Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes29
DatesOct 4, 1957 - Jun 6, 1958
Episodes
Season 2Episode 130 min
The Deserters
Sergeant Major Dravo is on the trail of deserters, and his disgust with these traitors has no bounds.
Oct 4, 1957
Season 2Episode 230 min
Blood in the Dust
Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.
Oct 11, 1957
Season 2Episode 330 min
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.
Oct 18, 1957
Season 2Episode 430 min
Proud Woman
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.
Oct 25, 1957
Season 2Episode 530 min
Ride a Lonely Trail
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.
Nov 2, 1957
Season 2Episode 630 min
The Promise
A dying rancher forces his restless young son to promise he will remain on the ranch with his older brother Noah.
Nov 8, 1957
Season 2Episode 730 min
Episode in Darkness
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.
Nov 15, 1957
Season 2Episode 830 min
The Open Cell
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.
Nov 22, 1957
Season 2Episode 930 min
A Man to Look Up To
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.
Nov 29, 1957
Season 2Episode 1030 min
The Bitter Land
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.
Dec 6, 1957
Season 2Episode 1130 min
Gift from a Gunman
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.
Dec 13, 1957
Season 2Episode 1230 min
A Gun for My Bride
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.
Dec 27, 1957
Season 2Episode 1330 min
Man Unforgiving
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.
Jan 3, 1958
Season 2Episode 1430 min
Trial by Fear
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.
Jan 10, 1958
Season 2Episode 1530 min
The Freighter
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.
Jan 17, 1958
Season 2Episode 1630 min
This Man Must Die
A sentenced to hang man escapes and returns to his home town to kill the witness whose false testimony convicted him.
Jan 24, 1958
Season 2Episode 1730 min
Wire
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.
Jan 31, 1958
Season 2Episode 1830 min
License to Kill
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.
Feb 7, 1958
Season 2Episode 1930 min
Sundown at Bitter Creek
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.
Feb 14, 1958
Season 2Episode 2030 min
The Stranger
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.
Feb 28, 1958
Season 2Episode 2130 min
The Sharpshooter
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.
Mar 7, 1958
Season 2Episode 2230 min
Man of Fear
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.
Mar 14, 1958
Season 2Episode 2330 min
The Doctor Keeps a Promise
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.
Mar 21, 1958
Season 2Episode 2430 min
Three Days to Death
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.
Apr 4, 1958
Season 2Episode 2530 min
Shadow of a Dead Man
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.
Apr 11, 1958
Season 2Episode 2630 min
Debt of Gratitude
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.
Apr 18, 1958
Season 2Episode 2730 min
A Handful of Ashes
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.
May 2, 1958
Season 2Episode 2830 min
Threat of Violence
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.
May 23, 1958
Season 2Episode 2930 min
Utopia, Wyoming
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'.
Jun 6, 1958
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