress of her daughter-in-law.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Gift from a Gunman

Fri, Dec 13, 1957

Gunfighter Will Gorman visits his old friend Colonel Overton. Gorman is tired of the gunman's way of life, and hopes to settle down. But Overton's wife, an old flame, is bored of her husband and wants to run away with him, and Overton's nephew wants to follow in Gorman's footsteps and become a gunslinger himself.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ A Gun for My Bride

Fri, Dec 27, 1957

Rancher Roger Morrow fires his hand Jed Wiley because he knows his daughter Ellen is falling for Jed. Jed and Ellen get married and leave town together, but then a bounty hunter tells Morrow that Jed is wanted for murder.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Man Unforgiving

Fri, Jan 3, 1958

Sheriff Adam Prescott begins to suspect that the drifter who he has taken into his house may be the Army doctor whom he blames for the loss of his leg in the Civil War. He thus tries to keep the man from leaving town, hoping to goad him into a showdown.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Trial by Fear

Fri, Jan 10, 1958

Local fast gun Tod Owen guns down a man who was trying to shoot him from a rooftop. Everyone in town hates the trouble-making Owen and would like to convict and hang him quickly, except for Cob Oakley, who wants to make sure he gets a fair trial, even after Owen breaks jail.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ The Freighter

Fri, Jan 17, 1958

Belle Garrison is determined not to let the ruthless Murdock clan put her grandfather's freight line out of business, even after they start attacking and burning her wagons and killing her drivers.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ This Man Must Die

Fri, Jan 24, 1958

Kirk Joiner escapes from custody on the day before he was scheduled to be hanged, for a murder he swears he did not commit. But he plans to kill the man who testified against him.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Wire

Fri, Jan 31, 1958

Sam Fraser is determined not to be forced off of his farm as his neighbors have, so he buys barbed wire to keep McHugh cattle off his land, which only aggravates rancher Abel McHugh more.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ License to Kill

Fri, Feb 7, 1958

Sheriff Tom Baker is temporarily unable to use his right arm, which puts him at a disadvantage dealing with some wild cowboys. A young man named Lane helps Baker out---by killing one of the cowboys. The mayor hires Lane as Baker's temporary deputy. But Baker is not pleased, as Lane is his younger brother who he feels is way too anxious to use his gun to kill.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Sundown at Bitter Creek

Fri, Feb 14, 1958

A man arrives in the town of Bitter Creek, and affects several people by his presence. An old singing cowboy assumes him to be gunman Dan Case. The man anxiously watches the clock and wonders who may be out to draw against him. A saloon hostess is attracted to him, but he is attracted to the beautiful sister of a young tough who hopes to challenge him to avenge his humiliation.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ The Stranger

Fri, Feb 28, 1958

Man stumbles onto shooting and is condemned by circumstantial evidence.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Sharpshooter

Fri, Mar 7, 1958

This is the pilot for the series "The Rifleman". Lucas and Mark McCain enter the town of North Fork, hoping to buy a small ranch, but they encounter trouble from a shady businessman and a young punk gunfighter.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Man of Fear

Fri, Mar 14, 1958

Doc Holliday visits an old friend and his wife. He finds that his friend, now crippled, is being shaken down for money by the corrupt local sheriff, along with everyone else in town, and he plans to put a stop to it.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ The Doctor Keeps a Promise

Fri, Mar 21, 1958

The cattleman who runs the town doesn't like Dr. Alan McMurdo because he spends too much time treating homesteaders, and doesn't want him to take over as the town's main doctor when the old one retires. McMurdo faces another challenge when he is called to treat a young man who was shot while attempting to rob the cattleman's money.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Three Days to Death

Fri, Apr 4, 1958

An Easterner comes west to bring the killer of his brother to justice.

25Season 2

S2.E25 ∙ Shadow of a Dead Man

Fri, Apr 11, 1958

Logan Wheeler tries to bring Raney Benson in for a bank robbery in which Wheeler's father lost all his savings. But the tables are turned, in more ways than one, when Logan is bitten by a rattlesnake and Benson brings him in to his father and sister's house.

26Season 2

S2.E26 ∙ Debt of Gratitude

Fri, Apr 18, 1958

When Marshal Tolby learns that Ben Kincaid is wanted for murder, he feels he must arrest him and take him to Prescott for trial, even though Kincaid is regarded as a hero by the townsfolk and beg Tolby to let him go free.

27Season 2

S2.E27 ∙ Handful of Ashes

Fri, May 2, 1958

The sheriff needs a deputy, but the only one volunteering for the job is Ben Cary, whom everyone thinks is too old for the job. When an outlaw, ill due to a snakebite, arrives at his farm, Ben sees a chance to prove he's still up to the job.

