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29 episodes

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre - Season 2

First aired Oct 4, 1957Season 2

Browse all 29 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Deserters

NR
Oct 4, 195730 min

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

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Episode 2

Blood in the Dust

NR
Oct 11, 195730 min

Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.

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Episode 3

A Gun is for Killing

NR
Oct 18, 195730 min

""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.

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Episode 4

Proud Woman

NR
Oct 25, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 5

Ride a Lonely Trail

NR
Nov 2, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 6

The Promise

NR
Nov 8, 195730 min

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

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Episode 7

Episode in Darkness

NR
Nov 15, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 8

The Open Cell

NR
Nov 22, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 9

A Man to Look Up To

NR
Nov 29, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 10

The Bitter Land

NR
Dec 6, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 11

Gift From a Gunman

NR
Dec 13, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 12

A Gun for My Bride

NR
Dec 27, 195730 min

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.

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Episode 13

Man Unforgiving

NR
Jan 3, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 14

Trial by Fear

NR
Jan 10, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 15

The Freighter

NR
Jan 17, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 16

This Man Must Die

NR
Jan 24, 195830 min

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

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Episode 17

Wire

NR
Jan 31, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 18

License to Kill

NR
Feb 7, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 19

Sundown at Bitter Creek

NR
Feb 14, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 20

The Stranger

NR
Feb 28, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 21

The Sharpshooter

NR
Mar 7, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 22

Man of Fear

NR
Mar 14, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 23

The Doctor Keeps a Promise

NR
Mar 21, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 24

Three Days to Death

NR
Apr 4, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 25

Shadow of a Dead Man

NR
Apr 11, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 26

Debt of Gratitude

NR
Apr 18, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 27

A Handful of Ashes

NR
May 2, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 28

Threat of Violence

NR
May 23, 195830 min

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.

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Episode 29

Utopia, Wyoming

NR
Jun 6, 195830 min

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'.