Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Season 4

Aired 1 October 1959 • 30 min

After being captured by the Mexican Army, Captain Kraig holds fast to the interrogation concerning the whereabouts of the coming troops.

Aired 8 October 1959 • 30 min

An Indian is skulking around a ranch house and kills the eldest son of the family living there. The mother is filled with hate and wants him dead. Soon the Indian returns.

Aired 15 October 1959 • 30 min

A New York newspaper reporter comes West to do a story on Sheriff Agate Slade. He forms an immediate dislike for the sheriff.

Aired 22 October 1959 • 30 min

An outlaw returns home to see his brother. He finds that his brother is dead. His nephew has sold the ranch to pay debts and is about to set out on a life of getting rich fast.

Aired 29 October 1959 • 30 min

A man is shot while escaping from an army prison camp during the civil war. He happens upon a small farm house where there are two women alone.

Aired 5 November 1959 • 30 min

Loy Bannister is the town's most powerful figure because of his political and economic influence. In a wild bid to gain Bannister's admiration, young Branch Neeley agrees to stand trial for a murder he didn't commit.

Aired 12 November 1959 • 30 min

At a frontier cavalry post, a newly arrived black trooper must earn the respect and trust of his fellow cavalrymen, most of whom are white and don't want a black in their outfit.

Aired 19 November 1959 • 30 min

Marshall Ben Clark cleaned up the town, but now he is going to far in his effort to suppress dissent. The townspeople decide he needs to leave town. He doesn't want to leave quietly.

Aired 26 November 1959 • 30 min

A wealthy rancher is blamed for missing funds at a bank.

Aired 3 December 1959 • 30 min

A strong willed woman and her son return to their old home to find it occupied by a former civil war soldier who refuses to leave.

Aired 17 December 1959 • 30 min

Two Confederate soldiers, sent into the woods on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly realize that they are being watched.

Aired 24 December 1959 • 30 min

Released after a long prison term, prospector Jim Goad is ready to resume panning for gold and he plans to take his son with him. But the boy who was raised by friends of Jim's has fallen in with a bad crowd.

Aired 31 December 1959 • 30 min

Marshal Monty Elstrode is captured by an outlaw gang who are planning to organize a new Confederate Army. Elstrode is shocked to learn that the leader of the group is the supposedly dead murderer of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.

Aired 7 January 1960 • 30 min

Jenny Breckenridge is unhappy with her life. She would much rather be back in the city, where she comes from. than out west with her husband, a lazy drunk. A good-looking young cowboy who stops by sparks her interest, but then the man announces that he has a plan--he's going to take Jenny as his own, and to show that he means business he shoots her husband.

Aired 14 January 1960 • 30 min

Mace, a cattleman, hates sheepherders because he believes that sheep ruin good grazing land.

Aired 21 January 1960 • 30 min

A forlorn young woman comes to a hostile village to tell her husband, who has been working there, she is pregnant.

Aired 28 January 1960 • 30 min

Jed a former spy during the Civil War shows up in a Nevada casino run by Sal, whom he left standing at the altar years before.

Aired 4 February 1960 • 30 min

Ginger Rogers plays a land-hungry woman who hires a gunman to help her.

Aired 11 February 1960 • 30 min

An Indian agent has a double task: convincing the townspeople that a young man deserves punishment for shooting an Indian and arresting the culprit.

Aired 18 February 1960 • 30 min

Townspeople are disappointed when Giulio Mandati comes to Indian Creek to take over his brother's gold claim. They had hoped that the gold would be used to pay for a much needed dam. What they don't know is that Giulio is an impostor who plans to use the riches to finance Garibaldi's Italian revolt.

Aired 25 February 1960 • 30 min

Sheriff Walt Devlin and his brother, Deputy Bill Devlin, are alike in name only. Walt is a letter-of-the-law man who believes the end does not justify the means. Bill's methods are sometimes questionable and certain citizens suspect that he's a lawman purely for the thrill of gunslinging.

Aired 3 March 1960 • 30 min

When a rancher is set-up for a crime he did not commit he finds out more than he needed to know.

Aired 10 March 1960 • 30 min

An ex-convict hears about a good ranch job - but he arrives to find the rancher murdered.

Aired 17 March 1960 • 30 min

McGill acts the big man in town and makes the sheriff look bad to the townspeople.

Aired 24 March 1960 • 30 min

After Bobby's mother is murdered by Outlaw Jesse Harp, he runs into Sundown Smith and sets him up for the fall as the murderer.

Aired 31 March 1960 • 30 min

Deputy Sam Anders is looking for Davey Morse for the murder of a shopkeeper.

Aired 7 April 1960 • 30 min

Malachi West has developed a bitter hatred for the Union secret-service man who was responsible for his son's death during the war. The townspeople are very afraid of West until Sam Brady comes to town.

Aired 14 April 1960 • 30 min

In an effort to thwart thieving outlaws that rob their stagecoaches, the stage-line's main operators come up with a plan that is not only unorthodox but risky as well.

Aired 5 May 1960 • 30 min

Marshal Dave Harmon heads for Yuma to end the lawless reign of a notorious woman.