28Season 2

S2.E28 ∙ A Threat of Violence

Fri, May 23, 1958

Lawyer Clay Culhane doesn't get the job with the mining company that he was first promised, after they learn he was once a famous gunfighter. But he soon finds a new client, a Mexican rancher friend who is accused of killing the man who he believes stole his land from him. This is the pilot for the series "Black Saddle" which premiered a year later, with Peter Breck in the role of Culhane.

29Season 2

S2.E29 ∙ Utopia, Wyoming

Fri, Jun 6, 1958

Two government surveyors find an old ghost town inhabited by a group of former Confederates. The residents do not want their presence in the town known to outsiders, and so they refuse to let the surveyors leave, even though they recognize one as a Confederate hero.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Trail to Nowhere

Thu, Oct 2, 1958

There is drought in the land and only one rancher has water and he will not share. He is killed and the prime suspect heads for Mexico. The sheriff won't follow but the man's wife will.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Scaffold

Thu, Oct 9, 1958

A leading citizen is gunned down in broad daylight. The town and the man's girlfriend want quick justice. They begin to build a scaffold so it will look legal. The sheriff is determined to make sure the law is followed.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Homecoming

Thu, Oct 23, 1958

A man down on his luck robs a bank. His wife convinces him to give it back, but two outlaws have other plans for the money.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Accuser

Thu, Oct 30, 1958

A man is found dead by his neighbor. A deputy with a grudge against the neighbor is determined to see the murder is pinned on him.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Legacy of a Legend

Thu, Nov 6, 1958

A man comes to town claiming to be a legendary gunfighter - Frank McKinnon - only Frank McKinnon has been dead for 20 years. He learns there has been a robbery and murder and is soon blamed.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ To Sit in Judgment

Thu, Nov 13, 1958

A lawman carries out a hanging sentence on a man found guilty of murder. The man's sons promise revenge. The lawman's wife and deputy think he is too hard of a man. How will he treat the boys bent on killing him?

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Tall Shadow

Thu, Nov 20, 1958

Linc Hardaway would like to do something just once, better than his father, the town's most successful man. Then Hardaway Sr. is murdered and Linc is the prime suspect.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Vaunted

Thu, Nov 27, 1958

Jess Matson is a wanted man who wants to visit his wife and son, which won't be easy with the law on his trail.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Pressure Point

Thu, Dec 4, 1958

A thief comes to town to exact revenge for the death of his brother and is not deterred when he finds the sheriff who killed his brother is now blind.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Bury Him Dead

Thu, Dec 11, 1958

A man and his wife find two injured people on their land - an outlaw and a sheriff. The outlaw comes to and demands the sheriff be killed. The man convinces the outlaw he can deceive the sheriff into believing the outlaw is dead.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Let the Man Die

Thu, Dec 18, 1958

A doctor learns that his step son is admiring a gunfighter. When the gunfighter is wounded, a series of dilemmas are faced by the doctor.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Medal for Valor

Thu, Dec 25, 1958

A man agrees to serve in the military in place of a wealthy man's son. He threatens to expose the deal when he is not given everything he was promised.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Living Is a Lonesome Thing

Thu, Jan 1, 1959

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.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Day of the Killing

Thu, Jan 8, 1959

The town blacksmith is about to become the new sheriff when a stranger kills a man shooting at the blacksmith's son. He soon learns his first job as sheriff is to go after the man who saved his son's life.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Hang the Heart High

Thu, Jan 15, 1959

Regan Moore's husband believes people can turn their lives around but constantly reminds them of their past. She wants to get away from him. Dix Porter is hired to work the ranch. Regan thinks he may be her way out.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Welcome Home a Stranger

Thu, Jan 15, 1959

A man returns home after the war and finds he is unwelcome because he fought against the south.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Trail Incident

Fri, Jan 2, 1959

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 has a meeting with a group of men, when he goes to organize Peter the boy suddenly changes his mind and wants to stay. Charlie tells him he must leave regardless, but rather than riding away he circles back and finds McCall standing the night guard on the herd. At dawn McCall rides to camp and ambush Charlie and his henchmen. A gun battle ensures and McCall defeats Charlie and the men with the help of Peter

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Make It Look Good

Thu, Feb 5, 1959

Sam Carter is the only Reb in town. He is ill-treated by the town. He decides to plan a holdup at the bank where he is teller. The sheriff believes the robber is a Reb and believes Sam is his partner.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ A Thread of Respect

Thu, Feb 12, 1959

An immigrant and his son find opposition when they open up a tailor shop in a new town.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Deadfall

Thu, Feb 19, 1959

Frank Gillette returns home after serving a prison sentence. He wants to start afresh but finds himself being used in a plot to gain control of the town.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Last Raid

Thu, Feb 26, 1959

A man searches for the man who stole his gold his woman and her son.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ The Loner

Thu, Mar 5, 1959

Johnny Ringo is hired to clean up a corrupt town. Pilot for the TV series "Johnny Ringo".

