Zane Grey Theatre

Season 2

An anthology based on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell hosts.

Where to Watch Season 2

29 Episodes

  • The Deserters
    E1
    The DesertersSergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
  • Blood in the Dust
    E2
    Blood in the DustYankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
  • A Gun is for Killing
    E3
    A Gun is for Killing""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.
  • Proud Woman
    E4
    Proud WomanWhen 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.
  • Ride a Lonely Trail
    E5
    Ride a Lonely TrailThe 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.
  • The Promise
    E6
    The PromiseA dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
  • Episode in Darkness
    E7
    Episode in DarknessTraveling 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.
  • The Open Cell
    E8
    The Open CellSheriff 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.
  • A Man to Look Up To
    E9
    A Man to Look Up ToLawyer 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.
  • The Bitter Land
    E10
    The Bitter LandA 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.
  • Gift From a Gunman
    E11
    Gift From a GunmanAfter 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.
  • A Gun for My Bride
    E12
    A Gun for My BrideThe 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.
  • Man Unforgiving
    E13
    Man UnforgivingEx-army Medical corp doctor Ben Harper winds up in a town run by a crippled sheriff who holds a personal grudge against the doctor.
  • Trial by Fear
    E14
    Trial by FearGunslinger 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.
  • The Freighter
    E15
    The FreighterBelle 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.
  • This Man Must Die
    E16
    This Man Must DieA sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
  • Wire
    E17
    WireA 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.
  • License to Kill
    E18
    License to KillA 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.
  • Sundown at Bitter Creek
    E19
    Sundown at Bitter CreekA 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.
  • The Stranger
    E20
    The StrangerCort 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.
  • The Sharpshooter
    E21
    The SharpshooterLucas 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.
  • Man of Fear
    E22
    Man of FearThe 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.
  • The Doctor Keeps a Promise
    E23
    The Doctor Keeps a PromiseDr. 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.
  • Three Days to Death
    E24
    Three Days to DeathAn 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.
  • Shadow of a Dead Man
    E25
    Shadow of a Dead ManLogan 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.
  • Debt of Gratitude
    E26
    Debt of GratitudeMarshal 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.
  • A Handful of Ashes
    E27
    A Handful of AshesOld 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.
  • Threat of Violence
    E28
    Threat of ViolenceA 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.
  • Utopia, Wyoming
    E29
    Utopia, WyomingA clan of Confederates from Georgia looking for a new way of life settle in a deserted Wyoming ghost town that they have named 'Utopia'.

Cast of Season 2

  • Dick PowellSelf - Host
  • Aaron SpellingProducer

 

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