Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre - Season 5
Season 5
Network
Episodes30
DatesOct 6, 1960 - May 18, 1961
Episodes
Season 5Episode 130 min
A Gun for Willie
When simple Willie receives a reward for killing an outlaw he becomes the big man in town, until it turns out that Willie killed the wrong man.
Oct 6, 1960
Season 5Episode 230 min
Desert Flight
Brenner, Doyle and Sandy are a trio of bank robbers, who've come up with a really slick plan. But Brenner, the mastermind, hasn't taken Doyle's itchy trigger finger into account.
Oct 13, 1960
Season 5Episode 330 min
Cry Hope! Cry Hate!
After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.
Oct 20, 1960
Season 5Episode 430 min
The Ox
A burly blacksmith with a black past has revenge on his mind. He wants to get even with a former Army major and just bides his time.
Nov 3, 1960
Season 5Episode 530 min
So Young the Savage Land
Beth and Jim Brayden have struggled to keep their ranch when the greed of a neighboring rancher tries to lay claim to their land.
Nov 20, 1960
Season 5Episode 630 min
Ransom
Comanche Indians raid a shepherd's camp, killing all the hands except an itinerant cowboy named Dundee. He doesn't have to wait long before he learns why he have to wait long before he learns why he was spared. The Indians plan to trade him for horses and guns.
Nov 17, 1960
Season 5Episode 730 min
The Last Bugle
Geronimo and his renagades are on the warpath again. Army officer Gatewood heads for the Mexican Sierras with two Apache prisoners to try and talk the ruthless leader into surrender.
Nov 24, 1960
Season 5Episode 830 min
The Black Wagon
Sarah Harmon is traveling in a wagon train which halts at the scene of an Apache raid.
Dec 1, 1960
Season 5Episode 930 min
Knife of Hate
Dr. Pittman's daughter is held hostage until the good doctor performs surgery on one of the outlaws.
Dec 8, 1960
Season 5Episode 1030 min
The Mormons
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.
Dec 15, 1960
Season 5Episode 1130 min
The Man from Yesterday
This episode narrates the story of an oldtime gunslinger who gets out of jail to track down the man who framed him.
Dec 22, 1960
Season 5Episode 1230 min
Morning Incident
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.
Dec 29, 1960
Season 5Episode 1330 min
Ambush
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.
Jan 5, 1961
Season 5Episode 1430 min
One Must Die
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.
Jan 12, 1961
Season 5Episode 1530 min
The Long Shadow
Widow Amy Lawson's son, a Cavalry Officer, is killed in action. Amy blames Major Sinclair for her son's death. The major isn't just the Cavalry commander - he's Amy's fiance.
Jan 19, 1961
Season 5Episode 1630 min
Blood Red
Jess Whiting is a driven man, he is afraid that the Indian uprising is because of his Indian wife and that she will be taken from him.
Jan 29, 1961
Season 5Episode 1730 min
Honor Bright
Ex-convict Ed Dubro has reluctantly agreed to his daughter's marriage to Vince Harwell. But on the wedding day, Laurie learns that Vince is already married.
Feb 2, 1961
Season 5Episode 1830 min
The Broken Wing
Lyman now a cripple, years ago tried to fly through the air under his own power. Now Lyman's nephew Thalian is determined to do the same thing.
Feb 9, 1961
Season 5Episode 1930 min
The Silent Sentry
A wintery outpost leaves the last two soldiers, one a Rebel the other Confederate to survive their blistering hatred.
Feb 16, 1961
Season 5Episode 2030 min
The Bible Man
Jimmy Pierce holds his father, a religious preacher responsible for the death of his mother.
Feb 23, 1961
Season 5Episode 2130 min
The Scar
The scar on Jesse Martin's life is his memory of his months in a prison camp during the Civil War.
Mar 2, 1961
Season 5Episode 2230 min
Knight of the Sun
Henry Jacob Hanley, a drunken desert rat, is just making himself at home in a deserted fort when he acquires some company. Beth Woodfield arrives on a mission taken over from her dead father- delivering the new Gatling gun to the troops in Mexico.
Mar 9, 1961
Season 5Episode 2330 min
A Warm Day in Heaven
In the sleepy decent town of Heaven, evil arrives in the form of Nick Finn, as Michael Peters soon finds out he is the only one not swayed by the devil.
Mar 23, 1961
Season 5Episode 2430 min
The Empty Shell
Madden a cowardly farmer is fearful that not only are they after his land but his wife as well.
Mar 30, 1961
Season 5Episode 2530 min
The Atoner
New Bethlehem, Arizona, has no saloons or gambling halls because of the House of Matthew religious sect which inhabits it.
Apr 6, 1961
Season 5Episode 2630 min
Man from Everywhere
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.
Apr 13, 1961
Season 5Episode 2730 min
The Release
Prisoner Lee DuVal could go free by working for the governor of Texas.
Apr 27, 1961
Season 5Episode 2830 min
Storm Over Eden
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.
May 4, 1961
Season 5Episode 2930 min
Image of a Drawn Sword
Union Lieutenant 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 young soldiers.
May 11, 1961
Season 5Episode 3030 min
Jericho
A woman sentenced to hang for the murder of her husband is sent a second chance by a Government Agent.
May 18, 1961
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