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Hanging Fever

Thu, Mar 12, 1959

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.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ Trouble at Tres Cruces

Thu, Mar 26, 1959

Dave Blasingame is a drifter who is asked to come visit a friend and see his new gun. When he arrives the friend has been killed and the gun is gone and he wants to find out why. Pilot for TV series "The Westerner".

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ Heritage

Thu, Apr 2, 1959

A man is visited by soldiers searching for his estranged son who deserted from the army. Soon he is reunited with his son.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ The Sunrise Gun

Thu, Apr 16, 1959

Johnny Sunrise is training his son to avenge the injury to his hand which was caused by Sam Duskin. Then Sam Duskin, Jr. comes to town and the sons agree to avoid a fight. But can they?

27Season 3

S3.E27 ∙ Checkmate

Thu, Apr 30, 1959

A bank is robbed and it starts to look like the teller was involved, however, Ward Pendleton, a detective, happens to be in town and starts investigating.

28Season 3

S3.E28 ∙ Mission to Marathon

Thu, May 14, 1959

Gar Durand is an ex-soldier who left the army in disgrace. He bounces from town to town until some federal officials provide him an opportunity to clear his record.

29Season 3

S3.E29 ∙ The Law and the Gun

Thu, Jun 4, 1959

John Welker's new bride is killed by bank robbers. John goes undercover to try and infiltrate the gang.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Interrogation

Thu, Oct 1, 1959

An army captain and corporal are captured and put through some interrogations in an attempt to solicit some key information.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ The Lone Woman

Thu, Oct 8, 1959

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.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Confession

Thu, Oct 15, 1959

A sheriff is known as the best confession getter in the territory. A newspaper man aims to expose his unjust tactics.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Lonely Gun

Thu, Oct 22, 1959

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.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Hand on the Latch

Thu, Oct 29, 1959

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.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Shadows

Thu, Nov 5, 1959

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.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Mission

Thu, Nov 12, 1959

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.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Lonesome Road

Thu, Nov 19, 1959

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.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ King of the Valley

Thu, Nov 26, 1959

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

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Rebel Range

Thu, Dec 3, 1959

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.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Death in a Wood

Thu, Dec 17, 1959

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.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ The Grubstake

Thu, Dec 24, 1959

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.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ The Ghost

Thu, Dec 31, 1959

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.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ Miss Jenny

Thu, Jan 7, 1960

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.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ The Reckoning

Thu, Jan 14, 1960

Two cattle ranching brothers decide to move a sheep herder out of the valley. However, the younger brother's sympathies start to turn.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Wayfarers

Thu, Jan 21, 1960

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.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Picture of Sal

Thu, Jan 28, 1960

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.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Never Too Late

Thu, Feb 4, 1960

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

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ The Man in the Middle

Thu, Feb 11, 1960

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.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Guns for Garibaldi

Thu, Feb 18, 1960

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.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ The Sunday Man

Thu, Feb 25, 1960

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.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Set-Up

Thu, Mar 3, 1960

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.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ A Small Town That Died

Thu, Mar 10, 1960

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.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ Killer Instinct

Thu, Mar 17, 1960

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?

25Season 4

S4.E25 ∙ Sundown Smith

Thu, Mar 24, 1960

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.

26Season 4

S4.E26 ∙ Calico Bait

Thu, Mar 31, 1960

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.

27Season 4

S4.E27 ∙ Seed of Evil

Thu, Apr 7, 1960

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.

28Season 4

S4.E28 ∙ Deception

Thu, Apr 14, 1960

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.

29Season 4

S4.E29 ∙ Stagecoach to Yuma

Thu, May 5, 1960

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.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ A Gun for Willie

Thu, Oct 6, 1960

Willie McKinley is down on his luck. The town people don't see him when he walks by. He kills a man trying to steal his horse, he becomes the biggest man in town.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ Desert Flight

Thu, Oct 13, 1960

Mike Brenner is a wily bank robber. In an effort to lose a posse, he leads his cohorts into the desert.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

Thu, Oct 20, 1960

A young woman has nowhere to go to raise her son so she returns home to her father. Her reputation has preceded her and she wants to convince the town she has changed.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ The Ox

Thu, Nov 3, 1960

Jonathan Dwyer is a large man. He is given the cruel nickname of "the ox." He moves to town and wants revenge against the man responsible for sending him to prison.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ So Young the Savage Land

