Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

You Only Run Once

When horses begin to turn up missing, the county forms a vigilante committee. Rancher Matt Jessop has the bad luck to innocently hire two shady characters to work on his ranch. Will the two drag Matt and his family down with them?

The Fearful Courage

After witnessing a murder Louise Brandon is then hunted by the gunmen who want to end her life for fear she will testify.

The Long Road Home

A man returns to his Texas home with his mind set on accomplishing two things, he wants to avenge his brother's death and also settle an old feud.

The Unrelenting Sky

When the drought causes much suffering in a small town and one man has water but will not let anyone near his ranch or land the citizens take matters into their own hands for survival.

The Lariat

After serving five years for accidentally killing a man with a lariat, Morgan returns to seek justice from the Judge who sentenced him.

Death Watch

After his troops are killed Captain Warling decides to face the Indians alone, they turn and flee when they realize that the Captain is no longer in his right mind and they fear evil spirits may come after them.

Stage to Tucson

Marshal Thorpe has received a tip that bank robber Bide Turley is on the stage from Las Cruces to Tucson.

A Quiet Sunday in San Ardo

Retired gunfighter wants to live a peaceful quiet life but there are those that won't let that happen.

Vengeance Canyon

After his son is murdered Joe seeks revenge on his killer.

Return to Nowhere

An outlaw gunfighter is haunted by his past and is trying to find his life. He goes looking for his wife and finds she is married to another man. He is determined to get her back.

Courage is a Gun

A gunslinger is wounded by the marshal in a shooting while waiting to settle a feud. He then plots to kill the marshal as well.

Muletown Gold Strike

Mason Ward just back from the war discovers his law office destroyed he heads west to a new town and another job. Hired by the mayor as the new schoolteacher, he learns of a treasure map from one of his students.

Stars Over Texas

When a Wagon from Indiana is ambushed and burned by bushwackers, little Annie Morgan loses her family and gains a new one in the Todds.

The Three Graves

A gunman moves into a sleepy western town with the intention of taking it over for himself. But a pretty young woman sets her sights on him as a prospective husband.

No Man Living

A sheriff gives up his badge to exact personal revenge on an outlaw who has wronged him. The criminal he seeks has carefully disguised himself as a lawabiding citizen.

Time of Decision

A land baron's son provokes a homesteader into a gun fight and ends up dead. The town hates homesteaders but finds a kindly allie in Evan Tapper.

Until the Man Dies

Cattle rancher Clint Belmet saves criminal Dave Jordan from a lynching determined not to allow mob rule to deprive Nevada of her chance for statehood.

Back Trail

Ex-gunman John Fallon takes on the town bullies who are trying to get rid of the farmers and take their land.

Dangerous Orders

Captain Hunter is sent to deliver important orders to the next fort and encounters several disruptions along his way. A turncoat, a drunk, a Confederate spy and Indians.

The Necessary Breed

Bounty hunter, Link returns to the town where he once lived, killing a man the town thinks is innocent of the crime they demand he pay for the crime.

The Hanging Tree

The town is out to hang a man without the marshal around, they become the judge jury and executioner.

Village of Fear

A traveling book salesman is greeted by a dead man hanging in an alley when he arrives in a deserted Western town.

Black Creek Encounter

A man is faced with a difficult decision when challenged by a gunman who has searched for him for years. To accept the challenge would mean almost certain death.

There Were Four

A young man vows to get revenge on a wealthy rancher. He uses lawless methods because he regards an outlaw he knows as a hero. These methods, however, result in his being involved in a rustling scheme.

Fugitive

Fleeing from Union soldiers, an ex-Confederate is helped by a young widow, who believes he's a Union man. The soldier soon realizes he has fallen in love with the widow.

A Time to Live

A dance-hall singer tries to dissuade the man she loves from seeking revenge on a man who shot him and left him for dead.

Black is for Grief

After serving in the Union Army, a young man learns that his wife has been murdered. In trying to find the killer he learns a strange story.

Badge of Honor

Returning from the Civil War and tired of violence and bloodshed, Hoby Gilman is shocked to find his hometown in the grip of the cruel and power mad Colonel Boyd Nelson.

Decision at Wilson's Creek

The Battle of Wilson's Creek occurred August 10, 1861 along Wilson's Creek, about ten miles south of Springfield. This six hour battle is considered to be the second major battle of the Civil War and the first major battle west of the Mississippi River.

Man on the Run

An outlaw on the run winds up at a ranch run by more outlaws who have taken over the ranch. Duane tries to help the sisters regain control of the ranch.

The Deserters

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

Blood in the Dust

Yankee Jim Horncuff is confronted by gunman Burke.

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

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.

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.

The Promise

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

Trail to Nowhere

Julie Holman swears vengeance when her husband is murdered. Suspecting Carl Benson, a man with whom her husband has quarreled, Julie rides out to his ranch. She finds that Benson has disappeared and sets out to track him down.

The Scaffold

An embittered man shoots one of the leading citizens.

Homecoming

Though Adam Larkin has spent many years trying to make a living from his land, he has only met with failure. When his wife tells him that she is expecting a child, Larkin goes to the bank and asks for a loan, but the bank refuses it. Larkin decides to take what he needs.

The Accuser

After discovering the body of a murdered rancher, Milo Brant tries to comfort the grieving widow. The widow's little son, however distrusts Brant and resents the man's attentions to his mother.

Legacy of a Legend

A drifter arrives in a small Western town claiming to be a famous lawman who had lived there years before. The townspeople, who remember the lawman as a young and vigorous man, refuse to believe him.

To Sit in Judgment

Interrogation

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

The Lone Woman

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.

Confession

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

The Lonely Gun

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.

Hand on the Latch

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.

Shadows

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.

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.

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.

Cry Hope! Cry Hate!

After her son goes missing a search party goes out looking for the youngster.

The Ox

A former Confederate soldier who has spent some long years in prison, Ox has only one thing in mind - revenge on his old commanding officer for putting him behind bars.

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.

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.