Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre - Season 2

First aired: 10/4/1957 29 episodes

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Episodes

1. The Deserters

Aired: 10/4/1957

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

2. Blood in the Dust

Aired: 10/11/1957

Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.

3. A Gun is for Killing

Aired: 10/18/1957

""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.

4. Proud Woman

Aired: 10/25/1957

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.

5. Ride a Lonely Trail

Aired: 11/2/1957

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.

6. The Promise

Aired: 11/8/1957

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

7. Episode in Darkness

Aired: 11/15/1957

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.

8. The Open Cell

Aired: 11/22/1957

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.

9. A Man to Look Up To

Aired: 11/29/1957

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.

10. The Bitter Land

Aired: 12/6/1957

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.

11. Gift From a Gunman

Aired: 12/13/1957

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.

12. A Gun for My Bride

Aired: 12/27/1957

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.

13. Man Unforgiving

Aired: 1/3/1958

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.

14. Trial by Fear

Aired: 1/10/1958

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.

15. The Freighter

Aired: 1/17/1958

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.

16. This Man Must Die

Aired: 1/24/1958

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

17. Wire

Aired: 1/31/1958

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.

18. License to Kill

Aired: 2/7/1958

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.

19. Sundown at Bitter Creek

Aired: 2/14/1958

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.

20. The Stranger

Aired: 2/28/1958

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.

21. The Sharpshooter

Aired: 3/7/1958

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.

22. Man of Fear

Aired: 3/14/1958

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.

23. The Doctor Keeps a Promise

Aired: 3/21/1958

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.

24. Three Days to Death

Aired: 4/4/1958

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.

25. Shadow of a Dead Man

Aired: 4/11/1958

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.

26. Debt of Gratitude

Aired: 4/18/1958

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.

27. A Handful of Ashes

Aired: 5/2/1958

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.

28. Threat of Violence

Aired: 5/23/1958

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.

29. Utopia, Wyoming

Aired: 6/6/1958

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'.