Thu, Nov 10, 1960

Jim Braydon beats a man for cutting his fence to get to water. This puts him at odds with his wife who believes the country has changed him. She sets out to leave him when a wounded boy shows up at her door.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Ransom

Thu, Nov 17, 1960

Comanche Indians raid sheep-herders, killing all but sparing the life of a loner cowboy, that goes by the name Dundee. Who wonders what reason or fate they have planned, in keeping him alive.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ The Last Bugle

Thu, Nov 24, 1960

Charles Gatewood is determined to meet with Geronimo to convince him to surrender.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ The Black Wagon

Thu, Dec 1, 1960

A pioneer woman (Esther Williams) risks her life to aid a group of cholera victims.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Knife of Hate

Thu, Dec 8, 1960

Jack Hoyt wants to marry Susan Pittman but her father - Dr. Pittman is determined not to let that happen.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ The Mormons

Thu, Dec 15, 1960

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.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ The Man from Yesterday

Thu, Dec 22, 1960

Adam Mapes returns to town after serving a prison sentence and is set on revenge against the man who wronged him 20 years earlier.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Morning Incident

Thu, Dec 29, 1960

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.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Ambush

Thu, Jan 5, 1961

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.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ One Must Die

Thu, Jan 12, 1961

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.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ The Long Shadow

Thu, Jan 19, 1961

Major Will Sinclair is delivering the possessions of a soldier that has died under his command. On his way someone tries to ambush him and his companion. When he arrives at the boy's house, he is not well received.

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ Blood Red

Thu, Jan 26, 1961

Jess Whiting loved his wife and loved his life. Everything changed when an Indian showed up at his doorstep.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Honor Bright

Thu, Feb 2, 1961

Danny Thomas plays an ex-convict who vows to get revenge on the man who almost married his daughter (played by Marlo Thomas) - and helped to cause her death.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ The Broken Wing

Thu, Feb 9, 1961

A father is upset at his handicapped brother for putting wild ideas into his son's head. It goes from wild to dangerous when the boy believes, with help from his uncle, that he can fly.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ The Silent Sentry

Thu, Feb 16, 1961

A confederate soldier and a union soldier are assigned to keep sentry on a mountain to monitor the movements of the other army. During a snow storm, they decide to share a mountain cabin.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ The Bible Man

Thu, Feb 23, 1961

Albert Pierce is a traveling preacher. His long lost son catches up with him and is determined to make him pay for the death of his mother.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ The Scar

Thu, Mar 2, 1961

Jesse Martin takes a job in the mines to supplement his farm income, but he meets someone who reminds him of the abuse he suffered in a civil war prisoner camp.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ Knight of the Sun

Thu, Mar 9, 1961

Henry Jacob Hanley is a wanderer always seeking his next drink. He stumbles upon a fort and a supply of whiskey. There he meets a woman who is on a mission to help the confederacy.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ A Warm Day in Heaven

Thu, Mar 23, 1961

Nick Finn arrives in Heaven, Arizona - a town known for fair play and concern for neighbors. After his arrival, greed and selfishness soon follow.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ The Empty Shell

Thu, Mar 30, 1961

Cletis Madden is a gambler. His wife wants him to change his ways, buy a ranch and spend his life making something of the ranch. Cletis loves his wife but isn't sure he can change.

25Season 5

S5.E25 ∙ The Atoner

Thu, Apr 6, 1961

The religious leader in a town called New Bethlehem, Arizona . has made sure there are no saloons or gambling halls. When something threatens to put it at risk, he proposes a hanging to preserve the community's pacifist values.

26Season 5

S5.E26 ∙ Man from Everywhere

Thu, Apr 13, 1961

Sheriff Jed Morgan is worried about his prisoner, Tom Bowdry, because the local gentry seems to be getting lynch fever. Morgan hires guide Branch Taylor to hustle Bowdry to the nearby town of Borrego.

27Season 5

S5.E27 ∙ The Release

Thu, Apr 27, 1961

Jailed gunslinger Lee DuVal can win his freedom by making a deal with the governor of Texas, who offers him a chance to use his talents-against the bandits who are making things hot near the Louisiana state line.

28Season 5

S5.E28 ∙ Storm Over Eden

Thu, May 4, 1961

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.

29Season 5

S5.E29 ∙ Image of a Drawn Sword

Thu, May 11, 1961

Union Lt. 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 younger soldiers.

30Season 5

S5.E30 ∙ Jericho

Thu, May 18, 1961

Amy Schroeder is convicted of killing her husband and sentenced to die. Jericho comes to the condemned woman, supposedly about buying her land. Then he reveals himself-as an agent for the Attorney-General.